Agatha Christie Crime Collection by Agatha Christie (FIRST EDITION)

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd / They do it with Mirrors / Mrs. McGinty's Dead

507 Pages, Hardcover

FIRST EDITION 1969

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd:

Considered to be one of Agatha Christie's greatest, and also most controversial mysteries, 'The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd' breaks the rules of traditional mystery.

The peaceful English village of King's Abbot is stunned. The widow Ferrars dies from an overdose of Veronal. Not twenty-four hours later, Roger Ackroydthe man she had planned to marryis murdered. It is a baffling case involving blackmail and death that taxes Hercule Poirot's "little grey cells" before he reaches one of the most startling conclusions of his career.

They do it with Mirrors:

A man is shot at in a juvenile reform home but someone else dies

Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in a Victorian mansion which doubles as a rehabilitation centre for delinquents. Her fears are confirmed when a youth fires a revolver at the administrator, Lewis Serrocold. Neither is injured. But a mysterious visitor, Mr Gulbrandsen, is less fortunate shot dead simultaneously in another part of the building.

Mrs. McGinty's Dead:

In 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.