Poirot Score

‘Our new schoolmistress went to wind up the clock and a frog jumped out’ says Miss Marple in explanation of why Ruby Keene’s body is in Colonel Bantry’s library …

‘How well do you know Bletchley?’ This phrase in a book written in 1939 about spies, code-cracking and fifth columnists got Christie and Professor Sir Dilly Knox, at Bletchley Park, into hot water…

When Arlena Marshall arrives on the island even Hercule Poirot appreciates her beauty. When tragedy strikes, however, Poirot cannot let his emotions cloud his intellect. He must suspect everyone.

It was like a kaleidoscope – shoe buckles, 10-inch stockings, a damaged face .. settled themselves down into a coherent pattern. For the first time, Hercule Poirot was looking at the case the…

Elinor Katharine Carlisle. You stand charged upon this indictment with murder......Can Poirot save her?

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‘Do you mean there have been several murders?’ asks Luke Fitwilliam incredulously. The quiet gentle voice replied ‘A good many, I’m afraid. …

‘It is then, your opinion that Christmas is an unlikely season for crime?’ Poirot asks the Chief Constable. ‘That’s what I said’ comes the reply. And then the phone rings …

‘You do see, don’t you, that she’s got to be killed?’ These are the opening words of this novel – words that Hercule Poirot overhears on his first night in Jerusalem ...

Linnet Ridgeway is the golden girl, who has everything: wealth, beauty and a handsome husband who adores her. On her honeymoon she is murdered. Who could possibly want her dead?........