In the Agatha Christie classic Peril at End House, a young woman who has recently survived a series of very close calls appears to be the target of a dedicated killer-and it's up to Hercule Poirot to save her life. On holiday on the Cornish Riviera, Hercule Poirot is alarmed to hear pretty Nick Buckley describe her recent "accidental brushes with death." First, on a treacherous Cornish hillside, the brakes on her car failed. Then, on a coastal path,...

Hercule Poirot has retired to a country village, until his neighbor is found murdered. Poirot reunites with his old partner, Chief Inspector Japp, to find the culprit, exposing a web of blackmail, envy, and murder.

Just after midnight, a snowstorm stops the Orient Express dead in its tracks in the middle of Yugoslavia. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for this time of year. But by morning there is one passenger less. A "respectable American gentleman" lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Hercule Poirot is also aboard, having arrived in the nick of time to claim a second-class compartment, and the most...

One of London's richest and most mysterious men, Mr. Shaitana, invites Poirot, the crime writer of Araidne Oliver, two of Poirot's fellow sleuths, and several others to his sumptuous apartment for dinner and bridge. But the evening takes a deadly turn when the host is found stabbed through the heart and the four sleuths must find the killer among them.

When businessman Gordon Cloade is killed during the London Blitz, his exttensive fortune is left to his young widow, Rosaleen. Not willing to risk losing the entire family fortune to an outsider, the Cloade family attemos to recoup their money by claiming Rosaleen's first husband is still alive. But the mystery deepens when a man who just may be the husband turns up dead, and Poirot is left to solve this baffling case.

When the daughter of an oil magnate is found dead on the famous Blue Train to the French Riviera, Poirot must investigate the past to reveal the killer.

Hercule Poirot must solve a perplexing case of midair murder in Death in the Clouds when he discovers that the woman in seat two of the airborne aeroplane he's traveling on is quite unexpectedly-and unnaturally-deceased. From seat No. 9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers on the short flight from Paris to London. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat...