Third Girl

Third Girl was first published in 1966 by Wm. Collins & Sons, and first issued by Fontana Books in 1976. This copy is a seventeenth impression, published in 1977.

The Hound of Death

The Hound of Death was first published by William Collins Sons & Co Ltd in 1933. It was first issued in Fontana Books in 1964, and this copt is a sixth impression, published 1976.

The cover art was painted by Tom Adams.

The stories in it are:
The Hound of Death
The Red Signal
The Fourth Man
The Gipsy
The Lamp
Wireless
The Witness for the Prosection
The Mystery of the Blue Jar
The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael
The Call of Wings
The Last Seance
SOS

The Labours of Hercules

The Labours of Hercules was first published in 1946, and first published by Fontana Books in 1961. This copy is the ninth impression, published 1980.

The cover painting is by Tom Adams.

The Clocks

First published in 1963 and by Fontana in 1966. This copy is a thirteeth impression, dated August 1975.

Cover painting by Tom Adams

The house at Wilbraham Crescent...
To think that was the house where it happened! It looked ever so nice, net curtains and all. Yet a man had been killed there - with a kitchen knife... Mesmerised by the people swirling round her, she stared and stared and ceased to think... She started when a voice spoke in her ear. Then turned her head in surprised recognition.
Approximately two minutes later she was dead...

Appointment with Death

First published in 1938 and by Fontana in 1960. This copy is the ninth impression, published June 1977.

The cover painting is by Tom Adams.

Ahead, between the towering red cliffs of Petra, Sarah saw a cluster of tents and above them caves, hollowed out of the red rocks. She stared up at one of these which held a sitting figure. An idol? A gigantic squatting image? Her heart gave a sudden lurch of recognition...
Gone, now, was the feeling of peace - of escape. Looming above her like an arch priestess of some forgotton cult, like a monstrous swollen female Buddha, was the figure of Mrs Boynton...

Mrs. McGinty's Dead

First published in 1952 and first issued by Fontana Books in 1968. This copy is an eighth impression, published in April 1976.

Cover artist was Tom Adams

Mrs. McGinty died after a brutal blow to the head, and the only suspect was her shifty and destitute lodger, James Bently. Bentley was duly arrested, tried and condemned to death. But even when faced with overwhelming evidence, the policeman who arrested him didn't think Bently was a murderer...and called in Hercule Poirot

Elephants Can Remember

First published in 1972 and by Fontana books in 1975. This copy is the second impression, printed in June 1978.

Cover Painting by Tom Adams

Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff overlooking the rocks below and the sea breaking against them. Here where he stood the bodies of a husband and wife had been found. Here, three weeks before that, a woman had walked in her sleep and fallen to her death...
But why had these things happened?

The Murder at the Vicarage

First published in 1930 and first issued by Fontana in 1961. This copy is a tenth impression, published 1975.

Cover painting by Tom Adams

It was really very awkward...after all, as the local vicar I have many obligations to fulfil and my time is precious...
But there was no doubt about it. The Colonel was dead. There, as large as life - or should I say death - lying sprawled across a desk in a horridly unnatural position. I pulled myself together and went over to him. The cold hand that I raised fell back, lifeless.
You see, the real trouble was that only a dew hours earlier I'd said: "Anyone who murdered Colonel Prothero would be doing the world at large a service."
And someone had - in my study!