Everything Agatha Christie
A podcast dedicated to the works of Agatha Christie, hosted by Cat and the creator. They record both unique books and short stories that are in the public domain under US copyright law. The show aims to bring lesser-known Christie stories to listeners.
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Murder at the Vicarage Part 1
Colonel Protheroe is the most detested man in the village. Everyone even in the vicar wishes he were dead. Soon he is, shot in the head in the vicar's own study. Faced with many suspects, only Miss Marple can find the clues that will lead to the killer.
Murder at the Vicarage Part 2
Colonel Protheroe is the most detested man in the village. Everyone even in the vicar wishes he were dead. Soon he is, shot in the head in the vicar's own study. Faced with many suspects, only Miss Marple can find the clues that will lead to the killer.
Murder at the Vicarage Part 3
Colonel Protheroe is the most detested man in the village. Everyone even in the vicar wishes he were dead. Soon he is, shot in the head in the vicar's own study. Faced with many suspects, only Miss Marple can find the clues that will lead to the killer.
Murder at the Vicarage Part 4
Colonel Protheroe is the most detested man in the village. Everyone even in the vicar wishes he were dead. Soon he is, shot in the head in the vicar's own study. Faced with many suspects, only Miss Marple can find the clues that will lead to the killer.
The Companion
Dr. Lloyd recalls some events. There was a tragedy when he was practicing in the Canary Islands. A death by drowning which he had witnessed, and years later, a suicide in a small English village which mimicked the earlier event. Was anything criminal involved?
The Four Suspects
The death of Dr. Rosen, a German refugee who helped bring down a secret organization, and focuses on four people his butler, niece, secretary, and gardener—who all had motives and no alibis.
A Christmas Tragedy
While staying at the Keston Spa Hydro just before Christmas, Miss Marple meets a young couple, Jack and Gladys Sanders. Upon meeting them, Miss Marple immediately senses that Jack intends to murder his wife, despite their seemingly happy appearance.
The Herb of Death
Mrs Bantry recounts the tale of a dinner where everyone became ill and one young lady died from poisoning, foxglove leaves had been mixed in with the sage and fed to everyone. The group decides this was no accident and plays twenty questions to deduce the killer.
The Affair at the Bungalow
Jane Helier, the beautiful, if vacuous actress, tells a story of a the theft of a woman's jewels and the playwright accused of stealing them. But unlike the other cases told at the Bantrys' dinner table, Miss Marple concludes at the end she doesn't know the true solution.
Giant's Bread Part 1
Agatha Christie written under the name Mary Westmacott. Vernon Deyre is a sensitive, brilliant musician, a genius. There is a high price to be paid for his talent, especially by his family and the two women in his life.
Giant's Bread Part 2
Agatha Christie written under the name Mary Westmacott. Vernon Deyre is a sensitive, brilliant musician, a genius. There is a high price to be paid for his talent, especially by his family and the two women in his life.
Giant's Bread Part 3
Agatha Christie written under the name Mary Westmacott. Vernon Deyre is a sensitive, brilliant musician, a genius. There is a high price to be paid for his talent, especially by his family and the two women in his life.
Giant's Bread Part 4
Agatha Christie written under the name Mary Westmacott. Vernon Deyre is a sensitive, brilliant musician, a genius. There is a high price to be paid for his talent, especially by his family and the two women in his life.
Giant's Bread Part 5
Agatha Christie written under the name Mary Westmacott. Vernon Deyre is a sensitive, brilliant musician, a genius. There is a high price to be paid for his talent, especially by his family and the two women in his life.
The Coming of Mr. Quin
Mr. Harley Quin turns up mysteriously at a house party. It's dark and cold, with snow drifts everywhere, when Mr. Harley Quin appears at the door of Royston Hall stating that his car has broken down. There he helps Mr Satterthwaite clear up the mystery of a death which took place ten years before but continues to haunt some of those present.
The Shadow on the Glass
Mr Satterthwaite attends a party at a house where all the guests are gossiping about the ghostly figure in the upstairs window: a cavalier, murdered by his wife's lover. But when a real murder takes place it is only through Satterthwaite's patient and observing nature that the crime can be solved.
The Sign in the Sky
Mr Satterthwaite attends the trial of young Martin Wylde accused of murder. Shortly after the guilty verdict is returned, Satterthwaite runs into his mysterious friend Harley Quin. Can they prove Wylde’s innocence or did he really kill the beautiful Vivien Barnaby? In this story he has to travel all the way to Banff in Canada to solve the mystery.
At the Bells and Motley
A man disappeared from a house in the village of Kirklington Mallet, leaving his wife and all their possessions. Satterthwaite and Quin talk through the details of the mystery and finally see it for what it was.
The Love Detectives
While visiting Colonel Melrose, Mr Satterthwaite hears of the murder of Sir James Dwighton, who had recently been in a messy love triangle and the wife and her lover are immediately suspected. But a chance meeting with Mr Quin, changes Satterthwaite's perception of the facts.
The Soul of the Croupier
Whilst holidaying in the principality, Mr. Satterthwaite watches as a young American man falls in love with a mystifying Countess. Soon after a bit of gambling at which he was not successful, he bumps into Harley Quin and they invite their new friends for an intimate dinner that reveals dark secrets about one of the guest.
The World's End
Mr Satterthwaite has come to Corsica with his friend the Duchess of Leith, where they meet the Duchess’s cousin Naomi Carlton-Smith. Distraught that her fiancé has been accused of stealing, Naomi turns to Sattherthwaite and his friend the mysterious Mr Quin for help.
The Voice in the Dark
Mr Satterthwaite investigates his friend's daughter, who appears to be hearing voices. Is it her imagination or is the sinister demand for something stolen a warning? Mr Quin glides into the picture, dropping clues and setting Satterthwaite's thoughts along the right path, as always leading him towards a resolution. In this story they again stay at 'The Bells and Motley', mentioned in an earlier s
The Face of Helen
After a performance of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, Mr Quin and Mr Satterthwaite witness a fight outside the opera house – but what could have prompted such brutal behaviour? Mr Quin's appearance in the opera's interval suggest that forces of love and jealousy must be at work and someone is in danger.
Harlequin's Lane
While visiting the rather dull, conventional, country home of John and Anna Denman, Mr. Satterthwaite unexpectedly meets Mr. Quin on a narrow road called Harlequin's Lane behind the house. Locally, it's known as Lover's Lane. While exploring the lane, Satterthwaite meets Molly Stanwell and learns that there's to be an entertainment, a masquerade, that evening.
The Dead Harlequin
When Mr. Satterthwaite visits a new exhibit in London at the Harchester Galleries, he discovers a painting with a male figure that bares an unusual likeness to a mysterious acquaintance of his, Mr. Quin. With one bold move, he purchases the canvas on the spot and in another, invites the artist of ‘The Dead Harlequin’ to dine with him that night.
The Man from the Sea
Mr. Satterthwaite has left the French Mediterranean for one of the Spanish islands. He encounters Anthony Cosden as he is about to leap to his death. This was not his first attempt at suicide. Can Mr. Satterthwaite and Mr. Quin bring happiness back to a poor man’s life?
The Bird With the Broken Wing
Mr Satterthwaite much prefers to be in London and dislikes the country. Hence he turns down a dinner invitation by Madge Keeley to her country house at Laidell. However a message from Harley Quin sends him hurrying there.
The Golden Ball
George Dundas is sacked from his job for being a wastrel but he soon receives a golden opportunity. Will he waste it or grasp it?
Sing a Song of Sixpence
Sir Edward Palliser, a retired barrister, once made a promise to a young girl and travelling companion that she could always come to him whenever she needed help. Ten years later she calls on him. Sir Edward is reluctant but a promise is a promise. Family truths come to light as he begins to pull together the clues, where the police could find no supporting evidence.
The Big Four Part 1
Framed in the doorway of Poirot’s bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man’s gaunt face stared for a moment, then he swayed and fell. Who was he? Was he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what was the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again on a sheet of paper? Poirot finds himself plunged into a world of international intrigu
The Big Four Part 2
Framed in the doorway of Poirot’s bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man’s gaunt face stared for a moment, then he swayed and fell. Who was he? Was he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what was the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again on a sheet of paper? Poirot finds himself plunged into a world of international intrigu
The Big Four Part 3
Framed in the doorway of Poirot’s bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man’s gaunt face stared for a moment, then he swayed and fell. Who was he? Was he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what was the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again on a sheet of paper? Poirot finds himself plunged into a world of international intrigu
The Big Four Part 4
Framed in the doorway of Poirot’s bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man’s gaunt face stared for a moment, then he swayed and fell. Who was he? Was he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what was the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again on a sheet of paper? Poirot finds himself plunged into a world of international intrigu
Next to a Dog
A poor war widow is desperate for a job. She owes on her rent and even contemplates marrying the wrong man – all for the sake of her beloved dog, a gift from her late husband. So fond is she of her little half-blind ageing terrier Terry, she will do just about anything to keep him.
Accident
A retired police inspector who recognizes a woman in his village as someone he once suspected of murder, even though she was acquitted. The inspector believes she may be a danger, and he is determined to protect her new husband.
A Fruitful Sunday
Edward Palgrove has saved up to buy a small car, which he and his fiancée, Dorothy Pratt, are both proud of. But neither one is prepared for the journey it will take them on, when the couple on a date pulls off the side of the road and end up buying a basket of fruit. Inside they find a ruby necklace. They also find a newspaper and read about a big jewel robbery. Now they've got to decide what to
The Edge
Claire Halliwell lives a quiet country life with her dogs. A conscientious and popular parish worker, she takes everything in her stride even when Sir Gerald Lee, the man she loves, marries Vivien a glamorous city girl. When Claire learns that Vivien is having an affair, her sense of duty to Gerald is stretched to the limit.
The Rajah’s Emerald
James Bond is persuaded to spend a holiday at a fashionable seaside resort by his girlfriend. She has more money and chooses to stay with friends at the best hotel while he stays, abandoned, at a cheap boarding house. Over the days, the wealthy friends basically turn their noses up at him but soon he gets his own adventure, which begins in a bathing hut.
The Lonely God
In the quiet halls of the British Museum, a forgotten stone idol sits unnoticed on a high shelf—its features eroded by time, its purpose long-lost. But for Frank Oliver, a lonely man recently returned to England, the little god becomes something more: a symbol of connection in a world that has passed him by.
When Frank notices a young woman visiting the same statue, day after day, something begi
The Mysterious Affair at Styles Part 1
Hastings is sent back to England from the First World War due to injury and is invited to spend his sick leave at the beautiful Styles Court by his old friend John Cavendish. Here, Hastings meets John’s step-mother, Mrs. Inglethorp, and her new husband, Alfred. Despite the tranquil surroundings Hastings begins to realize that all is not right. When Mrs. Inglethorp is found poisoned, suspicion fall
The Mysterious Affair at Styles Part 2
Hastings is sent back to England from the First World War due to injury and is invited to spend his sick leave at the beautiful Styles Court by his old friend John Cavendish. Here, Hastings meets John’s step-mother, Mrs. Inglethorp, and her new husband, Alfred. Despite the tranquil surroundings Hastings begins to realize that all is not right. When Mrs. Inglethorp is found poisoned, suspicion fall
The Mysterious Affair at Styles Part 3
Hastings is sent back to England from the First World War due to injury and is invited to spend his sick leave at the beautiful Styles Court by his old friend John Cavendish. Here, Hastings meets John’s step-mother, Mrs. Inglethorp, and her new husband, Alfred. Despite the tranquil surroundings Hastings begins to realize that all is not right. When Mrs. Inglethorp is found poisoned, suspicion fall
The Mysterious Affair at Styles Part 4
Hastings is sent back to England from the First World War due to injury and is invited to spend his sick leave at the beautiful Styles Court by his old friend John Cavendish. Here, Hastings meets John’s step-mother, Mrs. Inglethorp, and her new husband, Alfred. Despite the tranquil surroundings Hastings begins to realize that all is not right. When Mrs. Inglethorp is found poisoned, suspicion fall
While the Light Lasts
Newlyweds, George and Deidre Crozier are travelling through Africa, and George suspects Deidre is thinking of her first husband, killed in that very country. A Rhodesian tobacco plantation is the setting for a war widow’s unexpected visitor from beyond the grave…
The Last Séance
A medium agrees to perform one last séance before retiring. She's young but exhausted and physically deteriorated. Just one more is what she promises her fiancé, that's it. But even she could not have anticipated the chain of events that it brings about…
The House Of Dreams
John Seagrove, a young city clerk, awakes early one morning in his London bedsit desperately clinging to a dream that has just transformed his life. The next day at dinner at his boss’s house he meets the enigmatic Allegra Kerr. Falling in love with her at first sight John instantly realises this is the overwhelming joy his dream had foreshadowed but could darker forces be at work?
Swan Song
Famed soprano Paula Nazorkoff is invited to give a private performance at Rustonbury Castle. She accepts, since the castle is close to the home of the world-famous retired baritone Breon. What ensues is a story of passion and revenge in which old scores are settled at last.
S.O.S.
One rainy night on the Wiltshire downs, the Dinsmead’s evening meal is interrupted by a stranger. Mortimer Cleveland interrupts their life when his car breaks down and he seeks shelter. Cleveland is a psychic researcher, who immediately senses that something is wrong; he detects murder in the air. Can he save the victim before it is too late?
Magnolia Blossom
About to elope to South Africa with her lover, a wife receives the news that her husband's financial empire is collapsing. Should she carry through with it or return to help her husband, or will the story have an unexpected twist?
Within a Wall
Alan Everard, a successful modernist painter, is married to the beautiful society girl Isobel Loring who eagerly promotes her husband’s work. At one of her tea parties, to which she invites the London art critics, she unveils her husband’s latest masterpiece, a portrait of herself but Alan realises the picture is lifeless. However a sketch he has done of his daughter's godmother, Jane Haworth, is
Wireless
Wealthy Mary Harter has been advised by her doctor to take it easy and not aggravate her somewhat weak heart. Her nephew, Charles, who lives with her, buys her a radio for amusement, but strange messages come from it. Could her dead husband really be sending her messages? And why is he warning that her life is in danger?
The Murder on the Links Part 1
An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. When Hercule Poirot and his associate Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of Merlinville-sur-Mer to meet their client Paul Renauld, they learn from the police that he has been found that morning stabbed in the back with a letter opener and left in a newly-dug grave adjacent to a local golf course.
Among the plausible suspects are Renauld's w
The Murder on the Links Part 2
An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. When Hercule Poirot and his associate Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of Merlinville-sur-Mer to meet their client Paul Renauld, they learn from the police that he has been found that morning stabbed in the back with a letter opener and left in a newly-dug grave adjacent to a local golf course.
Among the plausible suspects are Renauld's w
The Murder on the Links Part 3
An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. When Hercule Poirot and his associate Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of Merlinville-sur-Mer to meet their client Paul Renauld, they learn from the police that he has been found that morning stabbed in the back with a letter opener and left in a newly-dug grave adjacent to a local golf course.
Among the plausible suspects are Renauld's w
The Murder on the Links Part 4
An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. When Hercule Poirot and his associate Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of Merlinville-sur-Mer to meet their client Paul Renauld, they learn from the police that he has been found that morning stabbed in the back with a letter opener and left in a newly-dug grave adjacent to a local golf course.
Among the plausible suspects are Renauld's w
The Third Floor Flat
When a body of a woman is discovered in the third floor flat of Friar Mansions, it is fortunate that Hercule Poirot lives in the same block and is on hand – but can he help?
Wasps’ Nest
Poirot visits a friend, John Harrison, and tells him he is on a mission to solve a murder that has not yet been committed, in the hopes of preventing a murder.
Double Sin
Attempting to holiday in Devon, Poirot and Hastings are interrupted when a woman’s selection of antique miniatures are stolen from a woman's case on a train.
The Under Dog
When Poirot receives an invitation to dinner from Robert Astwell, he is happy to accept. When he arrives, however, he discovers that Astwell is universally disliked. When Astwell is discovered murdered there is no shortage of suspects!
Lady Astwell is convinced that it is the secretary and not her nephew who murdered her husband but she has no proof, only "intuition". She hires Poirot to investi
The Lemesurier Inheritance
Poirot and Hastings are dining with a friend Captain Vincent Lemesurier and his uncle Hugo when news arrives that Vincent's father is taken ill and dying. Vincent appears shocked and upset and rushes off. The next day, Vincent is found dead, having fallen off a train. A relative explains to Poirot and Hastings that there is a family curse at work.
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
A priceless ruby, belonging to a Far Eastern prince, is stolen from him whilst he is on a visit to England. The ruby was destined for the prince’s bride-to-be and a scandal must be avoided.
Poirot is asked to attend a Christmas celebration in order to apprehend a jewel-thief.
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
A priceless ruby, belonging to a Far Eastern prince, is stolen from him whilst he is on a visit to England. The ruby was destined for the prince’s bride-to-be and a scandal must be avoided. Poirot is asked to attend a Christmas celebration in order to apprehend a jewel-thief.
The Double Clue
A valuable emerald necklace has been stolen and Poirot is asked to help. At the scene of crime, Poirot finds two clues: a glove and a cigarette case engraved with initials. But for Poirot, two is too many.
The Cornish Mystery
A middle-aged woman, Mrs Pengelley, tells Poirot she thinks her husband is trying to poison her. Poirot believes her and travels to Polgar with in Cornwall but arrives just hours after she dies. Poirot blames himself for being late and vows to bring her killer to justice.
The Lost Mine
Hercule Poirot and Hastings are discussing investments and Poirot informs Hastings that his only speculative investment is in fourteen thousand shares in Burma Mines Ltd which were given to him as a gift for services rendered.
The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
Poirot is not interested in investigating some of the cases which appear in the newspapers when Hastings tries to bring them to his attention. These include ones about a bank clerk, Mr. Davis, who disappears with fifty thousand pounds of securities, a suicidal man, and a missing typist. He is put on the spot though when visited by a Mrs. Todd who is determined that he investigate her missing cook.
The Marsdon Manor Tragedy
Elderly Mr Maltravers is found dead in a field, with his grieving wife claiming it has been natural causes. But as he recently took out life insurance, the company brings in Poirot to establish if it was suicide.
The Incredible Theft
Self-made millionaire, Lord Charles Mayfield is throwing a house party, what better way to conceal the true nature of a meeting to discuss top-secret plans for a fighter plane, as well as catching out a spy in the process. But the plans are snatched and only Poirot can uncover the truth.
The Case of the Missing Will
Poirot assists a young woman in proving to her deceased uncle that her education was valuable. They must solve the puzzle of his will or else she will be left with no inheritance.
The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman
A perfect locked room mystery for Hercule Poirot: a dead man, alone in a locked apartment, beside an eaten dinner laid for three.
The Market Basing Mystery
Poirot and Hastings are called on to investigate the suspicious death of a landowner in a small English town. What looks at first like a simple case of suicide quickly becomes more complex as Poirot interrogates the suspects in the home.
The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly
When little Johnnie Waverly is kidnapped, there is only one man his parents trust with the case—the inimitable Hercule Poirot! Can he solve the matter when the police had such little luck? After all, the little boy was snatched from right under the nose of the police.
The Veiled Lady
Frustrated with a lack of challenging cases, Poirot is given an opportunity to flirt with the other side of the law. A young lady, soon to be married, is being blackmailed and pleads for his help.
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb
The logic of the little grey cells take on one of Agatha Christie’s favorite themes, the powers of ancient Egypt, this time in the form of a curse on those who excavated a Pharaoh’s tomb.
The Chocolate Box
Hercule Poirot investigates a murder in which the only clue is a box of chocolates. This case took place in Brussels early in his career when he was a detective with the police force there, before the start of the Great War.
The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge
Belgian investigator Hercule Poirot, now London based, tasks his friend Arthur Hastings with solving a murder that is more like a riddle. It occurs at a hunting lodge. The owner has been murdered, and his nephew wants Poirot to investigate. But our favourite private detective has the flu so it’s Hastings or nobody!
The Adventure of the Cheap Flat
A redhead at a party informs the guests that she has obtained a fabulous apartment at a ridiculously low rent. Poirot, however, smells a rat. He takes an apartment in the same building, and lies in wait. Will his suspicions prove well-founded?
The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
A million dollars of bonds disappear from under a young man’s nose and now he’s being held accountable.
Philip Ridgeway is suspected of stealing over a million dollars in Liberty Bonds while they were being taken to America by ship. His fiance Esmee appeals to Hercule Poirot to assist him. As only three people had keys to the bond trunk surely it should be easy to solve? However as Philip is one a
The Kidnapped Prime Minister
The national scandal of a kidnapped Prime Minister lands Poirot and Hastings in a spot of international espionage.
When the British Prime Minister and his secretary are kidnapped in France, Hercule Poirot is summoned. However, with only a day and a half to find them, even Poirot is tested to his limits.
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