Témoin indésirable / La nuit qui ne finit pas

A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passenger plane.

 From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp.

 What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman.

Death in the clouds

N. ou M. ?

"Un meurtre est annoncé, qui aura lieu le vendredi 29 octobre à dix-huit heures trente à Little Paddocks."Au village de Chipping Cleghorn, tout le monde découvre cette petite annonce dans la gazette locale en prenant son breakfast, et les dames de Little Paddocks ne sont pas les moins surprises. Tout le monde pense à une amusante murder party imaginée par quelque facétieux. Aussi, tout le voisinage, émoustillé, rapplique-t-il à Little Paddocks et l'on attend l'heure fatidique dans la bonne humeur.A dix-huit heures trente, la lumière s'éteint, l'assassin paraît, des coups de feu éclatent... Mais c'est l'étranger, entré Dieu sait comment dans la maison, qu'on retrouve, son pistolet à la main, effondré sur le parquet. Mort...

Un meurtre sera commis le...

Six people reunite to remember beautiful Rosemary Barton, who died nearly a year before. The loving sister, the long-suffering husband, the devoted secretary, the lovers, the betrayed wife - none of them can forget Rosemary. But did one of them murder her? Titled in America Remembered Death.Narrated by Hugh Fraser

Meurtre au champagne

Motives for Murder: A fortune in uncut diamonds, hidden by an eccentric old man - A woman's love, too freely given - A business empire built on ruthlessness. Each of them may have been a motive for the brutal slaying of wealthy old Simeon Lee. Coupled with Lee's family, each member of which hated him and wished to see him dead, they present Hercule Poirot with a baffling challenge--one which the astute detective solves only through his uncanny ability to see "the little things."

Le Noël d'Hercule Poirot

It's seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. But who is she? How did she get there? And what is the connection with another dead girl, whose remains are discovered in an abandoned quarry? The Bantrys invite Miss Marple to solve the mystery.

The body in the library

Arthritic and immobilized, Poirot calls on his old friend Captain Hastings to join him at Styles to be the eyes and ears that will feed observations to Poirot's still razor sharp mind. Though aware of the criminal's identity, Poirot will not reveal it to the frustrated Hastings, and dubs the nameless personage 'X'. Already responsible for several murders, X, Poirot warns, is ready to strike again, and the partners must work swiftly to prevent imminent murder.Poirot’s final case, a mystery which brings him and Hastings back to Styles where they first solved a crime together. The story was both anticipated and dreaded by Agatha Christie fans worldwide, many of whom still refuse to read it, as it is known to contain Poirot’s death.Agatha Christie wrote it during World War II, as a gift for her daughter should she not survive the bombings, and it was kept in a safe for over thirty years. It was agreed among the family that Curtain would be published finally in 1975 by Collins, her long-standing publishers, and that Sleeping Murder (the Marple story written during the war for her husband, Max) would follow.The reception of Poirot’s death was international, even earning him an obituary in The New York Times; he is still the only fictional character to have received such an honour. The first actor to take on the role of portraying Poirot in his final hours was David Suchet, as the final episode of the series Agatha Christie’s Poirot for which he’d been playing the role for twenty-five years. The episode was adapted in 2013.

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