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This program is read by actor Bessie Carter, best known for her role as Prudence Featherington on the Netflix series Bridgerton. "Narrator Bessie Carter...captures the personalities of the most famous women novelists of the golden age of detective fiction...What follows is a delightful...

Get away from it all with this selection of mid-summer murders by Agatha Christie, read by television’s Captain Hastings, the actor and novelist Hugh Fraser! Summer. Holiday season. A time for rest and relaxation. But murder can strike anywhere, as this selection of an ‘unlucky thirteen’...

Agatha Christie’s most famous characters—including Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple—solve even the most devilish of conundrums as the sun beats down in this all-new summer themed collection from the Queen of Mystery. Summertime—as the temperature rises, so does the potential for evil. From...

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...

Agatha Christie remains, all these years later, the unchallenged queen of the murder-mystery genre. What life could produce the woman who seems to be the clear inspiration for J.B. Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote? Follow Christie from England to Egypt and back again, join her on archaeological digs with her husband and dive into strange facts that led to her to write fewer books as she aged.

Agatha the Queen of Crime wrote 66 detective novels, numerous short stories and sold billions of books. Her characters have lived for 105 years and are still being read. Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple and Tommy and Tuppence are still being re-created in TV series, radio shows and films.Stay tuned...

An exceptional novel of dark family secrets - danger lurks behind every shadow in Mary Stewart's classic novel of romantic suspense. Ashley Court: the tumbledown ancestral home of the Ashley family, all blessed with 'the gift' of being able to speak to each other without words. When Bryony...

Miss Marple und Hercule Poirot ist kein Fall zu verzwickt, kein Abgrund der menschlichen Natur zu tief. Und dennoch gibt es ein ungeklärtes Geheimnis für die beiden Meisterdetektive: Was geschah an jenem Tag im Jahr 1926, an dem Agatha Christie unter rätselhaften Umständen verschwand? Warum hat sie nie mehr über diese Zeit gesprochen und sich auch in ihrer Autobiografie darüber ausgeschwiegen?

In this episode, we open one of the most iconic case files in literary history: the life of Agatha Christie - the undisputed Queen of Crime and the bestselling novelist of all time. But behind the perfectly constructed puzzles and unforgettable detectives lies a woman whose real life was almost as dramatic, mysterious, and emotionally complex as the stories she created.We trace Christie's journey from her quiet upbringing in Torquay to the creation of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, exploring the personal experiences, heartbreaks, and obsessions that shaped her writing. You'll hear how a shy, ...