検索キーワード： 著者 "Agatha Christie" すべてのカテゴリー

Hercule Poirot will eigentlich Kürbisse in einem kleinen, ruhigen Ort züchten und plötzlich sieht er sich mit zwei Leichen konfrontiert. Dass fast alle Einwohner bald unter Mordverdacht stehen, hält den belgischen Meisterdetektiv nicht davon ab, den Fall zu lösen.

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Agatha Christie’s darkly suspenseful psychological thriller. ‘Some are born to sweet delight/Some are born to endless night’ William Blake Agatha Christie wrote 'Endless Night' in 1967, and it is one of her greatest - and most unusual - novels. Creepy, malevolent and claustrophobic, it is a story about choices, the nature of good and evil, and grim retribution.

Mrs Packington felt alone, helpless, and utterly forlorn. But her life changed when she stumbled upon an advertisement in The Times which read: "ARE YOU HAPPY? IF NOT, CONSULT MR PARKER PYNE". Equally adept at putting together the pieces of a marriage or the fragments of a murder mystery, Mr Parker Pyne was possibly the world's most unconventional private eye, and certainly its most charming.

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

It is World War II, and while the RAF struggles to keep the Luftwaffe at bay, Britain faces an even more sinister threat from "the enemy within" - Nazis posing as ordinary citizens. With pressure mounting, the intelligence service appoints two unlikely spies, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Their mission: to seek out a man and a woman from among the colorful guests at Sans Souci, a seaside hotel. But this assignment is no stroll along the promenade - N and M have just murdered Britain's finest agent and no one at all can be trusted....

The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple, are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette that read: "A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6:30 p.m." Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, a crowd begins to gather at Little Paddocks at the appointed time when, without warning, the lights go out....

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation 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 she poisoned her husband and was in love with Roger Ackroyd. When he is found murdered the following day, there is little to go on. Luckily one of the newest residents who has retired to this normally quiet village is none other than Monsieur Hercule Poirot.

Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected, also, that someone had been blackmailing her. Then, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with a drug overdose. But the evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of information. Unfortunately, before he could finish reading the letter, he was stabbed to death.

Amy Leatheran had never felt the lure of the mysterious East, but when she travels to an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert to nurse the wife of a celebrated archaeologist, events prove stranger than she could ever have imagined. Her patient's bizarre visions and nervous terror seem unfounded, but as the oppressive tension in the air thickens, events come to a terrible climax in murder.

Mr Shaitana was famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he was a man of whom everybody was a little afraid. So, when he boasted to Poirot that he considered murder an art form, the detective had some reservations about accepting a party invitation to view Shaitana's private collection.

Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets—a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate-mail causes only a minor stir. But all that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs Symmington, commits suicide. Her final note said ‘I can't go on'. Only Miss Marple questions the coroner's verdict of suicide. Was this the work of a poison-pen? Or of a poisoner?

There's Rosemary, that's for remembrance. Published in 1945, "Sparkling Cyanide" is all about remembrance. It begins with six characters recalling the horrific death of Rosemary Barton, a beautiful but shallow young heiress poisoned by a cyanide-spiked glass of champagne whilst celebrating her birthday at a smart London restaurant.

There's a body in a trunk; a dead girl's reflection is caught in a mirror; and one corpse is back from the grave, while another is envisioned in the recurring nightmare of a terrified eccentric. What's behind such ghastly misdeeds? Try money, revenge, passion, and pleasure. With multiple motives, multiple victims, and multiple suspects, it's going to take a multitude of talent to solve these clever crimes. In this inviting collection, Agatha Christie enlists the services of her finest - Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Parker Pyne.

Three single girls shared the same London flat. The first worked as a secretary; the second was an artist; the third, who came to Poirot for help, disappeared, convinced she was a murderer. Now there were rumours of revolvers, flick-knives, and blood stains. But, without hard evidence, it would take all Poirot's tenacity to establish whether the third girl was guilty, innocent - or insane.

L'Orient Express, il mitico treno che collega Londra e Parigi con Istanbul, è bloccato nei Balcani da un'eccezionale nevicata. Durante questa sosta inattesa un efferato omicidio nel vagone Istanbul-Calais sconvolge la tranquilla routine dei viaggiatori. A bordo dell'Orient Express però c'è anche Hercule Poirot, il geniale e originale investigatore privato belga. Poirot dovrà usare tutta la sua arguzia e le sue eccellenti doti investigative per scoprire l'assassino e risolvere uno dei suoi casi più celebri.

Per gli amanti di Agatha Christie "Poirot a Styles Court" è un vero e proprio cult che ha ben due primati: è il suo primo romanzo giallo, e per la prima volta fa la sua comparsa Hercule Poirot, il suo personaggio più famoso, l'investigatore belga più arguto del mondo. La Christie ambienta la vicenda in un'elegante residenza di campagna dell'Essex, durante gli anni bui della prima guerra mondiale. Emily Inglethorp, la ricca padrona di casa viene trovata agonizzante nel suo letto.

Als Michael Rogers auf das Anwesen "Gipsy"s Acre" stößt, fühlt er sich sofort von dem Ort angezogen. Er erfährt von Einheimischen, dass ein Fluch auf dem Anwesen liegt. Er würde es aber dennoch gerne kaufen, leider hat er nicht die finanziellen Möglichkeiten. Bei einer Auktion auf dem Anwesen lernt er die reiche Waise Ellie Guteman kennen, sie verlieben sich und heiraten kurz darauf. Kurz nachdem sie in ihr Traumhaus auf dem Anwesen gezogen sind, müssen sie feststellen, dass die Zigeunerin, die sie gewarnt hat in das verfluchte Haus zu ziehen nicht so ganz unrecht hatte.

Der allseits unbeliebte Colonel Protheroe wird ermordet und seine Leiche ausgerechnet im Pfarrhaus gefunden. Nur Miss Marple kann den Mörder dingfest machen und wieder Ruhe in St. Mary Mead einkehren lassen.

Polina Nazarova is a soprano whose past is dangerously entangled with the present. Given the opportunity to sing her Tosca opposite the arrogant and cruel Andre Breon, it seems that her desire for revenge may prove irresistible.

A grand treasure for fans of the grande dame of mystery, The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories brings together nine rare and brilliant Christie tales of murder and detection that span nearly half a century of her storytelling genius. In "The Mystery of the Spanish Chest," Hercule Poirot unravels the psychological conundrums that motivate a killer.... In "The Actress," a great star's shady past becomes the plaything of a blackmailer.... In "The Harlequin Tea Set," Mr. Harley Quin helps a man save his loved ones from the greedy hand of murder.