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: The Thirteen Problems

The Tuesday Night Club is a venue where locals challenge Miss Marple to solve recent crimes. One Tuesday evening a group gathers at Miss Marple’s house and the conversation turns to unsolved crimes. The case of the disappearing bloodstains; the thief who committed his crime twice over; the message on the death-bed of a poisoned man which read ‘heap of fish’; the strange case of the invisible will; a spiritualist who warned that ‘Blue Geranium’ meant death. Now pit your wits against the powers of deduction of the ‘Tuesday Night Club’.

Stories: Agatha Christie's Complete Secret Notebooks

Combined into one definitive volume, this fully revised and updated edition of the award-winning Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks and Murder in the Making explores the techniques used to surprise and entertain generations of readers. With a wealth of unpublished material, including early versions of four complete short stories, it gives new insight into the Queen of Crime's creative genius.

Stories: Poirot and the Regatta Mystery

A diamond merchant and his party step off their yacht to enjoy the festivities at shore. But when the youngest member of the party, Eve Leathern, decides to play a trick with a £30,000 diamond named The Morning Star, the fun suddenly escalates into a dramatic jewel theft. The most suspected member of the party begs Hercule Poirot to solve the disappearance of the valuable gem, pleading that he is not the thief. But if he isn’t, who is?

Stories: Afternoon at the Seaside - Play

A whimsical day by the sea in a British resort. An emerald necklace has been stolen and the Inspector has to investigate an extraordinary mix of characters.

Stories: Butter in a Lordly Dish - Play

A tense one act thriller that’s contains one of Christie’s most gruesome murders.

Stories: The Secret of Chimneys - Play

A young drifter finds himself at the centre of a murderous international conspiracy after agreeing to deliver a parcel to a country estate.

Stories: A Daughter's A Daughter - Play

The love between a mother and daughter turns to jealousy and bitterness in this intense and personal drama.

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.