Jacko is convicted of his mother's murder and dies in prison. Two years later, a stranger arrives to confirm Jacko's disbelieved alibi. But if Jacko wasn't guilty, who is? Each family member becomes detective, suspect, and potential v...

Another term has begun at Meadowbank, a prestigious, well-respected British girls' school. The indomitable headmistress is preparing to retire and name her successor. There is a disconcertingly mature Middle Eastern princess among the...

A man returns from the dead, and the body of a mysterious stranger is found in his room! A few weeks after marrying an attractive young widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the for...

"The murderer is with us–on the train now . . ." Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, st...

Evidence that clears the name of a boy sentenced for killing his adopted mother arrives too late to save his life - so who did kill her? Dr. Arthur Calgary takes a ferry across the Rubicon River to Sunny Point, the home of the Argyle...

A BBC Radio full-cast dramatization starring John Moffatt as the great Belgian detective. Alice Ascher is murdered at Andover. Betty Barnard is strangled at Bexhill-on-Sea. Each time, an ABC railway guide is found by the dead bodies a...

The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense—creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characte...

A BBC Radio full-cast dramatization starring June Whitfield as Miss Marple. Recuperating from a flying accident, Jerry Burton needs to take a break somewhere peaceful. He and his sister rent a house in the little village of Lymstock, ...

In this intricate mystery first published in 1937, Poirot receives a letter — two months after it was written — from rich spinster Emily Arundell about a possible attempt on her life. Suspicious, Poirot heads for her homet...

Mystery writer Ariadne Oliver visits Woodleigh Common for a Hallowe'en party and meets a young woman known for telling tall tales of murder and intrigue. When she is found drowned in an apple-bobbing tub, Ariadne wonders just how tall...

Chales Osborne's novelization of the play by Agatha Christie gives her hungry fans another classic drawing-room mystery. This one revolves around a diplomat's wife who discovers a body in her drawing room just before her husband is d...

Young, beautiful, and rich, Linnet Doyle sparks the interest of Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot when she and her new husband take a cruise on the same ship as he, and he senses trouble in paradise. Read by David Suchet. Book available.

Agatha Christie's genius for detective fiction is unparalleled. Her worldwide popularity is phenomenal, her characters engaging, her plots spellbinding. No one knows the human heart--or the dark passions that can stop it--better than ...

When a man collapses at Poirot's door, he implicates a vicious international organization called the Big Four. Left in the care of Poirot's landlady, the man dies, and the dapper sleuth realizes this crime may be a deadly diversion. P...

A collection of short stories featuring the redoubtable 'heart specialist', Parker Pyne. This volume, in its contemporary Agatha Christie Collection livery, perfectly illustrates Agatha Christie's critically acclaimed foray into light...

A collection of Christie's best short stories--all unabridged! Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and a host of other sleuths crack cases of all stripes in this exciting collection of Christie's short story mysteries. Includes: Four and Twe...

Full of energy and short of funds, old chums Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley decide to form the 'Young Adventurers,' and advertise themselves as willing to 'go anywhere and do anything.' Asked by a British Intelligence official to...

When Richard Abernethie, the master of Enderby Hall, dies his heirs assemble at the vast Victorian mansion to hear the reading of the will. It is then that Cora, Abernethie's sister, comes out with an alarming proposal: "But he w...

The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense—creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characte...

Hercule Poirot receives a letter from a rich, elderly spinster, Miss Emily Arundell. She is clearly in great distress, but doesn't say why. Poirot persuades Captain Hastings that they must visit the lady with all haste. On arrival, th...

Hercule Poirot is determined to solve an old husband and wife double murder that is still an open verdict...Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. For here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident -- the broken body of a ...

A BBC Radio full-cast dramatization starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot. Mrs. Farrars is found dead of an apparent overdose one year after the death of her husband. The villagers of King's Abbot are suspicious. The rumour is that ...

Spinster sleuth Miss Jane Marple goes on holiday in the West Indies for a much-deserved reprieve from the steady stream of dead bodies that seems to dog her every step. Then one of her fellow vacationers is found dead, and Miss Marple...

The curious disappearance of Lord Listerdale, a newlywed's fear of her ex-fiance, a strange encounter on a train, and a wild man's sudden personality change are just some of the twelve stories offered in this collection. Read by Hugh ...

Poirot arrives for dinner at the country estate of the imperious Sir Gervase Chevenix-Gore to find his host in his study, shot dead. The room is locked, making it appear a suicide, but Poirot is skeptical. When the will is read, the s...

So pleasant in fact, she was the Anthony Award Winner for Best Series of the Century. Here she solves a crime that not only has no body, no weapon, and no suspects, but no evidence that a crime has even been committed. All Miss Marple...

A BBC Radio full-cast dramatization starring Peter Sallis as the great Belgian detective. Tyrannical millionaire Simeon Lee has been estranged from most of his family for years. But now, on Christmas Eve, the old man calls them all to...

John Moffatt stars as the great Belgian detective in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatization. "Monsieur Poirot, somehow or other I've just got to get rid of my husband!" No sooner had she uttered the words than Lady Edgware's...

"The murderer is with us—on the train now . . ."Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabb...

Back in print in an all-new edition, is the engaging and illuminating chronicle of the life of the "Queen of Mystery." Fans of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple and readers of John Curran's fascinating biographies IAgatha Chri...