Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These readers have been carefully adapted using the Collins COBUILD grading scheme to ensure that the language is at the correct level for an intermediate learner. This book is Level 5 in the Collins ELT Readers series. Level 5 is equivalent to CEF level B2+ with a word count of 22,000 – 30,000 words.
Each book includes:
• Full reading of the adapted version available for free online
• Helpful notes on characters
• Cultural and historical notes relevant to the plot
• A glossary of the more difficult words
• Free online resources for students and teachers at
www.collinselt.com/readers
The plot:
There is a dangerous atmosphere at Stoneygates, a centre for young criminals. When Miss Marple visits her friend there, she can sense the danger, too. One evening during her stay someone shoots at the administrator of the centre. He is not injured, but a visiting relative is shot dead at the same time in another part of the building. Could this be a coincidence? Miss Marple must solve the mystery.
Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These readers have been carefully adapted using the Collins COBUILD grading scheme to ensure that the language is at the correct level for an intermediate learner. This book is Level 5 in the Collins ELT Readers series. Level 5 is equivalent to CEF level B2+ with a word count of 22,000 – 30,000 words.
Each book includes:
• Full reading of the adapted version available for free online
• Helpful notes on characters
• Cultural and historical notes relevant to the plot
• A glossary of the more difficult words
• Free online resources for students and teachers at
www.collinselt.com/readers
The plot:
Rex Fortescue, the boss of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his office, when he suffered a painful and sudden death. When the police checked the victim’s pockets, they found grain. Miss Marple knows one of the servants in Rex Fortescue’s house and comes to help solve the mystery. She soon starts to suspect that she is dealing with a case of crime by rhyme.
Collins brings Agatha Christie, the Queen of Crime, to English language learners.
These carefully adapted versions are shorter than the originals with the language graded for upper-intermediate learners.
Each title includes:
notes on characters, history and culture
a glossary of the more difficult words
CD with a full reading of the adapted story
Online language activities and support for teachers
Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These readers have been carefully adapted using the Collins COBUILD grading scheme to ensure that the language is at the correct level for an intermediate learner. This book is Level 5 in the Collins ELT Readers series. Level 5 is equivalent to CEF level B2+ with a word count of 22,000 – 30,000 words.
Each book includes:
• Full reading of the adapted version available for free online
• Helpful notes on characters
• Cultural and historical notes relevant to the plot
• A glossary of the more difficult words
• Free online resources for students and teachers at
www.collinselt.com/readers
The plot:
Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious light in the school Sports Pavilion. Among the tennis racquets and lacrosse sticks, they find the body of the unpopular games mistress – shot through the heart. Schoolgirl Julia Upjohn knows too much, and begins to worry that she might be the next victim. Can detective Hercule Poirot find the killer before the ‘cat’ strikes again?
Collins brings Agatha Christie, the Queen of Crime, to English language learners.
These carefully adapted versions are shorter than the originals with the language graded for upper-intermediate learners.
Each title includes:
Notes on characters, history and culture
A glossary of the more difficult words
CD with a full reading of the adapted story
Online language activities and support for teachers
Myślę, że bez większego ryzyka można powiedzieć, że Morderstwo w Orient Expressie to najpopularniejsza powieść kryminalna Agathy Christie. Trudno powiedzieć, dlaczego wybór czytelników najczęściej pada właśnie na tę książkę. Ani nie jest debiutem brytyjskiej pisarki, ani też jej akcja nie jest specjalnie oryginalna w stosunku do pozostałych historii. A Wam który tytuł przychodzi do głowy, gdy jesteście pytani o to, czy znacie, albo czy czytaliście jakąś książkę Christie? Dobrze słyszę? Morderstwo w Orient Expressie? I właśnie dlatego historia zbrodni z Herculesem Poirotem w roli detektywa stała się klasykiem swojego gatunku. Sprawdźcie razem ze mną, w czym tkwi fenomen tej powieści.
The world’s most beloved detective, Hercule Poirot – the legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and most recently The Monogram Murders and Closed Casket—returns in a stylish, diabolically clever mystery set in 1930’s London.
Returning home after lunch one day, Hercule Poirot finds an angry woman waiting outside his front door. She demands to know why Poirot has sent her a letter accusing her of the murder of Barnabas Pandy, a man she has neither heard of nor ever met.
Poirot has also never heard of a Barnabas Pandy, and has accused nobody of murder. Shaken, he goes inside, only to find that he has a visitor waiting for him — a man who also claims also to have received a letter from Poirot that morning, accusing him of the murder of Barnabas Pandy…
Poirot wonders how many more letters of this sort have been sent in his name. Who sent them, and why? More importantly, who is Barnabas Pandy, is he dead, and, if so, was he murdered? And can Poirot find out the answers without putting more lives in danger?
Agatha Christie’s most daring crime mystery - an early and particularly brilliant outing of Hercule Poirot, ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’, with its legendary twist, changed the detective fiction genre for ever.
Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Now, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with a drug overdose.
But the evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of information. Unfortunately, before he could finish the letter, he was stabbed to death…
The world’s most beloved detective, Hercule Poirot – the legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and most recently The Monogram Murders and Closed Casket—returns in a stylish, diabolically clever mystery set in 1930’s London.
Returning home after lunch one day, Hercule Poirot finds an angry woman waiting outside his front door. She demands to know why Poirot has sent her a letter accusing her of the murder of Barnabas Pandy, a man she has neither heard of nor ever met.
Poirot has also never heard of a Barnabas Pandy, and has accused nobody of murder. Shaken, he goes inside, only to find that he has a visitor waiting for him — a man who also claims also to have received a letter from Poirot that morning, accusing him of the murder of Barnabas Pandy…
Poirot wonders how many more letters of this sort have been sent in his name. Who sent them, and why? More importantly, who is Barnabas Pandy, is he dead, and, if so, was he murdered? And can Poirot find out the answers without putting more lives in danger?
A collection of Miss Marple mysteries, plus some bonus short stories…
First, the mystery man in the church with a bullet-wound… then, the riddle of a dead man’s buried treasure… the curious conduct oif a caretaker after a fatal riding accident… the corpse and a tape-measure… the girl framed for theft… and the suspect accused of stabbing his wife with a dagger.
Six gripping cases with one thing in common – the astonishing deductive powers of Miss Marple.
Also includes two non-Marple mysteries, ‘The Dressmaker’s Doll’ and ‘In a Glass Darkly’.
Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.
Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.
Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer - in case he or she decides to strike again.
An old-fashioned London Hotel is not quite as reputable as it makes out...
When Miss Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what she's looking for at Bertram's Hotel: traditional decor, impeccable service and an unmistakable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer.
Yet, not even Miss Marple can foresee the violent chain of events set in motion when an eccentric guest makes his way to the airport on the wrong day...
It is World War II, and while the RAF struggles to keep the Luftwaffe at bay, Britain faces an even more sinister threat from `the enemy within' - Nazis posing as ordinary citizens.
With pressure mounting, the Intelligence service appoints two unlikely spies, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Their mission: to seek out a man and a woman from among the colourful guests at Sans Souci, a seaside hotel. But this assignment is no stroll along the promenade. After all, N and M have just murdered Britain's finest agent...
LISTY, KTÓRE ZABIJAJĄ, BUDZĄC DEMONY
Do Lymstock przyjeżdża na rekonwalescencję Jerry Burton, lotnik dochodzący do siebie po przeżytej katastrofie, wraz z siostrą Joanną. Liczą na spokój i ciszę - a tymczasem wkrótce po ich przybyciu miasteczkiem wstrząsa tragiczna śmierć pani Symmington: do odebrania sobie życia popchnął ją ohydny anonim. Wkrótce okazuje się, że tego typu liściki otrzymała połowa mieszkańców… ale nikt nie chce się do tego przyznać. Czy Jerry i Joanna odkryją, kto z mieszkańców opluwa śmiertelnym jadem sąsiadów?
Panna Marple, dzięki hojności swego kochającego siostrzeńca Raymonda, wypoczywa w luksusowym pensjonacie na jednej z wysp karaibskich. Tak egzotyczne otoczenie bynajmniej nie oszałamia starszej pani: gdy zostaje zamordowany emerytowany pułkownik, stary, nieszkodliwy nudziarz, panna Marple rozpoczyna prywatne śledztwo, swoim zwyczajem porównując ludzi i sytuacje do znanych sobie osób i wydarzeń z sennego miasteczka St Mary Mead... I jak zwykle rozwiązuje niezwykle zagmatwaną zagadkę.
Kiedy właściciel dużej londyńskiej firmy umiera nieoczekiwanie, otruty we własnym biurze, policja odkrywa aż nadmiar podejrzanych. Młoda, atrakcyjna żona z kochankiem; syn żywiący urazę do ojca o sposób prowadzenia interesów; sfrustrowana córka, której ojciec nie dopuścił do ślubu z ukochanym. Wydawać by się mogło, że śledztwo doprowadziło do odkrycia winnego, kiedy nowa zbrodnia obala dotychczasowe koncepcje. Na szczęście panna Marple ma pomysł, który pozwoli naprowadzić policję na właściwy trop.
Gwenda Reed wraca do kraju po latach spędzonych w Nowej Zelandii. Kupuje dom w Dillmouth, ale od samego początku odzywają się demony przeszłości. Wnętrze nowego domu wydaje jej się dziwnie znajome. W dodatku po kilku dniach zaczyna ją dręczyć wizja kobiety duszonej przez mężczyznę. Wkrótce dzięki pomocy panny Jane Marple Gwenda odkrywa, dlaczego dom wydaje jej się tak bardzo znajomy: mieszkała w nim przez krótki czas przed wyjazdem do Nowej Zelandii. Również wizja umierającej kobiety nie jest jedynie przywidzeniem, lecz wydarzeniem zapamiętanym z dzieciństwa. O zbrodnię oskarżono wówczas jej ojca. Jednak dziewczyna jest przekonana, że to nie swojego ojca widziała kilkanaście lat temu, duszącego kobietę. Wraz z panną Marple postanawiają wykryć prawdziwego mordercę.
Oto grupa znajomych panny Jane Marple. Siedzą wokół komina, rozmawiają, i nagle ktoś proponuje, by każda z obecnych osób opowiedziała historię, której rozwiązanie jej tylko jest wiadome. Reszta zaś postara się odgadnąć prawdę. I kto za każdym razem wygrywa? Siwowłosa staruszka, pozornie zajęta jedynie dzierganiem na drutach śpioszków i skarpetek.
Kultowa powieść Agaty Christie. Genialnie zawiązana fabuła, trzymająca w napięciu akcja i nieoczekiwane zakończenie sprawiły, że ta książka stała się jednym z najważniejszych kryminałów w historii.
Herkules Poirot po rozwiązaniu sprawy kryminalnej w Azji wraca do Europy. Pociąg Orient Express, którym podróżuje, grzęźnie w zaspie śnieżnej. W nocy w niewyjaśnionych okolicznościach ginie jeden z pasażerów. Detektyw Poirot rozpoczyna dochodzenie, a jego podróż zamienia się w śledztwo. Fakty wskazują, że zabójca zajmuje przedział w tym samym wagonie… Czy Poirot zdoła rozwiązać zagadkę tajemniczego morderstwa? Sprawa nie należy do łatwych - każdy pasażer jest podejrzany.
A repugnant Amercian widow is killed during a trip to Petra... Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her. 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...
When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again - for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition. What is more, her precious rubies are missing.
The prime suspect is Ruth's estranged husband, Derek. Yet Poirot is not convinced, so he stages an eerie re-enactment of the journey, complete with the murderer on board...
Poirot sets himself a challenge before he retires - to solve 12 cases which correspond with the labours of his classical Greek namesake... In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet - reasoned the detective - like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters. So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Poirot made up his mind to accept just twelve more cases: his self-imposed `Labours Each would go down in the annals of crime as a heroic feat of deduction.
W wieczór poprzedzający Wszystkich Świętych odbywa się przyjęcie dla dzieci: wydrążone dynie udające koszmarne maski, świece, wróżby, konkursy… Wspaniała zabawa. Nikt nie myśli o śmierci. A tymczasem ona przychodzi, zabierając dwunastoletnią Joyce. Kto mógł zabić dziecko? Przecież nie było nikogo obcego: tylko grupa kolegów i koleżanek, oraz ich rodzice. Ariadna Oliver, znana autorka powieści kryminalnych, obawia się, że to jej obecność sprowokowała mordercę. Wystraszona wzywa na pomoc Herkulesa Poirota.
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