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News: Four New Christie Related Books Released in 2015
Four new books Agatha Christie related books to be released in 2015 to mark Christie's 125th anniversary year.

News: Samuel French Release First ePlay of its kind
Samuel French have expanded Christie’s And Then There Were None into the first ever enhanced e-Play.

News: Creation of the Agatha Christie Mile
Creator of the Agatha Christie Mile, Joan Nott, reveals the origins of the first Agatha Christie guided tour.

Characters: Hercule Poirot
The world-renowned Belgian private detective, unsurpassed in his intelligence and understanding of the criminal mind, respected and admired by police forces and heads of state across the globe. Famous as much for his magnificent moustaches as his little grey cells.
Characters: Miss Marple
The sweet little old lady from St Mary Mead with an uncanny knack for solving crimes that baffle the police. Her seemingly sheltered village life in fact provides a microcosm of human nature that forms the basis of her intuitive deductions.
Characters: Ariadne Oliver
A foremost writer of crime and other sensational stories, often stumped by the exploits of her fictional Finnish detective Sven Hjerson. She accompanies Poirot on several of his most famous cases, offering solutions based on her astute female intuition.
Characters: Harley Quin
A strange trick of the light? Or a figment of the imagination? The mysterious Mr Quin appears to his friend Mr Satterthwaite at just the right moment to aid him in solving crimes, often with carefully worded but apparently random observations that provide insight into a problem.
Characters: Tommy & Tuppence
The two young sleuths who, jobless and restless after the end of World War I, set up the Young Adventurers Ltd and consequently get mixed up with thefts, murders and international spies. The only characters in the Christie canon to age and live their lives in real time.
Characters: Parker Pyne
Parker Pyne is not really a detective at all. In fact, he specialises in detecting and curing unhappiness in the discontented and guilt-ridden. Assisting the lovelorn, he considers himself a “heart specialist”.
Stories: Dumb Witness
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.