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Five best-loved classics from the Queen of Crime. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is Agatha Christie's most daring crime mystery - an early and particularly brilliant outing of Hercule Poirot. With its legendary twist, it changed the detective fiction genre forever. In Murder on the Orient Express, a snowdrift stops the luxurious train in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning 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. The ABC Murders is Christie's world-famous serial killer mystery. There's a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way through the alphabet. And as a macabre calling card he leaves beside each victim's corpe the ABC Railway Guide open at the name of the town where the murder has taken place... Evil Under the Sun is an exotic seaside thriller. It was not unusual to find the beautiful bronzed body of the sun-loving Arlena Stuart stretched out on a beach,face down. Only, on this occasion, there was no sun… she had been strangled... Five Little Pigs is one of Agatha Christie's most ingenious mysteries. Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other suspects... Set of 5 books: Five Little Pigs, Evil Under the Sun, The ABC Murders, Murder on the Orient Express, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd About the Author Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the bestselling novelist in history. Her first novel,The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War,introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections,19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.