Nemesis / Hallowe'en Party / Endless Night by Agatha Christie

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1971. Detective Book Club. Scarce.

Contains three stories by Agatha Christie

Nemesis: Miss Jane is in line for a generous inheritance from her late friend Jason if she grants his final wish and solves a crime. She doesn't know what happened, or when, or where. The only clue the sleuth has to work with is one code word: "nemesis."

Hallowe'en Party (Also known as A Haunting in Venice): At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce - a hostile thirteen-year-old - boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the 'evil presence'. But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer.

Endless Night: Gipsy’s Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea – and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy. There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after. Yet, as he left the village, a shadow of menace hung over the land. For this was the place where accidents happened. Perhaps Michael should have heeded the locals’ warnings: ‘There’s no luck for them as meddles with Gipsy’s Acre.’ Michael Rogers is a man who is about to learn the true meaning of the old saying ‘In my end is my beginning.’