Agatha Christie Crime Collection Author:Agatha Christie APPOINTMENT WITH DEATH (Hercule Poirot, Bk 18) — Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her. With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he... more »9;d overheard back in Jerusalem: 'You see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?' Mrs Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he'd ever met
CROOKED HOUSE
When Aristide Leonides dies at Three Gables, his young wife and her lover are suspects for murder.
SAD CYPRESS (Hercule Poirot, Bk 20)
Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, only one man still presumed Elinor was innocent until proven guilty: Hercule Poirot was all that stood between Elinor and the gallows« less