Sonja's bookshelf: audio-and-read en-US Fri, 02 May 2025 00:21:40 -0700 60 Sonja's bookshelf: audio-and-read 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg The Whispering Muse 59737212 From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a gripping tale of obsession, superstition and ambition, set against the atmospheric backdrop of Victorian London. Be careful what you wish for it may just come true.

At The Mercury Theatre in London's West End, rumours are circulating of a curse. It is said that the lead actress Lilith has made a pact with Melpomene, the tragic muse of Greek mythology, to become the greatest actress to ever grace the stage. Suspicious of Lilith, the jealous wife of the theatre owner sends dresser Jenny to spy on her, and, desperate for the money to help her family, Jenny agrees.

What Jenny finds is a woman as astonishing in her performance as she is provocative in her nature. On stage, it's as though Lilith is possessed by the characters she plays, yet off stage she is as tragic as the muse who inspires her, and Jenny, sorry for her, befriends the troubled actress. But when strange events begin to take place around the theatre, Jenny wonders whether the rumours are true and fears that when the muse comes calling for payment, the cost will be too high.]]> 304 Laura Purcell 1526627183 Sonja 4 3.94 2023 The Whispering Muse
author: Laura Purcell
name: Sonja
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2023/04/14
date added: 2025/05/02
shelves: stand-alone, gothic, currently-reading, audio-and-read
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]]> <![CDATA[The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #6)]]> 847860 202 Ellis Peters 0446404284 Sonja 4 medieval, audio-and-read 4.13 1982 The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #6)
author: Ellis Peters
name: Sonja
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1982
rating: 4
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date added: 2024/09/06
shelves: medieval, audio-and-read
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]]> <![CDATA[Gallows Court (Rachel Savernake #1)]]> 39734882 Alternate cover edition of ASIN B079GXJPC8

LONDON, 1930
Sooty, sulphurous, and malign: no woman should be out on a night like this. A spate of violent deaths � the details too foul to print � has horrified the capital and the smog-bound streets are deserted. But Rachel Savernake � the enigmatic daughter of a notorious hanging judge � is no ordinary woman. To Scotland Yard’s embarrassment, she solved the Chorus Girl Murder, and now she’s on the trail of another killer.

Jacob Flint, a young newspaperman temporarily manning The Clarion’s crime desk, is looking for the scoop that will make his name. He’s certain there is more to the Miss Savernake’s amateur sleuthing than meets the eye. He’s not the only one. His predecessor on the crime desk was of a similar mind � not that Mr Betts is ever expected to regain consciousness after that unfortunate accident...

Flint’s pursuit of Rachel Savernake will draw him ever-deeper into a labyrinth of deception and corruption. Murder-by-murder, he’ll be swept ever-closer to its dark heart � to that ancient place of execution, where it all began and where it will finally end: Gallows Court.]]> 368 Martin Edwards Sonja 4 3.59 2018 Gallows Court (Rachel Savernake #1)
author: Martin Edwards
name: Sonja
average rating: 3.59
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2018/09/30
date added: 2023/04/21
shelves: historical-fiction, first-in-the-series, audio-and-read
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]]> <![CDATA[Road Rage (Inspector Wexford, #17)]]> 918926
While Chief Inspector Wexford privately despaired about the loss of his hiking grounds, local residents and outsiders were organizing a massive protest.ÌýSome of them may have been desperate enough to kidnap five hostages and threaten to kill them.ÌýOne hostage was Wexford's wife, Dora.

Now, combining high technology with his extraordinary detecting skills, Wexford and his team race to find the whereabouts of the kidnappers.ÌýBecause someone has crossed from political belief to fanaticism, and as the first body is found, good intentions may become Wexford's personal path to hell.]]> 384 Ruth Rendell 0440226023 Sonja 3 british, audio-and-read 3.75 1997 Road Rage (Inspector Wexford, #17)
author: Ruth Rendell
name: Sonja
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1997
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Simisola (Inspector Wexford, #16)]]> 83433 But the days that follow prove the doctor dreadfully wrong. A young woman is found murdered not Melanie, but the last person to have seen and spoken to her. A second woman's body is discovered, again not Melanie's, but like her, young and black. A third woman turns up beaten and unconscious; like the others, she is of Nigerian origin. As Inspector Wexford's investigation stretches from days into weeks, it becomes his unhappy obligation to counter the hopes of the doctor and his wife. In Wexford's professional opinion, Melanie, like the other young women, has become the victim of a serial killer with a horrifyingly singular objective.
From the Paperback edition.]]> 384 Ruth Rendell 0517194074 Sonja 3 british, audio-and-read 3.75 1994 Simisola (Inspector Wexford, #16)
author: Ruth Rendell
name: Sonja
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1994
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Veiled One (Inspector Wexford, #14)]]> 361611

Chief Inspector Wexford, injured in a car bombing, must rely on Detective Mike Burden to catch a killer in what appears to be a murder without motive
Ìý
Chief Inspector Wexford couldn’t know that the bundle of rags in the parking garage concealed a body. He’d just been doing a bit of light shopping, after all, not looking for dead housewives. Wexford won’t be on the case for long; a car bomb sends him to the hospital, and Inspector Mike Burden must match wits with a would-be murderer. But just how close to the edge of madness must Burden go to catch a killer?
Ìý
With rich characterization Rendell plumbs the depths of human character, revealing the secrets that lie hidden in the most ordinary lives.
]]> 320 Ruth Rendell 0345359941 Sonja 3 british, audio-and-read 3.81 1988 The Veiled One (Inspector Wexford, #14)
author: Ruth Rendell
name: Sonja
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1988
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Devil's Novice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #8)]]> 847871 290 Ellis Peters 0446405159 Sonja 4 medieval, audio-and-read 4.08 1983 The Devil's Novice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #8)
author: Ellis Peters
name: Sonja
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1983
rating: 4
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date added: 2022/12/26
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]]> <![CDATA[Speaker of Mandarin (Inspector Wexford, #12)]]> 301139 213 Ruth Rendell 0345302745 Sonja 3 british, audio-and-read 3.73 1983 Speaker of Mandarin (Inspector Wexford, #12)
author: Ruth Rendell
name: Sonja
average rating: 3.73
book published: 1983
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Shake Hands Forever (Inspector Wexford, #9)]]> 83434
According to all accounts, Angela Hathall was deeply in love with her husband and far too paranoid to invite an unknown person into their home. So who managed to gain entry and strangle her without a struggle? That is the problem facing Inspector Wexford in Shake Hands Forever . Perhaps it was the mystery woman who left her fingerprints on the Hathall's bathtub? Perhaps it was Angela's husband who lied about a stolen library book? And why was the Hathall home, usually so unkempt, exqisitely clean the day of Angela's death? Then a neighbor--friendly, knowing, disarmingly beautiful--offers Wexford her assistance. And what begins as a rather tricky case turns into an obsession that threatens to destroy the Inspector's career--as well as his marriage.

Maddeningly addictive, smart and surprising, Shake Hands Forever showcases Ruth Rendell at the height of her storytelling powers.]]> 192 Ruth Rendell 0375704957 Sonja 3 british, audio-and-read 3.78 1975 Shake Hands Forever (Inspector Wexford, #9)
author: Ruth Rendell
name: Sonja
average rating: 3.78
book published: 1975
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Leper of Saint Giles (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #5)]]> 447895 208 Ellis Peters 0446404373 Sonja 4 medieval, audio-and-read 4.14 1981 The Leper of Saint Giles (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #5)
author: Ellis Peters
name: Sonja
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1981
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Confessions of Frannie Langton]]> 39937621 Alias Grace, The Underground Railroad, and The Paying Guests.

All of London is abuzz with the scandalous case of Frannie Langton, accused of the brutal double murder of her employers, renowned scientist George Benham and his eccentric French wife, Marguerite. Crowds pack the courtroom, eagerly following every twist, while the newspapers print lurid theories about the killings and the mysterious woman being held in the Old Bailey.

The testimonies against Frannie are damning. She is a seductress, a witch, a master manipulator, a whore.

But Frannie claims she cannot recall what happened that fateful evening, even if remembering could save her life. She doesn’t know how she came to be covered in the victims� blood. But she does have a tale to tell: a story of her childhood on a Jamaican plantation, her apprenticeship under a debauched scientist who stretched all bounds of ethics, and the events that brought her into the Benhams� London home—and into a passionate and forbidden relationship.

Though her testimony may seal her conviction, the truth will unmask the perpetrators of crimes far beyond murder and indict the whole of English society itself.

The Confessions of Frannie Langton is a breathtaking debut: a murder mystery that travels across the Atlantic and through the darkest channels of history. A brilliant, searing depiction of race, class, and oppression that penetrates the skin and sears the soul, it is the story of a woman of her own making in a world that would see her unmade.]]> 384 Sara Collins 0062851810 Sonja 3 3.5 3.54 2019 The Confessions of Frannie Langton
author: Sara Collins
name: Sonja
average rating: 3.54
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2019/05/10
date added: 2022/11/06
shelves: historical-fiction, stand-alone, audio-and-read
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3.5
]]> <![CDATA[The Dead Tracks (David Raker, #2)]]> 10423271
A serial killer more terrifying than you could ever imagine...

Seventeen-year-old Megan Carver was an unlikely runaway. A straight - a student from a happy home, she studied hard and rarely got into trouble. Six months on, she's never been found.

Missing persons investigator David Raker knows what it's like to grieve. He knows the shadowy world of the lost too. So, when he's hired by Megan's parents to find out what happened, he recognizes their pain - but knows that the darkest secrets can be buried deep. And Megan's secrets could cost him his life.

Because as Raker investigates her disappearance, he realizes everything is a lie. People close to her are dead. Others are too terrified to talk. And soon the conspiracy of silence leads Raker towards a forest on the edge of the city. A place with a horrifying history - which was once the hunting ground for a brutal, twisted serial killer. A place known as the Dead Tracks...]]> 550 Tim Weaver 0141042443 Sonja 4 4.17 2011 The Dead Tracks (David Raker, #2)
author: Tim Weaver
name: Sonja
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2014/03/17
date added: 2022/10/18
shelves: present-day-british-mystery, audio-and-read
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]]> <![CDATA[Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot, #14)]]> 16360
It was clear to nurse Amy Leatheran that something sinister was going on at the Hassanieh dig, something associated with the presence of ‘Lovely Louise�, the wife of the celebrated archaeologist Dr. Leidner. But she couldn't pinpoint it.

In a few days� time Hercule Poirot was due to drop in at the excavation site. With Louise suffering terrifying hallucinations, and tension within the group becoming almost unbearable, Poirot might just be too late…]]> 264 Agatha Christie 0007113803 Sonja 3 british, audio-and-read 3.92 1936 Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot, #14)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Sonja
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1936
rating: 3
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date added: 2022/06/28
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]]> <![CDATA[Murder in the Mews (Hercule Poirot, #16)]]> 121646
Are you ready for a question about each of the stories? How did a woman holding a pistol in her right hand manage to shoot herself in the left temple? What was the link between a ghost sighting and the disappearance of top secret military plans? How did the bullet that killed Sir Gervase shatter a mirror in another part of the room? And who destroyed the "eternal triangle" of love involving renowned beauty, Valentine Chantry?

Hercule Poirot is faced with four mystifying cases: 1. Murder in the Mews, 2. The Incredible Theft, 3. Dead Man's Mirror, and 4. Triangle at Rhodes. Each of them is a miniature classic of characterization, incident, and suspense.

Listening length: 4 hrs. 26 mins.]]> 5 Agatha Christie 1572702842 Sonja 3 british, audio-and-read 3.82 1937 Murder in the Mews (Hercule Poirot, #16)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Sonja
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1937
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Dumb Witness (Hercule Poirot, #17)]]> 16344
So, on April 17th she wrote about her anxieties and suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. And included a request that he consult with her as soon as possible. Mysteriously he didn’t receive the letter until June 28th � by which time Emily was already dead.]]> 317 Agatha Christie 0007120796 Sonja 3 british, audio-and-read 3.88 1937 Dumb Witness (Hercule Poirot, #17)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Sonja
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1937
rating: 3
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date added: 2022/06/28
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]]> <![CDATA[Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #22)]]> 433035
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…]]> 336 Agatha Christie Sonja 3 british, audio-and-read 3.91 1940 Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #22)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Sonja
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1940
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)]]> 16363
With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he’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.]]> 303 Agatha Christie 0007119356 Sonja 3 british, audio-and-read 3.87 1938 Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Sonja
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1938
rating: 3
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date added: 2022/06/28
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]]> <![CDATA[One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (Hercule Poirot, #23)]]> 16312
From the
What reason would an amiable dentist like Dr. Morely have for committing suicide? He didn't have emotional difficulties, money problems, or love trouble. What he did have was an appointment with Hercule Poirot, who is not persuaded by the suicide story and has therefore taken it upon himself to question the good doctor's patients, partners, and friends. All he's come up with is the numbing fear that Dr. Morely wasn't an unlikely victim at all. Nor the first.]]> 0 Agatha Christie 1572703857 Sonja 3 british, audio-and-read 3.79 1940 One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (Hercule Poirot, #23)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Sonja
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1940
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #25)]]> 121648 Now, sixteen years later, in a posthumous letter, Mrs. Crale has assured her grown daughter that she was innocent. But instead of setting the young woman's mind at ease, the letter only raises disquieting questions. Did Caroline indeed write the truth? And if she didn't kill her husband, who did?

To find out, the Crale’s daughter asks Hercule Poirot to reopen the case. His investigation takes him deep into the conflicting memories and motivations of the five other people who were with the Crales on the fatal day. With his keen understanding of human psychology, he manages to discover the surprising truth behind the artist's death.]]> 216 Agatha Christie Sonja 3 british, audio-and-read 4.02 1942 Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #25)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Sonja
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1942
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #24)]]> 16305
Ever since Arlena's arrival the air had been thick with sexual tension. Each of the guests had a motive to kill her. But Hercule Poirot suspects that this apparent 'crime of passion' conceals something much more evil.]]> 220 Agatha Christie 1579126286 Sonja 3 british, audio-and-read 3.99 1941 Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #24)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Sonja
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1941
rating: 3
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date added: 2022/06/28
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hollow (Hercule Poirot, #26)]]> 16303 384 Agatha Christie 0007121024 Sonja 3 british, audio-and-read 3.80 1946 The Hollow (Hercule Poirot, #26)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Sonja
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1946
rating: 3
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date added: 2022/06/27
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]]> <![CDATA[Taken at the Flood (Hercule Poirot, #29)]]> 16308
Shortly afterwards, Hercule Poirot receives a visit from the dead man’s sister-in-law who claims she has been warned by ‘spirits� that Mrs Underhay’s first husband is still alive. Poirot has his suspicions when he is asked to find a missing person guided only by the spirit world. Yet what mystifies Poirot most is the woman’s true motive for approaching him…]]> 352 Agatha Christie 0007121016 Sonja 3 british, audio-and-read 3.72 1948 Taken at the Flood (Hercule Poirot, #29)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Sonja
average rating: 3.72
book published: 1948
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Mrs. McGinty's Dead (Hercule Poirot, #32)]]> 121622 Mrs. McGinty’s Dead, one of Agatha Christie’s most ingenious mysteries, the intrepid Hercule Poirot must look into the case of a brutally murdered landlady.

Mrs. McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion falls immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes reveal traces of the victim’s blood and hair. Yet something is amiss: Bentley just doesn’t seem like a murderer.

Could the answer lie in an article clipped from a newspaper two days before the death? With a desperate killer still free, Hercule Poirot will have to stay alive long enough to find out. . . .]]> 244 Agatha Christie 1572707313 Sonja 3 british, audio-and-read 3.85 1952 Mrs. McGinty's Dead (Hercule Poirot, #32)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Sonja
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1952
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[After the Funeral (Hercule Poirot, #33)]]> 527744 306 Agatha Christie 0425173909 Sonja 3 british, audio-and-read 3.89 1953 After the Funeral (Hercule Poirot, #33)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Sonja
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1953
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Labours of Hercules (Hercule Poirot, #27)]]> 16425 9 Agatha Christie 1572704578 Sonja 3 british, audio-and-read 3.83 1947 The Labours of Hercules (Hercule Poirot, #27)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Sonja
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1947
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Poirot investiga (Hercule Poirot, #3)]]> 140302
Incluye los siguientes relatos:

1- La aventura de la Estrella del Oeste
2- Tragedia en Marsdon Manor
3- La aventura del piso barato
4- El misterio de Hunter's Lodge
5- El robo del millón de dólares en bonos
6- La aventura de la tumba egipcia
7- Robo de joyas en el Grand Metropolitan
8- El rapto del primer ministro
9- La desaparición del Señor Davenheim
10- La aventura del noble italiano
11- El caso del testamento desaparecido]]> 237 Agatha Christie Sonja 3 british, audio-and-read 4.10 1924 Poirot investiga (Hercule Poirot, #3)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Sonja
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1924
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Big Four (Hercule Poirot, #5)]]> 16316
Librarian's note #1: the concept of The Big Four first appeared as weekly short stories very loosely connected in 'The Sketch' in 1924. The 12 original stories were: 1) The Unexpected Guest, 2) The Adventure of the Dartmoor Bungalow, 3) The Lady on the Stairs, 4) The Radium Thieves, 5) In the House of the Enemy, 6) The Yellow Jasmine Mystery, 7) The Chess Problem, 8) The Baited Trap, 9) The Adventure of the Peroxide Blond, 10) The Terrible Catastrophe, 11) The Dying Chinaman, and 12) The Crag in the Dolomites. For her 1927 novel, Christie enhanced the linkages between the stories and shuffled them somewhat.

Librarian's note: the first fifteen novels in the Hercule Poirot series are 1) The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920; 2) The Murder on the Links, 1923; 3) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926; 4) The Big Four, 1927; 5) The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1928; 6) Peril at End House, 1932; 7) Lord Edgware Dies, 1933; 8) Murder on the Orient Express, 1934; 9) Three Act Tragedy, 1935; 10) Death in the Clouds, 1935; 11) The A.B.C. Murders, 1936; 12) Murder in Mesopotamia, 1936; 13) Cards on the Table, 1936; 14) Dumb Witness, 1937; and 15) Death on the Nile, 1937. These are just the novels; Poirot also appears in this period in a play, Black Coffee, 1930, and two collections of short stories, Poirot Investigates, 1924, and Murder in the Mews, 1937. Each novel, play and short story has its own entry on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ.]]> 272 Agatha Christie 0007120818 Sonja 3 british, audio-and-read 3.54 1927 The Big Four (Hercule Poirot, #5)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Sonja
average rating: 3.54
book published: 1927
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Lord Edgware Dies (Hercule Poirot, #9)]]> 215492
Now the man was dead. And yet the great Belgian detective couldn’t help feeling that he was being taken for a ride. After all, how could Jane have stabbed her thoroughly detestable husband to death in his library at exactly the same time she was seen dining with friends? And what could be her motive now that the aristocrat had finally agreed to grant her a divorce?

Librarian's note: the first fifteen novels in the Hercule Poirot series are 1) The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920; 2) The Murder on the Links, 1923; 3) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926; 4) The Big Four, 1927; 5) The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1928; 6) Peril at End House, 1932; 7) Lord Edgware Dies, 1933; 8) Murder on the Orient Express, 1934; 9) Three Act Tragedy, 1935; 10) Death in the Clouds, 1935; 11) The A.B.C. Murders, 1936; 12) Murder in Mesopotamia, 1936; 13) Cards on the Table, 1936; 14) Dumb Witness, 1937; and 15) Death on the Nile, 1937. These are just the novels; Poirot also appears in this period in a play, Black Coffee, 1930, and two collections of short stories, Poirot Investigates, 1924, and Murder in the Mews, 1937. Each novel, play and short story has its own entry on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ.]]> 219 Agatha Christie 0002314576 Sonja 3 british, audio-and-read 3.94 1933 Lord Edgware Dies (Hercule Poirot, #9)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Sonja
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1933
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)]]> 16424
Poirot quickly takes a particular interest in the young woman. Recently, she has narrowly escaped a series of life-threatening accidents. Something tells the Belgian sleuth that these so-called accidents are more than just mere coincidences or a spate of bad luck. Something like a bullet! It seems all too clear to him that someone is trying to do away with poor Nick, but who? And, what is the motive? In his quest for answers, Poirot must delve into the dark history of End House. The deeper he gets into his investigation, the more certain he is that the killer will soon strike again. And, this time, Nick may not escape with her life.]]> 287 Agatha Christie 0007119305 Sonja 3 british, audio-and-read 4.00 1932 Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Sonja
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1932
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot, #6)]]> 16335
When the Blue Train stops, the jewel is missing, and the woman is found dead in her compartment. It's the perfect mystery, filled with passion, greed, deceit, and confusion.

Is Hercule Poirot the perfect detective to solve it?]]> 317 Agatha Christie 1579126952 Sonja 3 british, audio-and-read 3.84 1928 The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot, #6)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Sonja
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1928
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)]]> 639787
There's no lack of suspects: his wife, whose dagger served as the weapon, his embittered son, who would have killed for independence, and his mistress who refused to be ignored. Each felt deserving of the dead man's fortune. The police think they've found the culprit. But Poirot has his doubts. Why is the dead man wearing an overcoat that is too big for him? And who was the impassioned love-letter in the coat pocket for? Before Poirot can answer these questions, the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second, identically-murdered corpse.

Librarian's note: the first 5 Christie mysteries featuring Poirot are: 1) The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920; 2) The Murder on the Links, 1923; 3) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926; 4) The Big Four, 1927; and 5) The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1928. There are many short stories and a collection featuring Poirot in this period as well. Each novel and short story has its own entry on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ.]]> 228 Agatha Christie 0425067947 Sonja 3 british, audio-and-read 3.82 1923 The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)
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From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp. What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman.

How could this happen with the world's No. 1 private detective on board?]]> 336 Agatha Christie 000711933X Sonja 3 british, audio-and-read 3.84 1935 Death in the Clouds (Hercule Poirot, #12)
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There's a serial killer on the loose. His macabre calling card is to leave the ABC Railway Guide beside each victim's body. But if A is for Alice Asher, bludgeoned to death in Andover, and B is for Betty Bernard, strangled with her belt on the beach at Bexhill, who will then be Victim C? More importantly, why is this happening?

Often considered to be one of Agatha Christie's best.

Librarian's note: the first fifteen novels in the Hercule Poirot series are 1) The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920; 2) The Murder on the Links, 1923; 3) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926; 4) The Big Four, 1927; 5) The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1928; 6) Peril at End House, 1932; 7) Lord Edgware Dies, 1933; 8) Murder on the Orient Express, 1934; 9) Three Act Tragedy, 1935; 10) Death in the Clouds, 1935; 11) The A.B.C. Murders, 1936; 12) Murder in Mesopotamia, 1936; 13) Cards on the Table, 1936; 14) Dumb Witness, 1937; and 15) Death on the Nile, 1937. These are just the novels; Poirot also appears in this period in a play, Black Coffee, 1930, and two collections of short stories, Poirot Investigates, 1924, and Murder in the Mews, 1937. Each novel, play and short story has its own entry on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ.]]> 232 Agatha Christie 1579126243 Sonja 3 british, audio-and-read 4.03 1936 The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
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]]> <![CDATA[Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)]]> 16304 322 Agatha Christie 0425200450 Sonja 3 british, audio-and-read 4.16 1934 Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
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name: Sonja
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