検索キーワード： 著者 "Agatha Christie" すべてのカテゴリー

Für ihr Sommerfest haben sich die Bewohner von Greenshore House etwas Besonderes ausgedacht. In ihrem Garten soll eine inszenierte Mörderjagd für Unterhaltung sorgen, welche die bekannte Kriminalautorin Adriane Oliver organisiert. Doch plötzlich ahnt Adriane, dass aus dem Spiel ganz schnell Ernst werden könnte, und ruft in letzter Minute ihren guten Freund Hercule Poirot zu Hilfe. Aber auch der belgische Meisterdetektiv kann den Mord an einem Gast nicht verhindern. Doch wäre er nicht Hercule Poirot, wenn er nicht alle Verdächtigen unter die detektivische Lupe nehmen und mit dem richtigen Gespür den Täter entlarven würde.

Lucy Angkatell invited Hercule Poirot to lunch. To tease the great detective, her guests stage a mock murder beside the swimming pool. Unfortunately, the victim plays the scene for real. As his blood drips into the water, John Christow gasps one final word: "Henrietta". In the confusion, a gun sinks to the bottom of the pool. Poirot's enquiries reveal a complex web of romantic attachments. It seems everyone in the drama is a suspect, and each a victim of love.

Two standalone novels from the queen of mystery, Agatha Christie. From the sprawling Leonide family to dark moors, no one can spin a mystery quite like she can. In Crooked House, the Leonides are one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That is until the head of the household, Aristide, is murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection....

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.

Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper, so the other house guests decided to play a practical joke on him. Eight alarm clocks were set to go off, one after the other, starting at 6.30 a.m. But when morning arrived, one clock was missing, and the prank had backfired with tragic consequences. For Jimmy Thesiger in particular, the words "seven dials" were to take on a new and chilling significance.

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 the police that Vole returned home late that night covered in blood. During the trial, Ms. French's housekeeper, Janet, gives damning evidence against Vole.

Three young women share a London flat. The first is a coolly efficient secretary. The second is an artist. The third interrupts Hercule Poirot's breakfast, confessing that she is a murderer - and then promptly disappears. Slowly, Poirot learns of the rumors surrounding the mysterious third girl, her family, and her disappearance. Yet hard evidence is needed before the great detective can pronounce her guilty, innocent, or insane.

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 ...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time in digital audio, performed by Christopher Lee. When wealthy spinster Emily French is found murdered, suspicion falls to 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 the police that Vole returned home late that night covered in blood.

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.

To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. But where exactly was the beginning? Was it the savage blow to the back of Father Gorman's head? Or was it when the priest's assailant searched him so roughly, he tore the clergyman's cassock? Or could it have been the priest's visit, just minutes before, to a woman on her deathbed? Or was there a deeper significance to the violent squabble that Mark Easterbrook had himself witnessed earlier?

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.

Miss Emily was old, rich, and afraid - and now, she's dead. Her terrified plea to Hercule Poirot came a little too late. All that's left is a house full of greedy heirs, and a very strange letter that could solve the mystery - or add to it.

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.

Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sits the corpse of Mrs.Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist is the only sign of the fatal injection that killed her. With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he'd overheard back in Jerusalem: "You see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?" Mrs. Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he'd ever met....