49 posts tagged with agathachristie.
Displaying 1 through 49 of 49. Subscribe:
Agatha Christie's Poirot: After the Funeral Season 10, Ep 3
At Richard Abernethie's funeral his niece, Cora, suggests he was probably murdered. The next day Cora is murdered herself, so Poirot interrogates the family to find her killer.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: Cards on the Table Season 10, Ep 2
At a bridge party the host is murdered. Poirot soon discovers that four of the guests have murdered before as he uses psychology, and the bridge scores, to find the killer.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Mystery of the Blue Train Season 10, Ep 1
Poirot investigates the brutal murder of an American heiress and the theft of a fabulous ruby on the Blue Train between Calais and Nice.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Hollow Season 9, Ep 4
Socialite Lady Lucy Angkatell worries about her family guests arriving for the weekend - they all loathe each other. Inviting Hercule Poirot as a distraction, the weekend is interrupted when philanderer John Christow is found dying by the swimming pool with his wife holding a gun, but who shot him?
Agatha Christie's Poirot: Death on the Nile Season 9, Ep 3
While on a holiday cruise in Egypt, the Belgian sleuth (David Suchet) investigates the murder of a rich heiress who had many enemies.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: Sad Cypress Season 9, Ep 2
Young Elinor Carlisle is tried in court for first murdering her aunt for money and then also doing away with Mary Gerrard, her aunt's protégée who stole the heart of Elinor's fiancé. In a race against time before she is hanged, Poirot, who suspects foul play, reopens the investigation.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: Five Little Pigs Season 9, Ep 1
Poirot is called in 14 years after the fact to re-examine the murder of renowned painter Amyas Crale - whose wife Caroline was hanged for the crime - when their grown-up daughter Lucy presents him with a letter written to her by her mother, declaring her innocence.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: Murder in Mesopotamia Season 8, Ep 2
Poirot and his old friend Captain Hastings arrive at the headquarters of an archaeological dig in Mesopotamia where an Arab worker has recently been found strangled. Soon, a renowned archaeologist's wife is also found murdered and all those working on the dig are under suspicion.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: Evil Under the Sun Season 8, Ep 1
Poirot takes a holiday at a stylish Devon hotel, only to find himself in the middle of another mystery when a guest is found murdered. Suspicion falls on the victim's husband and several other guests, and Poirot is forced to use all his powers of observation and human insight in order to solve the complex case.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: Lord Edgware Dies Season 7, Ep 2
The dapper detective investigates the death of Lord Edgware, husband of a famous actress who was seeking a divorce. The actress and the lord's butler, who disappears with a large sum of money, are only two of the suspects uncovered by Poirot, all with motives but seemingly watertight alibis.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Season 7, Ep 1
Hercule Poirot's retirement is interrupted when one of his neighbours in the picturesque village of Kings Abbott is found murdered in his study. Teaming up again with Chief Inspector Japp, Poirot scrutinises everyone in the household of wealthy industrialist Roger Ackroyd - from his grasping sister-in-law to his personal secretary.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: Dumb Witness Season 6, Ep 4
An elderly woman confides to Poirot that she fears one of her relatives is trying to kill her for her money. He persuades her to disinherit her heirs, but she is murdered anyway.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: Murder on the Links Season 6, Ep 3
Poirot investigates the death of a man found with a love letter in his pocket, but the plot is complicated by the theft of the murder weapon and a smug French detective who bets he can catch the killer before Poirot.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: Hickory Dickory Dock Season 6, Ep 2
A spate of petty thefts is followed by a series of brutal murders at a student hostel in London. Even Poirot has trouble comprehending the significance of the evidence.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: Hercule Poirot's Christmas Season 6, Ep 1
The tyrannical patriarch of a dysfunctional but wealthy family summons his adult children for a Christmas reunion, but prior to the holiday his throat is slashed apparently by one of them.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan Season 5, Ep 8
Poirot's holiday on the south coast of England coincides with the opening of a play entitled `Pearls Before Swine'. When the leading lady's priceless gems go missing, her husband begs the Belgian sleuth to solve the mystery.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: Dead Man's Mirror Season 5, Ep 7
When Poirot investigates the mysterious death of a despised art dealer, he finds that he has more than enough suspects from which to choose.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Chocolate Box Season 5, Ep 6
Poirot returns to his homeland for the first time since the war, but his former colleagues in Brussels have long memories and an old murder case that still needs solving.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman Season 5, Ep 5
Poirot is drawn into the dark underworld of London's Little Italy when Captain Hastings looks for a new car, but instead finds murder.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Case of the Missing Will Season 5, Ep 4
Poirot investigates the murder of Cambridge don Andrew Marsh, a notorious misogynist who was mysteriously killed just before he could change his will.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Yellow Iris Season 5, Ep 3
When the Belgian detective receives a yellow iris through the post, he recalls a murder he witnessed two years earlier in Buenos Aires. Subsequent events suggest that a similar crime could happen again.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Underdog Season 5, Ep 2
Poirot investigates when the cruel CEO of a chemical company is bludgeoned to death in his home after the company's formula for a revolutionary new synthetic rubber is targeted by a thief.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb Season 5, Ep 1
It's 1935, and a team of international archaeologists in Egypt have broken the seal of the tomb of King Men-Her-Ra for the first time in 3000 years. Moments later, the leader of the group, Sir John Willard, drops down dead of a heart attack. Poirot is called upon to consider whether he is the victim of the tomb's legendary curse or whether there is a more mortal explanation for his death.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe Season 4, Ep 3
Hercule Poirot dislikes his dentist, but one of his patients likes Mr Morley even less - and shoots him minutes after Poirot leaves his surgery. Was it the unpleasant Greek, the wild young American who looked like a murderer, or the former actress with the buckle on her shoe?
Agatha Christie's Poirot: Death in the Clouds Season 4, Ep 2
While Poirot sleeps on an airplane flight from Paris to London, a notorious French moneylender is murdered with a poisoned dart.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The ABC Murders Season 4, Ep 1
Poirot receives taunting letters from a serial killer who appears to choose his victims and crime scenes alphabetically.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge Season 3, Ep 11
Poirot is taken ill during a weekend shooting party, which ends when the unpopular host is found murdered in his study.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Affair at the Victory Ball Season 3, Ep 10
Poirot is invited to a masquerade ball and is advised to come as someone famous - so he decides to go as himself. While he is there, he is called on to solve the murder of Lord Cronshaw, who was killed at the crowded party without anyone seeing. A fragment of a costume helps him to unmask the killer.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Theft of the Royal Ruby Season 3, Ep 9
Poirot prepares to spend a quiet Christmas on his own with a box of chocolates, but he has to give up his plans when the British government asks for his urgent help. Prince Farouk, a young member of the Egyptian royal family visiting London, has lost a famous ruby, and this is deemed to be a matter of national security.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Mystery of the Spanish Chest Season 3, Ep 8
Poirot is asked to protect a woman from her violent husband, but events take a turn when the husband soon becomes the victim of a gruesome murder.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Double Clue Season 3, Ep 7
Chief Inspector Japp seeks Poirot's help with a series of unsolved jewel thefts, and during the investigation Poirot falls in love and finds a criminal intellect which stretches his own little grey cells to the limit. Poirot spends all of his time with the beautiful and clever Countess Rossakoff, leaving Hastings and Miss Lemon to do all the detective work for once.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor Season 3, Ep 6
A would-be thriller writer hopes Poirot will solve a fictional murder, but when a real killing takes place at the local manor house, Poirot finds himself drawn into the world of the supernatural.
Book: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Then, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with a drug overdose. But the evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of information. Unfortunately, before he could finish reading the letter, he was stabbed to death.
Over ninety years after its initial publication, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd still stumps readers as a methodical, detailed, and suspenseful whodunit. When King’s Abbot resident Roger Ackroyd is found murdered in his study, the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is called in to help solve the mystery. As the clues and suspects add up, Christie masterfully weaves several possible scenarios, only to surprise readers at the end. Voted by the British Crime Writers’ Association as the best crime novel ever written — and said to be Christie’s favorite of her novels — it is the third book following detective Hercule Poirot.
SPOILERS [more inside]
Agatha Christie's Poirot: Wasps' Nest Season 3, Ep 5
When Poirot suspects that the son of an old friend and his fashion-model girlfriend are in danger, his investigation is helped by Hastings' new hobby of photography.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: Poirot The Million Dollar Bond Robbery Season 3, Ep 3
Poirot is entrusted with transferring $1 million in Liberty Bonds to America on the Queen Mary, but the bonds are cleverly stolen anyway.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: How Does Your Garden Grow? Season 3, Ep 2
At a flower show, an older woman in a wheelchair approaches Poirot, gives him an empty seed packet, and asks him to visit her the next day. When Poirot arrives the next day, the woman is dead, murdered with poison.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Mysterious Affair at Styles Season 3, Ep 1
Hastings renews his friendship with Poirot and involves him in the mysterious poisoning of the mistress of a manor house married to a man twenty years her junior.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Adventure of the Western Star Season 2, Ep 9
When Belgian film star Marie Marvelle receives threatening letters demanding her famous diamond, the Western Star, she decides to visit her old friend Hercule Poirot in London to seek his help.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Kidnapped Prime Minister Season 2, Ep 8
Poirot has just 32 hours to find the Prime Minister who has been kidnapped in France, before an important League of Nations conference begins.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: Adventure of the Cheap Flat Season 2, Ep 7
Poirot attempts to intercept a glamorous night club singer-turned-spy who has stolen secret submarine plans from the US navy, before they fall into the hands of Italy's fascists.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: Double Sin Season 2, Ep 6
Poirot tells an astonished Hastings that he has made up his mind to retire and suggests they take a holiday in the Lake District, but when Hastings befriends a young woman who has lost a valuable collection of miniatures, he is relieved to learn that Poirot's thoughts of retirement soon recede into the distance.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim Season 2, Ep 5
Poirot wagers Chief Inspector Japp that he can solve the mystery of a missing banker without leaving his flat.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Cornish Mystery Season 2, Ep 4
Poirot is called in to help a woman who suspects that her dentist husband is poisoning her to free him to marry his young assistant.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Lost Mine Season 2, Ep 3
When a Chinese businessman with a map to a long lost silver mine is found dead in Chinatown, Poirot must find the map and killer.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Veiled Lady Season 2, Ep 2
Poirot is summoned to the Athena Hotel by a mysterious veiled lady who turns out to be aristocrat Lady Millicent Castle, and claims that she is a blackmail victim.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: Peril at End House Season 2, Ep 1
While Poirot is staying at an exclusive Cornish resort, he meets a beautiful heiress whose life is in danger. [more inside]
Movie: Witness for the Prosecution
In this film based on Agatha Christie's short story and play, Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power) is accused of murdering an elderly rich woman, and the only alibi to him depends on his wife.
Movie: Murder on the Orient Express
Kenneth Branagh directs and acts in a remake of the Christie classic. Branagh plays master detective Hercule Poirot, and is joined by a star studded cast, who are all suspects when the passenger of a luxury train is murdered during the night.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: Series 1 (All) Books Included Season 1, Ep 0
Famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot matches his little gray cells against the most puzzling crimes England has to offer, with the faithful Captain Hastings and Miss Lemon, and his friendly rival Inspector Japp. [more inside]
Page:
1