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Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, read by the inimitable Dan Stevens. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer - in case he or she decides to strike again.

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.

In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet, reasoned the detective, like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters. So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Poirot made up his mind to accept just 12 more cases: his self-imposed "labours". Each would go down in the annals of crime as a heroic feat of deduction.

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...

Hercule Poirot befindet sich eigentlich auf der Durchreise in Bagdad, als er sich bereit erklärt, die Ermittlungen in einem komplizierten Mordfall zu übernehmen. Mrs Leidner, die Ehefrau eines Archäologen, wurde ermordet. Aus ihrem Tod ergeben sich Fragen, vor denen selbst die kleinen grauen Zellen des Meisterdetektivs scheinbar kapitulieren. Musste sie sterben, damit ein Mörder unerkannt bleibt? Poirot hat zwar viele Theorien, aber keine Beweise - bis er beinahe über ein Motiv stolpert.

Diese Hörspiele garantieren allerbeste Krimiunterhaltung: Acht spannende Fälle nach Erzählungen der Queen of Crime...

Wo Rauch ist, ist auch Feuer. Dieser Ansicht sind zumindest die Bewohner des Provinznestes Lymstock, als anonyme Verleumdungsbriefe im Dorf kursieren...

Sir Claud Amory's formula for a powerful new explosive has been stolen, presumably by a member of his large household. Sir Claud assembles his suspects in the library and locks the door, instructing them that the when the lights go out, the formula must be replaced on the table - and no questions will be asked. But when the lights come on, Sir Claud is dead. Now Hercule Poirot, assisted by Captain Hastings and Inspector Japp, must unravel a tangle of family feuds, old flames, and suspicious foreigners to find the killer and prevent a global catastrophe.

The gruesome death of Mrs McGinty provokes Superintendent Spence to seek the help of his old ally Hercule Poirot. The victim’s young lodger has been found guilty and is due to hang. But Spence is not convinced by the circumstantial evidence which influenced the verdict. So, at considerable personal discomfort, Poirot goes down to the sleepy village where the old lady lived and where, by chance, his good friend Ariadne Oliver is also staying.

Weihnachtliche Spannung mit Poirot & Co.: Ob Hercule Poirot am Kaminfeuer seinem Freund Hastings vom einzigen ungelösten Fall seiner Karriere erzählt, Edward Robinson noch vor Weihnachten ein wertvolles Brillantarmband loswerden muss oder Mr. Quin am Silvesterabend das Rätsel um einen lange zurückliegenden Selbstmord löst - es geht doch nichts über gepflegte englische Krimi-Unterhaltung in der kalten Jahreszeit.

Ein Mörder unter den Gästen! Molly und Giles Davis, Besitzer einer gerade eröffneten Pension, beherbergen einen eiskalten Verbrecher...

Derjenige, der Oberst Protheroe ins Jenseits beförderte, würde der Welt einen großen Dienst erweisen. Das sagt sogar der Pfarrer! Als der Oberst tatsächlich ermordet wird, haben dennoch eine ganze Menge Leute ein handfestes Alibi. Da kann nur Miss Marple dem trickreichen Mörder auf die Spur kommen.

Following an otherwise-enjoyable literary luncheon, the celebrated crime novelist Ariadne Oliver is accosted by a particularly formidable woman who engages her in conversation about one of her many god-daughters, whom Ariadne hasn’t seen since she was a child. She lands a bombshell with the question ‘What I want to know is this: did her mother kill her father, or was it the father who killed the mother?’

Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper, so the other houseguests 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 then backfired, with tragic consequences. For Jimmy Thesiger in particular, the words "Seven Dials" were to take on a new and chilling significance....

June Whitfield returns as the deceptively mild spinster sleuth in three full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisations. Specially broadcast to mark the 125th anniversary of Agatha Christie's birth, these brand new dramas are based on three of her best short stories.

When a number of leading scientists disappear without a trace, concern grows within the international intelligence community. And the one woman who appears to hold the key to the mystery is dying from injuries sustained in a plane crash. Meanwhile, in a Casablanca hotel room, Hilary Craven prepares to take her own life. But her suicide attempt is about to be interrupted by a man who will offer her an altogether more thrilling way to die....