Showing results for "Hercules" in Historical Fiction

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on audio. One by one the men who discovered and opened the tomb of King Men-He-Rah are beginning to die. Superstition spreads that they have been cursed by the dead king. Poirot is asked to investigate the...

An unsolved murder. A lost artifact. A secret buried beneath the floodwaters of history… During the catastrophic Dutch flood of 1953 – the Watersnoodramp – more than 1,800 lives were lost to the fury of the North Sea. But amid the devastation, one death went unnoticed... a murder disguised by disaster. Seven decades later, a skeleton is uncovered in the silted remains of a drowned village. Clutched in its grasp lies a mysterious artifact – one that may unlock the location of the mythical Shield of Hercules, a relic of untold power hidden since the ancient world.

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on audio. Major Hastings and Hercule Poirot are not interested in the case of the Spanish Chest, so obviously has it been reported in the papers that it seems an entirely closed book. But, when Hastings persuades...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on audio. A woman leaves a fancy dress ball early and is later found to have died from a drugs overdose. Hercule Poirot investigates in this, the first story written about him...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on audio. This electric short story begins in October on the island of Rhodes, a veritable paradise of privacy, beauty and calm, or so Hercule Poirot has imagined. The reality is quite startlingly different. The...

When the luxurious overnight passenger train from Calais to the Riviera, known as the Blue Train, arrives in Nice, a guard goes into the compartment of American heiress, Ruth Kettering and attempts to wake her. Unfortunately, she will never wake up, as she is dead, having been killed by a heavy blow to her head, disfiguring her almost beyond recognition. What is more, her precious ruby, known as the 'Heart of Fire', is missing. The prime suspect is Ruth’s estranged husband, but detective Hercule Poirot, who also just happens to be a passenger on the train, is not convinced.

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook. Holidaying in the countryside and enjoying a quiet breakfast Hastings, Inspector Japp and Poirot are disturbed by a local police officer who needs their help to solve a case. A man has been found shot...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on audio. Sitting in front of a fire, Hastings listens as Poirot recounts his greatest failure. When a wealthy French deputy dies, everyone believes it is from natural causes. Poirot is on vacation from the Belgian...

Miss Miranda Bartlett is on a mission to locate her missing friend. Determined hoyden that she is, she'll do whatever it takes to get the answers she seeks, too, even if that means dressing like a dandy, sneaking into a gaming hell, and surrounding herself with London's worst reprobates. However, she didn't plan on bumping into a Herculean gentleman along the way.

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on audio. In one of the few Poirot short stories without Captain Hastings, the Belgian detective must face up to solving a mystery without his trusty companion...

ها قد فشلت تجربتي. وضعت قلمي جانبًا وفكرت في تمزيق الورقة، ثم في النهاية، سحقتها بيدي، وشكلت منها كرة غير منتظمة، ورميتها نحو النار المشتعلة في المدفأة، لكني أخطأت الهدف.

November 1918: World War I had just ended, and the deadly Spanish flu was raging across the world. Max Shertok, an immigrant US Army Private, leaves his Big Red One fighting unit in France to rescue his parents from civil war in Russia. On his way East, he meets Zalmund Hofitz and Deena Wójick, renegades from the Bolshevik Revolution.

ظن الجميع أن حادث سقوط اميلي أرونديل على كرة من المطاط تركت على السلالم قد تسبب فيه كلبها ولكنها كلما فكرت في سقوطها أكثر زاد اقتناعها بأن أحد أقاربها كان يحاول أن يقتلها، في السابع عشر من شهر ابريل كتبت شكوكها في خطاب وأرسلته الى المحقق هيركيول بوارو، الغريب في الأمر أنه لم يتلق الخطاب حتى الثامن والعشرين من شهر يونيو.. بعد وفاة اميلي بالفعل.

لم يحتج هيركيول بوارو لكل مهاراته البوليسية لادراك أن هناك شيئا ما يزعج سكرتيرته الآنسة ليمون، فقد اقترفت ثلاثة أخطاء بخطاب بسيط للغاية، يبدو أن انتشار هوس السرقة ببيت الطالبات الذي تعمل به شقيقتها يشتت انتباه مساعدته هذه المعروفة بكفاءتها، ونظراً لأن الفترات اليائسة تستدعي اجراءات يائسة من وجهة نظره يوافق المحقق العظيم على اجراء التحقيق، يبدو أن بوارو لم يكن على دراية بأن اليأس هو الدافع المشترك بينه وبين القاتل .