Agatha Christie Crime Collection: Peril at End House / The Body in the Library / Hercule Poirot's Christmas

This volume gathers three of Agatha Christie's novels, all built around murder puzzles. In Peril at End House, Hercule Poirot visits the Cornish coast, where a young woman living in a house above the sea seems to be the target of a run of near-fatal accidents. In The Body in the Library, a respectable country couple come downstairs one morning to find a dead young woman in their library, a stranger nobody can name, and the local police must work out who she was and why she was there. Miss Marple takes a hand in that case. Hercule Poirot's Christmas brings the detective to an English country house, where the family of a wealthy, domineering old man gathers for the holiday, and a murder on Christmas Eve spoils the festivities. Each story offers a closed circle of suspects, careful clues and the satisfaction of a clever solution.