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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE RELEASING OCTOBER 9, 2020 —DIRECTED BY AND STARRING KENNETH BRANAGH Following the success of Murder on the Orient Express directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh and Gal Gadot, Twentieth Century Fox will next adapt this classic Hercule Poirot mystery for the big screen.Beloved detective Hercule Poirot embarks on a journey to Egypt in one of Agatha Christie’s most famous mysteries, Death on the Nile.The tranquility of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything . . . until she lost her life.Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: "I''d like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger." Yet in this exotic setting nothing is ever quite what it seems.

I was thrilled to see Poirot in such very, very good hands. Gillian Flynn, New York Times bestselling author of Gone GirlThe worlds greatest detective,Hercule Poirotlegendarystar of Agatha ChristiesMurder on the Orient Expressand Death on the Nilereturns to solve a delectablytwisty mysteryHercule Poirot is traveling by luxury passengercoach from London to the exclusiveKingfisher Hill estate. Richard Devonport hassummoned the renowned detective to prove thathis fiance, Helen, is innocent of the murder ofhis brother, Frank. Poirot will have only days toinvestigate before Helen is hanged, but there isone strange condition attached: he must concealhis true reason for being there from the rest of theDevonport family.The coach is forced to stop when a distressedwoman demands to get off, insisting that if shestays in her seat, she will be murdered. Althoughthe rest of the journey passes without anyone beingharmed, Poirots curiosity is aroused, and his fearsare later confirmed when a body is discoveredwith a macabre note attached . . .Could this new murder and the peculiarincident on the coach be clues to solving themystery of who killed Frank Devonport? And ifHelen is innocent, can Poirot find the true culpritin time to save her from the gallows?

The classic Evil Under the Sun, one of the most famous of Agatha Christies Poirot investigations, has the fastidious sleuth on the trail of the killer of a sun-bronzed beauty whose death brings some rather shocking secrets into the light.The beautiful bronzed body of Arlena Stuart lay face down on the beach. But strangely, there was no sun and Arlena was not sunbathingshe had been strangled.Ever since Arlenas arrival the air had been thick with sexual tension. Each of the guests had a motive to kill her, including Arlenas new husband. But Hercule Poirot suspects that this apparent crime of passion conceals something much more evil.

In Hercule Poirots Christmas, the holidays are anything but merry when a family reunion is marred by murderand the notoriously fastidious investigator is quickly on the case.Christmas Eve, and the Lee familys reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed.When Hercule Poirot offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason to hate the old man. . . .

A most unusual series of crimes at a student hostel intrigues Inspector Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christies Hickory Dickory Dock, especially when a simple case of kleptomania paves the way to murder.Hercule Poirot doesnt need all his detective skills to realize something is troubling his secretary, Miss Lemonshe has made three mistakes in a simple letter. It seems an outbreak of kleptomania at the student hostel in which her sister works is distracting his usually efficient assistant.Deciding that desperate times call for desperate measures, the great detective agrees to investigate. Unknown to Poirot, however, desperation is a motive he shares with a killer. . . .

When a Halloween Party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirots to unmask a murderer in Agatha Christies classic murder mystery, Halloween Party.At a Halloween party, Joycea hostile thirteen-year-oldboasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the `evil presence'. But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE RELEASING OCTOBER 9, 2020 DIRECTED BY AND STARRINGKENNETH BRANAGH Beloved detective Hercule Poirot embarks on a journey to Egypt in one of Agatha Christies most famous mysteries, Death on the Nile.The tranquility of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything . . . until she lost her life.Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: "e;I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger."e; Yet in this exotic setting nothing is ever quite what it seems.

Voted by the British Crime Writers Association as the "e;Best Crime Novel of all Time"e;Hercule Poirot comes out of retirement in one of Agatha Christies ten favorite novels, The Murder of Rojer Ackroyd.Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Then, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with an apparent drug overdose.However the evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of information, but before he could finish reading the letter, he was stabbed to death. Luckily one of Rogers friends and the newest resident to retire to this normally quiet village takes overnone other than Monsieur Hercule Poirot.