Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie is the world's best-known mystery writer and all-time best selling author of any genre other than William Shakespeare. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 45 foreign languages. Christie published over eighty novels and stageplays, mainly whodunnits and locked-room mysteries, many of these featuring one of her series characters, Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple. She claimed that she detested Poirot, and she eventually killed him off in 'The Curtain', originally intended by her to be published posthumously, but she lived longer than she thought she would! Miss Marple, on the other hand, she liked, as the character was based on her grandmother. She also wrote romances under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1926 she caused a stir after disappearing for ten days; her car was found abandoned in a chalk pit, and she later claimed amnesia as a result of her mother's recent death and the discovery of her husband's affair. She died of natural causes at the age of 85 on 12 January, 1976.
"I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." - Agatha Christie
Poirot: Five Little Pigs (2003)
8.6/10
Director: Paul Unwin
Starring: Aidan Gillen, Gemma Jones, Toby Stephens, Marc Warren, David Suchet
Caroline Crane was hanged for the murder of her flamboyant artist husband Amyas in an apparent crime of passion. Their ophaned daughter Lucy was sent... Read more
Poirot: Mrs McGinty's Dead (2008)
8.6/10
Director: Ashley Pearce
Starring: Amanda Root, David Suchet, Richard Hope, Ruth Gemmell, Sian Phillips, Zoe Wanama...
Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) takes on his toughest challenge yet as he races to prove a convicted killer is innocent. Mrs McGinty was killed by a bru... Read more
Poirot: Murder in Mesopotamia (2001)
8.6/10
Director: Tom Clegg
Starring: Hugh Fraser, David Suchet
Poirot (David Suchet) visits Hastings at an archaeological dig in Mesopotamia and finds himself embroiled in a murder mystery. When an archeologist's... Read more
Poirot: Mystery of the Blue Train (2005)
8.6/10
Director: Hettie Macdonald
Starring: Lindsay Duncan, Roger Lloyd Pack, James D'Arcy, Elliott Gould
Poirot journeys on the renowned Blue Train to the French Riviera, mingling with a cast of colourful characters as unbeknownst to him a body lies await... Read more
Poirot: Series 2 (1990)
8.6/10
Starring: David Suchet, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran, Hugh Fraser
David Suchet stars as Agatha Christie's sleuth Hercule Poirot in this collection of his cases from the long running TV series, in which deception and... Read more
Poirot: Series 3 - Volume 1 (1991)
8.6/10
Starring: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser
Dame Agatha Christie's incomparable Hercule Poirot is brought to life in these five stories, set in the art deco elegance of 1930's England. "How Does... Read more
Poirot: Series 3 - Volume 2 (1991)
8.6/10
Starring: David Suchet
Dame Agatha Christie's incomparable Hercule Poirot is brought to life in these five stories, set in the art deco elegance of 1930's England. "The Doub... Read more
Poirot: Series 4 (1992)
8.6/10
Starring: David Suchet, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran, Hugh Fraser
David Suchet reprises his award winning role as Belgium super sleuth Hercule Poirot in these further adventures of sleight of hand and criminal capers... Read more
Poirot: Series 5 (1993)
8.6/10
Starring: David Suchet, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran, Hugh Fraser
As well as garnering critical and commercial acclaim in the UK, 'Poirot' has gone on to become the most watched detective character on television as w... Read more
Poirot: Series 6 - Volume 1 (1995)
8.6/10
Starring: David Suchet
As well as garnering critical and commercial acclaim in the UK, 'Poirot' has gone on to become the most watched detective character on television as w... Read more