AuthorAgatha Christie
NarratorFull Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 16
Duration1h 26m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries, Plays and Dramatisations, Cosy Crime
Key StageKS4
PublisherBBC Audiobooks
VersionAbridged
As Hercule Poirot sifts through his post one particular morning, he alights upon a letter from an elderly and (as it transpires), exceedingly rich spinster - Miss Emily Arundell. She is clearly in great distress and seeking his help, but doesn't say why. Her only specific mention is "the incident of the dog's ball". However, what intrigues Poirot is the date of the communication - it was written two months ago. He persuades Captain Hastings that they must visit the lady with all haste. On arrival they discover that she has died, apparently of natural causes. But Bob, Miss Arundell's devoted wire-haired terrier, knows better. And so, soon, does Poirot. John Moffatt, as ever, stars as Hercule Poirot and Simon Williams as Captain Hastings.
Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator John Moffatt
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 9
Duration 2h 20m
"Monsieur Poirot, somehow or other I've just got to get rid of my husband!" No sooner had she uttered the words than Lady Edgware's husband was dead, brutally stabbed in the neck. The evidence against her is overwhelming, the case cut and dried. But what was the truth behind it all? What enemies lurked in the background of the victim's life? Hercul...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 34m
A millionaire strikes a deal on the seedier side of Paris and a priceless cache of rubies becomes destined for his beloved daughter Rachel. Two days later Rachel is dead - murdered on a train on her way to the Riviera to meet her scoundrel lover: a mysterious, dark man. The suspects line up...only master slueth Hercule Poirot can unravel the myster...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 27
Duration 2h 12m
Gordon Cloade is killed in a London air raid, and his vast fortune passes to his young wife Rosaleen. Five of his relatives are desperate to get their hands on Cloade's money, and Rosaleen begins to fear for her life. The prospects for the Cloades improve when they discover that Rosaleen had a previous husband who perished mysteriously in Africa. T...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 14
Duration 2h 20m
The brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot becomes involved in an unusual case after a member of an archaeological expedition is murdered at an ancient site in the Iraqi desert.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator John Moffatt
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 30
Duration 1h 27m
BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffatt as the great Belgian detective. When Richard Abernethie, last master of Enderby Hall, dies suddenly in his sleep, the family are eager to discover how his riches have been divided. However, the reading of the will is rudely interrupted by his youngest sister Cora - "he was murdered, wasn't h...
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The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 44m
In this delightful tale, an Eastern Prince arrives in England with some family jewels which he's having reset as a gift for his fianc‚e. However, the Prince also has a mistress; she asks to wear one particularly enchanting piece that features a huge ruby, and then promptly disappears with it. Poirot discovers a connection with a house party a...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 13
Duration 1h 27m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffatt as the great Belgian detective with Simon Williams and Philip Jackson. Alice Ascher, a poor, elderly shopkeeper, is murdered in Andover. Betty Barnard, a young waitress, is strangled with her own belt at Bexhill-on-Sea. Next comes Carmichael Clarke, collector of Chinese art, clubbed to dea...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 37
Duration 1h 27m
Following an otherwise-enjoyable literary luncheon, the celebrated crime novelist Ariadne Oliver is accosted by a particularly formidable woman who engages her in conversation about one of her many god-daughters, whom Ariadne hasn't seen since she was a child. She lands a bombshell with the question "What I want to know is this: did her mother kill...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 24
Duration 1h 28m
John Moffatt stars as the great Belgian detective in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Carla Lemarchant was a child of five when her mother was accused and convicted of poisoning her father, the famous painter Amyas Crale. After Caroline Crale dies in prison, Carla is sent to live with her uncle and aunt in Canada. Only on her twenty-first bir...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Hugh Fraser
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 2
Duration 6h
On a French golf course, a millionaire is found stabbed in the back... An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But why is the dead man wearing his son's overcoat? And who was the impassioned love-letter in the pocket for? Before Poirot can answer these questions, the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second, identically murde...
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