Hugh Fraser
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Considered one of the greatest mysteries of all times, ten strangers, each with a dark secret, are gathered together on an isolated island by a mysterious host. One by one, they die, and before the weekend is out, there will be none.
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Lucy Angkatell hosts a weekend get-together at her country estate, she appears to overlook the obvious fact that all her guests loathe one another. Poirot enjoys a ringside seat for the bizarre goings-on, but he is thrust into an active role when the proceedings suddenly turn deadly.
4) Third girl
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 31
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this breathtaking Agatha Christie mystery, the Third Girl sharing a London flat with two others announces to Hercule Poirot that she's a murderer and then disappears. The masterful investigator must figure out whether the missing girl is a criminal, a victim, or merely insane.
Three young women share a London flat. The first is a coolly efficient secretary. The second is an artist. The third interrupts
...Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
At a dinner party, Lady Edgware tells Hercule Poirot that she wishes her husband was dead so that she could marry the Duke of Merton, and a day later Lord Edgware is found murdered.
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 23
Publisher
Audio Partners
Pub. Date
p2004
Physical Desc
7 sound discs (8 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At a dinner party a guest compares the labours of Poirot to those of the Greek hero Hercules. Poirot has already decided to retire, but first he will take on twelve remarkable cases in the contemporary world that correspond to the twelve labours of Hercules.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The meticulous detective Hercule Poirot suspects the worst of the death of a dentist in this classic mystery by Queen of Whodunits, Agatha Christie. Even the great detective Hercule Poirot harbored a deep and abiding fear of the dentist, so it was with some trepidation that he arrived at the celebrated Dr. Morley's surgery for a dental examination. But what neither of them knew was that only hours later Poirot would be back to examine the dentist,...
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Continues the exploits of Richard Sharpe, a soldier who rises from the British ranks to become an officer during the Napoleonic Wars. In this episode Sharpe becomes involved in the partisan gun trade while searching for hidden Aztec gold.
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Continues the exploits of Richard Sharpe, a soldier who rises from the British ranks to become an officer during the Napoleonic Wars. In this episode, Sharpe goes looking for a regiment of replacements who exist on paper, but cannot be located physically.
10) Sharpe's siege
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Continues the exploits of Richard Sharpe, a soldier who rises from the British ranks to become an officer during the Napoleonic Wars. In this episode, Sharpe goes on a mission through the Pyrenees to capture a French fort.
11) Poirot: Set 1
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A collection of episodes of the popular television series about a Belgian sleuth.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An elderly woman confides to Poirot that she fears one of her relatives is trying to kill her for her money. He persuades her to disinherit her heirs, but she is murdered anyway.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005], c1989
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (306 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The third floor flat: With no case to occupy his mind, Poirot is in a blue mood. Hastings organizes an outing to cheer him up, but the effort fails miserably. Later that night a perplexing case crops up very close to home.
Triangle at Rhodes: On holiday on the Greek island of Rhodes, a famously beautiful woman takes up with the young husband of another guest. As he is about to leave, Poirot is called back to the hotel when trouble between the couples...
15) Poirot: Set 7, 8
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (306 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This set includes 6 episodes.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the summer of 1917, the story follows the war-wounded Captain Arthur Hastings to the Styles St. Mary estate of his friend John Cavendish. The Cavendish household is wrought with tension due to the marriage of John's widowed mother to a suspicious younger man. Hastings runs into his old friend Hercule Poirot In the village. When the estate's trouble turns deadly, the friends unite to solve a most baffling case.
19) Poirot: Set 2
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three episodes of the impeccably turned-out diminutive Belgian sleuth. With the his razor sharp mind and the aid of the affable 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.