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Miss Marple, Agatha Christie’s deceptively mild spinster sleuth, is being treated to a few days’ holiday by her niece, staying at Bertram’s Hotel, a dignified, unostentatious establishment tucked away in a back street of busy Mayfair. Here is a place where sedate upper class ladies, retired military gentlemen and the higher echelons of the clergy can indulge in the comforts of a bygone age. But Miss Marple begins to feel uneasy. Something sinister lurks beneath the polished veneer.

First, the mystery man in the church with a bullet-wound. Then, the riddle of a dead man's buried treasure...the curious conduct of a caretaker after a fatal riding accident...the corpse and a tape-measure...the girl framed for theft...and the suspect accused of stabbing his wife with a dagger. Here are six gripping cases with one thing in common: the astonishing deductive powers of Miss Marple.

Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper, so the other house guests decided to play a practical joke on him. Eight alarm clocks were set to go off, one after the other, starting at 6.30 a.m. But when morning arrived, one clock was missing, and the prank had backfired with tragic consequences. For Jimmy Thesiger in particular, the words "seven dials" were to take on a new and chilling significance.

When wealthy spinster Emily French is found murdered, suspicion falls on Leonard Vole, the man to whom she hastily bequeathed her riches before she died. Leonard assures the investigators that his wife, Romaine Heilger, can provide them with an alibi. However, when questioned, Romaine informs the police that Vole returned home late that night covered in blood. During the trial, Ms. French's housekeeper, Janet, gives damning evidence against Vole.

Ein Fall für Miss Marple: Die Wahrsagerin hat Mrs. Pritchard vor blauen Blumen gewarnt. Doch immer wieder erscheinen blaue Blumen auf der Tapete in ihrem Krankenzimmer. Eines Tages ist Mrs. Pritchard tot...

Eigentlich genießt Hercule Poirot seinen wohlverdienten Ruhestand im Küstenstädtchen Loo in Südengland. Doch nach der Begegnung mit der geheimnisvollen Miss Nick - die in den letzten drei Tagen drei Mordanschlägen entrinnen konnte - sieht er sich schon mitten in einem neuen Fall. Sein Kollege Colonel Hastings darf dabei vom unfehlbaren Spürsinn seines Vorbilds profitieren ...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time in digital audio, performed by Christopher Lee. When wealthy spinster Emily French is found murdered, suspicion falls to Leonard Vole, the man to whom she hastily bequeathed her riches before she died. Leonard assures the investigators that his wife, Romaine Heilger, can provide them with an alibi. However, when questioned, Romaine informs the police that Vole returned home late that night covered in blood.

Hercule Poirots Debüt! Als Mrs Emily Inglethorp, die Eigentümerin von Styles Court, ermordet wird, ist für alle klar, wer der Mörder ist. Doch Hercule Poirot schöpft Verdacht. Er wirbelt alles durcheinander, bis er auf ein Beweisstück stößt, das zeigt, wie gerissen der wahre Täter ist.

To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. But where exactly was the beginning? Was it the savage blow to the back of Father Gorman's head? Or was it when the priest's assailant searched him so roughly, he tore the clergyman's cassock? Or could it have been the priest's visit, just minutes before, to a woman on her deathbed? Or was there a deeper significance to the violent squabble that Mark Easterbrook had himself witnessed earlier?

A Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring June Whitfield as the deceptively mild Miss Marple with Ian Lavender, Joan Sims and Susannah Harker. Elspeth McGillicuddy is down from Scotland for a holiday and boards the 4:50 train from Paddington station to visit her friend, Miss Marple. During the journey, another train pulls alongside, and through the window Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a tall, dark man strangling a blonde woman. She reports what she has seen, yet no one takes any notice.

Miss Emily was old, rich, and afraid - and now, she's dead. Her terrified plea to Hercule Poirot came a little too late. All that's left is a house full of greedy heirs, and a very strange letter that could solve the mystery - or add to it.

Das Haus, das die frischverheiratete Gwenda Reed für sich und ihren Mann einrichtet, macht ihr plötzlich Angst: Stufen, Türen und Tapeten ordnen sich so...

Schreckliche Gerüchte stören die friedliche Beschaulichkeit in dem Latenheim, in dem Tommy Beresfords Tante Ada lebt. Mord soll es bei dem einen oder anderen Todesfall gewesen sein. Mit seiner Ehefrau Tuppence will Tommy den Gerüchten auf den Grund gehen und bald schon hat das Ermittlerduo eine Spur...

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring June Whitfield as Miss Marple, the sharp-witted spinster sleuth. In the sleepy little English country village of St Mary Mead, all is not as it seems. Under a seemingly peaceful exterior lurks intrigue, guilt, deception - and murder. Colonel Protheroe, local magistrate and overbearing landowner, is the most detested man in the village. Everyone, even the vicar, wishes he were dead. And very soon he is - shot in the head in the vicar's own study.

Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, read by the inimitable Dan Stevens. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer - in case he or she decides to strike again.

James Bentley wird zum Tode verurteilt. Er soll seine Vermieterin Mrs McGinty brutal erschlagen haben und alle Indizien sprechen gegen ihn...

After the death of her husband, Dolly Bantry sold Gossington Hall to the former film star Marina Gregg and her husband. When the glamorous couple decide to throw a benefit party for the local hospital, the grounds are thronged with curious visitors, and for one of them, the day ends in tragedy. As Marina is serving cocktails in the house, she is cornered by the excitable Heather Babcock, who chatters away about their former meeting about eleven years ago before spilling her daiquiri all over herself and Marina.

A dying woman confesses a terrible secret to her priest along with a cryptic list of nine names. Before he is able to uncover anything more, the priest is struck dead in the fog and the police discover the list in his shoe. Our hero Mark Easterbrook, a historian, learns of a secretive organisation known as The Pale Horse and of their supernatural connections in the village of Much Deeping. The list of names seems to foretell the deaths of several people and Mark must piece together the clues and unearth the connections between them all.

Eine Tote am Strand! Hercule Poirot verbringt seinen wohlverdienten Urlaub in einem Hotel auf einer Insel vor der Küste Devons. Als die glamouröse Arlena Marshall erwürgt aufgefunden wird, ist der Spürsinn des belgischen Meisterdetektivs gefragt. Poirot entdeckt, dass fast alle Hotelgäste eine Verbindung zu der Toten haben. Aber wer hasste sie so sehr?

Jane ist seit Jahren spurlos verschwunden und auch der britische Geheimdienst findet keine Anhaltspunkte in dieser mysteriösen Affäre...