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Miss Marple, Agatha Christie’s deceptively mild spinster sleuth, is being treated to a few days’ holiday by her niece, staying at Bertram’s Hotel, a dignified, unostentatious establishment tucked away in a back street of busy Mayfair. Here is a place where sedate upper class ladies, retired military gentlemen and the higher echelons of the clergy can indulge in the comforts of a bygone age. But Miss Marple begins to feel uneasy. Something sinister lurks beneath the polished veneer.

Miss Marple und Hercule Poirot sind bekannt für ihre ungewöhnlichen Ermittlungsmethoden. Die berühmten Detektive setzen kleine graue Zellen ein, Stricknadeln, Menschenkenntnis sowie belgischen und britischen Spürsinn, um Mörder und sonstige Verbrecher zu überführen. Agatha Christie lässt ihre beliebten Kriminalisten in klassischen Whodunits ermitteln, das Genre, für das sie berühmt wurde.

When wealthy spinster Emily French is found murdered, suspicion falls on Leonard Vole, the man to whom she hastily bequeathed her riches before she died. Leonard assures the investigators that his wife, Romaine Heilger, can provide them with an alibi. However, when questioned, Romaine informs...

In this breathtaking Agatha Christie mystery, the Third Girl sharing a London flat with two others announces to Hercule Poirot that she’s a murderer and then disappears. The masterful investigator must figure out whether the missing girl is a criminal, a victim, or merely insane. Three young...

Ein Fall für Miss Marple: Die Wahrsagerin hat Mrs. Pritchard vor blauen Blumen gewarnt. Doch immer wieder erscheinen blaue Blumen auf der Tapete in ihrem Krankenzimmer. Eines Tages ist Mrs. Pritchard tot...

Eigentlich genießt Hercule Poirot seinen wohlverdienten Ruhestand im Küstenstädtchen Loo in Südengland. Doch nach der Begegnung mit der geheimnisvollen Miss Nick - die in den letzten drei Tagen drei Mordanschlägen entrinnen konnte - sieht er sich schon mitten in einem neuen Fall. Sein Kollege Colonel Hastings darf dabei vom unfehlbaren Spürsinn seines Vorbilds profitieren ...

Hercule Poirots Debüt! Als Mrs Emily Inglethorp, die Eigentümerin von Styles Court, ermordet wird, ist für alle klar, wer der Mörder ist. Doch Hercule Poirot schöpft Verdacht. Er wirbelt alles durcheinander, bis er auf ein Beweisstück stößt, das zeigt, wie gerissen der wahre Täter ist.

A Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring June Whitfield as the deceptively mild Miss Marple with Ian Lavender, Joan Sims and Susannah Harker. Elspeth McGillicuddy is down from Scotland for a holiday and boards the 4:50 train from Paddington station to visit her friend, Miss Marple. During the journey, another train pulls alongside, and through the window Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a tall, dark man strangling a blonde woman. She reports what she has seen, yet no one takes any notice.

Ariadne Oliver, Queen of Crime Fiction, has been asked to devise a Murder Hunt for a fête at Nasse House, the home of Sir George Stubbs. But she begins to suspect that someone is manipulating the scenario of her game and fears that something very sinister is being planned. She sends for her old friend Hercule Poirot. At first, he is not inclined to take her very seriously, but soon a series of events propels him to change his mind.

In Agatha Christie’s Dumb Witness, Hercule Poirot investigates the very suspicious death of an elderly spinster who, fearing the very worst, had written to the great detective prior to her demise. Everyone blamed Emily Arundell’s accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky...

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring June Whitfield as Miss Marple, the deceptively mild spinster sleuth. Wealthy businessman Rex Fortescue is found dead with rye grain in his pocket. His death is followed in quick succession by a woman dying while eating bread and honey, and a maid in her garden. Inspector Neele, in charge of investigating the spate of murders, consults with Miss Marple, who has an interesting and surprising theory to offer.

Das Haus, das die frischverheiratete Gwenda Reed für sich und ihren Mann einrichtet, macht ihr plötzlich Angst: Stufen, Türen und Tapeten ordnen sich so...

Schreckliche Gerüchte stören die friedliche Beschaulichkeit in dem Latenheim, in dem Tommy Beresfords Tante Ada lebt. Mord soll es bei dem einen oder anderen Todesfall gewesen sein. Mit seiner Ehefrau Tuppence will Tommy den Gerüchten auf den Grund gehen und bald schon hat das Ermittlerduo eine Spur...

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring June Whitfield as Miss Marple, the sharp-witted spinster sleuth. In the sleepy little English country village of St Mary Mead, all is not as it seems. Under a seemingly peaceful exterior lurks intrigue, guilt, deception - and murder. Colonel Protheroe, local magistrate and overbearing landowner, is the most detested man in the village. Everyone, even the vicar, wishes he were dead. And very soon he is - shot in the head in the vicar's own study.

James Bentley wird zum Tode verurteilt. Er soll seine Vermieterin Mrs McGinty brutal erschlagen haben und alle Indizien sprechen gegen ihn...

A millionaire strikes a deal on the seedier side of Paris and a priceless cache of rubies becomes destined for his beloved daughter Rachel. Two days later Rachel is dead - murdered on a train on her way to the Riviera to meet her scoundrel lover: a mysterious, dark man. The suspects line up... only master slueth Hercule Poirot can unravel the mystery and find the truth. Maurice Denhham stars as the great Belgian detective in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation.

After the death of her husband, Dolly Bantry sold Gossington Hall to the former film star Marina Gregg and her husband. When the glamorous couple decide to throw a benefit party for the local hospital, the grounds are thronged with curious visitors, and for one of them, the day ends in tragedy. As Marina is serving cocktails in the house, she is cornered by the excitable Heather Babcock, who chatters away about their former meeting about eleven years ago before spilling her daiquiri all over herself and Marina.

A dying woman confesses a terrible secret to her priest along with a cryptic list of nine names. Before he is able to uncover anything more, the priest is struck dead in the fog and the police discover the list in his shoe. Our hero Mark Easterbrook, a historian, learns of a secretive organisation known as The Pale Horse and of their supernatural connections in the village of Much Deeping. The list of names seems to foretell the deaths of several people and Mark must piece together the clues and unearth the connections between them all.

Eine Tote am Strand! Hercule Poirot verbringt seinen wohlverdienten Urlaub in einem Hotel auf einer Insel vor der Küste Devons. Als die glamouröse Arlena Marshall erwürgt aufgefunden wird, ist der Spürsinn des belgischen Meisterdetektivs gefragt. Poirot entdeckt, dass fast alle Hotelgäste eine Verbindung zu der Toten haben. Aber wer hasste sie so sehr?

Jane ist seit Jahren spurlos verschwunden und auch der britische Geheimdienst findet keine Anhaltspunkte in dieser mysteriösen Affäre...