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Agatha Christie was born in 1890 and created the detective Hercule Poirot in her debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920). She achieved wide popularity with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) and produced a total of 80 novels and short story collections over six decades.

When Pru Marlowe takes a dog for a walk, she doesn't expect to find a body. But Spot, a service dog in training, has a good nose that leads her right to the remains of a beautiful young woman. Despite her best instincts, Pru can't avoid getting involved. The young woman seems to have been mauled by a wild cat, but Pru knows there have been no pumas in the Berkshire woods for years. With panther panic growing, Pru may have to put aside her own issues - and her own ideas of domesticity - to solve a savage mystery.

Alfred Hitchcock and Ernest Lehman's unfinished screenplay, completed by Mark Gatiss 'Achingly tense scenes... and a masterpiece of a climax' Radio Times The annals of movie history are full of lost treasures - spectacular scripts from world-renowned writers that could have been classics, had...

Kaum hat ein Zellenkumpan des Ex-Safeknackers John Simmons ein Ticket in die Freiheit gelöst, schlägt es für seinen ehemaligen Knastbruder dreizehn: Henry Bates und Becky Flemming müssen die weiße Weste ihres Freundes retten, doch Simmons rutscht immer tiefer in die Schatten seiner Verbrecherlaufbahn und droht, die Detektei Bates mit sich in den Abgrund zu reißen.