Who Benefits? - Appointment with Death. The Crooked Little House. Death on the Nile. The Sleeping Murderer. The Mysterious Mr. Quin (set of 5 books)

Appointment with Death While traveling in the East, Hercule Poirot stopped in Jerusalem. One evening, standing by the open window of his hotel room, he suddenly heard a phrase spoken somewhere nearby: "You do understand that she needs to be... killed, right?" At first, the detective paid no attention to these words. But very soon he had to remember them when his hotel neighbor, a wealthy elderly American woman traveling with her family – daughter, son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren – suddenly passed away. Poirot learns that in life, the deceased, a former prison warden, was a family tyrant. The great detective is puzzled about who killed the old woman. And is it even a murder...? There are no traces left at all. Meanwhile, Poirot has only twenty-four hours to solve the mystery... The Crooked Little House Do you remember the English song translated by Korney Chukovsky: "And behind the crooked river / In the crooked little house / Lived crooked little mice summer and winter"? For the residents of the mansion "Three Gables," this song is quite relevant - an expanded cottage populated by a large noisy family does resemble that very "crooked little house." In such a house, a cheerful hubbub should reign. But one day, murders began to occur there... Death on the Nile On the luxury steamer "Cairn," sailing on the Nile, a young millionaire is killed, recently married and, as it turned out, had many enemies among the passengers. Anyone could have killed the self-confident and brazen girl who stole her best friend's fiancé. But none of the probable suspects committed the crime... Fortunately, the great detective Hercule Poirot is on the steamer, who knows all the society represented on the cruise from London and is aware of the possible motives of each of those present. And, of course, the first thing the Belgian thinks about is the "love triangle" consisting of the victim, her freshly baked husband, and the very temperamental woman he left for the millionaire... The Sleeping Murderer Young