Poirot Score

‘Dr Pauncefoot Jones greeted his colleague.. ‘Hallo Richard my boy, so you’ve turned up. I had an idea you were arriving on Tuesday. I don’t know why.’ ‘This is Tuesday,’ said Richard.

‘A murder will take place on Friday at Little Paddocks at 6.30pm.’ …

The hero, Charles Hayward is in love with Sophia Leonides. But Aristide Leonides, the patriarch of the family, has been murdered. And Sophia is a suspect. …

‘You’re a foreigner.’..you should all Go Back..That’s what we fought the war for..so people could go back to their proper places and stay there.’

‘Oh wait, Mother, wait, I’m telling Daddy’s fortune. Just the last card, Daddy – the most important of all.’ …

Sparkling cyanide: a simple cocktail. Champagne, a good House from a good year, such as Cliquot 1928. Add a little potassium cyanide, just enough for a sip or two to be fatal. …

‘And what are men anyway? They are necessary to breed children, that is all. But the strength of the race is in women. It is we, Renisenb, who hand down to our children…

’I like a good detective story but they begin in the wrong place! They begin with the murder. But the murder is the end. The story begins long before that - years before…

Caroline Crale died in prison, convicted of the murder of her husband, Amyas. Fifteen years later, Poirot is set the impossible task of proving her innocence by reviving memories of things past.

Miss Marple believes the apparent suicide was murder. To catch the murderer she proposes to set a trap …