Love takes us to unprecedented heights... and lowers us into the darkest depths. It is the dark side of love that the newest collection of works by the Queen of detective is dedicated to. Crimes of passion, fatal games of hearts, dangerous love affairs and intrigues… Lady Agatha's legendary characters brilliantly deal with all this: everyone's favorite Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, the "healer of souls" and the maestro of the drama Parker Pine, the supernatural Mr. Keen and the restless couple — Tommy and Tuppence.This book contains stories from collections:• "Poirot's Early Cases"• "The Mysterious Mr. Keen"• "Mr. Parker Pyne" • "Thirteen Mysterious Cases"• "Partners in Crime"• "The Emerald of the Rajah"• "The Caretaker's case"• "The second stroke of the gong"-------------------------------------------------"Undoubtedly, she is a genius." — Elizabeth George "It is generally accepted to consider Christie a brilliant master of a sharp plot. However, it represents something much more significant." — The Guardian "If we are talking about a murder drama, there is no one more inventive than Christie." — Sunday Times«…I still adore Christie's novels." — Louise Penny "Reading Christie's novel is like biting into a ripe apple: the purest, crunchiest and absolute satisfaction..." — Tana Frenchagata Christie is the most published author of all time after Shakespeare. The circulation of her books is second only to the circulation of his works and the Bible. More than a billion of Christie's books have been sold in the world in English and the same number in other languages. She is the author of eighty detective novels and short story collections, twenty plays, two books of memoirs and six psychological novels written under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. Her characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple have forever become exemplary heroes of the action-packed genre.