Murder on the Links: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser

An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course. 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....

Poirot Investigates: A Hercule Poirot Collection

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By David Suchet

First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond...then came the "suicide" that was murder...the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat...a suspicious death in a locked gun room...a million-dollar bond robbery...the curse of a pharaoh's tomb...a jewel robbery by the sea...the abduction of a prime minister...the disappearance of a banker...a phone call from a dying man...and finally, the mystery of the missing will. What links these fascinating cases? Only the brilliant deductive powers of Hercule Poirot!

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser

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.

The Big Four: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser

Framed in the doorway of Hercule Poirot's bedroom stands an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man stares for a moment, then he sways and falls. Who is he? Is he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what is the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again on a sheet of paper? Poirot finds himself plunged into a worldof international intrigue, risking his life - and that of his twin brother - to uncover the truth.

The Mystery of the Blue Train: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser

When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again - for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition. What is more, her precious rubies are missing. The prime suspect is Ruth's estranged husband, Derek. Yet Hercule Poirot is not convinced, so he stages an eerie reenactment of the journey, complete with the murderer on board.

Peril at End House: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser

On holiday on the Cornish Riviera, Hercule Poirot is alarmed to hear pretty Nick Buckley describe her recent "accidental brushes with death". First, on a treacherous Cornish hillside, the brakes on her car failed. Then, on a coastal path, a falling boulder missed her by inches. Later, an oil painting fell and almost crushed her in bed. So when Poirot finds a bullet hole in Nick's sun hat, he decides that this girl needs his help. Can he find the would-be killer before he hits his target?

Lord Edgware Dies: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser
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When Lord Edgware is found murdered the police are baffled. His estranged actress wife was seen visiting him just before his death and Hercule Poirot himself heard her brag of her plan to "get rid" of him. But how could she have stabbed Lord Edgware in his library at exactly the same time she was seen dining with friends? It's a case that almost proves to be too much for the great Poirot.

Lord Edgware Dies

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser

Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to "get rid of" her estranged husband. Now the monstrous man was dead. And yet the great Belgian detective couldn't help feeling that he was being taken for a ride. After all, how could Jane have stabbed Lord Edgware to death in his library at exactly the same time she was seen dining with friends? And what could be her motive now that the aristocrat had finally granted her a divorce?

Three Act Tragedy: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser
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Sir Charles Cartwright should have known better than to allow 13 guests to sit down for dinner. For at the end of the evening one of them is dead - choked by a cocktail that contained no trace of poison. Predictable, says Hercule Poirot, the great detective. But entirely unpredictable is that he can find absolutely no motive for murder.…

Death in the Clouds: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser

From seat number nine, Hercule Poirot is almost ideally placed to observe his fellow air travelers on this short flight from Paris to London. Over to his right sits a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite. Ahead, in seat number 13, is the Countess of Horbury, horribly addicted to cocaine and not doing too good a job of concealing it. Across the gangway in seat number eight, a writer of detective fiction is being troubled by an aggressive wasp. Yes, Poirot is almost ideally placed to take it all in.

The ABC Murders

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser

There's a serial killer on the loose, working his way through the alphabet and the whole country is in a state of panic. A is for Mrs. Ascher in Andover, B is for Betty Barnard in Bexhill, C is for Sir Carmichael Clarkein Churston. With each murder, the killer is gettingmore confident - but leaving a trail of deliberate clues to taunt the proud Hercule Poirot might just prove to be the first, and fatal, mistake.

Cards on the Table: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser
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Mr. Shaitana is famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he is a man of whom everybody is a little afraid. So when he boasts to Hercule Poirot that he considers murder an art form, the detective has some reservations about accepting a party invitation to view Shaitana's "private collection". Indeed, what begins as an absorbing evening of bridge is to turn into a more dangerous game altogether.

Murder in Mesopotamia: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Anna Massey

Nurse Amy Leatheran had never felt the lure of the "mysterious East", but she nonetheless accepts an assignment at Hassanieh, an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert, to care for the wife of a celebrated archaeologist. Mrs Leidner is suffering bizarre visions and nervous terror. "I'm afraid of being killed!" she admits to her nurse. Her terror, unfortunately, is anything but unfounded, and Nurse Leatheran is soon enough without a patient. The world's greatest detective happens to be in the vicinity, however....

Death on the Nile: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By David Suchet

The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything ... until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: 'I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger." Yet in this exotic setting, nothing was ever quite what it seemed.

Dumb Witness: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser
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Miss Emily was old, rich, and afraid - and now, she's dead. Her terrified plea to Hercule Poirot came a little too late. All that's left is a house full of greedy heirs, and a very strange letter that could solve the mystery - or add to it.

Death on the Nile

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By David Suchet

The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything...until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: "I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger." Yet in this exotic setting nothing was ever quite what it seemed.

Appointment with Death: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser
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Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sits the corpse of Mrs.Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist is the only sign of the fatal injection that 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, that she's got to be killed?" Mrs. Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he'd ever met....

Hercule Poirot's Christmas: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser
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Christmas Eve, and the Lee family's reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. When Hercule Poirot offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason to hate the old man....

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser

The dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A pistol lay on the floor near his out flung right hand. Later, one of his patients was found dead from a lethal dose of local anaesthetic. A clear case of murder and suicide. But why would a dentist commit a crime in the middle of a busy day of appointments? A shoe buckle holds the key to the mystery. Now - in the words of the rhyme - can Poirot pick up the sticks and lay them straight?

Sad Cypress: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By David Suchet
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Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity, and the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, only one man still presumed Elinor was innocent until proven guilty: Hercule Poirot was all that stood between Elinor and the gallows.

Evil Under the Sun: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By David Suchet

The beautiful bronzed body of Arlena Stuart lay face down on the beach. But strangely, there was no sun and Arlena was not sunbathing - she had been strangled.

Ever since Arlena's arrival the air had been thick with sexual tension. Each of the guests had a motive to kill her, including Arlena's new husband. But Hercule Poirot suspects that this apparent "crime of passion" conceals something much more evil.

Five Little Pigs

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser

Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, but just like the nursery rhyme, there were five other "little pigs" who could have done it: Philip Blake (the stockbroker), who went to market; Meredith Blake (the amateur herbalist), who stayed at home; Elsa Greer (the three-time divorcee), who had her roast beef; Cecilia Williams (the devoted governess), who had none; and Angela Warren (the disfigured sister), who cried all the way home.

Sixteen years later, Caroline's daughter is determined to prove her mother's innocence.

The Hollow: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser

A far-from-warm welcome greets Hercule Poirot as he arrives for lunch at Lucy Angkatell's country house. A man lies dying by the swimming pool, his blood dripping into the water. His wife stands over him, holding a revolver. As Poirot investigates, he begins to realize that beneath the respectable surface lies a tangle of family secrets and everyone becomes a suspect.

Five Little Pigs

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser

Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other suspects: Philip Blake (the stockbroker), who went to market; Meredith Blake (the amateur herbalist), who stayed at home; Elsa Greer (the three-time divorcee), who had roast beef; Cecilia Williams (the devoted governess), who had none; and Angela Warren (the disfigured sister), who cried "wee wee wee" all the way home.

Taken at the Flood: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser
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A few weeks after marrying an attractive widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs. Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the Cloade family fortune. Shortly afterward, Hercule Poirot receives a visit from the dead man's sister-in-law who claims she has been warned by "spirits" that Mrs. Underhay's first husband is still alive. Poirot has his suspicions when he is asked to find a missing person guided only by the spirit world.

Mrs. McGinty's Dead: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser

Well, it's no wonder. The plot - suspicion for an elderly woman's murder falls on her mysterious lodger - is from Agatha Christie. The wonderful character happens to be the world's most famous sleuth, Hercule Poirot.

After the Funeral: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser

When Cora Lansquenet is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard's funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of Richard's will, Cora was clearly heard to say, "It's been hushed up very nicely, hasn't it.... But he was murdered, wasn't he?"

In desperation, the family solicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to unravel the mystery....

Dead Man's Folly: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By David Suchet

Whilst organising a mock murder hunt for the village fete hosted by Sir George and Lady Stubbs, a feeling of dread settles on the famous crime novelist Adriane Oliver. Call it instinct, but it's a feeling she just can't explain...or get away from. In desperation she summons her old friend, Hercule Poirot - and her instincts are soon proved correct when the "pretend" murder victim is discovered playing the scene for real, a rope wrapped tightly around her neck.

Cat Among the Pigeons: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser

A revolution in the Middle East has a direct and deadly impact upon the summer term at Meadowbank, a picture-perfect girls' school in the English countryside. Prince Ali Yusuf, Hereditary Sheikh of Ramat, whose great liberalizing experiment is coming to chaos, knows that he must prepare for the day of his exile. He asks his pilot and school friend, Bob Rawlinson, to care for a packet of jewels. Rawlinson does so, hiding them among the possessions of his niece Jennifer Sutcliffe, who is bound for Meadowbank.

The Clocks: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser

Sheila Webb expected to find a respectable blind lady waiting for her at 19 Wilbraham Crescent - not the body of a middle-aged man sprawled across the living room floor. But when old Miss Pebmarsh denies sending for her in the first place, or of owning all the clocks that surround the body, it's clear that they are going to need a very good detective. "This crime is so complicated that it must be quite simple," declares Hercule Poirot. But there's a murderer on the loose, and time is ticking away.

Third Girl: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser
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Three young women share a London flat. The first is a coolly efficient secretary. The second is an artist. The third interrupts Hercule Poirot's breakfast, confessing that she is a murderer - and then promptly disappears. Slowly, Poirot learns of the rumors surrounding the mysterious third girl, her family, and her disappearance. Yet hard evidence is needed before the great detective can pronounce her guilty, innocent, or insane.

Dead Man's Folly

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 1 min)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By David Suchet

Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fête, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well known crime writer, agrees to organise their murder hunt. Despite weeks of meticulous planning, at the last minute Ariadne calls her friend Hercule Poirot for his expert assistance. Instinctively, she senses that something sinister is about to happen. Beware: nobody is quite what they seem!

Elephants Can Remember: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser

"The Ravenscrofts didn't seem that kind of person. They seemed well balanced and placid..." And yet, twelve years earlier, the husband had shot the wife, and then himself - or perhaps it was the other way around, since sets of both of their fingerprints were on the gun, and the gun had fallen between them. The case haunts Ariadne Oliver, who had been a friend of the couple. The famous mystery novelist desires this real-life mystery solved, and calls upon Hercule Poirot to help her do so.

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser

First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding...then the discovery of a corpse in a chest, but what can link these baffling cases? The little grey cells of Monsieur Hercule Poirot! Feast yourself on these intriguing crime mysteries from the distinctive hand of the queen of crime fiction.

Curtain: Poirot's Last Case: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser

The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly harmless to Captain Hastings: There was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr. Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife Barbara, Nurse Craven, Colonel Luttrell and his charming wife Daisy, and the charismatic Boyd-Carrington. So Hastings was shocked when Poirot declared that one of them was a five-times murderer. True, the detective was ageing, but had his deductive instincts finally deserted him?

The Clocks

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser

As instructed, stenographer Sheila Webb let herself into the house at 19 Wilbraham Crescent. It was then that she made a grisly discovery: the body of a dead man sprawled across the living-room floor. What intrigued Poirot about the case was the time factor. Although in a state of shock, Sheila clearly remembered having heard a cuckoo clock strike 3.00. Yet, the four other clocks in the living room all showed the time as 4.13. Even more strange: only one of these clocks belonged to the owner of the house.

Third Girl

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser

Three single girls shared the same London flat. The first worked as a secretary; the second was an artist; the third, who came to Poirot for help, disappeared, convinced she was a murderer. Now there were rumours of revolvers, flick-knives, and blood stains. But, without hard evidence, it would take all Poirot's tenacity to establish whether the third girl was guilty, innocent - or insane.

Hallowe'en Party

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser

At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce, a hostile 13-year-old, boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours, her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the "evil presence". But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer.

Elephants Can Remember

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser

Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. For here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident: the broken body of a woman was discovered on the rocks at the foot of the cliff. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two more bodies, a husband and wife, shot dead. But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder?

Poirot's Early Cases

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser, David Suchet

Still in the formative years of his career, Hercule Poirot faces a most taxing case: who killed Lord Cronshaw? Was Coco Courtenay's death on the same night a mere coincidence? And did she deliberately take an overdose of cocaine?

Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Hugh Fraser

The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings. There was his own daughter, Judith; an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton; dashing Mr Allerton; brittle Miss Cole; Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife, Barbara; Nurse Craven; Colonel Luttrell and his charming wife, Daisy; and the charismatic Boyd-Carrington. So Hastings was shocked to learn from Hercule Poirot's declaration that one of them was a five-times murderer.