The Adventure of the Dead Man's Violin
London, November 1898. A black-edged note arrives at Baker Street before breakfast: "My brother has been found dead. Last night I heard…
1 hr 31 minNo. 127
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The Twelfth Stroke
Bologna, a grey Sunday morning in November 1920: a city that seems built for beauty and conspiracy at once.
1 hr 6 minNo. 125
The Man Who Missed Last Orders
Dublin, a wet September, and the young detective agency is running short-handed: Anne is away, the spaniel Pip has been banished to Blackrock, and our narrator wakes to a note in his own handwriting that he cannot remember writing, initialled R.K.
1 hr 27 minNo. 123
The Second Revolver
Athens, 1932. Three thousand people crowd outside the Criminal Court to watch four accused people fight for their lives: a beautiful young…
1 hr 7 minNo. 121
The Countess in the Frame
Dublin, and a young detective agency takes its second client: Mrs Vale, a handsome, iron-composed widow whose impractical nephew Julian has just announced his engagement to a Hungarian countess.
1 hr 27 minNo. 119
The Favourite Who Refused to Run
Dublin, and a decision that arrives at breakfast wearing the wholly unreasonable appearance of having been obvious all along: a former Army captain will not go back to London. He will stay — and open a detective agency of his own. A brass plate. An office above a stationer's.
1 hr 30 minNo. 117
The Lilies in the Graveyard
It begins, as so many unpleasant things do, with flowers. On a grey, dripping Tuesday morning, an elderly village lady is arranging…
1 hr 9 minNo. 115
The River Room
On a fog-bound November evening, Clara Merton comes to Poirot with a death no one considers unusual. Her elderly father has died in St…
1 hr 29 minNo. 113
The Prince Who Was Late
Calcutta, in the breathless heat of the hot season: a celebrated detective and his loyal companion have come east at the invitation of Sir Lionel, only to be handed a case no English court was built to settle — a man has come back from the dead.
1 hr 14 minNo. 111
The Widow of Rampart Street
New Orleans does not sleep — it sweats. When the newspapers announce that Mrs. Alma Lafitte has buried a second wealthy husband before the age of thirty, the whole city whispers the word it dares not print: murderess.
1 hr 15 minNo. 109
The Cat, the Mouse, and the Madonna
Venice: a city of bridges, bells, damp palaces, and secrets that travel more easily by gondola than by foot.
1 hr 15 minNo. 107
The Lady Who Was Mislaid
London, a wet March morning: Sir Malcolm Strathcarron arrives at a celebrated detective's door not grief-stricken but merely annoyed — his wife, he complains, has "removed herself from his house without permission.
1 hr 15 minNo. 106
The Stag's Head Has Lost His Crown
Dublin, between the wars: a former Army captain has come to Ireland to meet the family of Anne Foster, the woman he admires — and quickly decides that being introduced to a houseful of O'Riordans is more perilous than any battlefield.
1 hr 26 minNo. 104
The Last King of Cairo
Cairo, spring 1937: jasmine, dust, and intrigue hang over a city where the young men in the cafés no longer lower their voices when the King's name is spoken.
1 hr 21 minNo. 102
The Russian Scandal
London, a raw February morning. The Belgian Detective receives an anonymous letter on thick, foreign, violet-scented paper: if he values…
1 hr 13 minNo. 100
The Alvarado Necklace
The necklace has been stolen four times in two centuries and returned three. The fourth theft comes with a body.
1 hr 17 minNo. 98
The Clairvoyant's Hour
1 hr 3 minNo. 96
The Star in the Castle
Dublin, November 1925: a frightened letter summons the Belgian Detective and his loyal companion across the Irish Sea to Dublin Castle…
1 hr 14 minNo. 94
The Dinner Party Murder — Part 2
The storm has not lifted, the guests have not moved, and the Belgian Detective is ready to explain precisely how a dinner became a death…
1 hr 20 minNo. 92
The Dinner Party Murder — Part 1
London, March 1937: an engraved card summons the Belgian Detective and his loyal companion to Harrow Hall in Mayfair — the marble palace…
1 hr 10 minNo. 91
The Sandhills Bride
Pinehurst, North Carolina: pine trees, sand roads, golf courses, and a polished American resort where money attempts not to look vulgar…
1 hr 20 minNo. 89
The Last Pre-Raphaelites
London, 1930: a great retrospective is about to open at the Tate celebrating the forgotten women of English art — painters, enamellists…
1 hr 3 minNo. 87
Madame Valenne
Paris, before Hastings, before Chicago, before any of it: a woman arrives at the Gare du Nord with one suitcase, three false names, and…
1 hr 33 minNo. 85
The Shot at Godshill
Isle of Wight, 1940: the Belgian Detective and his loyal companion answer a desperate letter from a frightened woman at a quiet farm near…
1 hr 14 minNo. 83
The Black Road of Ghent
Ghent, 1919: the war is over but the killing has not stopped — in the countryside around Ghent and Bruges farms are raided, homes broken…
1 hr 7 minNo. 82
Cynthia Wakeham's Money
Chicago in the 1930s: a wealthy English widow walks into police headquarters and asks what it would cost to report a murder before it…
1 hr 26 minNo. 81
The Well at Nassau
Nassau, where a beautiful place receives you with its most deceptive politeness. A celebrated detective has been ordered by his doctor to rest — sea air, warmth, and an absence of mental exertion — and his loyal companion is quite certain that murder, like influenza, is discouraged by sunshine.
1 hr 6 minNo. 80
The Undertaker's Holiday
A broken-down coach, a crooked country inn, and a dead man upstairs clutching a card that reads ONE OF US IS ALREADY DEAD — when a motor…
1 hr 3 minNo. 79
Veronica Lakewood and the Casino Estrella
Havana in the 1930s: a white Art Deco casino blazing with light, American millionaires in cream dinner jackets, Cuban officials with…
1 hr 5 minNo. 78
The Newlywed's Shadow (Extended Edition)
London, 1936: a young woman stands in the dock at the Old Bailey accused of poisoning her husband with arsenic — Lady Beatrice Langston…
2 hr 47 minNo. 77
The Bomb at the Marché Central
Casablanca, 1930: a bomb explodes in the Marché Central among stalls of oranges, spices, and crowds of French officers, Moroccan…
1 hr 2 minNo. 76
Pip and the Bell at Whitehaven
The Belgian Detective is in Brussels, the flat is quiet, and Captain Hastings has just made the mistake of thinking life is ordinary…
1 hr 38 minNo. 75
The Sleeping Beauty
Switzerland, 1930s: the Belgian Detective and his loyal companion arrive at the Grand Hôtel Aurora above Lake Geneva for a restful holiday…
1 hr 22 minNo. 74
The Corpse at the Costume Ball
A musketeer, a spaniel, and a murder at the most fashionable charity ball of the season — Captain Hastings is invited to Lady Beatrice…
1 hr 29 minNo. 73
Poirot and the Voice in the Wall
North London: the Belgian Detective and his loyal companion answer a desperate letter from a widow at 19 Marlowe Terrace, a drab narrow…
1 hr 17 minNo. 72
The Adventure of the Red Chessman
London, 1891: a young woman arrives at Baker Street carrying a chess piece her father tried to burn — a red pawn carved from Indian ivory…
1 hr 24 minNo. 71
Veronica Lakewood — The Lipstick Room, Part II
Chicago, 1930s. The notebook marked PART ONE has been opened — and Alice Mercer's small, careful handwriting tells a story the police…
1 hr 18 minNo. 70
Poirot and the Violet Heiress
New York, 1920s. A shipping magnate's daughter is seized from her Fifth Avenue mansion by masked men claiming to be political radicals. A…
1 hr 23 minNo. 69
Sherlock Holmes and the Bells of Dunmere Abbey
Yorkshire coast, November: a baronet is found dead in his locked study with salt water pooled near the hearth, seaweed pressed beneath the…
2 hr 35 minNo. 68
The Lipstick Room
Chicago, 1930s: when nightclub singer Veronica Lakewood returns to her hotel after midnight to find Detective O'Rourke waiting with the…
1 hr 11 minNo. 67
The Vatican Disappearance
Rome, June 1930s: when fifteen-year-old Caterina Bernardi — dutiful, devout, and entirely without enemies — vanishes after her flute…
1 hr 29 minNo. 66
The Bridegroom Who Mislaid Himself
London, spring 1930s: when Captain Hastings attends the stag dinner of Charles Chudley — charming, debt-prone, and hours away from…
2 hr 8 minNo. 65
The Adventure of the Briarbank Papers
London and Wimbledon, spring 1902: when brilliant electrical engineer Laurence Brooke is found stabbed through the chest with a Moorish…
1 hr 18 minNo. 64
The Portrait at Blackthorn House
Surrey, England, 1934: when celebrated portrait painter Lucien Vidal is found dead in the locked studio of Blackthorn House — his latest…
1 hr 52 minNo. 63
The Blue Drawing-Room
Tehran, 1934: a world-famous American heiress is found strangled in an elegant blue drawing-room after a private quarrel with the heir to…
1 hr 17 minNo. 62
The Pressed Lemon
Hertfordshire, 1898: a fifteen-year-old boy dies in sudden agony after luncheon, and the evidence points to an industrial poison linked to…
1 hr 8 minNo. 61
The Stolen Memorandum
London, winter: a confidential War Office memorandum vanishes from a locked dispatch case and Captain Paul Lévy becomes the “convenient”…
1 hr 11 minNo. 60
The Name Beneath the Legend
London, 1932: Inspector Japp brings the Yard’s most notorious “criminal lovers” into custody—handsome Leonard Jones and the dark-eyed girl…
1 hr 26 minNo. 59
The Woman at the Window
On a pale March afternoon in an English village, a pretty young wife arrives at a country house in quiet distress, convinced her jealous…
1 hr 16 minNo. 58
The House at Greylake
Norfolk, early autumn: at Greylake, a wealthy patriarch is found stabbed in a lakeside “Chinese Room,” the weapon taken from his own…
1 hr 40 minNo. 57
The Letter from the Dead
England, early 1930s: when a precise, chilling letter reaches the Belgian Detective seven days after its sender’s death, he and his loyal…
1 hr 29 minNo. 56
Let the Dead Bank Lie
Scotland: after a bitter solicitor dies, his heir inherits not peace but a paper-obsessed legacy—anonymous block-capital threats, a…
1 hr 12 minNo. 55
The Man Who Dreamed Another Man’s Crime
Copenhagen, 1932: a timid bank clerk walks into a branch office with a revolver, leaves two men dead, and insists “he told me I must,”…
1 hr 23 minNo. 54
The Woman of Bucks Road
Isle of Man, 1914: a solitary widow is found murdered in her modest house at No. 40 Bucks Road, Douglas, and the town rushes to the…
1 hr 47 minNo. 53
The House of False Doors
Chicago in the late Jazz Age: a wealthy widow on Prairie Avenue fears she is being watched inside her own immaculate home, and a…
1 hr 28 minNo. 52
The Woman in Black
In the hills above Orsano, an ancient castle broods over a gorge and holds its family like a prison, and when a countess summons the…
1 hr 28 minNo. 51
The Shadow in Lost Man’s Lane
In late autumn 1929, a practical woman’s letter draws the Belgian Detective and his loyal companion to a Sussex village gripped by…
1 hr 23 minNo. 50
The Blue Cottage Affair
A “restful” three-day escape to Briar Glen House curdles into scandal when a hunted young widow knocks at the wrong window after midnight…
1 hr 40 minNo. 49
The Last Waltz at Schönbrunn
In winter 1928 Vienna, the Belgian Detective and his loyal companion are summoned to Schönbrunn after a count and a young diplomat’s…
1 hr 20 minNo. 48
The Borrowed Diamonds
At a glittering London charity ball, a famed diamond necklace “vanishes” from a patron’s throat without a broken clasp, turning good…
1 hr 25 minNo. 47
The Adventure of the Indiscreet Photograph
In spring 1902, Sherlock Holmes is summoned to the West End when a celebrated Bond Street couturier is found dead in his bath with a…
1 hr 27 minNo. 46
The Vanishing of Monsieur d’Aubel
A powerful Belgian financier vanishes from his private aeroplane between England and Brussels, leaving behind only offended…
1 hr 20 minNo. 45
The Seventh Day Bill
In autumn 1894, Sherlock Holmes is summoned from Baker Street to a rain-soaked county town where a chapel coronet is stolen, an innocent…
1 hr 48 minNo. 44
The Bullet in the Bookstall
At a Paris book exhibition, a head of state is shot in daylight and the hall is sealed in a storm of procedure, panic, and “official”…
1 hr 36 minNo. 43
Footsteps Behind the Door
In 1932, a crested letter draws the Belgian Detective and his loyal companion to La Ventana, a vast Uruguayan estancia where a respected…
1 hr 11 minNo. 42
The Real Shadow at Bertram’s
When an old friend summons a village sleuth to Bertram’s Hotel over an anonymous letter tied to a vanished aristocrat scandal, a…
1 hr 9 minNo. 41
The Tea at Blenheim
On the eve of a lavish engagement celebration at Blenheim, a Duke begs the Belgian Detective to save him from a menace no one will name…
1 hr 44 minNo. 40
The Night the Music Stopped
In early wartime London, a poised woman arrives with a compact mirror hiding a coded warning—“the music will stop once”—and the Belgian…
1 hr 34 minNo. 39
The Respectable Collectors
In quiet St. Mary Mead, a flawlessly polite new family settles into village life just as a major London bullion raid shocks the country…
1 hr 18 minNo. 38
Death on Skerry Bog
A doctor’s “quiet” invitation becomes anything but when two working sisters are shot dead beside turf stacks on Skerry Bog—broad daylight…
1 hr 38 minNo. 37
Death Among the Ruins
On a sun-blasted archaeological dig in Sicily, a night guard is found half-buried in a trench—too new to be history, too deliberate to be…
1 hr 24 minNo. 36
A Bullet for the Headlines
Chicago in winter does not lie—it exposes. When a young woman is found dead in a hotel room marked with the number 814, the crime is quickly framed as scandal and spectacle. But for Veronica Lakewood, the number is not a coincidence—it is a signature meant to turn her into a public villain.
1 hr 39 minNo. 35
A Respectable Death
On a rain-soaked London afternoon, a grieving sister brings the Belgian Detective a damp household notebook and a claim no one wants to…
1 hr 20 minNo. 34
The Museum of Borrowed Things
An after-hours private viewing at a prestigious London museum is meant to demonstrate order, generosity, and impeccable security—until a…
1 hr 9 minNo. 33
The Prince Who Vanished in Chicago
Chicago was supposed to be a quiet evening. A famous jazz bar, good music, no work—just Veronica Lakewood and Captain Hastings attempting…
44 minNo. 32
Poirot and The Séance on Sark
Sark is the kind of island that makes escape feel impossible: no motor-cars, narrow lanes, stone walls, and cliff paths where one wrong…
1 hr 9 minNo. 31
Poirot: The Istanbul Ferry Alibi
In Istanbul, where continents stare at each other across the Bosphorus, Poirot boards an ordinary public ferry—crowded benches…
1 hr 15 minNo. 30
Maigret: Le Vol de la Rue de la Paix
Rue de la Paix brille comme un mensonge poli : vitrines impeccables, lettres dorées, velours noir… et l’illusion que le crime reste dehors.
1 hr 15 minNo. 29
Poirot and The Lighthouse Guesthouse
A storm cuts the last crossing. The tide rises like a verdict. And a handful of strangers find themselves stranded overnight on a jagged…
1 hr 15 minNo. 28
Poirot: The Second Death
A foreign prince arrives in London and checks into the Hôtel Beauclair—polished brass, soft carpets, perfect discretion. By morning, he is…
1 hr 46 minNo. 27
Poirot and The Widow’s Ledger
Old English money doesn’t retire into peace. It retires into upholstery. At Wrenham Court, Mrs. Octavia Merrow ruled from a monstrous…
1 hr 21 minNo. 26
Maigret: The Two Deaths of Pigalle
Pigalle still flickers in 1943—under curfew, under occupation, under the tired rules everyone pretends to obey. Behind the velvet curtain…
55 minNo. 25
Poirot and the Choir of Whispers
Rome is a city that forgives almost anything—so long as it happens quietly. Poirot and Hastings arrive for a restful fortnight, only to be…
1 hr 21 minNo. 24
Poirot and the House That Refused the Dead
Blackthorn Vale is the kind of English country house where superstition wears good manners—and calls itself “tradition.”…
1 hr 4 minNo. 23
POIROT AND THE PERFECT ALIBI
Marleigh Halt is the sort of country station where time doesn’t simply pass—it’s enforced. The station clock hangs over the…
1 hr 4 minNo. 22
Miss Marple: The Door That Tapped at One
Briarwood looks like an ordinary country house—added to in stages, slightly awkward, full of “character.” But the house…
1 hr 16 minNo. 21
Poirot and the Two Crowns
Lisbon, seen from the river, looks like a city built for peace—white hills, red roofs, and the Tagus glittering as if…
1 hr 23 minNo. 20
The Kidnapping of Hercule Poirot
London can turn from civilized to savage without changing its hat. One moment, Hercule Poirot is enjoying a modest lunch…
1 hr 33 minNo. 19
The Cruise Ship Conundrum (Revisited)
The SS Atlantica was built to sell an illusion: elegance, order, and escape. Then the sea starts moving… and so do the lies.…
1 hr 15 minNo. 18
New Year’s Eve in Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo believes it is untouchable—especially on New Year’s Eve. Inside the Casino de Monte-Carlo, scandals bloom on…
45 minNo. 17
Veronica Lakewood: New Year’s Eve
Chicago was counting down to midnight. Champagne flowed. Music rose. And beneath the glitter of wealth and confidence…
1 hr 24 minNo. 15
Poirot: The Christmas Eve Silence
Christmas Eve makes honest people predictable. On Valette Street in London, a small tobacconist stays open late—lights on…
50 minNo. 14
Poirot and the Christmas Eve Catastrophe
Paris prides itself on elegance—especially on Christmas Eve. But beneath the glitter of Rue Montaigne, precision can become…
53 minNo. 13
The Light at Foilhomurrum
Ireland’s western edge does not forgive mistakes. When Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings arrive on Valentia Island, they…
1 hr 9 minNo. 12
The Edinburgh Ledger
Edinburgh is a city of stone, sermons, and spotless reputations. It is also a city of keys quietly copied, doors politely…
55 minNo. 10
The Silent Bride of Amsterdam
A young woman found drowned in an Amsterdam canal. A bridal gown worn to the water’s edge. And a verdict that arrives far too quickly…
51 minNo. 9
Hercule Poirot: The Blackmailed Bride
A poisoned cup of cocoa. A young woman arrested for murder. And a secret devotion hidden behind respectable smiles. When a sealed envelope…
52 minNo. 8
The Shot in Suite 814
A midnight shooting in a luxury hotel. A baseball idol who survives when he should have died. And a showgirl who fires twice — and still…
1 hr 14 minNo. 7
Hercule Poirot: The Duel of the Two Countesses
Two countesses. One duel at dawn. And a man found dead in the reeds before breakfast. When Lady Venetia Temple-Barrett and Lady Aurelia…
52 minNo. 6
Poirot and the Ebon House
A bride and groom dead on their wedding night. A locked room in a “cursed” house. A perfect circle of scorched floorboards beneath a…
1 hr 2 minNo. 5
Poirot and the Prague Affair
A divided city. A new opera called Eternal Love. And a baritone crushed to death behind the curtain on opening night. Hastings persuades…
1 hr 17 minNo. 4
Miss Marple and the Empty Cradle
A missing baby. A ladder at the nursery window. A ransom note demanding £10,000. And one very sharp old lady who sees what…
1 hr 5 minNo. 3
Poirot and the Shadow of Whitechapel
London’s East End remembers. Decades after the terror of Jack the Ripper, workmen in Whitechapel tear down an old house and uncover a…
1 hr 23 minNo. 2
The Case of the Vanished Viscount
Thirty years ago, a young heir was believed drowned at sea. Now a stranger walks up to the gates of Tichborne Hall and claims to be the…
59 minNo. 1