David Suchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
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 locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again....
Author
Series
Chronicles of Narnia volume 6
Language
English
Description
Two English children undergo hair-raising adventures as they go on a search and rescue mission for the missing Prince Rilian, who is held captive in the underground kingdom of the Emerald Witch.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Previously published in the print anthology Murder in the Mews: Four Cases of Hercule Poirot. Hercule Poirot attends an auction and gets much more than he bid on: a disputed will, gunshots, and ancient Egyptian spirits. This might be Poirot's strangest case yet.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Three episodes of the impeccably turned-out diminutive Belgian sleuth. With the his razor sharp mind and the aid of the affabel Captain Hastings, Poirot unravels the thorniest cases without mussing a hair of his famously sculpted mustache. Set in the elegance 1930's England, the series also includes Chief Inspector Japp and Miss Lemon.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[c2000]
Language
English
Description
Three episodes of the impeccably turned-out diminutive Belgian sleuth. With the his razor sharp mind and the aid of the affabel Captain Hastings, Poirot unravels the thorniest cases without mussing a hair of his famously sculpted mustache. Set in the elegance of 1930's England, the series also includes Chief Inspector Japp and Miss Lemon.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"The Case of the Missing Will: Poirot is the executor of a revised will that disappears when its author dies suddenly. The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman: Hastings' decision to buy an elegant Italian car coincides with a case involving an Italian count. The Chocolate Box: A trip home to Belgium with Japp causes Poirot to reopen a case that he failed to solve 20 years earlier."--Container.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Language
English
Description
Three hour-long mysteries. "The kidnapped prime minister": Poirot is called to solve the case when Britain's prime minister vanishes on the eve of important international negotiations. "The adventure of the western star": Poirot is called to investigate when a Belgian film star's priceless diamond disappears after she receives threatening letters. "How does your garden grow?" : An alleged Communist conspiracy casts suspicion on the Russian servant...
Publisher
Distributed by RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
Agatha Christie's beloved Belgian detective returns in these four feature-length mysteries from the hit series. Set amid the un paralleled elegance of the Art Deco era, these beautifully remastered adaptations star David Suchet as the peerless Hercule Poirot.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2003], c1993
Language
English
Description
The adventure of the Egyptian tomb: After an archeological dig turns deadly, Poirot must distinguish between ordinary evil and an other-worldly curse. The underdog: Hasting's passion for golf, and Poirot's for art, lead them to the scene of a baffling murder. The yellow Iris: The death of a British heiress haunts Poirot for two years before he has a chance to confront her killer.
17) Sad cypress
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 18
Language
English
Description
Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, only one man still presumed Elinor was innocent until proven guilty: Hercule Poirot was all that stood between Elinor and the gallows.
Author
Language
English
Description
First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond . . . then came the "suicide" that was murder . . . the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat . . .a suspicious death in a locked gun room . . . a million dollar bond robbery . . . the curse of a pharaoh's tomb . . . a jewel robbery by the sea . . . the abduction of a prime minister . . . the disappearance of a banker . . . a phone call from a dying man . . .and, finally, the mystery of the...