French Mystery Bundle
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Our French Mystery bundle is the perfect gift for the armchair detective who loves to travel. This selection of mysteries set in France will transport you from the very heart of Paris to the sunny French Riviera, via a chateau in the Alps all from the comfort of your favourite reading spot. Our hand-picked bundle features classic crime authors, including Agatha Christie, and the title often cited as the very first mystery novel ever written - Poe's Murders In The Rue Morgue.
This French Mystery bundle includes:
* The Paris Mysteries by Edgar Allan Poe - An apartment on the rue Morgue turned into a charnel house; the corpse of a shopgirl dragged from the Seine; a high-stakes game of political blackmail-three mysteries that have enthralled the whole of Paris, and baffled the city's police. The brilliant Chevalier Auguste Dupin investigates - can he find the solution where so many others before him have failed?These three stories from the pen of Edgar Allan Poe are some of the most influential ever written, widely praised and credited with inventing the detective genre. This edition contains: 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', 'The Mystery of Marie Roget' and 'The Purloined Letter'.
* The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie - Agatha Christie’s classic Hercule Poirot railway mystery, reissued in a beautiful new classic hardcover edition designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.‘You could, perhaps, love a thief, mademoiselle, but not a murderer!’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 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…
* Murder In The Marais by Cara Black - Aimee Leduc, a Parisian private investigator, has sworn she would stick to tech investigation - no criminal cases for her. Especially since her father, the late police detective, was killed in the line of duty. But when an old Jewish man approaches Aimee with a secret decoding job on behalf of a woman in his synagogue, Aimee unwittingly takes on more than she was expecting. When she takes her findings to her client's house in the Marais, Paris's historic Jewish quarter, she finds the old woman strangled, a swastika carved on her forehead. Can Aimee solve the crime?
* Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart - Linda Martin understands what is to be lonely: her parents died when she was young, and she was raised in an orphanage. When she is hired as a governess to the orphaned young Philippe, Comte de Valmy, Linda finds a kindred spirit in the lonely little boy. A thrilling, twisty tale of a dangerous romance set in the heart of mid-century Savoy, from the author of Madam, Will You Talk.
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