Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed with the far-off woods of the famous estate of Torwood Park. He was a good-looking young man in tweeds, with very pale curly hair and pale clear eyes. Walking in wind and sun in the very landscape of liberty, he was still young enough to remember his politics and not merely try to forget them....

"This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the city, took a furnished house for the summer out of town, and found herself involved in one of those mysterious crimes that keep our newspapers and detective agencies happy and prosperous..."

Criminals beware - there is no eluding the extraordinary mind of Father Brown Dr. Orion Hood is one of the eminent thinkers of his day, a psychologist whose expert opinion on human nature is sometimes sought by the police. Usually, he is called on to solve only the most spectacular crimes - a nobleman murdered, a diplomat poisoned - but today a more ordinary problem presents itself. An amiable little priest named Father Brown asks Dr. Hood to help...

At a house party in an English country estate, Mark Ablett entertains his guests. When his brother Robert is found murdered, and when Mark himself disappears, Tony Gillingham endeavors to investigate the mystery with the help of his friend Bill Beverley.

A remote castle in Wales inhabited by three older men is the last place on earth that a young, lively girl of 18 would want to spend time. And yet, when forced by circumstances to take up residence there for six weeks prior to coming of age, Jessie surprises them all by finding immense enjoyment in the experience and by capturing each of her adopted uncles' hearts. As the time grows near for her to return to England, the three brothers find it necessary...

The tranquility of a luxury cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything...until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: "I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger." Yet under the searing heat of the Egyptian sun, nothing is ever quite what...

When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with footprints of a giant hound nearby, the blame is quickly placed on a fatal family curse. But Holmes and Watson know that frivolous fairy tales cannot be the cause of such a calculated crime. Yet when they set out to catch the killer – be it human or hound – they soon discover a world of vicious vengeance and ruthless revenge. And if the killer is still out there, how far...

After his presumed death at the Reichenbach Falls, Sherlock Holmes makes a dramatic return in this thrilling collection of thirteen gripping cases. In The Return of Sherlock Holmes, the legendary detective reunites with Dr. Watson to face cunning criminals, cryptic codes, and chilling conspiracies. From the eerie mystery of The Adventure of the Empty House to the sinister blackmail of Charles Augustus Milverton, and the puzzling enigma of The Six...

When a wealthy, elderly woman is poisoned, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot seeks the murderer among a large group of friends and relatives.

The Secret Adversary is the second published detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in January 1922 in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in that same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $1.75. The book introduces the characters of Tommy and Tuppence who feature in three other Christie novels and one...