Taken at the Flood

First published in 1948 and by Fontana in 1961. This is the fifteenth impression, printed January 1984.

Cover is signed MB

Gordon Cloade is killed in an air-raid on London. He has left no will and his vast fortune passes to his young wife, Rosaleen.
But five other people have been promised a share in that fortune, five people who desperately need the money. Now it can only become theirs is Rosaleen should happen to die before them.
There are five people with a strong motive for murder and violent murder is commiteed.
But Rosaleen is not the victim...

Towards Zero

First published in 1944 and this edition was first published by Pan books in 1948. This copy is not dated, but I guess it to be from the 1980s due to the price of £1.25.

Cover photo by Colin Thomas

On February 12 someone works out a scheme for murder and fixes a date in September. During the summer other persons in the drama-to-come make their holiday plans. And in September Mr Treves, the distinguished London solicitor, finds himself in a comfortable hotel not far from Gull's Point, the home of Lady Tressilian.
Gathered in the house is a curious assortment of guests - Nevile Strange, the well-known athlete and her ward and heir, his beautiful wife Kay, his divorced wirfe Audrey, and Thomas Royde, an old friend of the family on leave from Malaya. Across the river estuary at another hotel Ted Latimer, Kay's decorative young friend, is staying. And in the backgrond, the incorruptible journalist MacWhirter.
So the stage is set for murder most foul.

The Thirteen Problems

Published in 1981, this copy is the seventh impression of Thirteen Problems, first published in 1932 by William Collins Sons & Co Ltd and first issues in Fontana Books in 1965. In America it was published as The Tuesday Club Murders.

The problems posed widely:
from brutal murder by poisoning to the mysterious disappearance of gold bars from a galleon...
from a hideously bloodstained pavement to a violent and supernatural death...a
nd from the crime that had not yet been committed to the theif who committed his crime twice..

The Sittaford Mystery

The Sittaford Mysterdy was first published by William Collins Sons & Co Ltd in 1931. It was first issued by Fontana Books in 1961. This is the eleventh impression, published in November 1983.

Silhouetted around the table, tense with anticipation, were seated six shadowy figures. They were involved in a seance...
The table began to rock violently and, gradually, began to form the words: "Captain Trevelyan...Dead" and then, much more slowly this time, " M-u-r-d-e-r"
Only a few miles away, Captain Trevelyan knew nothing of the strange seance at Sittaford...

The Listerdale Mystery

The Listerdale Mystery was first published by Wm Collins Sons and Co in 1934. This edition was first published by Pan in 1970. Thus copy is undated, but due to the price on the back cover of £1.95, I guess it to be from the 1980s.

The cover photography was taken by Colin Thomas

The Mirror Crack'd

First Published in November 1963, and in America in 1964. The first Pocket Books printing was in December 1964. This copy doesn't mention an exact date for this printing, but gives the cover art a copyright of 1986 Jerry Daly.

At her Victorian mansion in St. Mary Mead, Marina Gregg received her visitors like a queen holding court. Moments later, one of her guests was dead - poisoned. Was it murder by mistake? The fading film star's tumultuous past featured an abundant cast of suspects and Scotland Yard was stymied.
Miss Jane Marple, the elderly spinster with an unerring eye for evil, begins to see the shocking truth...as a daring killer striked again!

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

First published in 1926 and first published in Fontana Paperbacks in 1957. This is a twentyfifth impression printed in May 1983.

Mrs. Ferrars died on Thursday, September 16th.
Mr. Ferrars had died one year earlier.
Village rumous had accused her of poisoning her husband, but no one was sure until the letter to the man she loved was discovered.
But Roger Ackroyd never had the chance to finished readingthe letter - for he was th next in the chain of death.

Sleeping Murder

First published in 1976 and by Fontana in 1977. This edition was the eighth impression, printed 1982.

Like Curtain, Christie wrote this novel more than thirty years before its publication. She wrote it as a backup should she need some extra money, but ended up leaving it until her health stopped her from writing. She ordered it to be published, but died before it was actually printed. There are some chronological errors where Christie didn't have enough time to properly proof read. Some characters included in Sleeping Murder had actually died in previous stories (though of course, Christie wrote them after Sleeping Murder!)

Ten Little Niggers

First published in 1939 and by Fontana books in 1963. This copy is the thirtyseventh impression, printed May 1983.

Ten strangers find themselves trapped in a lonely island mansion ff the Devon coast. Ten strangers who have nothing in common - except that each one guards a deadly secret.
Then the murderer strikes - and there are only nine. Then eight. Then seven. Then six. Then five. Then four. Then three...

The Clocks

First published in 1963 and first issued in Fontana in 1966. This copy is the twentyfirst impressed, printed February 1981.

Master sleuth Hercule Poirot has time on his hands: four clocks, all set at 4.13, and all left at the scene on a murder.
In the tidy sitting room, Detective Inspector Hardcastle examines the assembled witnesses for clues - a blind lady, a young secretary and an innocent passer-by.
Poirot must find them first...but will he have time?

Evil Under the Sun

First published in 1941, and by Fontana in 1957. This copy is the twenty-third edition, printed March 1982.

A murderer strikes on an island paradise but Hercule Poirot is close behind...

...And Then There Were None

And Then There Were None was first tried at the Wimbledon Theatre from 20 September 1943. On November 17 1943 it opened at the St James' Theatre and ran until 24 February 1944 when the theatre was bombed. It was transferred to the Cambridge Theatre and ran there from 29 February 1944 - 6 May 1944. It then went back to a restored St James' from 6 May 1944 - 1 July 1944.

This programme was from a Duke of York Theatre's production from about 1987 because the Director Kenneth Alan Taylor is know to have directed the play in 1986 and 1987.

It states that the first permonace of this particular production was at the Nottingham Playhouse on the 2 September 1987, and the first performance at Duke of York's Theatre on the 29 September 1987.