Crooked House by Agatha Christie

Who Filled The Hypo Poison?

In the sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years his junior, set to inherit a sizeable fortune, and rumored to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor comfortably ensconced in the family estate. But criminologist Charles Hayward is casting his own doubts on the innocence of the entire Leonides brood. He knows them intimately. And he's certain that in a crooked house such as Three Gables, no one's on the level...

Printing History

Written by Agatha Christie Mallowan (1890-1976)

Dodd, Meade, and Company

March 1949

Pocket Books

#753

November 1950

One Night With Nora by Brett Halliday

A Mike Shayne Mystery

Cover by Robert Stanley

A naked intruder leads Mike Shayne to one of the strangest cases of his career. He is never surprised to wake up with a woman in his bedroom, unless she's a stranger. The private investigator is dozing when he hears someone creep through the door, undress, and slip into bed. She's not dead, but of course there's a corpse nearby and strong evidence implicates Shayne.

Printing History

Written by Davis Dresser (

Mead/Torquil

1953

Dell Publishing Company

D387

November 1960

#803

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