Arcadia Public Library

"Four Christie plays: "Go Back for Murder" -- "Appointment with Death" -- "The Hollow" -- and "The Mousetrap"--the longest running play in the history of London's West End"--

While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift. Passengers awake to find the train still stranded and to discover that a wealthy American has been brutally stabbed to death in his private compartment. Incredibly, that compartment is locked from the inside. With no escape into the wintery landscape the killer must still be on board. Fortunately, the brilliant...

At the request of archaeologist Dr. Eric Leidner, Amy Leatheran has accepted a position as companion to his wife, Louise, a woman prone to nervous terrors. What is the young nurse to make of Mrs. Leidner's bizarre stories of her first husband, a dead German spy, who has returned in a rage to destroy her new marriage? Stories of threats and dreadful warnings? Yet it's more than a flight of fancy that bludgeons poor Mrs. Leidner to death. - Publisher....

It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture, followed by a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. Luckily Hercule Poirot is on the scene almost imediately.

Agatha Christie's beloved classic novel sets Hercule Poirot on the trail of a serial killer--now a limited streaming series starring John Malkovich, Rupert Grint, and Tara Fitzgerald. "There is no more cunning player of the murder game than Agatha Christie."-- Sunday Times (London) Description: "Let us see, Mr. Clever Poirot, just how clever you can be." There's a serial killer on the loose, working his way through the alphabet and the whole country...

Lord Edgware is dead, and since his widow had approached Hercule Poirot about helping her to get rid of him, Poirot has his doubts about the widow, the beautiful American actress Jane Wilkinson.

At a Halloween party, Joyce - a hostile 13-year-old boasts that she once witnessed a murder, Within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub.

"Miss Marple turns ghost hunter and uncovers shocking evidence of a perfect crime"--

Mrs. McGinty died from a blow to the back of her head. Suspicion falls immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes reveal traces of the victim's blood and hair. Yet something is amiss -- Bentley just doesn't seem like a murderer. Approached by soon to be retired police superintendent Spence -- who's convinced the wrong man has been convicted of the crime -- Hercule Poirot begins an investigation into the brutal murder of an old...