A routine passenger flight from Paris to London. Madame Giselle is silently murdered over the coffee …

The Rev. Stephen Babbington is not used to drinking cocktails. ‘I think that my wife would allow me to have one’ he says. And those were his last words …

Poirot, returning from Istanbul on the famous train - The Orient Express - meets the wealthy Mr Ratchett. That night Ratchett is murdered, stabbed many times …

When Bobby looks for the golf ball he has sent over the lip of the abyss what he finds is a dying man …

Jane Wilkinson, the beautiful Hollywood actress, says she wants her husband, Lord Edgware, 'bumped off'. He is found stabbed in his library...

Poirot has retired, when a bullet hits the terrace behind him: ‘if a bullet should strike the wall by my head, I would investigate. One is human after all.’ ...

The spirit at the séance spells out the message: 'Trevelyan is dead. Murder.' Captain Trevelyan is found dead, murdered, close to the time that the séance was taking place ...

When Colonel Protheroe is shot dead, Miss Marple can think of at least seven people who might be very glad to have him out of the way. But who pulled the trigger? ...

The start of this adventure feels more Wodehouse than Christie, but the mood changes when Gerry Wade never comes down to breakfast, ever again. ...

Hercule Poirot is on his way to the French Riviera taking the luxurious Blue Train. When the train arrives at Nice a woman is found dead her face disfigured almost beyond recognition ...