"The Big Four," published in 1927, represents an intriguing departure from Christie's usual style, blending elements of the detective novel with the emerging thriller genre. Originally published as a series of short stories in The Sketch magazine, the novel was later compiled and adapted into a single narrative. This unique genesis is reflected in its episodic structure and its more sensational, conspiracy-driven plot. The story follows Hercule...

Rusty Sabich, family man and the number-two prosecutor of Kindle County, is handed an explosive case--the brutal murder of a woman who happens to be his former lover. A shocking turn of events suddenly transforms him from the accuser into the accused... and plunges him into a nightmare world where nothing seems real and no one can be PRESUMED INNOCENT. It's the stunning portrayal of one man's all-too-human, all-consuming fatal attraction for a passionate...

'E' is for evidence: evidence  planted, evidence lost. 'E' is for ex-lovers and  evasions, enemies and endings. For Kinsey, 'E' is  for everything she stands to lose if she can't  exonerate herself: her license, her livelihood, her  good name. And so she takes on a new client: namely,  Kinsey Millhone, thirty-two and twice divorced,  ex-cop and wisecracking loner, a California...

Tor, undercover security operative for the British Jockey Club, masquerades as a waiter on a horse-racing junket called the Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train.