A fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie's 73 recently discovered notebooks, including illustrations, deleted extracts, and two unpublished Poirot stories. When Agatha Christie died in 1976, aged 85, she had become the world's most popular author. With sales of more than two billion copies worldwide in more than 100 countries, she had achieved the impossible - more than one book every year since the 1920s, every one a bestseller. So prolific was Agatha Christie's output - 66 crime novels, 20 plays, 6 romance books under a pseudonym and over 150 short stories - it was often claimed that she had a photographic memory. Was this true? Or did she resort over those 55 years to more mundane methods of working out her ingenious crimes? Following the death of Agatha's daughter, Rosalind, at the end of 2004, a remarkable secret was revealed. Unearthed among her affairs at the family home of Greenway were Agatha Christie's private notebooks, 73 handwritten volumes of notes, lists and drafts outlining all her plans for her many books, plays and stories. Buried in this treasure trove, all in her unmistakable handwriting, are revelations about her famous books that will fascinate anyone who has ever read or watched an Agatha Christie story. What is the 'deleted scene' in her first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles? How did the infamous twist in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, really come about? Which very famous Poirot novel started life as an adventure for Miss Marple? Which books were designed to have completely different endings, and what were they? Full of details she was too modest to reveal in her own Autobiography, this remarkable new book includes a wealth of extracts and pages reproduced directly from the notebooks and her letters, plus for the first time two newly discovered complete Hercule Poirot short stories never before published.

Doroteja Simpsone Aizveriet viņai acisROMĀNSApgāds «Artava» RīgāInspektoru Tenetu uzaicina izmeklēt kārtējo slepkavību. Viņu šī lieta neizsakāmi satriec, jo nogalinātā ČeritijaPričarde bijusi tikai piecpadsmit gadus veca Izmeklēšanas sākumā viss šķiet ļoti skaidrs, pat aizdomīgi skaidrs. Un patiešām drīz vien inspektors secina, ka nepieciešams papildus noskaidrot vairākus mīklainus faktus, kas saistīti ar slepkavību. Kopā ar seržantu Lainhemu iedziļinādamies fanātiski reliģiozās Pričardu ģimenes noslēpumos. Tenets iegūst bezgalāfoaisu, toties piluigu priekšstati! par noslepkavotās meitenes personīgo traģēdiju. Rekonstruējot upura emocionālo pagātni, izmeklētājiem nākasrūpīgi . pārlūkot tuvākas un tālākās pagajības slāņus,Noskannējis grāmatu un failu izveidojis Imants LočmelisNo angļu valodas tulkojusi Maija Andersone Mākslinieks Jānis Jaunarājs© Tulkojums, noformējums «Artava», 1995 ISBN 9984-529-54-1Annai

Titel des Originals: »The Murder of Roger Ackroyd«

Something entirely new in the field — a Wild West mystery in the heart of NYC. Ellery Queen's now-famous and much-imitated analytico-deductive method of solving crimes is brought to the acme of its development. Through logical reasoning and brilliare deduction, Mr. Queen narrows the field from literally thousands of potential suspects to the one and only possible murderer — the ultra-clever plotter who performed the seeming miracle of causing a gun to vanish before the eyes of twenty-thousand spectators!

What would an English murder be? Why, it must be a murder of a kind entirely peculiar to England, such as are the murders related in this particularly ingenious novel. And, naturally, it takes a foreigner to savour the full Englishness of a specifically English crime. Such a foreigner is Dr. Bottwink who plays a very important part in the shocking events at Christmastide in Warbeck Hall. The setting seems, at first, to be more conventional than is usual in Mr. Hare's detective stories. The dying and impoverished peer, the family party, the snow-bound castle, the faithful butler and his ambitious daughter. But tins is all part of Mr. Hare's ingenious plan, and there is nothing at all conventional about the murders themselves and the maimer of their detection. In short, tins is a peculiarly enjoyable dish of murder.

Роман «И никого не стало» всемирно известной английской писательницы Агаты Кристи (1890–1976) – одно из самых ярких произведений королевы детектива.

Череда загадочных убийств держит читателя в напряжении до самого финала, который поражает даже искушенного читателя своей непредсказуемостью.

В книге представлен неадаптированный текст на языке оригинала.

Žoržs SimenonsApkaunotā un viņas vīrsgarstāstsTulkojis Ēvalds Stars Mākslinieks Aldis AleksNoskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

Moriss LeblānsArsēns Lipēns pret Herloku ŠolmsuAutors ironiski pasmējies par izslavēto dedukcijas metodi un Šerloka Holmsa izmeklēšanas spējām; kā arī ažiotāžu, ko cilvēki radījuši ap šo tēluTulk. I. PētersoneNo franču valodas tulkojusi Inese Pētersone, Rīga «Liesma» 1991 Paris, 1966Redaktores Silvija Tītmane nn Irisa Sakse Mākslinieks Aivars Sprūdžs© Inese Pētersone, tulkojums latviešu valodā, 1991Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

A model murder… where a famous painter Agatha Troy, R.A., makes her appearance.

A brand new Sherlock Holmes anthology to sit alongside George Mann’s successful Encounters of Sherlock Holmes anthologies, and Titan’s Further Adventures and New Adventures series.A brand-new collection of Sherlock Holmes stories from a variety of exciting voices in modern horror and steampunk, edited by respected anthologist George Mann. Stories are told from the point of view of famous associates of the great detective, including Lestrade, Mrs Hudson, Sherlock himself, Irene Adler, Langdale Pike, and of course, Professor Moriarty…