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Halloween party S12E03

2010-07-04T14:27:00.000-07:00

S12E02 - Clocks

2010-01-21T02:02:00.000-08:00

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Watch Clocks agatha christie's poirot season 12 episode 1

2010-01-21T01:56:00.000-08:00

Click on the following link to watch clock Hercule Poirot clock online:

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Hercule Poirot Episoded S12E01 - Three Act Tragedy

2010-01-03T15:44:00.000-08:00

Our great little detective M.Poirot is back again .... Featured episode Three Act Tragedy was aired on ITV1 today and I found a way to watch ITV from outside UK :). Though the solution works only for a day onecan at least watch the latest show. So this is what you need to watch Three Act Tragedy.

1. Go to http://www.uktelly.tv/download.html and fill in your email and download the UK telly toolbar. This is trial version and works only for 24 hrs :(

2. Restart Internet Explorer and click the start on the toolbar.

3. Go to http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=114924 and enjoy the show.

We can achieve the same by accessing the itv.com website using proxy servers in UK. But I couldn't get any free, fast, and reliable UK proxies.

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New Forum

2009-04-11T06:29:00.000-07:00

Hi Guyz

Almost all the videos are getting deleted or will be deleted from well known video hosting sites due to copyright issues. So we think, the alternative is to host it in not so known sites. Updating in blogspot is very clumsy and discussions are almost impossible. So, we have just registered a freeforum and planning to move all the links to there. What do you guyz think?

Please register and browse our new forum:

http://mysterytime.freeforums.org/

Some New Links
5X04 - http://www.zshare.net/video/612206384e951750/

S02X14 - http://www.zshare.net/video/61385377ac410c7b/

S02X16 - http://www.zshare.net/video/61385219f42daeca/

S02X17 - http://www.zshare.net/video/6138509489103c08/

S02X18 - http://www.zshare.net/video/61432109294da614/

S02X19 - http://www.zshare.net/video/61432100b5da0ba4/

S02X20 - http://www.zshare.net/video/6143207820dc842c/

S02X21 - http://www.zshare.net/video/61433892a39db1db/

Evil Under the sun - http://www.zshare.net/video/61524238e299e648/

Death on the Nile - http://www.zshare.net/video/615695201876eef5/

Murder in Mesapotamia- http://www.zshare.net/video/6162396636ce6bac/

Five little Pigs - http://www.zshare.net/video/61660723984c6406/

The Hollow - http://www.zshare.net/video/616606660425f21e/

Cards on the Table - http://www.zshare.net/video/61660490d03ea8ea/

The Mystery of the Blue Train - http://www.zshare.net/video/61672711e513fc34/

After the Funeral - http://www.zshare.net/video/6174196755720c9c/

Taken at Flood - http://www.zshare.net/video/61742092a1cb78c1/

Appointment with death - http://www.zshare.net/video/61742152230fe402/

S11e01 - http://www.zshare.net/video/61742031637b05b0/

S11e03 - http://www.zshare.net/video/61782203678fb4a4/

S11e02 - http://www.zshare.net/video/61782175d265ed65/

Miss Marple Episodes

2009-03-06T16:07:00.004-08:00

Its Miss Marple this time. Links mainly have Joan Hickson's version. I will find and update other versions as well.

1. Murder at Vincarage - Joan Hickson

2. Body in the Library - Joan Hickson

3. The mirror crack'd - Joan Hickson

4. The moving Finger - Joan Hickson

5. A murder is announced - Joan Hickson

6. They Do It with Mirrors, or Murder With Mirrors - Joan Hickson

7. A Pocket Full of Rye - Julia McKenzie

8. 4.50 from Paddington, or What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw! - Joan Hickson

9. The Mirror Crack'd - Joan Hickson

10. A Caribbean Mystery - Joan Hickson

11. At Bertram's Hotel - Joan Hickson

12. Nemesis - Geraldine McEwan

13. Sleeping Murder - Joan Hickson

About Us

2009-03-06T16:07:00.003-08:00

About Us

2009-03-06T16:07:00.001-08:00

We are four Agatha Christie fans. Who became crazy after watching David Suchet. One among us got some free time, so decided to search and find Poiort links from web to here. Now, we have decided to have this place for mystery movies. Hopefully, we can setup some discussion board and get to know everyone's favorites. The actual motive of the site is everyone will discuss their favorite murder mysteries and we will know the movies we have missed. It is quite obvious that visitors of this blog have similar taste. So ones favorite should interest others.

Keep posting comment guys.

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Miss Marple - TV Series

2009-03-06T15:49:00.000-08:00

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Adventure of sherlock holmes

2009-02-15T19:15:00.001-08:00

Hercule Poirot Collection

Its time for new episodes. This time I will add another TV series.
Mr. Sherlock Holmes arguably is the greatest name in detective fiction novels.
Almost everybody starts liking detective stories and novels after reading his adventures. This TV series has adapted forty-one out of the sixty Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in featured in five seasons. The series came to an end due to the death of Brett at the age of sixty-one from a heart attack in 1995. The TV series possibly presents the most faithful screen adaptations of many of the Holmes stories, although liberties were taken with some plot lines and characters, particularly later in the run during the 1990s episodes.

Here are the links of Complete Collection:

N.B: Some links are from youku, toduo. These servers are slow. Please give time to buffer the video before playing. May be you can try some video accelerators not sure whether they will work or not. I will try myself and update. If anybody knows better links, please post in comment section. Also, please search in the search category of you are looking for any specific video. This is a customized version of google search engine

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1. A Scandal in Bohemia
2. The Dancing Men
3. The Naval Treaty
4. The Solitary Cyclist
5. The Crooked Man
6. The Speckled Band
7. The Blue Carbuncle
8. The Copper Beeches
9. The Greek Interpreter
10. The Norwood Builder
11. The Resident Patient
12. The Red-Headed League
13. The Final Problem
14. The Empty House
15. The Abbey Grange
16. The Musgrave Ritual
17. The Second Stain
18. The Man with the Twisted Lip
19. The Priory School
20. The Six Napoleons
21. The Sign of Four
22. The Devil's Foot
23. Silver Blaze
24. Wisteria Lodge
25. The Bruce-Partington Plans (updated)
26. The Hound of the Baskervilles (updated)
27. The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax (updated)
28. Thor Bridge (updated)
29. Shoscombe Old Place (updated)
30. The Boscombe Valley Mystery (updated)
31. The Illustrious Client (updated)
32. The Creeping Man (updated)
33. The Master Blackmailer
34. The Last Vampyre
35. The Eligible Bachelor (updated)
36. The Three Gables
37. The Dying Detective
38. The Golden Pince-Nez
39. The Red Circle
40. The Mazarin Stone
41. The Cardboard Box

Holmes TV Series

2009-02-15T19:13:00.001-08:00

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Some facts about Sherlock Holmes:

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish-born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning and inference to solve difficult cases. Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John H. Watson lived at 221b Baker Street between 1881-1904, according to the stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories that feature Holmes. All but four stories are narrated by Holmes's friend and biographer, Dr John H. Watson; two are narrated by Sherlock Holmes himself, and two others are written in the third person. An estimate of Holmes' age in the short story "His Last Bow" places his year of birth around 1854; most say his date of birth was 15 November 1854. At the beginning of "The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger", Watson states that Holmes "was in active practice for twenty-three years"; during seventeen of these years, Watson "was allowed to cooperate with him and to keep notes of his doings."

In almost all of the stories, Holmes is assisted by the practical Watson, who is not only a friend but also his chronicler (his "Boswell"). Most of Holmes' stories are told as narratives, by Watson, of the detective's solutions to crimes brought to his attention by clients. Holmes sometimes criticises Watson for his writings, usually because he relates them as exciting stories rather than as objective and detailed reports focusing on what Holmes regards as the pure "science" of his craft.

Holmes describes himself and his habits as "Bohemian". In his personal habits, he is very disorganised, as Watson notes in "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual", leaving everything from notes of past cases to remains of chemical experiments scattered around their rooms and his tobacco inside a Persian slipper. But this appeared to be more a form of organised chaos; what appeared to be a mess to an outsider made perfect sense to Holmes. Several times throughout the entire series of books Watson commented on Holmes diving among an apparently random mess of papers and producing exactly what he was looking for.

Historically, Holmes lived from the year 1881 at 221B Baker Street, London (in early notes it was described as being situated at Upper Baker Street), a flat up seventeen steps, where he shares many of his professional years with his good friend Dr Watson for some time before Watson's marriage in 1887 and after Mrs Watson's death. The residence is maintained by his landlady, Mrs Hudson. The 221b Baker Street was last used as a lodging house in 1936 and the famous 1st floor study overlooking Baker Street is still faithfully maintained as it was kept in Victorian Times.

Hercule Poirot Episodes

2009-02-05T14:37:00.000-08:00

This blog is dedicated to the mystery movie watchers like you. If you are passionate about thrillers, suspense, murders (only on TV/Screen :) ) then you are at the right place. Welcome to the complete collection of Hercule Poirot episodes. I am trying to add the major mysteries in big screen and TV. I am starting with David Suchet's Poirot as he is my favourite. Click on below links and you can watch one of the greatest TV series ever.

Please post your suggestions and comments. You may also place request for any TV series/movie links. You can also add the links in comments section, so that other mystery crazy people can see.

Season 1
S01E01 - The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
S01E02 - Murder in the Mews
S01E03 - The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly
S01E04 - Four and Twenty Blackbirds
S01E05 - The_Third_Floor_Flat
S01E06 - Triangle at Rhodes
S01E07 - Problem at Sea
S01E08 - The Incredible Theft
S01E09 - The King of Clubs
S01E10 - The Dream

Season 2
S02E01 - Peril at End House
S02E02 - The Veiled Lady
S02E03 - The Lost Mine
S02E04 - The Cornish Mystery
S02E05 - The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim
S02E06 - Double Sin
S02E07 - The Adventure of the Cheap Flat
S02E08 - The Kidnapped Prime Minister
S02E09 - The Adventure of the Western Star
S02E10 - The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Season 3
S03E01 - How Does Your Garden Grow?
S03E02 - The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
S03E03 - The Affair at the Victory Ball
S03E04 - Wasp's Nest
S03E05 - The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor
S03E06 - The Double Clue
S03E07 - The Mystery of the Spanish Chest
S03E08 - The Theft of the Royal Ruby
S03E09 - The Plymouth Express
S03E10 - The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge

Season 4
S04E01 - The ABC Murders
S04E02 - Death in the Clouds
S04E03 - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

Season 5
S05E01 - The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb
S05E02 - The Under Dog
S05E03 - The Yellow Iris
S05E04 - The Case of the Missing Will
S05E05 - The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman
S05E06 - The Chocolate Box
S05E07 - Dead Man's Mirror
S05E08 - The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolit

Season 6
S06E01 - Hercule Poirot's Christmas
S06E02 - Hickory Dickory Dock
S06E03 - Murder on the Links
S06E04 - Dumb Witness

Season 7
S07E01 - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
S07E02 - Lord Edgware Dies

Season 8
S08E01 - Evil Under the Sun
S08E02 - Murder in Mesopotamia

Season 9
S09E01 - Five Little Pigs
S09E02 - Sad_Cypress
S09E03 - Death on the Nile
S09E04 - The hollow

Season 10
S10E01 - The Mystery of the Blue Train
S10E02 - Cards on the Table
S10E03 - After the Funeral
S10E04 - Taken at the Flood

Season 11
S11E01 - Mrs McGinty's Dead
S11E02 - Cat Among the Pigeons (updated)
S11E03 - Third Girl(updated)
S11E04 - Appointment with Death

Season 12

S12E01 - Three Act Tragedy
S12E02 - Clocks(updated)

S12E04 - Appointment with Death

2009-02-05T14:33:00.000-08:00

Holidaying in Jerusalem, Poirot overhears Raymond Boynton telling his sister: "You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?" Their mother, Mrs. Boynton, is a sadistic tyrant who dominates all the younger members of her family, and who attracts the strong dislike of a group of people outside the immediate family. But when she is found dead, there are only twenty-four hours for Hercule Poirot to solve the case and he has no way of even proving whether it was murder.

The storyline deviates significantly from the original novel.

S12E03 - Third Girl

2009-02-05T14:30:00.000-08:00

When a young woman visits Hercule Poirot to seek his help regarding a murder that she believes herself to have committed, she is appalled by his age and leaves with her story untold. Poirot is keen to track her down … but who is she, and what, if anything, has she done?

Ariadne Oliver, serving here as a deus ex machina, provides Poirot with a number of key clues in the novel, beginning with the identity of the girl, Norma Restarick, whom she had met at a party. Mrs. Oliver and Poirot begin to investigate Norma, but soon find that she has apparently gone missing. Mrs. Oliver meets the girls with whom she shares a flat at 67 Borodene Mansions: Claudia Reece-Holland (who turns out to be secretary to Norma's father) and Frances Cary, an artsy girl with long, dark hair that falls across her face. Neither has seen Norma recently. Poirot (visiting her paternal great uncle’s home in Long Basing) finds that her father and stepmother also have no idea where she has gone. Poirot does meet David Baker, Norma’s boyfriend, in the house, and sees that Norma’s stepmother, Mary, is highly annoyed to discover him there. Poirot also meets Norma’s paternal great-uncle, Sir Roderick Horsefield, who is elderly and has poor eyesight. Norma’s father, Andrew, has been staying with Sir Roderick since returning from Africa, where he had made a vast fortune.

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S12E02 - Cat Among the Pigeons

2009-02-05T14:25:00.000-08:00

At the start of the Summer Term at Meadowbank School for Girls, there is no reason for Miss Bulstrode, the popular but aging Headmistress, to believe that the challenges facing her will be more than the occasional irate or inebriated parent. She scarcely listens when Mrs Upjohn, a parent, recognises someone that she sees from her wartime days in the intelligence service. But there is a killer at the school who does not wait long to strike …

The story flashes back three months to Ramat, one of the richest countries of the Middle East, where a revolution is about to take place. Prince Ali Yusuf gives a fortune in jewels, which he needs sent out of the country, into the safekeeping of Bob Rawlinson, his personal pilot and the only person he can trust. Rawlinson complies with the prince’s request, apparently by concealing the jewels in the luggage of his sister, Joan Sutcliffe, who is travelling with her daughter, Jennifer. He is seen doing this by an unknown woman in the next room. Soon after, both Rawlinson and the Prince are killed in an air crash while attempting to leave the country. A number of people, including British Intelligence, get onto the trail of the jewels, and their attention focuses on Meadowbank School, where not only Jennifer, but also the prince’s cousin and expected fiancée, Shaista, are studying.

There are several new staff at Meadowbank, including Adam Goodman (a British agent who has taken a job as gardener), Ann Shapland (Miss Bulstrode’s new secretary), Angele Blanche (a new French teacher) and Grace Springer (a gym teacher). Miss Springer annoys many with her uncompromising and self-centred attitude to school life.

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S12E01 - Mrs McGinty's Dead

2009-02-05T14:23:00.000-08:00

Mrs. McGinty has been killed by a blow to the head with an unidentified weapon. James Bentley has been convicted of murder and awaits execution. Poirot, however, discovers that Mrs. McGinty bought a bottle of ink shortly before her death, and must therefore have had a reason to write a letter. Examining her possessions, he finds her shoes wrapped in a Sunday newspaper that was published in the week before her death. It is missing an article inquiring about the whereabouts of four women connected with famous crimes of the distant past. Soon it is certain that Mrs. McGinty believed that she had seen one of the photographs in the house of one of the people in the village. Poirot and Inspector Spence narrow down the options to one of two cases.

Mrs McGinty has either seen a photo of Lily Gamboll, who committed murder with a meat cleaver as a child; or of Eva Kane, who had been the love interest who inspired a man to murder his wife and bury her in the cellar (a case clearly based heavily on Dr Crippen). Eva Kane is believed to have had a daughter, who took the name Evelyn Hope. So is one of the younger women in the village an older Lily Gamboll, or Eva Kane's daughter? Or is one of the older women Eva Kane herself?

S11E04 - Taken at the Flood

2009-02-05T14:20:00.000-08:00

While visiting the Coronation Club during an air-raid alarm in 1944, Hercule Poirot hears Major Porter talking about Gordon Cloade, who has been killed along with almost his entire household during the Blitz. He has been survived only by his young widow, Rosaleen, and her brother, but there is a complication. Apparently, Porter knew Robert Underhay, the widow's first husband, in Africa, and remembers his suggesting that he would deliberately disappear in order to set her free from the marriage without the shame of a divorce. Before his disappearance, Underhay joked that he will subsequently adopt the name "Enoch Arden" in homage to the poem by Tennyson with a similar theme. Overhearing the same anecdote, Gordon's older brother, Jeremy, storms out angrily.

Two years later, in 1946, Poirot is visited by Katherine Cloade, who wishes him to investigate the whereabouts of Robert Underhay, evidently with a view to breaking the will. He refuses, but later notices the death notice of someone called Enoch Arden, who has died in the same village where the Cloade family lives.

S11E03 - After the Funeral

2009-02-05T14:17:00.000-08:00

After the funeral of the wealthy Richard Abernethie, his remaining family assembles for the reading of the will. The death, though sudden, was not unexpected and natural causes have been given as the cause on his death certificate. Nevertheless, after the tactless Cora says, "It was hushed up very nicely ... but he was murdered, wasn't he?" the family lawyer, Mr. Entwhistle, begins to investigate. Before long there is no question that a murderer is at large.

After returning home from her brother's funeral, Cora Lansquenet is murdered in her sleep by repeated blows with a hatchet. The motive for the murder does not appear to be theft, and the estate that she leaves to her relative, Susan Banks, is comparatively meagre, since the Abernethie bequest is folded back into the estate of her brother, Richard. The suspected motive is therefore to suppress anything that Richard might have told Cora about his suspicions that he was being poisoned. These had been overheard by her companion, Miss Gilchrist.

Entwhistle calls in Poirot, who employs an old friend, Mr. Goby, to investigate the family. Mr. Goby turns up a number of reasons within the family for members of it to be desperate for the money in Richard Abernethie’s estate. Poirot warns Entwhistle that Miss Gilchrist may herself be a target for the murderer.

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S11E02 - Cards on the Table

2009-02-05T14:09:00.000-08:00

At an exhibition of snuff boxes, Hercule Poirot meets Mr. Shaitana. The mysterious Mr. Shaitana claims that he collects items that may be of interest to Poirot. Shaitana said that his collections are murderers. Shaitana proceeds to invite Poirot over for dinner in order to meet his 'collections'.

Upon arrival at Shaitana's house, Poirot is met by a number of other guests. Mystery novelist Ariadne Oliver, Scotland Yard's Superintendent Battle and Colonel Race of His Majesty's Secret Service. The other four guests, the doctor Dr. Roberts, a woman of sixty Mrs. Lorrimer, tall and handsome man Major John Despard and the pretty and young woman Miss Anne Meredith. Dinner is prepared. At the dinner table, conversation turns to the topic of murder. Shaitana mentioned that poison was a woman's weapon and about a doctor's opportunities. These comments leave some guests uncomfortable. Mr. Shaitana asks everyone to play Bridge but he himself doesn't play.

S11E01 - The Mystery of the Blue Train

2009-02-05T11:43:00.000-08:00

The television film includes several changes from the original novel. In the film, Ruth's lover is traveling on the train with her, and they are both fleeing her husband. Ruth becomes friends with Katherine Grey. They switch train compartments, and when Ruth is bludgeoned to death, making her features unrecognizable, Poirot speculates that the intended victim may have been Katherine. Rufus, Ruth's father, has a wife in the film, who became insane after the birth of Ruth, and Rufus has ensured her (his wife's) safekeeping at a convent, where she has become a nun. New characters were added to the film; at one point, one of the other passengers visits Rufus' wife, who mistakes the passenger for her daughter Ruth. At the end of the film, the murderer dies, instead of just being arrested by the French police as in the novel.

S10E04 - The hollow

2009-02-05T11:37:00.000-08:00

On the morning that he and his downtrodden wife, Gerda, are due to travel down to the country to weekend with friends, John Christow allows his little daughter to tell his fortune with cards. When the death card is drawn, he pays no attention, but the appearance of an old flame at The Hollow seems to be the final link in a chain of fatal circumstances.

The charming and eccentric Lucy Angkatell has invited the Christows, along with a number of other members of the extended family. John is already having an affair with Henrietta Savernake, a talented sculptor and, as is demonstrated by what follows, brilliant improviser. He has always remembered with nostalgia an early love, Veronica Cray, who suddenly appears in the house on Saturday night asking to borrow a box of matches. She is living at one of the two nearby cottages, the other of which is currently occupied by Hercule Poirot, who has been invited for lunch on Sunday. Veronica and John go off together, and he returns much too late: at 3 am.

The next day, Poirot arrives at the house to witness a scene that seems strangely staged. Gerda is standing with a gun in her hand above the body of John, who is bleeding into the swimming pool. Standing, seemingly transfixed, are Lucy, Henrietta, and Edward. John's last word, in a note of urgent appeal, is "Henrietta".

It seems cut and dried that Gerda is the murderess, but in taking the revolver from her hand Henrietta apparently fumbles and drops it into the swimming pool, destroying any evidence. Later, however, it is discovered that the pistol that Gerda had been holding was not the pistol with which John had been shot. None of the witnesses has actually seen Gerda shoot John, and it seems difficult to build a case against any of the other potential suspects. At first Lucy herself seems to be a strong suspect, when it is discovered that she had kept a pistol concealed in her basket of eggs, but the pistol seems to be of the wrong calibre. Henrietta is also implicated, not least by the leaving of an unusual doodle in the pavilion, apparently at the time that John had been killed. When the murder weapon turns up in Poirot's hedge, it has fingerprints on it that match none of the suspects.

S10E03 - Death on the Nile

2009-02-05T11:33:00.000-08:00

Jacqueline De Bellefort (Emma Griffiths Malin) introduces her fiancé, Simon Doyle (JJ Feild), to her wealthy friend Linnet Ridgeway (Emily Blunt) in the hope that Linnet will give him a job. Instead, Linnet marries Simon herself and they head off for a honeymoon in Egypt (the same place where Jacqueline had planned her honeymoon with Simon). A bitter Jacqueline follows them to Egypt, appearing wherever they go.

Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) is also on holiday in Egypt. While staying in the same hotel as the newlyweds, he is approached by Linnet Doyle who is getting tired of Jacqueline's harassment. Poirot doesn't accept the job, but tries to warn Jacqueline against pursuing the Doyles any further. She ignores his warning and joins their cruise on the river Nile.

Linnet Doyle comments that she is "surrounded by enemies" on the cruise, as some of the other travellers are also known to her. They include Andrew Pennington (David Soul), her American trustee, who has orchestrated their 'coincidental' meeting in Egypt in order for her to sign some legal documents. Linnet has also upset her maid Louise (Felicite du Jeu) by interfering in her romantic affairs. Rosalie Otterbourne (Zoe Telford) and aristocrat-turned-Marxist Mr Ferguson (Alastair MacKenzie) take an instant dislike to Linnet. Miss Van Schuyler (Judy Parfitt) admires Linnet's pearls and Tim Allerton (Daniel Lapaine) has a history of being present when precious jewels have been stolen.

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S10E02 - Sad_Cypress

2009-02-05T11:30:00.000-08:00

The novel is written in three parts: in the first place an account, largely from the perspective of the subsequent defendant, Elinor Carlisle, of the death of her aunt, Laura Welman, and the subsequent death of the victim, Mary Gerrard; secondly an account of Poirot’s investigation; and, thirdly, a sequence in court, again mainly from Elinor’s perspective.

In the first part, distant cousins Elinor Carlisle and Roddy Welman are happily engaged to be married when they receive an anonymous letter claiming that someone is "sucking up" to their wealthy aunt, Laura Welman, from whom Elinor and Roddy expect to inherit a sizeable fortune. Elinor immediately suspects Mary Gerrard, the lodge keeper’s daughter, to whom Laura has taken a considerable liking. They go down to visit their aunt: partly to see her and partly to protect their interests.

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S10E01 - Five Little Pigs

2009-02-05T11:27:00.000-08:00

Carla is engaged to be married but she is afraid that the fact that her mother killed her father will poison her husband's love for her, as he may fear that she has inherited a husband-killing tendency. Moreover, Carla remembers that her mother would never lie to her to hide an unpleasant truth and her mother told her she was innocent. That is enough for Carla but she wants Poirot to prove her mother's innocence to her husband to be.

Carla's father, painter Amyas Crayle, was murdered with a poison, coniine, which had been extracted from hemlock by Meredith Blake but subsequently apparently stolen from him by Carla's mother, Caroline Crayle. Caroline confessed to having stolen the poison, claiming that she had intended to use it to commit suicide. This poison ended up, however, in a glass from which Amyas had drunk cold beer, after complaining that 'everything tastes odd today'. Both the glass and the bottle of cold beer had been brought to him by Caroline. Her motive was clear: Amyas’s young model, and latest mistress Elsa Greer, had revealed that he was planning to divorce Caroline and marry her instead. This was a new development; though Amyas had frequently had mistresses and affairs he had never before shown any sign of wanting to leave Caroline.

S09E02 - Murder in Mesopotamia

2009-02-05T11:17:00.000-08:00

Dr. Leidner is a Swedish-American archaelogist on a dig in Iraq, then a British protectorate. His wife was previously married to a Frederick Bosner, a young man who worked for the U.S. State Department but was actually a spy for Germany during the World War I. He was caught, tried and sentenced to death. He managed to escape while he was being transported, but it was to no apparent avail as he ended up on a train that crashed, and a body bearing his identification was found in the wreckage.

Amy Leatheran is a nurse traveling in Iraq when she meets Dr. Leidner, who asks her to join the dig to look after his wife. Mrs. Leidner has been frightened by weird goings on, such as a ghostly face appearing just outside her window and has received threatening letters. Mrs. Leidner confides to Nurse Leatheran that she had received similar threatening letters several years before that were supposedly from her dead first husband. They arrived every time she would go out with a new man, then stopped when she broke off the relationship. One of the letters was signed with her late husband's name, but she had no letters from him - they had been married only a short time - so she could not ascertain whether the letters were genuine. No letters arrived when she met and then married Dr. Leidner, so Mrs. Leidner had assumed they were written by some crackpot who had either died or given up keeping an eye on her.

Then Mrs. Leidner is found dead by her husband in her room, struck fatally on the head with a large blunt object. The Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, is also travelling in Iraq and his old friend, Dr. Reilly - a physician acquainted with the dig - asks him to solve the crime.

S09E01 - Evil Under the Sun

2009-02-05T11:15:00.000-08:00

Arlena is a very beautiful retired actress and a flirtatious young bride. Many men like her. She goes to the Jolly Roger Hotel with her husband and step daughter, Kenneth and Linda Marshall. Linda Marshall, a sixteen year old girl, dislikes her very much. Arlena flirts in the hotel with a handsome man named Patrick Redfern, which makes his wife Christine Redfern jealous. Also staying at the hotel are famous detective Hercule Poirot, the dressmaker and Kenneth's childhood friend Rosamund Darnley, the American tourists Odell and Carrie Gardener, the retired Major Barry, the blatant Horace Blatt, vicar Stephen Lane and the athletic spinster Emily Brewster.

Early on the morning of the murder, Christine witnessed Linda accidentally dropped a parcel, which is revealed to be a number of candles. Christine asks Linda to come to Gull Cove with her. On the same morning, Arlena goes out on a float (a type of boat) and instructs Poirot not to tell anyone where she is going. In Poirot's mind Arlena is going to meet Patrick Redfern, but he is proved wrong because Patrick asks Poirot if he has seen Arlena.

S08E02 - Lord Edgware Dies

2009-02-05T11:13:00.000-08:00

Jane Wilkinson, an actress, is suspected of murdering her husband, the fourth Baron Edgware, so that she can marry the Duke of Merton. The plot begins with Jane asking Poirot to convince her husband to agree to a divorce. When Poirot reluctantly does so, Edgware says that he has already agreed to a divorce and written a letter to Jane informing her of the fact. When Poirot reports this to Jane, she denies ever having received such a letter.
On the night of the murder, Wilkinson supposedly goes to the Edgware house, announces herself to the butler, and goes into her husband's study. The next day, Lord Edgware is found murdered and Chief Inspector Japp tells Poirot all about it. But in that morning's newspaper, they discover an article about a dinner party that was held the previous evening where Jane Wilkinson was reportedly a guest.
At the party, there were thirteen guests at the dinner table. One guest mentioned that thirteen people at table means bad luck for the first guest to rise from the table (hence the alternative title of the book Thirteen At Dinner) and Jane Wilkinson was the first to rise. Among the guests is a writer named Donald Ross, who spent a lot of the evening speaking with Jane. So the police are, at first, baffled with the case, as is Poirot.

S08E01 - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

2009-02-05T11:11:00.000-08:00

The story begins with the death of Mrs. Ferrars, a wealthy widow who is rumoured to have murdered her husband. Her death is initially believed to be suicide until Roger Ackroyd, a widower who had been expected to marry Mrs. Ferrars, is found murdered. The suspects include Mrs. Cecil Ackroyd, Roger's neurotic hypochondriac sister-in-law who has accumulated personal debts through extravagant spending; her daughter Flora; Major Blunt, a big-game hunter; Geoffrey Raymond, Ackroyd's personal secretary; Ralph Paton, Ackroyd's stepson and another person with heavy debts; Parker, a snooping butler; and Ursula Bourne, a parlourmaid with an uncertain history who resigned her post the afternoon of the murder.

S07E02 - Dumb Witness

2009-02-05T11:07:00.000-08:00

Emily Arundell writes to Hercule Poirot because she believes she has been the victim of attempted murder. However, unfortunately this letter is delayed and when Poirot receives it, she has been dead for some time. Her doctor, who has lost his sense of smell, says that she died of liver problems she had had for many years.

Emily's companion Miss Lawson is the unexpected beneficiary of a substantial fortune, according to a very recent change of will. Under the previous will, Emily's nephew Charles Arundell and nieces Theresa Arundell and Bella Tanios would have inherited. This gives them all motive for murder, because it is unclear who knew of the changed will.

While examining the house, under a pretence of buying it, Poirot discovers a nail covered with varnish and a small string tied to it. Before her death Miss Arundell had said something about Bob...dog...picture...ajar. Poirot concludes that this means a jar on which there is a picture of a dog who was left out all night -- meaning that Bob could not have put the ball on the staircase because he had been out all night. Poirot concludes Miss Arundell had fallen over the tripwire.

On the day of her death Emily had been at a seance held by both Miss Tripps. Both Miss Tripps, two sisters who believe in seances, say that when Emily spoke, a luminous figure came from her mouth. Miss Lawson, who was also at the seance, similarly claims that a luminous haze appeared.

S07E01 - Murder on the Links

2009-02-05T11:05:00.000-08:00

Captain Hastings arrives in the flat that he now shares with Poirot in London, eager to tell the Belgian detective about a woman with whom he has fallen hopelessly in love on the train from Paris to Calais. But Poirot is busy sorting his mail, impatiently tossing aside bills and banal requests "recovering lost lap dogs for fashionable ladies". Then he finds an extraordinary letter from the south of France: "For God's sake, come!" writes Monsieur Paul Renauld. Poirot decides to investigate and he takes Hastings to France and the Villa Genevieve in Merlinville-sur-Mer on the northern French coast where Renauld wrote from. Asking for directions near the Villa Genevieve, they are watched by a young girl outside another smaller villa who has "anxious eyes".

S06E02 - Hickory Dickory Dock

2009-02-05T11:03:00.000-08:00

An outbreak of apparent kleptomania at a student hostel is not normally the sort of crime that arouses Hercule Poirot's interest. But when he sees the bizarre list of stolen and vandalized items - including a stethoscope, some lightbulbs, some old flannel trousers, a box of chocolates, a slashed rucksack, some boracic powder and a diamond ring later found in a bowl of a soup - he congratulates the warden, Mrs Hubbard, on a 'unique and beautiful problem'. It is nevertheless not long before the crime of theft is the least of Poirot’s concerns.

S06E01 - Hercule Poirot's Christmas

2009-02-05T11:00:00.000-08:00

When multi-millionaire Simeon Lee unexpectedly invites his family to gather at his home for Christmas, the gesture is met with suspicion by many of the guests. Simeon is not given to family sentiment, and not all of the family are on good terms with one another. To make things worse, he has invited the black sheep of the family, Harry, and Simeon’s granddaughter, Pilar, whom none of them has ever met before. Simeon is intent on playing a deadly and sadistic game with his family. An unexpected guest – Stephen Farr, son of Simeon Lee's former partner in the diamond mines – means that the house is full of potential suspects when the game turns deadly.

S04E03 - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

2009-02-05T10:47:00.000-08:00

Leaving the dentist’s practice after an appointment, Poirot happens to notice the arrival of Mabelle Sainsbury Seale and returns to her the shiny buckle that has fallen from her shoe. Later, he hears from Japp that Morley has died of a gun shot. Between Poirot’s appointment and Morley’s death there were only three patients: Banker Alistair Blunt, Mabelle, and a Greek blackmailer named Amberiotis. The presence of a man thought essential to the country’s economic survival (Blunt) ensures Japp’s involvement in the case; when Amberiotis turns up dead from an overdose of anaesthetic, it is thought that the dentist has killed himself after realising the accident for which he had been responsible.

S04E02 - Death in the Clouds

2009-02-05T10:45:00.000-08:00

Frustrated with the evident artificiality of the blowpipe: an item that could hardly have been used without being seen by another passenger, Poirot suggests that the means of delivering the dart may have been something else. Is it the flute of one passenger, or perhaps one of the ancient tubes carried by one of the two French archaeologists on board? Or maybe Lady Horbury's long cigarette holder?

Poirot's focus is upon a wasp that has been seen in the compartment and which provided evidence for the original theory of the cause of death. Without explaining himself, he asks for a detailed list of the items in the possession of the passengers, and finds an incriminating clue: Norman Gale, a dentist who has seemingly never been in the area of the plane where the victim was killed, and has no apparent motive for committing the murder, had an empty matchbox and a lighter. He appears to be the killer, but how can he have committed the murder, when he was apparently in conversation with Jane Grey (the novel's effective heroine) throughout the flight? And why would he have committed the crime? And why were there two coffee-spoons in the victim's saucer?

S04E01 - The ABC Murders

2009-02-05T10:41:00.000-08:00

A serial killer is murdering apparently random people in order of their names: first Alice Ascher of Andover, second Betty Barnard of Bexhill-on-Sea, third Sir Carmichael Clarke of Churston (a small village). The killer sends a letter to Hercule Poirot before each murder, telling him where and when each murder will take place, but Poirot and the police always arrive too late. The killer signs himself 'ABC' and at the place of each murder, leaves an ABC Railway Guide next to the body.

S05E08 - The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan

2009-02-05T10:34:00.000-08:00

Poirot and Hastings are staying at the Grand Metropolitan hotel in Brighton where they meet Mr and Mrs Opalsen. He is a rich stockbroker who amassed a fortune in the oil boom and his wife collects jewellery using the proceeds. She offers to the Poirot her pearls and goes to fetch them from her room but they have been stolen. Poirot is asked to assist. There have only been two people in the room since the pearls were last seen - Mrs Opalsen's maid, Celestine, and the hotel chambermaid. Celestine has orders to remain in the room all of the time that the chambermaid is there. Both girls are questioned and both blame the other. The hotel room has a side room where Celestine sleeps and a bolted door which leads to the room next door. The two maids were in sight of each other all the time except for two pauses of between twelve and fifteen seconds apiece when Celestine went into her room – not enough time to extract the jewel case from the drawer, open it, take the jewels and return the case.

S05E07 - Dead Man's Mirror

2009-02-05T10:32:00.000-08:00

Poirot is outbid at an auction for an antique mirror by the dislikeable Gervais Chevenix, who requests Poirot's attendance at his country home as he believes he is being defrauded by a business associate, John Lake. Poirot arrives at the Chevenix house with Hastings and meets Chevenix's wife Vanda, an eccentric who believes in reincarnation and predicts a death in the household, his adopted daughter Ruth and her cousin Hugo,a struggling manufacturer of tubular steel furniture, who will inherit Chevenix's money if they marry and Miss Lingard, a secretary helping Chevenix research a book he is writing. Hugo is engaged to Susan and Ruth has already married Lake in secret. As the household are dressing for dinner, the butler sounds the gong to summon them, and then a shot rings out. Vanda's prophecy has come true and her husband has been murdered.

S05E06 - The Chocolate Box

2009-02-05T10:29:00.000-08:00

In their flat one night, the conversation between Poirot and Hastings turns to the latter's belief that Poirot has never known failure in his professional career. The little Belgian tells him that is not the case and tells Hastings of one occasion when he did not succeed in unravelling a crime:
The event was the death of Paul Deroulard, a French Deputy who was living in Brussels. The time was the strife over the separation of church and state and M. Deroulard was a key player in these events as an anti-catholic and a potential minister. He was a widower, his rich young wife having died from a fall downstairs some years before. He inherited her house in Brussels and, although abstemious in terms of drinking and smoking, he had a reputation as a ladies man. He died suddenly in his house from reported heart failure on the eve of his promotion to minister of the state at a time when Poirot was a member of the Belgian detective force. He was taking a vacation when he received a visit from Mademoiselle Virginie Mesnard who was a cousin of M. Deroulard's dead wife who was convinced that the death was not natural. M. Deroulard's household consisted of four servants, his aged, but very infirm aristocratic mother, Mademoiselle Mesnard herself, and on the night of the death, two visitors: M. de Saint Alard, a neighbour, and John Wilson, an English friend.

S05E05 - The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman

2009-02-05T10:25:00.000-08:00

Poirot and Hastings are in their rooms enjoying the company of a near neighbour, Dr Hawker, when the medical man's housekeeper, Miss Rider, arrives with a message that a client, Count Foscatine, has rung him up crying out for help. Poirot and Hastings join the doctor as he rushes round to Foscatine's flat in Regent's Court.The lift attendant there is unaware of any problems, saying that Graves, the Count's man, left half an hour earlier with no indication that anything is wrong. The flat is locked but the manager of the building opens it for them. Inside, they find a table set for three people with the meals finished. The Count is alone and dead – his head crushed in by a small marble statue. Poirot is interested in what remains on the table. He then questions the kitchen staff at the top of the building who outline the meal served and what dirty plates were passed up to them. Poirot seems especially interested in the fact that little of the dessert was eaten. He also points out that after crying out for help on the phone, the man seemed to replace the receiver. The police arrive at the flat together with the return of the valet, Graves.

S05E04 - The Case of the Missing Will

2009-02-05T10:20:00.000-08:00

Poirot receives an unusual request for help from a Miss Violet Marsh. She was orphaned at fourteen years of age and went to live with her Uncle Andrew, recently returned from making his fortune in Australia, at his large farmhouse in Devon. He had old-fashioned views concerning the education of women and was opposed to his niece bettering herself through book learning. Violet rebelled against him and managed to get herself in Girton College some nine years before. Although somewhat strained, she maintained cordial relations with Andrew Marsh who died a month ago leaving a will with a strange clause. The will is dated March 25th and timed at 11.00am. Marsh has given instructions that his "clever" niece is allowed to live in his house for one month and in that time she has to "prove her wits". If at the end of that time she hasn’t, all his worldly goods go to charitable institutions and she is left with nothing. Poirot is as convinced as Miss Marsh that there is either a second will or a sum on money hidden in the house and agrees to look for it.

S05E03 - The Yellow Iris

2009-02-05T10:16:00.000-08:00

Exactly two years ago, in Buenos Aires, circumstances prevented Poirot from investigating the sudden death of the beautiful Iris Russell. Now he has the chance to try again, this time in London, when a yellow iris, mysteriously left on his doorstep, alerts Poirot that the killer may strike once more.

S05E02 - The Under Dog

2009-02-05T10:13:00.000-08:00

Sir Reuben Astwell was murdered ten days previously at his country house, Mon Repos, when he was violently hit on the back of the head with a club and his nephew Charles Leverson has been arrested. Sir Reuben's wife, Lady Astwell, is convinced that the true criminal is the late man's secretary, Owen Trefusis, although she doesn't have a shred of evidence to back up this claim, relying instead of her much-vaunted and self-proclaimed 'intuition'. She sends her young companion, Lily Margrave, to Poirot to employ him on the case and Poirot accepts, partly because he senses that Lily does not want Poirot to investigate the matter and that she has something to hide.

S05E01 - The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb

2009-02-05T10:10:00.000-08:00

Poirot is consulted by Lady Willard, the widow of the famous Egyptologist, Sir John Willard. He was the archaeologist on the excavation of the tomb of the Pharaoh Men-her-Ra together with the American financier Mr Bleibner. Both men died within a fortnight of each other, Sir John of heart failure and Mr Bleibner of blood poisoning. A few days later Mr Bleibner’s nephew, Rupert, shot himself and the press has been full of stories of an Egyptian curse. Lady Willard’s son, Guy, has now gone out to Egypt to continue his father’s work and she fears that he too will die next. To Hasting’s surprise, Poirot states that he believes in the forces of superstition and agrees to investigate.

S03E10 - The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge

2009-02-05T06:49:00.000-08:00

Poirot is ill in bed with influenza when he and Hastings receive a visit from a Mr Roger Havering, the second son of a Baronet who has been married to an actress for some years. Mr Havering stayed at his club in London the previous evening and the following morning receives a telegram from his wife telling him his Uncle, Harrington Pace, was murdered the previous evening and to come at once with a detective. As Poirot is indisposed, Hastings sets off with Havering for the scene of the crime – Derbyshire.
Mr Pace, an American by birth and the brother of Mr Havering's mother, owns an isolated hunting lodge on the Derbyshire moors. When Hastings and Havering arrive there they meet Inspector Japp as Scotland Yard has been called in on the case. As Havering goes off to answer questions, Hastings speaks with the housekeeper, Mrs Middleton, who tells him she showed a black-bearded man into the house the previous evening who wanted to see Mr Pace. She and Mrs Havering were outside the room that the two men were talking in when they heard a shot. The door to the room was locked but they found the window outside open and gaining entry found Mr Pace dead, shot by one of two pistols on display in the room and the used pistol now missing, together with the black-bearded man. Mrs Middleton sends Mrs Havering to see Hastings and she confirms the housekeeper's story.

S03E09 - The Plymouth Express

2009-02-05T06:47:00.000-08:00

A young naval officer undertakes a train journey on the Plymouth express and finds the dead body of a woman underneath one of the seats in his carriage. The woman is later identified as Flossie Halliday, latterly the Honourable Mrs. Rupert Carrington, the daughter of an American steel magnate who asks Poirot to take the case on.

Poirot knows of the woman and saw sight of her once in Paris. Some time ago she was caught up with an adventurer called Count de la Rochefour but her father took her back to America to get her away from the Count. She later married Rupert Carrington who was to prove just as unsuitable a husband, being a gambling addict and deep in debt. They soon drifted apart and were about to announce a legal separation.

S03E08 - The Theft of the Royal Ruby

2009-02-05T06:45:00.000-08:00

When Prince Farouq of Egypt foolishly lets a tart wear a fabulously valuable royal ruby, she simply walks away with it. With Hastings away in Scotland for the Christmas holidays, Poirot finds himself spending Christmas with the Lacey family. Colonel Lacey, a well-known Egyptologist, was one of the few people who knew the ruby was in England. As Poirot investigates, he learns that the Colonel is having financial difficulties and also that one of the house guests, Desmond Lee-Wortley, may not be of the soundest character. With the help of the children in the household, Poirot sets a trap for the thief.

S03E07 - The Mystery of the Spanish Chest

2009-02-05T06:43:00.000-08:00

Poirot's attention is caught by newspaper headlines which tell of the latest developments in the "Spanish Chest Mystery". At his request Miss Lemon prepares a précis of the case. A Major Charles Rich held a small party at his flat. The guests were a Mr and Mrs Clayton, a Mr and Mrs Spence and a Commander McLaren. At the last minute, Mr Clayton received an urgent telegram summoning him to Scotland that night on business and did not attend the party. Shortly before the party, he had a drink with McLaren at their club where he explained his coming absence and then before going to the station, took a taxi to Rich's to offer his apologies. Rich was out but Burgess – Rich's manservant – let him in and left Clayton to scribble a note in the sitting room while he carried on his preparations in the kitchen. Some ten minutes later, Rich returned and sent Burgess out on a short errand. Rich denies seeing Clayton at the flat nor did Burgess after leaving the man to write his note. The party went well. The next morning, Burgess noticed what seemed to be bloodstains on a rug that were seeping from a Spanish chest in the corner of the room. Opening it, the startled man found the stabbed body of Mr Clayton. Rich has now been arrested as the obvious suspect but Poirot sees a flaw in that he cannot see how or why Rich would calmly have gone to bed with a bleeding corpse in the chest.

S03E06 - The Double Clue

2009-02-05T06:40:00.000-08:00

Poirot is called in to investigate a jewel robbery by Marcus Hardman, a collector of various antique precious objects. The theft occurred from his safe when he was holding a small tea party at his house. He showed his guests his collection of medieval jewels and later discovered that the safe had been rifled and the objects taken. Four of his guests had the opportunity take the items – Mr. Johnston, a South African millionaire only just arrived in London; Countess Vera Rossakoff, a refugee from the Russian revolution; Bernard Parker, a young and effeminate agent for Mr. Hardman and Lady Runcorn, a middle-aged society lady whose aunt is a kleptomaniac.
Poirot examines the scene of the crime and finds a man's glove and a cigarette case with the initials "BP". He visits Bernard Parker who appears suspicious when he states that the glove isn't his but vehemently denies owning the cigarette case, nevertheless Poirot finds the twin of the glove in the hallway of Parker's house.

S03E05 - The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor

2009-02-05T06:38:00.000-08:00

Poirot has been asked by a friend, who is the director of the Northern Union Insurance Company, to investigate the case of a middle-aged man who died of an internal haemorrhage just a few weeks after insuring his life for fifty thousand pounds. There were rumours that the man – Mr Maltravers – was in a difficult financial position and the suggestion has been made that he paid the insurance premiums and then committed suicide for the benefit of his beautiful young wife. Poirot and Hastings travel to Marsdon Manor in Essex where the dead man was found in the grounds, with a small rook rifle by his side. They interview the widow and can find nothing wrong. They are leaving when a young man, Captain Black, arrives. A gardener tells Poirot that he visited the house the day before the death. Poirot interviews Black and by using word association finds out that he knew of someone who committed suicide with a rook rifle in East Africa when he was out there.

S03E04 - Wasp's Nest

2009-02-05T06:35:00.000-08:00

Sat on the garden terrace of his large house on a summer evening, John Harrison is delighted to receive an unexpected visit from Hercule Poirot. The detective tells him that he is in the locality to investigate a murder but amazes Harrison by admitting that the murder has not yet been committed but that it is better to prevent one happening first. He then cryptically turns the conversation round to a wasp's nest on a tree that he sees nearby and Poirot and Harrison discuss the destruction of it. A friend of Harrison's called Claude Langton is going to handle the task for him using petrol injected by a garden syringe but Poirot tells him that earlier that day he saw the poison book in a local chemist's and an earlier entry made by Langton for the purchase of cyanide, despite Langton having told Harrison that such substances shouldn't ever be used. Poirot asks a quiet question: "Do you like Langton?" and they talk of Harrison's engagement to a girl called Molly Deane who was previously engaged to Langton. As they discuss Langton's disposition towards Harrison, Poirot's meaning becomes quite clear to him – he is being warned. Poirot asks when Langton is returning and is told nine o'clock that evening. Poirot tells him that he will return at that time, wondering as he goes if he should have waited behind.

S03E03 - The Affair at the Victory Ball

2009-02-05T06:33:00.000-08:00

Chief Inspector Japp asks Poirot to assist Scotland Yard in the strange events which took place at a recent costumed Victory Ball. A group of six people, headed by the young Viscount Cronshaw, attended dressed in the costume of the Commedia dell'arte. Lord Cronshaw was Harlequin, his uncle, the honourable Eustace Beltane, was Punchinello and Mrs. Mallaby, an American widow, was Punchinella. In the roles of Pierrot and Pierette were Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Davidson (he being a stage actor) and finally, Miss 'Coco' Courtney, an actress who was rumoured to be engaged to Lord Cronshaw, was Columbine.
The night went badly from the start when it was obvious to the party that Cronshaw and Coco were not on speaking terms. The latter was crying and asked Chris Davidson to take her home to her flat in Chelsea. When they had gone, a friend of Cronshaw's spotted Harlequin in a box looking down on the ball and called up to him to join them on the main floor. Cronshaw left the box to join them but then disappeared. He was found ten minutes later on the floor of the supper room, stabbed through the heart with a table knife, his body suffering a strange stiffness. To compound the tragedy, Coco Courtney was found dead in her bed with an overdose of cocaine, it being found out afterwards at the inquest that she was addicted to the drug.
Poirot starts to investigate, finding out to everyone's puzzlement that Cronshaw was emphatically opposed to drugs, that Beltane's costume had a hump and a ruffle and that a curtained recess exists in the supper room.

S03E02 - The Million Dollar Bond Robbery

2009-02-05T06:31:00.000-08:00

Poirot is asked by the fiancé of Philip Ridgeway to prove his innocence. Ridgeway is the nephew of Mr Vavasour, the joint general manager of the London and Scottish Bank and a million dollars of bonds have gone missing whilst in his care. Poirot meets Ridgeway at the Cheshire Cheese who gives him the facts of the case: He was entrusted by his uncle and the other general manager, Mr Shaw, of taking a million dollars of Liberty Bonds to New York to extend the bank’s credit line there. The bonds were counted in Ridgeway’s presence in London, sealed in a packet and then put in his portmanteau that had a special lock on it. The packet disappeared just a few hours before the liner on which Ridgeway was travelling, the Olympia, docked in New York. Attempts had obviously been made to break into the portmanteau but its lock must have then have been picked. Customs were alerted and they sealed the ship that they then searched but to no avail.

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S03E01 - How Does Your Garden Grow?

2009-02-05T06:28:00.000-08:00

Poirot receives a strange letter for assistance from an old lady called Miss Amelia Barrowby who lives at Rosebank in Charman's Green. She is extremely vague in defining exactly what the problem is but states several times that discretion is paramount and that family is involved. The letter intrigues Poirot who has Miss Lemon draft a reply saying that he is at the lady's service.
Five days later Miss Lemon sees an announcement in the "personal column" of The Morning Post about the death of Miss Barrowby. He sends a letter to Rosebank saying that he will call on Miss Barrowby but this is to provoke a response from the next of kin and he duly receives a reply from Mary Delafontaine, the lady's niece, saying that his services are no longer required. Nevertheless, he goes to the house and admires the well-maintained garden with its spring flowers and edging of shells. Let into the house by a maid, the first person he meets is a young Russian girl called Katrina Reiger who speaks cryptically of the money that by rights is hers. She is interrupted by Mrs Delafontaine and her husband who dismisses Katrina and they meet Poirot. They seem shocked to find that he is a detective.

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S02E10 - The Mysterious Affair at Styles

2009-02-05T06:21:00.000-08:00

The novel is set in England during World War I at Styles, an Essex country manor (also the setting of Curtain, Poirot's last case). The manor is owned by the wealthy widow Emily Inglethorp, who has recently remarried to a much younger man, Alfred Inglethorp. Emily's two stepsons, John and Lawrence Cavendish, as well as John's wife Mary and several other people, also live at Styles.

Late one night, the residents of Styles wake to find Emily Inglethorp dying of what proves to be strychnine poisoning. Captain Hastings, a house guest, enlists the help of his friend Hercule Poirot, who is staying in the nearby village, Styles St. Mary. Poirot pieces together events surrounding the murder. On the day she was killed, Emily Inglethorp was overheard arguing with someone, most likely her husband, Alfred, or her stepson, John. Afterwards, she seemed quite distressed and, apparently, made a new will - which no one can find. She ate little at dinner and retired early to her room with her document case. The case was later forced open by someone and a document removed. Alfred Inglethorp left Styles earlier in the evening and stayed overnight in the nearby village, so was not present when the poisoning occurred. Nobody can explain how or when the strychnine was administered to Mrs. Inglethorp.

S02E09 - The Adventure of the Western Star

2009-02-05T06:20:00.000-08:00

Poirot receives a visit from Miss Mary Marvell, the famous American film star on her visit to London. She has received three letters, handed to her by a Chinaman, which warn her to return her fabulous diamond jewel, the "Western Star", to where it came from – the left eye of an idol – before the next full moon. Her husband, Gregory Rolf, who bought it from a Chinaman in San Francisco, gave Mary the jewel three years ago. The pair are going to stay at Yardly Chase, the home of Lord and Lady Yardly when the moon is next full to discuss the making of a film there and Mary is determined to go with her diamond. Both Poirot and Hastings remember society gossip from three years back that linked Rolf and Lady Yardly. The Yardlys also own an identical diamond that came from the right eye of the idol – the Star of the East. After Mary has gone Poirot goes out and Hastings receives a visit from Lady Yardly. Hastings "deduces" that she too has received warning letters. Her husband plans to sell their jewel as he is in debt.

S02E08 - The Kidnapped Prime Minister

2009-02-05T06:11:00.000-08:00

Towards the end of the First World War, Hastings calls on Poirot in his rooms to discuss the sensational news of the day - no less than the attempted assassination of the Prime Minster, David MacAdam. Soon they are interrupted by two important visitors; Lord Estair, Leader of the House of Commons and Bernard Dodge, a member of the War Cabinet. They enlist Poirot for help with a national crisis – the Prime Minister has been kidnapped. He was on his way to a secret peace conference to be held the next day at Versailles. He arrived in Boulogne where he was met by what was thought to be his official car but it was a substitute. The real car was found in a side road with its driver, an ADC bound and gagged. As they tell Poirot the details, news reaches them by special courier that the bogus car has now been found abandoned and containing Captain Daniels, the Prime Minister’s secretary, chloroformed and gagged. His employer is still missing. Poirot wants to know the full details of the shooting that took place earlier and is told it occurred on the way back from Windsor Castle when, accompanied again by Daniels and the chauffeur, Murphy, the car took a side road and was surrounded by masked men. Murphy stopped and one them shot at the P.M., but only grazing his cheek. Murphy shot off, leaving the would-be murderers behind.

S02E06 - The Adventure of the Cheap Flat

2009-02-05T06:04:00.000-08:00

Hastings is at a friend's house with several other people when the talk turns to flats and houses. A young couple by the name of Robinson are there and she tells the party how they have managed to obtain a flat in Knightsbridge at an incredibly cheap rental that no one seemed able to obtain, despite its stunningly attractive price.
The next day, when Poirot is told of this singularly strange event, the Belgian Detective is immediately interested and starts to investigate. When they go to the buildings where the flat is, the porter tells them that the Robinsons have been there for six months, despite the fact that Mrs Robinson told Hastings they had only just obtained the lease. Poirot rents another flat in the building and, by use of the coal lift, manages to gain entry to the Robinson's flat and fix the locks in order that he can enter at will. The next day, Poirot tells Hastings that Japp informed him that important American naval plans were stolen from that country by an Italian called by Luigi Valdarno who managed to pass them onto an international spy, Elsa Hardt, before being killed in New York. Hardt's description is a somewhat close match to that of Mrs Robinson.

S02E05 - Double Sin

2009-02-05T06:02:00.000-08:00

Poirot, as a result of spreading fame, has been overworked and Hastings suggests he rests by accompanying him on a week's holiday to the south Devon coastal resort of Ebermouth. On their fourth day there, Poirot receives a note from the theatrical agent Joseph Aarons who asks him to travel to Charlock Bay on the north Devon coast as he needs to consult him on a matter. The two are planning to go by train but Hastings sees a notice for a motor bus tour from the one resort to the other which will save time on changing trains. Poirot reluctantly agrees, afraid of the uncertain English climate and the drafts of air which will invade the bus. They book their tickets at the office of the company concerned where Hastings is taken with another customer, an auburn-haired girl, whereas Poirot is intrigued by a young man who is attempting to grow a feeble moustache.

S02E04 - The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim

2009-02-05T06:00:00.000-08:00

Poirot and Hastings are entertaining Japp to tea when the conversation turns to the recent disappearance of a banker, Mr. Davenheim, from his large country house, 'The Cedars'. Boasting, Poirot makes a five pound bet with Japp that he could solve the case within a week without moving from his chair. The facts of the case are that Davenheim arrived home from the city at midday on Saturday. He seemed normal and went out to post some letters late in the afternoon saying that he was expecting a business visitor, a Mr. Lowen, who should be shown into the study to wait his return. Mr. Davenheim never did return and no trace of him can be found once he left the grounds. The police were called on Sunday morning and on the Monday it was discovered that the concealed safe in Davenheim's study had been broken into and the contents taken out – cash, a large amount of bearer bonds and a substantial collection of jewellery. Despite being in the study, Lowen has not been arrested, merely under observation. He was there to discuss some business in South America with Mr. Davenheim who himself was in Buenos Aries last autumn. Poirot is interested in the fact that the house has a boating lake, which Japp tells him is being searched tomorrow, and that Mr. Davenheim wears his hair rather long with a moustache and bushy beard.

S02E03 - The Cornish Mystery

2009-02-05T05:58:00.000-08:00

Poirot receives a visit from a Mrs. Pengelley, a middle-aged woman who is afraid that she is being poisoned by her husband, a dentist. She has been ill after eating but her doctor states that she is suffering from acute gastritis. She and her husband live in Polgarwith, a small market town in Cornwall. She has no proof of the allegation, only that she only suffers when her husband is at home, not when he is away at the weekends and a bottle of weedkiller, supposedly unused, is half-empty. There could be no financial motive to suggest why Mr. Pengelley should try to murder his wife but she suspects an affair with his young receptionist. Another resident in the house was her niece, Freda Stanton, but that lady rowed with Mrs. Pengelley the week before and left the house after living there for eight years. Mrs. Pengelley is vague as to the cause of the row but states that she has been told by a Mr. Radnor to leave Freda to come to her senses. Radnor is described as "just a friend" and a "very pleasant young fellow".
Poirot and Hastings travel to Cornwall the next day and are shocked to find that Mrs. Pengelley died half an hour before. The maid who answers the door makes it clear that she too suspects the husband. Poirot interviews Mrs. Pengelley's doctor who at first denies that anything could be wrong but is then astounded to hear that the dead woman came to London to consult the detective.

S02E03 - The Lost Mine

2009-02-05T05:50:00.000-08:00

Poirot and Hastings are discussing investments and Poirot informs Hastings that he has no thing of that kind except for fourteen thousand shares in Burma Mines Ltd which were given to him as a gift for services rendered. He offers to tell the story of what service he provided and Hastings gladly listens...
The mines in question were originally silver mines, discovered by the Chinese in the fifteenth century. The silver was all worked out but plenty of lead remained, not considered being of value at the time but definitely worthy of exploitation at the time of the story. The mine itself was lost, the only clue to its location being old papers in the hands of a Chinese family. The head of the family, Wu Ling, agreed to negotiate a sale of the papers and travelled to England to complete the transaction. Wu Ling was supposed to be met by one of the syndicate company directors, Mr. Pearson, in Southampton but his train there was delayed with the result that Wu Ling made his own way to London where he booked into the Hotel Russell Square and telephoned the company to say that he would see them the next day. He failed to appear at the meeting and the hotel was contacted. They said Wu Ling had gone out earlier with a friend. He still failed to appear at the offices throughout the day. The police were contacted and the next evening the Chinaman's body was found floating in the Thames.

S02E02 - The Veiled Lady

2009-02-05T05:48:00.000-08:00

Poirot is bored with the lack of interesting cases which come his way, telling Hastings that the criminals of England fear him too much and he dismisses the suggestion that most of them don't even know that he exists. Hastings remembers a recent matter in which a jeweller's shop window in Bond Street was broken and a perpetrator, despite being quickly arrested, only having paste copies of the six stolen stones on him, he having immediately passed the real jewels onto an accomplice. He suggests this as a case of interest but Poirot feels that although the matter was well-planned, it was not of real interest.

S02E01 - Peril at End House

2009-02-05T05:47:00.000-08:00

Poirot and Hastings are spending a week's holiday at the Cornish resort of St. Loo, staying at the Majestic Hotel. Sitting on the hotel terrace in the morning sun, Hastings reads in the paper of Captain Seton who is lost near the Solomon Islands whilst on a round-the-world flight. They meet a local resident, a young girl called 'Nick' Buckley (her real first name being Magdala) who lives in End House, a slightly ramshackle house on a point in the bay. During conversation, Nick lightly mentions that she has had three lucky escapes from death in as many days, piquing Poirot's curiosity. At the same time, a wasp shoots past the head of the young girl. Nick is fetched away by a friend of hers, Commander George Challenger, RN. After they have gone, Poirot examines the straw hat the girl has left behind and finds a bullet hole in it and a spent bullet nearby. He resolves to help save Nick's life.

S01E10 - The Dream

2009-02-05T05:30:00.000-08:00

Poirot is summoned by letter to the home of reclusive and eccentric millionaire Benedict Farley. He is shown into the office of Farley's personal secretary, Hugo Cornworthy, but finds the millionaire himself alone in the darkened room. Poirot is made to sit in the light of a bright desk lamp and he is not impressed with the man, dressed in an old patchwork dressing gown and wearing thick glasses, feeling that he is stagy and a mountebank and doesn’t possess the charisma he would expect from such a rich and powerful person. Farley tells him that he is troubled by a nightly dream in which he is seated at his desk in the next room and at exactly 3.28pm, he takes out the revolver he keeps in his desk drawer and shoots himself. Various doctors have been unable to explain this to him and he has now turned to the famous detective. Poirot wonders if he has enemies who would want to kill him but Farley knows of no one. Poirot asks to see the room where the dream is set but Farley refuses and Poirot therefore takes his leave. Before he goes Farley asks him for the letter he sent him to be returned and Poirot hands it over but then realises he handed over the wrong one and Farley didn't notice. The correct letter is exchanged.

S01E09 - The King of Clubs

2009-02-05T05:27:00.000-08:00

Poirot and Hastings discuss a report of a death that appears in a newspaper. A family called the Oglanders were playing bridge in the drawing room of their house in Streatham the previous night when the French windows burst open and a woman staggered in, blood on her dress. She managed to say, "Murder!" and then fell to the floor. The family fetched both a doctor and the police who called at the next-door villa and found the body of Henry Reedburn, the theatrical impresario, dead in the library with his skull split open by some unknown weapon. The woman has since been identified as the famous dancer, Valerie Saintclair.

S01E08 - The Incredible Theft

2009-02-05T05:25:00.000-08:00

Tommy Mayfield is a British industrialist who has developed a new fighter plane. Up to now he has paid all development costs himself and he very much wants the government to contribute. It is reluctant to do so because of an apparent indiscretion some years before when Mayfield was supposed to have sold heavy artillery to the Japanese. In order to get back into the government's good books, he decides to lay a trap for Mrs. Vanderlyn, a known Nazi sympathizer and possible spy. The bait is the plans for the new fighter but Mayfield's wife is so concerned that she asks Hercule Poirot to spend the weekend at their house to make sure Vanderlyn doesn't get away with anything.

S01E07 - Problem at Sea

2009-02-05T05:23:00.000-08:00

Poirot is undergoing the trial of a sea voyage to Egypt, supposedly as a vacation. Not enjoying one bit the motion of the waves, he joins in the conversations of the other passengers. Among them is a General Forbes who is angrily dismissive of a man who calls himself Colonel Clapperton. He states that Clapperton is a former music hall performer who, injured during the war, got himself into a society lady's nursing home and then received her patronage to find him a job at the War Office. The other passengers on the boat are more sympathetic towards Clapperton, particularly as he demonstrates continuing patience with his difficult and demanding wife. She is something of a hypochondriac, complaining of her heart trouble but at the same time stating that she keeps extremely active, despite her husband's constant entreaties to take life easier. Even Poirot seems to incur her wrath when he responds a little too dryly to her conversation. Somewhat annoyed with him, she marches out of the smoking room where they have been conversing, dropping the contents of her handbag on the way. She leaves behind a piece of paper – a prescription for digitalin.

S01E06 - Triangle at Rhodes

2009-02-05T05:21:00.000-08:00

Just as his holiday on the island of Rhodes is coming to an end, Hercule Poirot finds himself investigating a murder when one of the hotel guests, Valentine Chantry, is poisoned in the bar. The drink she had was apparently meant for her husband and had been bought by Douglas Gold, with whom she had been carrying on since her arrival. Gold is arrested and everyone assumes he is the perpetrator but Poirot thinks otherwise however and looks to the other guests in the hotel as more likely suspects. When a local pathologist confirms that the poison used was local in origin, Poirot realizes that only when he learns who purchased the poison will he learn the killer's identity.

S01E05 - The_Third_Floor_Flat

2009-02-05T05:19:00.000-08:00

Four young people, two women and two men, are returning after a night out to the home of one of the women – Patricia Garnett. She is annoyed as she cannot find the key to her flat on the fourth floor of her apartment block in her handbag. The porter doesn't have a spare key, nor is there a fire escape, but the suggestion is made that the two men, Donovan Bailey and Jimmy Faulkener, make their way up through the coal lift and let the women in.

S01E04 - Four and Twenty Blackbirds

2009-02-05T05:15:00.000-08:00

Poirot is eating out with a friend, Henry Bonnington, and the conversation turns to people's habits. Bonnington eats regularly in the restaurant that they are in and he points out a white-bearded man as evidence of his theories. This man eats the same meal there on Tuesdays and Thursdays and always orders much the same items as part of his three-course meal. The waitress brings their meals and confirms Bonnington's view of the man – except that the previous week he also came in on Monday and ordered things he'd never ordered before. Poirot's curiosity is piqued.

S01E03 - The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly

2009-02-05T05:11:00.000-08:00

The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly

Poirot is called in to investigate the kidnapping of three-year old Johnnie Waverly, the son of Marcus Waverly from his old family home, Waverly Court in Surrey. For several days prior to the kidnapping, the family received anonymous letters which threatened to take the boy unless twenty-five thousand pounds was paid. Mr. Waverly took the letters to the police who took little interest until a final letter was received which stated that the boy would be kidnapped at twelve o'clock the next day. On the day that the threat was due to take place, Mrs. Waverly was mildly poisoned and a note was left on Mr. Waverly's pillow which stated, "At Twelve O'Clock". Horrified that there was someone inside the house who was involved, Mr. Waverly sacked all of the staff except for his long-time Butler, Tredwell and Miss Collins, his wife's trusted secretary-companion.

S01E02 - Murder in the Mews

2009-02-05T02:57:00.000-08:00

Japp asks Poirot to join him at a house in Bardsley Garden Mews where a Mrs. Barbara Allen shot herself the previous evening – Guy Fawkes Night – the moment of death being disguised by the noise of fireworks. Once there they find that the doctor thinks there is something strange about the death of the woman, a young widow. Mrs. Allen was found by a housemate, Miss Jane Plenderleith, who had been away in the country the previous night. The victim was locked in her room and was shot through the head with an automatic, the weapon being found in her hand. The doctor however points out that the gun is in her right hand while the wound is above the left ear – an impossible position to shoot with the right hand. It looks as if this is a murder made to look like suicide. They interview Miss Plenderleith and find out that Mrs. Allen was engaged to be married to Charles Laverton-West, an up-and-coming young MP but, although the pistol was the dead lady's, she cannot think of a reason why she should use it to commit suicide.

S01E01 - The Adventure of the Clapham Cook

2009-02-04T18:43:00.000-08:00

The Adventure of the Clapham Cook

Plot: Poirot is not interested in investigating some of the cases which appear in the newspapers and which Hastings tries to bring to his attention. These include a bank clerk who disappears with fifty thousand pounds of securities, a suicidal man and a missing typist. He is put on the spot though when visited by a Mrs. Todd who is determined that he investigate her missing cook. With some humour, and to avoid an argument, he agrees to take on the trivial case.

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