Poirot's Early Cases; Sleeping Murder; Elephants Can Remember
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Sleeping Murder
Pretty Gwenda Reed, 21 and newly married, has come from New Zealand to search for a home in England for herself and her husband, Giles. She settles on a small south-coast town, Dillmouth, and almost immediately falls in love with a delightful house where she at once feels strangely at home. But it is something more than a comfortable feeling of familiarity. Gwenda feels she actually remembers the house. And then, on a visit to a London theatre, a line from the play brings back to her the terrifying vision of a woman's body lying in the hall. It also brings another member of the theatre party into the picture: Miss Jane Marple.
Pretty Gwenda Reed, 21 and newly married, has come from New Zealand to search for a home in England for herself and her husband, Giles. She settles on a small south-coast town, Dillmouth, and almost immediately falls in love with a delightful house where she at once feels strangely at home. But it is something more than a comfortable feeling of familiarity. Gwenda feels she actually remembers the house. And then, on a visit to a London theatre, a line from the play brings back to her the terrifying vision of a woman's body lying in the hall. It also brings another member of the theatre party into the picture: Miss Jane Marple.
Poirot's Early Cases
The Affair at the Victory Ball
The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
The Cornish Mystery
The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly
The Double Clue
The King of Clubs
The Lemesurier Inheritance
The Lost Mine
The Plymouth Express
The Chocolate Box
The Submarine Plans
The Third-Floor Flat
Double Sin
The Market Basing Mystery
Wasp's Nest
The Veiled Lady
Problem at Sea
How Does Your Garden Grow?
The Affair at the Victory Ball
The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
The Cornish Mystery
The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly
The Double Clue
The King of Clubs
The Lemesurier Inheritance
The Lost Mine
The Plymouth Express
The Chocolate Box
The Submarine Plans
The Third-Floor Flat
Double Sin
The Market Basing Mystery
Wasp's Nest
The Veiled Lady
Problem at Sea
How Does Your Garden Grow?
Elephants Can Remember
Hercule Poirot was expecting a visit from his friend Mrs Ariadne Oliver, the novelist. There was something, it seemed, that she wanted to ask him. He wondered why she sounded so doubtful about what she was doing. Was she bringing him some difficult problem? Or was she acquainting him with a crime? As Poirot knew well, it could be anything with Mrs Oliver. Would this visit entail danger, or merely a dilemma? He had no idea that what was going to be laid before him would be a double suicide that had taken place 12 years ago and been satisfactorily dealt with by the police force of Great Britain.
He did not foresee that, at first unwillingly, he would become enmeshed - not in crime as crime but because of two young people who loved each other and wanted to marry. He was not to suspect that this girl and boy would matter to him. The places he would go, the questions he would ask, the activities in which he would engage, the pity he would feel, the depths of tragedy he would plumb...
Hercule Poirot was expecting a visit from his friend Mrs Ariadne Oliver, the novelist. There was something, it seemed, that she wanted to ask him. He wondered why she sounded so doubtful about what she was doing. Was she bringing him some difficult problem? Or was she acquainting him with a crime? As Poirot knew well, it could be anything with Mrs Oliver. Would this visit entail danger, or merely a dilemma? He had no idea that what was going to be laid before him would be a double suicide that had taken place 12 years ago and been satisfactorily dealt with by the police force of Great Britain.
He did not foresee that, at first unwillingly, he would become enmeshed - not in crime as crime but because of two young people who loved each other and wanted to marry. He was not to suspect that this girl and boy would matter to him. The places he would go, the questions he would ask, the activities in which he would engage, the pity he would feel, the depths of tragedy he would plumb...
