Everything Agatha Christie Podcast

Alan Everard, a successful modernist painter, is married to the beautiful society girl Isobel Loring who eagerly promotes her husband’s work. At one of her tea parties, to which she invites the London art critics, she unveils her husband’s latest masterpiece, a portrait of herself but Alan realises the picture is lifeless. However a sketch he has done of his daughter's godmother, Jane Haworth, is...

Wealthy Mary Harter has been advised by her doctor to take it easy and not aggravate her somewhat weak heart.  Her nephew, Charles, who lives with her, buys her a radio for amusement, but strange messages come from it. Could her dead husband really be sending her messages? And why is he warning that her life is in danger?

An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. When Hercule Poirot and his associate Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of Merlinville-sur-Mer to meet their client Paul Renauld, they learn from the police that he has been found that morning stabbed in the back with a letter opener and left in a newly-dug grave adjacent to a local golf course. Among the plausible suspects are Renauld's w...

An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. When Hercule Poirot and his associate Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of Merlinville-sur-Mer to meet their client Paul Renauld, they learn from the police that he has been found that morning stabbed in the back with a letter opener and left in a newly-dug grave adjacent to a local golf course. Among the plausible suspects are Renauld's w...

An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. When Hercule Poirot and his associate Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of Merlinville-sur-Mer to meet their client Paul Renauld, they learn from the police that he has been found that morning stabbed in the back with a letter opener and left in a newly-dug grave adjacent to a local golf course. Among the plausible suspects are Renauld's w...

An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. When Hercule Poirot and his associate Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of Merlinville-sur-Mer to meet their client Paul Renauld, they learn from the police that he has been found that morning stabbed in the back with a letter opener and left in a newly-dug grave adjacent to a local golf course. Among the plausible suspects are Renauld's w...

When a body of a woman is discovered in the third floor flat of Friar Mansions, it is fortunate that Hercule Poirot lives in the same block and is on hand – but can he help?

Poirot visits a friend, John Harrison, and tells him he is on a mission to solve a murder that has not yet been committed, in the hopes of preventing a murder.

Attempting to holiday in Devon, Poirot and Hastings are interrupted when a woman’s selection of antique miniatures are stolen from a woman's case on a train.

When Poirot receives an invitation to dinner from Robert Astwell, he is happy to accept. When he arrives, however, he discovers that Astwell is universally disliked. When Astwell is discovered murdered there is no shortage of suspects!   Lady Astwell is convinced that it is the secretary and not her nephew who murdered her husband but she has no proof, only "intuition". She hires Poirot to investi...

Poirot and Hastings are dining with a friend Captain Vincent Lemesurier and his uncle Hugo when news arrives that Vincent's father is taken ill and dying. Vincent appears shocked and upset and rushes off. The next day, Vincent is found dead, having fallen off a train. A relative explains to Poirot and Hastings that there is a family curse at work.

A priceless ruby, belonging to a Far Eastern prince, is stolen from him whilst he is on a visit to England. The ruby was destined for the prince’s bride-to-be and a scandal must be avoided.   Poirot is asked to attend a Christmas celebration in order to apprehend a jewel-thief.

A priceless ruby, belonging to a Far Eastern prince, is stolen from him whilst he is on a visit to England. The ruby was destined for the prince’s bride-to-be and a scandal must be avoided. Poirot is asked to attend a Christmas celebration in order to apprehend a jewel-thief.

A valuable emerald necklace has been stolen and Poirot is asked to help. At the scene of crime, Poirot finds two clues: a glove and a cigarette case engraved with initials. But for Poirot, two is too many.

A middle-aged woman, Mrs Pengelley, tells Poirot she thinks her husband is trying to poison her. Poirot believes her and travels to Polgar with in Cornwall but arrives just hours after she dies. Poirot blames himself for being late and vows to bring her killer to justice.

Hercule Poirot and Hastings are discussing investments and Poirot informs Hastings that his only speculative investment is in fourteen thousand shares in Burma Mines Ltd which were given to him as a gift for services rendered.

Poirot is not interested in investigating some of the cases which appear in the newspapers when Hastings tries to bring them to his attention. These include ones about a bank clerk, Mr. Davis, 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....

Elderly Mr Maltravers is found dead in a field, with his grieving wife claiming it has been natural causes. But as he recently took out life insurance, the company brings in Poirot to establish if it was suicide.

Self-made millionaire, Lord Charles Mayfield is throwing a house party, what better way to conceal the true nature of a meeting to discuss top-secret plans for a fighter plane, as well as catching out a spy in the process. But the plans are snatched and only Poirot can uncover the truth.

Poirot assists a young woman in proving to her deceased uncle that her education was valuable. They must solve the puzzle of his will or else she will be left with no inheritance.

A perfect locked room mystery for Hercule Poirot: a dead man, alone in a locked apartment, beside an eaten dinner laid for three.

Poirot and Hastings are called on to investigate the suspicious death of a landowner in a small English town. What looks at first like a simple case of suicide quickly becomes more complex as Poirot interrogates the suspects in the home.

When little Johnnie Waverly is kidnapped, there is only one man his parents trust with the case—the inimitable Hercule Poirot! Can he solve the matter when the police had such little luck? After all, the little boy was snatched from right under the nose of the police.

Frustrated with a lack of challenging cases, Poirot is given an opportunity to flirt with the other side of the law. A young lady, soon to be married, is being blackmailed and pleads for his help.

The logic of the little grey cells take on one of Agatha Christie’s favorite themes, the powers of ancient Egypt, this time in the form of a curse on those who excavated a Pharaoh’s tomb.