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

An exclusive hotel on a tiny picturesque island seems to be the ideal retreat for Hercule Poirot from the stresses of criminal detection.

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 wen

John Moffatt stars as the great Belgian detective in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation.

At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce, a hostile thirteen-year-old, boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home.

Christmas Eve, and the Lee family's reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a high-pitched wailing scream.

An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel is not normally the sort of crime that arouses Hercule Poirot's interest.

A collection of short stories about love gone horribly wrong, featuring Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Parker Pryne, Harley Quin, and Tommy and Tuppence, that will get your heart racing.

Hercule Poirot sets off to northern France to visit a friend, only to find the same friend stabbed to death and left in a fresh grave near the golf course.

Captain Arthur Hastings was an ongoing friend and adventure companion of the often exuberant Belgian investigator.

With only one bizarre clue to the agonizing death of a wealthy financier, Miss Marple must unravel a mystery hidden in a child's nursery rhyme that is to prove one of the strangest cases of her lif

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From the Queen of Suspense, an all-new collection of her spookiest and most sinister stories, including an Agatha Christie story never before published in the USA, The Wife of Kenite!

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 ce

Crime sleuth Hercule Poirot returns in a thrilling BBC Radio 4 dramatisation.