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Poirot is taken ill during a weekend shooting party, which ends when the unpopular host is found murdered in his study.
posted by Carillon on Jan 12, 2022 - 2 comments

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.
posted by Carillon on Jan 5, 2022 - 3 comments

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.
posted by Carillon on Dec 29, 2021 - 2 comments

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.
posted by Carillon on Dec 22, 2021 - 3 comments

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.
posted by Carillon on Dec 15, 2021 - 2 comments

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.
posted by Carillon on Dec 8, 2021 - 4 comments

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]
posted by bq on Dec 6, 2021 - 18 comments

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.
posted by Carillon on Dec 1, 2021 - 1 comment

Poirot is entrusted with transferring $1 million in Liberty Bonds to America on the Queen Mary, but the bonds are cleverly stolen anyway.
posted by Carillon on Nov 17, 2021 - 2 comments

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.
posted by Carillon on Nov 10, 2021 - 2 comments

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.
posted by Carillon on Nov 3, 2021 - 3 comments

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.
posted by Carillon on Oct 27, 2021 - 1 comment

Poirot has just 32 hours to find the Prime Minister who has been kidnapped in France, before an important League of Nations conference begins.
posted by Carillon on Oct 20, 2021 - 2 comments

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.
posted by Carillon on Oct 13, 2021 - 3 comments

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.
posted by Carillon on Oct 6, 2021 - 1 comment

Poirot wagers Chief Inspector Japp that he can solve the mystery of a missing banker without leaving his flat.
posted by Carillon on Sep 29, 2021 - 2 comments

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.
posted by Carillon on Sep 22, 2021 - 2 comments

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.
posted by Carillon on Sep 15, 2021 - 1 comment

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.
posted by Carillon on Sep 8, 2021 - 3 comments

While Poirot is staying at an exclusive Cornish resort, he meets a beautiful heiress whose life is in danger. [more inside]
posted by Carillon on Sep 1, 2021 - 3 comments

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.
posted by gemutlichkeit on Nov 19, 2017 - 7 comments

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.
posted by codacorolla on Nov 11, 2017 - 24 comments

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]
posted by Eyebrows McGee on Feb 8, 2017 - 18 comments