Characters: Harley Quin

A strange trick of the light? Or a figment of the imagination? The mysterious Mr Quin appears to his friend Mr Satterthwaite at just the right moment to aid him in solving crimes, often with carefully worded but apparently random observations that provide insight into a problem.

Characters: Tommy & Tuppence

The two young sleuths who, jobless and restless after the end of World War I, set up the Young Adventurers Ltd and consequently get mixed up with thefts, murders and international spies. The only characters in the Christie canon to age and live their lives in real time.

Characters: Parker Pyne

Parker Pyne is not really a detective at all. In fact, he specialises in detecting and curing unhappiness in the discontented and guilt-ridden. Assisting the lovelorn, he considers himself a “heart specialist”.

Characters: The Creation of Hercule Poirot

Characters: Facts About Hercule Poirot

Characters: Past Poirot Portrayals

Characters: Timeline of Poirot Portrayals

Characters: Great Moments of Poirot's Moustache

Stories: Dumb Witness

An elderly spinster has been poisoned in her country home. Everyone blamed Emily’s accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her. On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously he didn’t receive the letter until June 28th… by which time Emily was already dead.

Stories: Elephants Can Remember

Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. For here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident – the broken body of a woman was discovered on the rocks at the foot of the cliff. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two more bodies – a husband and wife – shot dead. But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder? Poirot delves back into a crime committed 15 years earlier and discovers that, when there is a distinct lack of physical evidence, it’s just as well that ‘old sins leave long shadows.'