David Suchet

Sir George and Lady Stubbs decide to have a murder mystery party. They ask Ariadne Oliver to organise this for them and she calls in Hercule Poirot for some help when she feels something is ‘just not right'.

The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything – until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger, but in this exotic setting’ nothing is ever quite what it seems…

The body of the sun-loving Arlena Stuart is found stretched out on a beach, face down. Only, on this occasion, there was no sun… she had been strangled. Hercule Poirot detected sexual tension in the seaside air. Could this apparent ‘crime of passion’ have been something more evil and premeditated altogether?

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. Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer – in case he or she decides to strike again.

First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond… then came the ‘suicide’ that was murder… a suspicious death in a locked gun-room… a million dollar bond robbery… a jewel robbery by the sea… and, the mystery of the missing will. What links these fascinating cases? Only the brilliant deductive powers of Hercule Poirot!

Actor David Suchet recalls his experience of playing Agatha Christie's world-famous detective, Hercule Poirot, for almost a quarter of a century. He recounts how he set himself the task of presenting the most authentic Poirot that had ever been filmed.

Hercule Poirot turns back the clock to trace eighteen of the cases which helped establish his professional reputation. With his career still in its formative years, the panache with which Hercule Poirot could solve even the most puzzling mystery is obvious.

Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive and the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet one man still presumed Elinor was innocent until proven guilty: Hercule Poirot was all that stood between Elinor and the gallows…

The celebrated scholar and writer C S Lewis achieved great success in his life - yet to many he remained an engima, and until the age of sixty he remained a confirmed bachelor. Then he met Joy Davidman, an unconventional American divorcee. It was with her that Lewis truly found love and was drawn out of his shell. This is the story of their brief but incandescent love, its tragic end and a faith that endures beyond even the deepest grief.