Книги издательства HarperCollins Publishers
Название: Collins Concise English Dictionary
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2008
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Pioneers in dictionary publishing for over 175 years, Collins are now proud to offer the Concise English Dictionary in print and online. The seventh edition of the groundbreaking Collins Concise Dictionary is the only dictionary in concise format with encyclopedic entries for people, places, and regions. Ideal for families and students, this is essential for anyone who needs a dictionary that supports research in all areas (academic subjects as well as hobbies, sport and recreation) and study. Have confidence — comprehensive and authoritative, with all the words and definitions you need Get it right — language notes help you choose the right words for every situation and give advice on words that are changing in meaning or use. Get there fast — clear layout with colour. Find out more — thousands of entries for people and places.
Название: Collins Paperback Thesaurus
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2008
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Use a Collins thesaurus, and be one of the best-informed language users in the world. Comprehensive and authoritative, with all the alternative words and opposites you need. Language notes help you choose the right word. Word Study supplement offers more descriptive alternatives to some overused words.
Название: Paddington at the Palace
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2001
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When Mr. Gruber takes Paddington to Buckingham Palace to watch the Changing of the Guard, there are so many people in the way he can't see a thing. But a mysterious someone «on high» comes to his rescue and Paddington has a very good idea who it might be.
Название: Postern of Fate
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2001
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Tommy and Tuppence Beresford have just become the owners of an old English house. Along with the property they have inherited a collection of antique books. When looking through «The Black Arrow», Tuppence comes upon a series of apparently random underlinings which spell out a disturbing message.
Название: Partners in Crime
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2001
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Tommy and Tuppence Beresford were restless for adventure, so when they were asked to take over Blunts International Detective Agency, they leapt at the chance. After their triumphant recovery of a pink pearl, intriguing cases kept on coming their way.
Название: Murder in Mesopotamia
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2001
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An archaeologist's wife is murdered on the shores of the River Tigris in Iraq... It was clear to Amy Leatheran that something sinister was going on at the Hassanieh dig in Iraq; something associated with the presence of «Lovely Louise», wife of celebrated archaeologist Dr. Leidner. In a few days' time Hercule Poirot was due to drop in at the excavation site. But with Louise suffering from terrifying hallucinations, and tension within the group becoming almost unbearable, Poirot might just be too late!
Название: The Murder on the Links
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2001
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An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course. But why is the dead man wearing his sons overcoat? And who was the impassioned love-letter in the pocket for? Before Poirot can answer these questions, the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second, identicallurdered corpse.
Название: Peril at End House
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2001
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Agatha Christie's ingenious murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Nick Buckley was an unusual name for a pretty young woman. But then she had led an unusual life. First, on a treacherous Cornish hillside, the brakes on her car failed. Then, on a coastal path, a falling boulder missed her by inches. Later, an oil painting fell and almost crushed her in bed. Upon discovering a bullet-hole in Nick's sun hat, Hercule Poirot decides the girl needs his protection. At the same time, he begins to unravel the mystery of a murder that hasn't been committed. Yet.
Название: Murder on the Orient Express
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2001
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Just after midnight, a snowdrift stopped the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of the year. But by the morning there was one passengerwer. An American lay dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. With tension mounting, detective Hercule Poirot comes up with not one, but two solutions to the crime.
Название: After the Funeral
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2001
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When Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richards funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of Richards will, Cora was clearly heard to say: Its been hushed up very nicely, hasnt itBut he was murdered, wasnt he? In desperation, the family solicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to unravel the myste.
Название: Halloween Party
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2001
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At a Halloween party, Joyce — a hostile thirteen-year-old — boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the evil presence. But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer ...
Название: Poirot Investigates
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2001
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First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond... then came the suicide that was murder... the mystery of the absurdly chaep flat... a suspicious death in a locked gun-room... a million dollar bond robbery... the curse of a pharoahs tomb... a jewel robbery by the sea... the abduction of a Prime Minister... the disappearance of a banker... a phone call from a dying man... and, finally, the mystery of the missing willl. What links these fascinating cases? Only the brilliant deductive powers of Hercule Poirot!
Название: Mystery of Blue Train
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2001
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When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene 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 priceless rubies are missing.
Название: The Big Four
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2002
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An uninvited guest, coated in dust, sways and falls in the doorway of Poirots bedroom. Who is he? What is the significance of the figure 4 scribbled repeatedly on a sheet of paper? Poirot is plunged into a world of international intrigue, risking his life to uncover the truth about Number Four.
Название: The Moving Finger
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2002
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Agatha Christie's famous Miss Marple mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets — a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate-mail causes only a minor stir. But all that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs Symmington, commits suicide. Her final note said 'I can't go on'. Only Miss Marple questions the coroner's verdict of suicide. Was this the work of a poison-pen? Or of a poisoner?
Название: Murder at Vicarage
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2002
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When the Parson declares rather carelessly: Anyone who murdered Colonel Prothero would be doing the world at large a service!, he does not realise his words will come back to haunt him. From several potential murderers, Miss Marple must find the real killer.
Название: Murder in the Mews
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2002
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Poirot is faced with four mystifying cases — «Murder in the Mews», «The Incredible Theft», «Dead Mans Mirror» and «Triangle at Rhodes». How can a woman holding a gun in her right hand shoot herself in the left temple? And what is the link between a ghost and some missing top secret plans?
Название: Three Act Tragedy
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2002
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The new-look series of Hercule Poirot books for the 21st century. Thirteen guests for dinner. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, who choked on his cocktail, went into convulsions and died. But when his martini glass was sent for chemical analysis, there was no trace of poison — just as Poirot had predicted. Even more troubling for the great detective, there was absolutely no motive...
Название: Murder is Announced
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2002
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The new-look series of Miss Marple books for the 21st century. The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple, are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which reads: A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.p.m. A childish practical joke? Or a hoax intended to scare poor Letitia Blacklock? Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, a crowd begins to gather at Little Paddocks at the appointed time when, without warning, the lights go out...
Название: Mrs: McGinty's Dead
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2002
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The new-look series of Hercule Poirot books for the 21st century. Mrs McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion fell immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes revealed traces of the victims blood and hair. Yet something was amiss: Bentley just didnt look like a murderer. Poirot believed he could save the man from the gallows — what he didnt realise was that his own life was now in great danger...
