Agatha Christie Combo(Poirot Investigates+The Murder on the Links+The Mysterious Affair at Styles)

Poirot Investigates is a collection of eleven short stories involving the famed eccentric detective; first there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond... then came the ‘suicide’ that was murder... the mystery of the absurdly chaep flat... a suspicious death in a locked gun-room... a million dollar bond robbery... the curse of a pharoah’s tomb... a jewel robbery by the sea... the abduction of a Prime Minister... the disappearance of a banker... a phone call from a dying man... and finally the mystery of the missing will. Hercule Poirot is one of Agatha Christies most famous and long-running characters. Relying on his little grey cells to solve crimes he is notably meticulous in his personal habits and his professional methodology. He appears in Christies first novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles and in dozens of subsequent books including some of Christies best-loved works such as Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile. Poirot is most things that the conventional sleuth is not. He is witty gallant transparently vain and the adroitness with which he solves a mystery has more of the manner of the prestidigitator than of the cold-blooded relentless tracker-down of crime of most detective stories.+Hercule Poirot rushes to France in response to an urgent and cryptic plea from a client but the Belgian detective arrives just too late. He had been stabbed multiple times with a letter opener and left in a freshly dug grave. The victim lay face down in a grave located within a golf course. He was wearing his son’s overcoat and a love letter within. His wife had reported that masked men had abducted him from their home in the dead of the night. The mystery thickens when another corpse is found stabbed with the same weapon in the same way. While the local authorities pursue the false leads suggested by the evidence Poirot fights to unravel the mystery behind ‘The Murder on the Links’. He relies instead upon his famous little grey cells to cut through the confusion and untangle a story of blackmail forbidden love and a long-buried secret.+The famous English writer Agatha Christie introduces the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot to the reader in ‘The Mysterious Affair at Styles’ in 1920. The mystery begins with the death of Emily Inglethorp at Styles. Poirot a Belgian refugee of the Great War is settling in England near the home of Emily Inglethorp who helped him to his new life. His friend Hastings arrives as a guest at her home when the woman is killed. Suspects are plentiful including the victim’s husband her stepsons her companion a nurse and a specialist on poisons. All of them have secrets they are desperate to keep but none can outwit Poirot as he navigates the ingenious red herrings and plot twists that earned Agatha Christie her well-deserved reputation as the queen of mystery.