Agatha Christie
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Linnet Doyle is young, beautiful, and rich. She's the girl who has everything-including the man her best friend loves. Linnet and her new husband take a cruise on the Nile, where they meet the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot. It should be an idyllic trip, yet Poirot has a vague, uneasy feeling that something is dangerously amiss ...
Author
Publisher
BBC Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Twelve classic Christie short stories are given a modern spin in these BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations.
Agatha Christie is the acknowledged 'Queen of Crime', and these twelve short stories showcase her skilful plotting and talent for producing compelling mysteries. First broadcast in the early 2000s, the stories were adapted and brought up-to-date for a contemporary audience.
Among the star cast are Tom Hollander, Emilia Fox,
Author
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
"The luxurious Blue Train carries its passengers across France, from dreary wintertime England to the sunny French Riviera. When it arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumber. But she will never wake again -- she has been killed, and a heavy blow has disfigured her features almost beyond recognition. What is more, her precious rubies are missing and her ever-present maid was dismissed from the train back in Paris....
Author
Language
English
Description
In a suicide's room, seven clocks tick ominously, and the last words of a dying friend are "seven dials." The enigmatic sevens lead Jimmy Thesiger and his dashing cohort "Bundle" Brent to a Soho club. There they learn of the Seven Dials Society: seven masked conspirators who meet in a secret room to talk about stealing scientific secrets and hushing up murder.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When a wealthy widow is found murdered, her married lover is accused of the crime. The lawyer defending him is in ill health and his only hope for acquittal is the testimony of the accused's wife, proving his alibi. However, she has some secrets of her own to reveal.
Series
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Poirot is rewarded with more than just gratitude when he helps a woman alight from a cab outside his dentist's office. When the dentist is then gunned down, a murderous chain of events ensuses and a broken shoe buckle becomes the key to solving the mystery.
9) Miss Marple
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Americas
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Completely restored and remastered in stunning high definition, see Agatha Christie's Miss Marple as never before! Joan Hickson, the actress Agatha Christie herself wanted for the role, stars as the shrewd sleuth in twelve thrilling whodunits.
Volume 1: "The murder at the vicarage": With her gift for sniffing out the malevolent side of human nature, Miss Marple is led on her first case to a crime scene at the local vicarage. "The moving finger":...
10) Marple: Series 2
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The amateur, elderly detective Miss Marple solves cases that baffle the police.
Series
Miss Marple movie collection volume 1
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
After the reading of a family will, dotty Aunt Cora appears to be less dotty than originally thought.
12) Marple: Series 3
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The amateur, elderly detective Miss Marple solves cases that baffle the police.
Publisher
MHZ Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
Agatha Christie's world-famous mysteries are adapted in a series of French TV movies. Set in the 1930s, these iconic stories introduce two new investigators in classic Christie style: Superintendent Larosière, whose passion for beautiful women is matched only by his love of solving puzzling crimes, and his young colleague Inspector Lampion, whose modern sensibilities sometimes clash with those of a less-enlightened age.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen years after the wife of the renowned painter Amyas Crale was sent to the gallows for poisoning her husband, their daughter Lucy returns from Canada. Lucy carries with her a letter that suggests that her mother might have been innocent. Poirot agrees to dig up the past, but he warns Lucy that she may not like what he finds.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Death on the Nile": A pleasure cruise down the Nile turns deadly when a murder is discovered on board.
"Five little pigs": Poirot agrees to help a young woman prove her mother's innocence, 14 years after being sent to the gallows.
"Sad Cypress": The solution to a double-murder case appears to be cut and dried, but Poirot's instincts eventually lead him to the real truth.
"The Hollow": A weekend retreat where all the guests appear to despise one...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1920s, a feisty flapper turns to amateur sleuthing, teaming up with a suave man-about-town. The dark forces of murder and international intrigue combine with the froth of romance and frivolity for a thriller with wicked Christie wit.