Книги, похожие на «Агата Кристи, The A B C Murders / Убийство по алфавиту. Книга для чтения на английском языке»

Agatha Christie’s world-famous serial killer mystery, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.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.Having begun with Andover, Bexhill and then Churston, there seems little chance of the murderer being caught – until he makes the crucial and vain mistake of challenging Hercule Poirot to frustrate his plans…

A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passenger plane…From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp.What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman.

Отправляйтесь навстречу приключениям вместе с великим детективом Шерлоком Холмсом и его верным спутником доктором Ватсоном! В этой книге вас ждут три захватывающих истории, где логика, азарт и умение подмечать детали приведут к разгадке самых загадочных преступлений двух континентов. Узнайте тайну сбежавшего жениха через «Установление личности», спасите Джона Опеншоу от верной гибели, предсказанной «Пятью зернышками апельсина», и выясните, как внутри рождественского гуся оказался «Голубой карбункул».Все тексты рассказов адаптированы для уровня В1. Самые нужные слова с транскрипциями к ним вы найдете в словариках, расположенных после каждой главы. В конце книги даны упражнения на проверку понимания прочитанного, закрепление новых слов, работу с текстом и грамматику английского языка.

An elderly spinster has been poisoned in her country home…Everyone blamed Emily’s accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her.On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously he didn’t receive the letter until June 28th… by which time Emily was already dead…