Project 4 Research

Book 1 : Agatha Christie — And Then There Were None

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“TEN…” Ten strangers are lured on an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious “U.N. Owen.”

“NINE…” At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret, and by the end of the night one of the guests is dead.

“EIGHT…” Stranded by a violent storm, and haunted by a nursery rhyme counting down one by one…one by one they begin to die.

“SEVEN…” Who among them is the killer and will any of them survive?

Book 2 : Agatha Christie — Death On The Nile

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The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything…until she lost her life.

Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: “I’d like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.” Yet in this exotic setting nothing is ever quite what it seems.

Book 3 : Agatha Christie — Murder On The Orient Express

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Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett likes dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer.

Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man’s enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again.