- Rating: 8.60
- Year of issue: 1989
- Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama, Mystery
- Countries: United Kingdom
- Duration: 72 minutes
The cases of an eccentrically refined Belgian detective.
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1. The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
DescriptionPoirot probes the disappearance of a wealthy woman's cook, and soon uncovers an elaborate plot to hide an ever darker crime. -
2. Murder in the Mews
DescriptionWhen a woman is found shot in her flat after Bonfire Night, Poirot is enlisted to decipher whether the victim died by her own hand, or by someone else's. -
3. The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly
DescriptionPoirot tries to prevent the kidnapping of a country squire's son. While his plan fails, all is not what it seems. -
4. Four and Twenty Blackbirds
DescriptionWhen a reclusive painter is found dead, Poirot finds the vital clue in the dead man's last meal. -
5. The Third Floor Flat
DescriptionPoirot investigates a murder that hits close to home after the new occupant of a flat two floors below his is found shot. -
6. Triangle at Rhodes
DescriptionAn enchanting beauty is fatally poisoned while Poirot holidays on the Greek island of Rhodes. -
7. Problem at Sea
DescriptionPoirot's Mediterranean cruise is disrupted when an unlikeable passenger is found murdered in her stateroom. -
8. The Incredible Theft
DescriptionA wealthy industrialist's plan to snare a Nazi sympathizer goes awry when the secret plans for a new fighter plane inexplicably go missing. -
9. The King of Clubs
DescriptionA deck with a missing card provides Poirot with the clue he needs to solve the murder of the tyrannical head of a movie studio. -
10. The Dream
DescriptionA famous pie manufacturer tells Poirot that he has dreamt of his own suicide, then dies under the same circumstances he dreamt about the very next day.
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1. Peril at End House
DescriptionWhile Poirot is staying at an exclusive Cornish resort, he meets a beautiful heiress whose life is in danger. -
2. The Veiled Lady
DescriptionPoirot becomes a criminal himself when he agrees to help a beautiful woman recover a letter written in her youth that is being used to blackmail her. -
3. The Lost Mine
DescriptionWhen a Chinese businessman with a map to a long lost silver mine is found dead in Chinatown, Poirot must find the map and killer. -
4. The Cornish Mystery
DescriptionAlice Pengelley visits Poirot in London, telling him she thinks she is being poisoned by her husband. When Poirot arrives in Cornwall the next day to investigate Mrs. Pengelley's charges, he is too late, and finds her dead. -
5. The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim
DescriptionPoirot wagers Chief Inspector Japp that he can solve the mystery of a missing banker without leaving his flat. -
6. Double Sin
DescriptionA young woman is delivering a set of antique Napoleon miniatures to an American collector when they are stolen from her suitcase. Captain Hastings, under Poirot's guidance, sets out to find the thief. -
7. The Adventure of the Cheap Flat
DescriptionWhen U.S. Navy plans for a new submarine are stolen and the thief tracked to London, the FBI sends an agent to work with Inspector Japp to recover them. -
8. The Kidnapped Prime Minister
DescriptionWhen the prime minister is kidnapped right before an important international arms summit, Poirot has just 32–and a quarter–hours to find the prime minister. -
9. The Adventure of the Western Star
DescriptionAfter receiving threatening letters, an aristocrat is robbed of her famed diamond in front of Poirot's eyes.
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1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
DescriptionHastings renews his friendship with Poirot and involves him in the mysterious poisoning of the mistress of a manor house married to a man twenty years her junior. -
2. How Does Your Garden Grow?
DescriptionAt a flower show, an older woman in a wheelchair approaches Poirot, gives him an empty seed packet, and asks him to visit her the next day. When Poirot arrives the next day, the woman is dead, murdered with poison. -
3. The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
DescriptionPoirot is entrusted with transferring $1 million in Liberty Bonds to America on the Queen Mary, but the bonds are cleverly stolen anyway. -
4. The Plymouth Express
DescriptionA mining entrepreneur hires Poirot to solve the brutal murder of his daughter and the theft of her jewels aboard the express train to Plymouth -
5. Wasps' Nest
DescriptionPoirot realizes that a murder is being plotted, and with the help of Hastings' latest hobby, he sets out to prevent it. -
6. The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor
DescriptionPoirot is drawn into a case where a man is found dead on the grounds of his estate, apparently frightened to death by the spirits that haunt it. -
7. The Double Clue
DescriptionPoirot helps Chief Inspector Japp try to find a jewel thief, but is sidetracked when a bewitching Russian countess arrives on the scene. -
8. The Mystery of the Spanish Chest
DescriptionPoirot is asked to protect a woman from her violent husband, but events take a turn when the husband soon becomes the victim of a gruesome murder. -
9. The Theft of the Royal Ruby
DescriptionPoirot reluctantly agrees to help an Egyptian prince recover a valuable royal ruby that was brazenly stolen from him during the Christmas holidays. -
10. The Affair at the Victory Ball
DescriptionPoirot and Hastings attend the Victory Ball, a popular costume party. During the festivities, one of the guests is found stabbed to death, and another succumbs to a drug overdose the next day. -
11. The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge
DescriptionPoirot is taken ill during a weekend shooting party, which ends when the unpopular host is found murdered in his study.
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1. The ABC Murders
DescriptionPoirot receives clues and taunting letters from a serial killer who appears to choose his random victims and crime scenes alphabetically. -
2. Death in the Clouds
DescriptionWhile Poirot sleeps on an airplane flight from Paris to London, a notorious French moneylender is murdered with a poisoned dart. -
3. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
DescriptionAfter Poirot pays a routine visit to his dentist, the doctor apparently shoots himself to death a short time later. Chief Inspector Japp appropriately recruits the detective as both witness and consultant.
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1. The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb
DescriptionShortly after opening an ancient Egyptian tomb, members of an English-American museum expedition start dropping off like flies. Can it truly be the Pharaoh's curse? Poirot travels to Egypt to unravel the mystery. -
2. The Underdog
DescriptionPoirot investigates when the cruel CEO of a chemical company is bludgeoned to death in his home after the company's formula for a revolutionary new synthetic rubber is targeted by a thief. -
3. The Yellow Iris
DescriptionA man celebrates the two-year anniversary of his wife's sudden death by cyanide while in Argentina - a death which Poirot himself had witnessed, but could not solve at the time. -
4. The Case of the Missing Will
DescriptionA terminally ill man asks Poirot to be executor of his new will but is murdered before he can write it, and it is later discovered the old will has been stolen. -
5. The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman
DescriptionPoirot investigates the murder of an Italian count who was also the employer of Miss Lemon's new boyfriend. He soon learns that the victim was being targeted by a blackmailer. -
6. The Chocolate Box
DescriptionWhile in Belgium, Poirot relates to Chief Inspector Japp a case from his early days in the Belgian police force that nearly eluded the brilliance of his ‘little grey cells.’ -
7. Dead Man's Mirror
DescriptionAn obnoxious man who outbid Poirot at an auction for an antique mirror is murdered after seeking Poirot's assistance to look into the dealings of his business associate. -
8. Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan
DescriptionWhile Poirot vacations in Brighton to boost his health, the beautiful pearl necklace of a theatre actress staying at his hotel is mysteriously stolen.
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1. Hercule Poirot's Christmas
DescriptionThe tyrannical patriarch of a dysfunctional but wealthy family summons his adult children for a Christmas reunion, but prior to the holiday his throat is slashed apparently by one of them. -
2. Hickory Dickory Dock
DescriptionMiss Lemon persuades Poirot to investigate a series of apparently minor thefts in a university hostel, but simple kleptomania soon turns to baffling homicide. -
3. Murder on the Links
DescriptionWhile Poirot and Hastings are holidaying in France, a businessman tells Poirot that his life is in danger. The next day he is found stabbed to death on a nearby golf course. -
4. Dumb Witness
DescriptionAn elderly woman confides to Poirot that she fears one of her relatives is trying to kill her for her money. He persuades her to disinherit her heirs, but she is murdered anyway.
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1. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
DescriptionPoirot comes out of retirement when his industrialist friend is brutally murdered a short while after a local widow who was suspected of killing her husband commits suicide. -
2. Lord Edgware Dies
DescriptionA beautiful actress becomes the prime suspect in the murder of her tyrannical husband - except that she has a cast-iron alibi for the night of the crime.
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1. Evil Under the Sun
DescriptionPoirot's rehabilitative health retreat on an island resort becomes an even more stimulating mental exercise when a flirtatious film star is found strangled on a nearby beach. -
2. Murder in Mesopotamia
DescriptionWhile Poirot is on holiday in Iraq, the wife of the head scientist at an archaeological dig confides to him that she is the target of threatening letters.
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1. Five Little Pigs
DescriptionLucy Crale enlists Poirot to investigate the fourteen-year-old murder case in which her mother was hanged for poisoning her philandering painter father. -
2. Sad Cypress
DescriptionElinor Carlisle seems to be the obvious murderer of her ailing aunt and the beautiful romantic rival who broke up her engagement, but Poirot uncovers darker motives. -
3. Death on the Nile
DescriptionA wealthy British heiress honeymooning on a Nile cruise ship is stalked by a former friend, whose boyfriend she had stolen before making him her new husband. -
4. The Hollow
DescriptionPoirot stumbles on the murder scene of philandering Dr. John Christow at a country estate as his mistress, his hostess, and his wife (with a revolver) stand over him.
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1. The Mystery of the Blue Train
DescriptionPoirot investigates the brutal hammer murder of Ruth Kettering, an American heiress and the theft of a fabulous ruby on the Blue Train between Calais and Nice. -
2. Cards on the Table
DescriptionThe enigmatic, sinister Mr. Shaitana, one of London's richest men, invites 8 guests, 4 of them possible murderers and 4 ‘detectives’ to his opulent apartment. -
3. After the Funeral
DescriptionWhen a man disinherits his sole beneficiary and bequeaths his wealth to others just prior to his death, Poirot is called in to investigate. -
4. Taken at the Flood
DescriptionA young widow is left in sole possession of her late husband's fortune, and her brother refuses to share it with her in-laws - so they enlist Poirot to try to prove that the widow's missing first husband might not be dead after all.
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1. Mrs McGinty's Dead
DescriptionA pair of photographs are the only clues that Poirot has to solve the murder of a village charwoman, and to prove the innocence of the victim's lodger. -
2. Cat Among the Pigeons
DescriptionA foreign revolution, a kidnapped princess, and a trove of priceless rubies are linked to a prestigious girls' school, where staff members are brutally murdered. -
3. Third Girl
DescriptionAfter a seemingly neurotic young heiress tells Ariadne Oliver and Poirot that she thinks she may have killed someone, her ex-nanny is found with her wrists slashed. -
4. Appointment with Death
DescriptionWhile accompanying her husband on an archaeological dig in 1937 Syria, overbearing, abusive Lady Boynton is found stabbed to death.
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1. The Clocks
DescriptionFour clocks surround an unidentified corpse in a blind woman's house, and a young typist is summoned to the crime scene. However, Poirot is convinced that the complicated setup is merely hiding a simpler solution. -
2. Three Act Tragedy
DescriptionPoirot attends a party at the great actor Sir Charles Cartwright's Cornish mansion. A local reverend dies while drinking a cocktail, but no poison is found in his glass. Poirot and Cartwright decide to investigate when another victim is claimed in the same manner. -
3. Hallowe'en Party
DescriptionDuring a village's Hallowe'en party, a young girl boasts of having witnessed a murder from years before. No one believes her tale until her body is found later on in the evening, drowned in the apple-bobbing bucket. -
4. Murder on the Orient Express
DescriptionPoirot investigates the murder of a shady American businessman stabbed in his compartment on the Orient Express when it is blocked by a blizzard in Croatia.
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1. Elephants Can Remember
DescriptionWhile Poirot investigates the murder of a renowned psychiatrist, Ariadne Oliver becomes an amateur sleuth of her own when her goddaughter tasks her to find out the truth about the nature of her parents' mysterious deaths. -
2. The Big Four
DescriptionAs the threat of world war looms large, Poirot seeks the help of friends both old and new when he is pitted against a dangerous group of dissidents responsible for a series of violent murders. -
3. Dead Man's Folly
DescriptionAriadne Oliver is asked to devise a murder hunt for a Devon fête, but her sense of foreboding summons Poirot to the scene. Her fears are realized when, during the fête, the girl playing her murder victim winds up well and truly murdered. -
4. The Labours of Hercules
DescriptionPoirot's pursuit of an infamous art thief leads him to a snowbound hotel in the Swiss Alps, where he is met with a plethora of mysteries and the reappearance of a familiar face from the past. -
5. Curtain: Poirot's Last Case
DescriptionAn ailing Poirot returns to Styles with Hastings nearly three decades after solving their first mystery together there in order to prevent an unscrupulous and ingenious serial killer from claiming more victims.