AuthorAgatha Christie
NarratorFull Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 36
Duration1h 27m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries, Plays and Dramatisations, Cosy Crime
Key StageKS4
PublisherBBC Audiobooks
VersionUnabridged
John Moffatt stars as the great Belgian detective in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Famous crime novelist Ariadne Oliver, visiting her friend Judith Butler in the little town of Woodleigh Common, is invited to a Hallowe'en Party put on by society hostess Mrs. Rowena Drake for the local teenagers. During her preparations for the party, the conversation turns to Ariadne's grisly novels. One of the teenagers, Joyce Reynolds, boasts that she once witnessed a murder, although she didn't realise at the time what she'd seen. Convinced that she is just trying to attract attention, no-one believes her - but later she is found tragically drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. Distraught, Ariadne decides to call upon the services of her old friend Hercule Poirot to solve the case. Assuming that Joyce was killed because of what she said, Poirot knows he must find out if the teenager was telling the truth. If so, there is not just one death for him to investigate, but two...
Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 11
Duration 2h 14m
Hercule Poirot is a guest at a weekend house party, given at the Cornish clifftop home of the celebrated actor Sir Charles Cartwright. The other visitors include keen amateur detective Mr. Satterthwaite and distinguished Harley Street nerve specialist Sir Bartholomew Strange. Death visits the house soon after Poirot's arrival, the victim an elderly...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 15
Duration 1h 27m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot with Stephanie Cole and Donald Sinden. Hercule Poirot, along with three other luminaries from the world of crime detection, is invited to dinner by the renowned London socialite Dr. Shaitana. Also on the guest list are four members of what Shaitana calls his Black Museum...
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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 19
Duration 1h 27m
Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs. Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her. With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he'd overheard back in Jerusalem: "You see, don't you,...
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Poirot Series Book 19: Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Hugh Fraser
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 19
Duration 6h 8m
It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. But when Hercule Poirot, who is staying in the village with a friend for Christmas, offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had thei...
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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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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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The Mysterious Affair At Styles
Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Hugh Fraser
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 1
Duration 5h 57m
Agatha Christie's first ever murder mystery. After the Great War, life can never be the same again. Wounds need healing, and the horror of violent death banished into memory. Captain Arthur Hastings is invited to the rolling country estate of Styles to recuperate from injuries sustained at the Front. It is the last place he expects to encounter mur...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 12
Duration 1h 27m
A full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of an Agatha Christie story. On a flight from Le Bourget to Croydon, on which Hercule Poirot is an apprehensive passenger, a woman is found dead. A doctor on board is inclined to put it down to a wasp-sting, but Poirot suspects that a poisoned dart is the real cause - and, perhaps rather too conveniently, a blo...
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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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