Sorted on book title (not in series order)

Panther

The Collector

Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. A lottery win enables him to capture art student Miranda and keep her in the cellar of the Sussex house he has bought with the windfall.Read more

Death In the Stocks

The moonlight shone on the quiet village green when an English bobbie returning from night patrol finds on a man's two motionless feet stuck through the holes of a pair of stocks. He identifies the corpse in evening dress immediately. Wealthy Andrew Vereker was not a well-loved man, and...Read more

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The Matlock Paper

All the most prestigious American universities and beyond...the judiciary, medical services, police, local government...Nimrod controls all. Even the Mafia wants to make terms. That's where James Matlock, English lecturer at Carlyle University, comes in. He has been given an 'invitation' by...Read more

The Murder On The Links

When Hercule Poirot and his associate Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of Merlinville-sur-Mer to meet their client Paul Renauld, they learn from the police that he has been found that morning stabbed in the back with a letter opener and left in a newly-dug grave adjacent to a...Read more

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Agatha Christie's debut novel was also the first to feature Hercule Poirot, her famously eccentric Belgian detective.

A refugee of the Great War, Poirot has settled in England near Styles Court, the country estate of his wealthy benefactor, the elderly Emily Inglethorp. When...Read more

Pangolin

Alan Pritchard has been a loser all his life. The opportunity to kidnap Rod Kiley, Southeast Asia's chief CIA operative, provides his last opportunity to be some sort of success. Filled with venomous hatred for Kiley (code name: Pangolin), Pritchard goes to work on his plan.
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Penhallow

Old patriarch, Adam Penhallow, yet ruling his family and his Cornish roost with an iron hand from his sickbed. The death of menacing old man, on the eve of his birthday, seems at first to be by natural causes. He was elderly after all. But Penhallow wasn't well liked. Tyrannical Penhallow...Read more

Scimitar

Agents Ross and Lyle of the Defense Intelligence Agency are given the task of kidnapping a defecting Soviet scientist, despite opposition from the CIA and the KGB, in the midst of key SALT talks on the banning of the neutron bombRead more