Christie, Agatha

Dame Agatha offers vivid descriptions of her childhood, family life, contemporaries, and travels abroad as well as discussing her own struggles as a writer and the general problems of creative writing.

Realizing that she is too old to travel, Miss Jane Marple decides she is through with crime detection, but a murder that happens almost on her doorstep changes her mind.

Miss Marple finds herself trying to outwit a killer when she decides to investigate her friend Mrs. McGillicuddy's claim that she saw a woman being strangled through the window of a passing train.

Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the curious murder of millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett in a locked compartment aboard the Orient Express while the train is stranded by a snowdrift. He must find the murderer before he decides to strike again.

Miss Marple refuses to take matters at face value when the body of a young woman is found in the colonel's library.

Hercule Poirot is sent a series of letters by a murderer challenging him to try to stop a crime if he is clever enough.

Hercule Poirot agrees to help a friend investigate the twelve year old double suicide deaths of Lord and Lady Ravenscroft.