Ariadne Oliver está de visita en casa de su amiga Judith Butler. La casa hierve de actividad, pues se prepara una fiesta juvenil y hay que organizar diversos juegos. Nadie tiene tiempo o ganas de prestar atención a Joyce, una pequeña que afirma...
As particular about her horses as she was casual about her lovers, young Dulcie Harkness courted trouble — and found it in a lonely and dangerous jump. What will her death reveal? Young Roderick Alleyn (Ricky) is the object of special...
“Found drowned, my foot,” said the pathologist two minutes after looking at the body. The unidentified young man pulled from the salt water near the little fishing village of Edsway hadn’t drowned after all. And he hadn’t been a bather...
Margaret and Kenneth Clifton pass their childhood summers with their two sets of aunts and uncles in the sleepy village of Hill. They spend their days playing in the town's sheepwash, avoiding Sunday school, investigating the old hermit's shack,...
Things had never been quite the same at Latter End since Lois had taken over. Suddenly life seemed to be an endless succession of bitter family rows, which Lois invariably won. But when Lois Latter is murdered, it's shocking to discover just how...
Mrs Beatrice Lestrange Bradley, psychologist and detective, has become the warden of a house in a girls' training college in order to investigate the disappearance of a previous warden. Only her intelligence and perspicacity can coax the...
Maigret doit enquêter sur le meurtre d'une femme à l'écluse 14 de Dizy, dans la Marne. Il fait la connaissance de l'équipage du yacht « Southern Cross », dont le propriétaire, Sir Lampson, mari de la...
En ce vendredi 7 novembre, à Concarneau, quand l'horloge lumineuse indique onze heures, toutes les routes sont désertes. Mais à l'hôtel l'Amiral, il y a encore des hommes en train de jouer aux cartes. Cinq minutes plus...
L'action se situe dans le Paris de la fin du XIXe siècle, après la Commune, dans un contexte politique trouble, hésitant entre les fantômes de la première révolution, la montée du collectivisme et un modèle républicain clientéliste et...