Stories: The Labours of Hercules

Before retirement, Poirot takes on the twelve labours of his namesake, each one a new mystery to be solved across Europe. This collection includes 12 short stories.

Stories: The Monogram Murders

Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffee house is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified, but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done.

Stories: Black Coffee - Play

A physicist dies after consuming a poisoned beverage. Enter Hercule Poirot, one of Christie’s most beloved sleuths, to solve the mystery.

Stories: Closed Casket

Lady Athelinda Playford has planned a house party at her mansion in Clonakilty, County Cork, but it is no ordinary gathering. As guests arrive, Lady Playford summons her lawyer to make an urgent change to her will – one she intends to announce at dinner that night. She has decided to cut off her two children without a penny and leave her fortune to someone who has only weeks to live.

Among Lady Playford’s guests are two men she has never met – the famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, and Inspector Edward Catchpool of Scotland Yard. Neither knows why he has been invited . . . until Poirot starts to wonder if Lady Playford expects a murderer to strike. But why does she seem so determined to provoke, in the presence of a possible killer?

When the crime is committed in spite of Poirot’s best efforts to stop it, and the victim is not who he expected it to be, will he be able to find the culprit and solve the mystery?

Stories: Murder in the Studio

A collection of three radio plays including a Poirot story for live performance comprising Personal Call, Yellow Iris and Butter in a Lordly Dish.

Stories: Rule of Thumb - Play

A triple bill of short, contrasting plays comprising of The Wasp's Nest, The Rats and The Patient.

Landing pages: David Suchet

Stories: Murder in the Mews

Hercule Poirot is faced with four mystifying cases - each a miniature classic of characterisation, incident and suspense.

How did a woman holding a pistol in her right hand manage to shoot herself in the left temple? What was the link between a ghost sighting and the disappearance of top secret military plans? How did the bullet that killed Sir Gervase shatter a mirror in another part of the room? And should the beautiful Valentine Chantry flee for her life from the holiday island of Rhodes?

Stories: While the Lights Lasts

Some of Agatha Christie’s earliest stories – including her very first – which show the Queen of Crime in the making…

News: The Killings at Kingfisher Hill: An Extract

Discover an extract from the latest Sophie Hannah Poirot novel, The Killings at Kingfisher Hill