Agatha Christie
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THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY OF ALL TIME—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH AND PRODUCED BY RIDLEY SCOTT!
"The murderer is with us—on the train now . . ."
Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door
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Agatha Christie's first Tommy & Tuppence book is a thrill-packed novel of international intrigue, murder and suspense. Tommy and Tuppence, two young people short of money and restless for excitement, embark on a daring business scheme - Young Adventurers Ltd. Their advertisement says they are 'willing to do anything, go anywhere'. But their first assignment, for the sinister Mr. Whittington, plunges them into more danger than they ever imagined ......
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Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffee house is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified, but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done. Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at a fashionable London hotel have been murdered, and a cufflink has been placed in each one's mouth. Could there be a connection with...
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2 videodiscs (387 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The mysterious affair at Styles: Poirot and Hastings tackle their first case together when a wealthy old woman is poisoned.
Dead man's folly: Fiction turns to fact when a girl is killed at a "murder hunt" devised by crime writer Ariadne Oliver, who calls upon Poirot to help.
The mirror crack'd from side to side: Miss Marple ponders a cast of suspicious characters when a villager dies at a party hosted by a movie star.
A Caribbean mystery: After...
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2 videodiscs (359 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Partners in crime. The secret adversary: In this sparkling adaptation, charming crime-solvers Tommy and Tuppenece Beresford stumble into spy craft while seraching for a missing woman in Cold War-era Britain.
Ordeal by innocence: Miss Marple is drawn into the Argyle family's tragic history when she visits for a wedding and realizes a murderer is in their midst.
The hollow: Invited for a weekend in the country with the Angkatell clan, Poirot untangles...
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Agatha Christie Poirot the movie collection volume set 5
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1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Poirot travels from Istanbul to London on the famed Orient Express, and is embroiled in the murder of a wealthy businessman when the train becomes snowbound. Also includes special features.
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1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Ten people -- eight strangers and two married domestics -- attend a posh weekend at a remote castle. Each has unwittingly been invited to his or her own murder. A familiar nursery rhyme of ten Indian figurines is affixed to a serving plate at the castle. After the fatal poisoning of a guest, one figurine goes missing. One down, nine to go.
An Agatha Christie mystery that brings together ten total strangers at an isolated desert inn, where a tape-recorded...
11) Crooked house
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1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In Agatha Christie's most twisted tale, a spy-turned-private-detective is lured by his former lover to catch her grandfather's murderer before Scotland Yard exposes dark family secrets.
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2 videodiscs (177 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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It's 1939 and Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Indian Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast in southern England. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. As each member of the party starts to die one by one, the survivors realize that one of them is a killer and start to turn on each other.
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1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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What starts out as a lavish train ride through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the most stylish, suspenseful and thrilling mysteries ever told. From the novel by best-selling author Agatha Christie, tells the tale of thirteen strangers stranded on a train, where everyone is a suspect. One man must race against time to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again.
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1 videodisc (approximately 127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Hercule Poirot is a dapper detective, aboard the Orient Express, for whom murder-solving is a precise, intellectual exercise. When murder occurs, Poirot agrees to interview all aboard the famous trains Calais coach, hoping to find the killer of an American millionarie before the local police arrive.