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In the title work in this collection of novellas, Poirot and Inspector Japp collaborate on the investigation of a suspicious suicide.

Just after midnight, a snowstorm stops the Orient Express dead in its tracks in the middle of Yugoslavia. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for this time of year.

An international cast of suspects, all passengers on the crowded train, are speeding through the snowy European landscape when a bizarre and terrible murder brings them to an abrupt halt.

The dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A pistol lay on the floor near his outflung right hand.

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffatt as the great Belgian detective. Poirot has always hated visiting the dentist, but this time his check-up is painless and soon over.

Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love.

Elinor Carlisle and Roddy Welman are the model English couple, perfect companions set for a life of ease when they inherit Aunt Laura's considerable fortune.

Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernize the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past.

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring June Whitfield as Miss Marple, the sharp-witted spinster sleuth.

A full-cast dramatisation of Agatha Christie's novel featuring Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot.

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?

BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring June Whitfield as the sharp-witted spinster sleuth.

It's seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing an evening dress and heavy makeup, which is now smeared across her cheeks.

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.

Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley, two unemployed school chums, bump into each other in London and agree to become the "Young Adventurers," who will go anywhere and do anything, accordi