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2 videodiscs (approximately 307 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Acclaimed mystery novelist Agatha Christie has written some of the world's most loved crime stories, including the tales of Hercule Poirot, Miss Jane Marple, and more. These collector's items will introduce new viewers to the Agatha Christie mysteries by featuring some of the best television adaptations.
A man is accused in the murder of a wealthy woman who made him her heir and claims that his wife can prove his innocence, but his wife, as it turns...
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3 videodiscs (450 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Never one to sit idle, Miss Marple finds her luxurious Barbados vacation a bit dull until Major Palgrave's murder turns it into A Caribbean Mystery. Her London stay seems a bit too perfect until she discovers something sinister behind the Edwardian façade At Bertram's Hotel. How can Miss Marple resist visiting the seaside villa of a young couple plagued by terrifying memories of a Sleeping Murder? And how will she solve an unspecified crime in Nemesis,...
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3 videodiscs (approximately 630 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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From the mind of mystery maven Agatha Christie comes what is considered to be the original crime-solving couple, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Redefining the conventions of the mystery genre, providing a prototype for many male/female detective teams that followed.
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2 videodiscs (397 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In the 1930s, ten strangers are invited to an island by a mysterious host and begin to be killed one by one; fourteen years after her sister was executed for murdering her husband, a woman asks Hercule Poirot to find the truth; when a woman's harassment of a newly married couple turns deadly, Hercule Poirot attempts to solve the mystery.
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3 videodiscs (approximately 7 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The body in the library: "A beautiful spring morning is marred when the corpse of a platinum blonde is discovered in the library of Gossington Hall, home of Colonel and Mrs. Bantry."
A murder is announced: "When an intriguing ad in the Chipping Cleghorn paper invites the villagers to witness a murder one evening at Miss Blacklock's home, everyone turns out in force expecting a new kind of party game. At the appointed hour the lights go out, three...
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2 videodiscs (387 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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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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English
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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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1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When a wealthy widow is found murdered, her married lover is accused of the crime. His only hope for acquittal is the testimony of his wife, proving his alibi. However, she has some secrets of her own to reveal.
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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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English
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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.
15) The pale horse
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1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In Agatha Christie's deepest venture into the occult, writer Mark Easterbrook is accused of murdering a priest. As he sets out to prove his innocence, he discovers that a series of deaths may be connected to witchcraft and a strange trio of sisters!
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1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In 1920s London, brutal and bloodthirsty murder has stained the plush carpets of a handsome London townhouse. The victim is the glamorous and rich Emily French. All the evidence points to Leonard Vole, a young chancer to whom the heiress left her vast fortune and who ruthlessly took her life. At least, this is the story that Emily's dedicated housekeeper Janet Mcintyre stands by in court. Leonard however, is adamant that his partner, the enigmatic...
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1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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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...
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9 videodiscs (approximately 1431 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Completely restored and remastered in stunning high definition, see Agatha Christie's Miss Marple as never before! Joan Hickson, the actress Agatha Christie herself wanted for the role, stars as the shrewd sleuth in twelve thrilling whodunits.
Volume 1: "The murder at the vicarage": With her gift for sniffing out the malevolent side of human nature, Miss Marple is led on her first case to a crime scene at the local vicarage. "The moving finger":...
19) Crooked house
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1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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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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