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World-famous detective Hercule Poirot has retired to the English village of King's Abbot, determined to dedicate his little grey cells to the growing of vegetable marrows. But when Roger Ackroyd, a local businessman and former acquaintance, is stabbed to death, the man's niece begs Poirot to investigate. Poirot enlists the local doctor to be his assistant and scribe, and the two of them sift through clues to try to discern the ones that will lead them to the killer.

Eine besonders perfide vorgehende Erpresserbande hält die Shopping-Metropole London in Atem. Die Verbrecher drohen parallel in drei großen Kaufhäusern mit Selbstmordattentaten zur Hauptgeschäftszeit, wenn ihre Forderungen nicht erfüllt werden. Superintendent Kenneth Stafford setzt sein bestes Team auf den Fall an, Naomi Stafford und Scott Bannister. Während im Yard eine terroristische Organisation hinter den Erpressungen vermutet wird, kommt das explosive Duo den wahren Tätern auf die Schliche...

Mark Ablett is hosting all his friends at his English country house when he receives a letter from his estranged brother, Robert, announcing Robert's intention to arrive from Australia. Not long after his arrival, Robert turns up dead, his body found with a bullet wound to the head, and Mark is nowhere to be seen. Antony Gillingham and his friend Bill Beverly play Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to solve this whodunnit mystery. This is Milne's only mystery novel.

This is the second novella detailing the continuing adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the world's first consulting detective, and his friend and colleague, Dr. John Watson. In The Sign of Four, Holmes and Watson are hired by Mary Morstan to investigate the mysterious circumstances of her father's death, which will set them on the trail of a lost Indian treasure and in pursuit of two of the strangest criminals in the Holmes canon.