Agatha Christie
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Three episodes of the impeccably turned-out diminutive Belgian sleuth. With the his razor sharp mind and the aid of the affabel Captain Hastings, Poirot unravels the thorniest cases without mussing a hair of his famously sculpted mustache. Set in the elegance 1930's England, the series also includes Chief Inspector Japp and Miss Lemon.
Publisher
Distributed exclusively by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Three act tragedy: While visiting the Cornish coast, Poirot attends a dinner where one of the guests suddenly dies. The clocks: A pretty secretary arrives at a residence for a temporary typing job, only to find a man's corpse on the floor. But why are there four strange clocks in the room? Hallowe'en party: A children's party turns into the murder of 13-year-old Joyce Reynolds, who had boasted of witnessing a murder a few years before.
Publisher
A&E
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
When Linnet Doyle, the richest woman in London, steals and marries her best friend's fiancé, the best friend gets her revenge by hounding the newlyweds throughout their honeymoon. A subsequent pleasure cruise down the River Nile turns deadlly when the widely despised Mrs. Doyle is found murdered in bed.
28) Five little pigs
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Fourteen years after the wife of the renowned painter Amyas Crale was sent to the gallows for poisoning her husband, their daughter Lucy returns from Canada. Lucy carries with her a letter that suggests that her mother might have been innocent. Poirot agrees to dig up the past, but he warns Lucy that she may not like what he finds.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"When the businessman Gordon Cloade is killed during the London blitz, his extensive fortune is left to his young widow, Rosaleen. Not willing to risk losing the entire family fortune to an outsider, the Cloade family attempts to recoup their money by claiming Rosaleen's first husband is still alive. But the mystery deepens when a man who just may be the husband turns up dead, and Poirot is left to solve this baffling case"--Container.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Belgium sleuth Hercule Poirot untangles a baffling mystery of a murderer who announces his next victims through a series of letters each addressed to the the detective himself.
After a stay at the Ritz in Paris, Poirot is flying home to London when a fellow passenger succumbs mysteriously. A ruthless blackmailer is killed on board a plane full of likely suspects. Unfortunately for the culprit, Belgium sleuth Hercule Poirot is also on board.
While...
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"Richard Abernathie, head of the dysfunctional Abernathie clan, died a natural death--or so his family believes. But his sister, Cora, drops a bombshell--she believes Richard was murdered. Poirot is summoned to look into Cora's charges, but his investigation is interrupted by yet another bombshell--Cora is herself brutally murdered, leaving Poirot with two murder cases on his hands"--Container.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Belgium sleuth Hercule Poirot untangles a baffling mystery of a murderer who announces his next victims through a series of letters each addressed to the the detective himself.
After a stay at the Ritz in Paris, Poirot is flying home to London when a fellow passenger succumbs mysteriously. A ruthless blackmailer is killed on board a plane full of likely suspects. Unfortunately for the culprit, Belgium sleuth Hercule Poirot is also on board.
While...
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"One of London's richest and most mysterious men, Mr. Shaitana, invites Poirot, the crime writer Ariadne Oliver, two of Poirot's fellow sleuths, and several others to his sumptuous apartment for dinner and bridge. But the evening takes a deadly turn when the host is found stabbed through the heart and the four sleuths must find the killer among them"--Container.
37) The hollow
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
When Lucy Angkatell hosts a weekend get-together at her country estate, she appears to overlook the obvious fact that all her guests loathe one another. Poirot enjoys a ringside seat for the bizarre goings-on, but he is thrust into an active role when the proceedings suddenly turn deadly.
38) Sad cypress
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Elinor Carlisle has been accused of killing her wealthy Aunt and a rival in love. When Poirot comes to the case he quickly finds motive, opportunity and means for Elinor to have done the double murder. But a tidy package is not enough to satisfy Poirot's curiosity, and he eventually pieces together an entirely different picture of what really happened in a case that appeared to be cut and dried.
40) Miss Marple
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2002, c1984
Language
English
Description
A body in the library: Miss Jane Marple investigates the murder of a young woman whose body is found in the library at Gossington Hall, home of Colonel and Mrs. Arthur Bantry.
A murder is annouced: Miss Marple is vacationing in a quiet little village when the local newspaper runs an advirtisement for an upcoming murder. One week later, when the murder occurs, the elderly sleuth must find the killer.
A pocketful of rye: Miss Marple gets to the bottom...