Written by Agatha Christie

The Secret Adversary

by Agatha Christie

The Secret Adversary is written by Agatha Christie, immediately after her most successful first crime novel "The Mysterious Affair at Styles".  This novel moves around the key characters named Tommy and Tuppence and perhaps appears in five of the preceding novels of Agatha.   Thomas Bereford nicknamed  Tommy is a young Englishman ..

The Plymouth Express Affair

by Agatha Christie

Lieutenant Simpson had the carriage to himself. The December air was chilly, and he pulled up the window. Then he sniffed vaguely, and frowned. What a smell there was! Reminded him of that time in hospital, and the operation on his leg. Yes, chloroform; that was it!He let the window down again, changing his seat to one with its back to the engine. ..

The Hunter's Lodge Case

by Agatha Christie

To begin with, Captain Hastings, you must understand that Hunter’s Lodge, where we are going, and where the tragedy took place, is only a small shooting-box in the heart of the Derbyshire moors. Our real home is near Newmarket, and we usually rent a flat in town for the season. Hunter’s Lodge is looked after by a housekeeper who is quite capable of..

The Missing Will

by Agatha Christie

The problem presented to us by Miss Violet Marsh made a rather pleasant change from our usual routine work. Poirot had received a brisk and businesslike note from the lady asking for an appointment, and he had replied, asking her to call upon him at eleven o’clock the following day.She arrived punctually—a tall, handsome young woman, plainly but ne..