AuthorAgatha Christie
NarratorHugh Fraser
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 2
Duration6h
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries, Cosy Crime
PublisherW.F. Howes
VersionUnabridged
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 murdered corpse...
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 16
Duration 1h 26m
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 i...
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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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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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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 23
Duration 2h 16m
An exclusive hotel on a tiny picturesque island seems to be the ideal retreat for Hercule Poirot from the stresses of criminal detection. But with the appearance of the beautiful Arlena Stuart, the quiet and peaceful atmosphere becomes charged with an indefinable erotic tension. And when she is found viciously strangled in a secluded cove, there ar...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Peter Sallis
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 20
Duration 1h 20m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring Peter Sallis as the great Belgian detective. Tyrannical millionaire Simeon Lee has been estranged from most of his family for years. But now, on Christmas Eve, the old man calls them all together once more. Unable to disobey, the children gather uneasily and wonder what their father's intentions are. D...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 36
Duration 1h 27m
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 c...
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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
Duration 2h 12m
Poirot has always hated visiting the dentist, but this time his check-up is painless and soon over. As he leaves Mr. Morley's surgery, he observes a woman wearing patent leather shoes with large buckles. She catches one of the buckles on the taxi door and wrenches it off, and as Poirot hands it back, he is reminded of the children's rhyme "One, two...
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