Despite her best efforts, Gwenda is unable to modernize her new home. Worse still, she feels an irrational fear every time she climbs the stairs. With Miss Marple helping to exorcise the ghosts, the two women uncover a crime committed...

This carefully crafted novel is perhaps the strongest proof that Agatha Christie was a gifted writer as well as a shrewd storyteller. It is the story of a woman's attempt to clear her mother's name 16 years after the mother was convic...

First published in book form in 1947, The Labours of Hercules comprises an even dozen mysteries starring Christie's most popular sleuth, the ever-dignified Hercule Poirot. The introductory chapter of the collection sets up the rest of...

After closing their detective agency, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford move to the resort town of Hollowquay for their retirement - which is quickly postponed. Tuppence discovers a children's book signed with a child's name, 'Alexander Pa...

Miss Marple: The Complete Story Collection gathers together in one magnificent volume all of Agatha Christie’s short stories featuring her beloved intrepid investigator, Miss Marple. It’s an unparalleled compendium of ...

A quiet English village is plagued by a fiendish serial killer in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie's classic thriller, Murder is Easy.Luke Fitzwilliam does not believe Miss Pinkerton's wild allegation that a multiple murderer is at wo...

Nurse Amy Leatheran is recruited to care for Louise Leidner, the terrified wife of an American archeologist at an excavation in the Iraqi desert. Louise thinks that someone is going to kill her, and her paranoia soon unsettles the ent...

When a sudden murder shatters the peaceful atmosphere of the Bertram Hotel, Miss Marple springs into action to crack a crime syndicate and unmask a killer. Reprint.

Hercule Poirot's relaxing holiday on the Cornish coast takes an unexpected turn when he meets young and beautiful Nick Buckley. Though Nick tries to shrug off the bullet that barely missed her as an accident, just one more event in he...

When Richard Abernethie, the master of Enderby Hall, dies his heirs assemble at the vast Victorian mansion to hear the reading of the will. It is then that Cora, Abernethie's sister, comes out with an alarming proposal: 'But he was mu...

Indomitable detective Hercule Poirot is pitted against three cunning killers in a collection featuring "The Dream," "Four and Twenty Blackbirds," and the title story. Read by Hugh Fraser.

Secretary-for-hire Sheila Webb thinks it's business as usual when she is called out to a client's home, until she comes across a dead body surrounded by incorrectly-set clocks in the parlor. Supersleuth Hercule Poirot takes on this bi...

Mr. Treves, a well-known and respected criminologist, theorizes that murder mysteries are most effective when the murder takes place at the very end of the novel, at "the zero hour." Unfortunately for Mr. Treves, on this mat...

For several years, Agatha Christie and her husband lived in Baghdad. Her keen observations there helped frame the setting for They Came to Baghdad, a story about Victoria Jones, an incurable romantic who meets a handsome man in the pa...

When Rosaleen Cloade comes to sleepy Warmsley Vale to collect on her late spouse's sizable inheritance, the Cloade family — who all rely in various ways on the funds from their dear departed Uncle Gordon — have other plans for the...

These full-cast dramatizations of IMurder on the Orient Express, Five Little Pigs, Death on the Nile, Dumb Witness, Peril at End House, and ILord Edgware Dies feature specially-composed music, outstanding casts, and brilliant writers,...

The Reverend Stephen Babbington rarely partakes in alcoholic drinks, but at an exclusive gala, he decides it is appropriate to celebrate. He picks the wrong time to start sipping cocktails, though, for after just one taste, he immedia...

Jacko is convicted of his mother's murder and dies in prison. Two years later, a stranger arrives to confirm Jacko's disbelieved alibi. But if Jacko wasn't guilty, who is? Each family member becomes detective, suspect, and potential v...

A BBC Radio full-cast dramatization starring John Moffatt as the great Belgian detective. Alice Ascher is murdered at Andover. Betty Barnard is strangled at Bexhill-on-Sea. Each time, an ABC railway guide is found by the dead bodies a...

Agatha Christie's genius for detective fiction is unparalleled. Her worldwide popularity is phenomenal, her characters engaging, her plots spellbinding. No one knows the human heart--or the dark passions that can stop it--better than ...

A collection of short stories featuring the redoubtable 'heart specialist', Parker Pyne. This volume, in its contemporary Agatha Christie Collection livery, perfectly illustrates Agatha Christie's critically acclaimed foray into light...

A collection of Christie's best short stories--all unabridged! Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and a host of other sleuths crack cases of all stripes in this exciting collection of Christie's short story mysteries. Includes: Four and Twe...

Hercule Poirot receives a letter from a rich, elderly spinster, Miss Emily Arundell. She is clearly in great distress, but doesn't say why. Poirot persuades Captain Hastings that they must visit the lady with all haste. On arrival, th...

A BBC Radio full-cast dramatization starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot. Mrs. Farrars is found dead of an apparent overdose one year after the death of her husband. The villagers of King's Abbot are suspicious. The rumour is that ...

The curious disappearance of Lord Listerdale, a newlywed's fear of her ex-fiance, a strange encounter on a train, and a wild man's sudden personality change are just some of the twelve stories offered in this collection. Read by Hugh ...

Poirot arrives for dinner at the country estate of the imperious Sir Gervase Chevenix-Gore to find his host in his study, shot dead. The room is locked, making it appear a suicide, but Poirot is skeptical. When the will is read, the s...

So pleasant in fact, she was the Anthony Award Winner for Best Series of the Century. Here she solves a crime that not only has no body, no weapon, and no suspects, but no evidence that a crime has even been committed. All Miss Marple...

A BBC Radio full-cast dramatization 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 to...

John Moffatt stars as the great Belgian detective in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatization. "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...

"The murderer is with us—on the train now . . ."Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabb...