Hercule Poirot`s Travels
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Hercule Poirot`s Travels
London Deauville Brussels Paris Nice Aleppo Bagdad EGYPT Rhodes Hercule Poirot’s Travels Montage © Pascale 2009 Syria Travel with Poirot London Deauville Brussels Paris Nice Aleppo EGYPT Rhodes Pictures: TV serie Granada Production All Rights Reserved. Novels: Agatha Christie Ltd All Rights Reserved Syria Bagdad DEAUVILLE 1923 MURDER ON THE LINKS Poirot and Hastings are on holiday in Deauville and receive a visit from Paul Renauld, who believes he's being cheated by Chileans. Renauld is kidnapped and his body is later found buried in a new golf bunker. French detective Giraud unwisely challenges Poirot to catch the killer before he can. Meanwhile, Hastings is diverted by love – he has fallen heavily for an actress called Dulcie Duveen. Dulcie has a twin sister called Bella. And one of them appears to be mixed up in the killing of Renault. Text: www.TV.com All Rights Reserved. Pictures: TV serie Granada Production All Rights Reserved. Novels: Agatha Christie Ltd All Rights Reserved PARIS 1935 DEATH IN THE CLOUDS Poirot falls asleep on a short aeroplane flight from Paris to London, and one of the other passengers, Madame Giselle, is killed by a poison dart while he sleeps. Poirot finds out that she was a moneylender, which may provide a motive for the killing. Poirot now has two firm suspects in his investigation of a murder on board an aeroplane. But nailing the killer down takes time. Text: www.TV.com All Rights Reserved. Pictures: TV serie Granada Production All Rights Reserved. Novels: Agatha Christie Ltd All Rights Reserved BRUSSELS 1924 THE CHOCOLATE BOX Poirot returns to Belgium for the first time since the Great War, and there he revisits a twenty-year-old murder mystery that was never officially solved. We flash back to an eager young detective on the Brussels police force, working to serve a young woman who has come to him for help. In the process, the pin the older Poirot wears is identified. Text: www.TV.com All Rights Reserved. Pictures: TV serie Granada Production All Rights Reserved. Novels: Agatha Christie Ltd All Rights Reserved NICE 1928 THE MYSTERY OF THE BLUE TRAIN Poirot meets the beautiful Katherine Grey in a London restaurant and agrees to keep her company on a journey on the Blue Train to the south of France. Katherine has recently inherited a lot of money and has been invited to visit some relations there, but she feels socially intimidated. Also on the train is Ruth Kettering, the daughter of the American oil tycoon Rufus van Aldin, not to mention the husband Ruth has just left (Derek Kettering) and also her lover – but Ruth gets brutally killed on the train, and her famous ruby is stolen. Later, Katherine Grey survives a murderous attack. Luckily, Poirot is on hand to solve the mysteries. Text: www.TV.com All Rights Reserved. Pictures: TV serie Granada Production All Rights Reserved. Novels: Agatha Christie Ltd All Rights Reserved LUXOR 1924 h Arc cal i g o aeol vel a r T THE ADVENTURE OF THE EGYPTIAN TOMB An archaeologist dies of a heart attack shortly after opening an ancient Egyptian tomb, but his widow thinks there is dirty work at the crossroads and calls in Poirot. Poirot dismisses the idea of a mummy's curse, and by risking his own life he smokes out a murderer. Text: www.TV.com All Rights Reserved. Pictures: TV serie Granada Production All Rights Reserved. Novels: Agatha Christie Ltd All Rights Reserved ALEXANDRIA 1936 ica g o l eo a h c Ar l PROBLEM AT SEA vel a r T Poirot and Hastings are on board a ship steaming towards Alexandria, in Egypt. Poirot recovers from his usual sea-sickness to take an interest in some fellow-passengers, especially the Clappertons. The rich Mrs Clapperton is offensively rude to lesser mortals, while Colonel Clapperton is rumoured to be not a real colonel at all, but a retired music-hall performer. On arrival at Alexandria, Mrs Clapperton is found murdered in her cabin, and Poirot finds (as usual) quite a number of suspects. Text: www.TV.com All Rights Reserved. Pictures: TV serie Granada Production All Rights Reserved. Novels: Agatha Christie Ltd All Rights Reserved LUXOR/ASWAN 1937 cal i g o aeol DEATH ON THE NILE vel a r T h Arc On board a steamer cruising the Nile in Egypt, Simon and Linnet Doyle are on their honeymoon, but they are being stalked by Jacqueline de Bellefort. She was engaged to Simon, when she introduced her old school friend Linnet to him – and Jacqueline is bitter about being cast off. Poirot is also on board the steamer, but nevertheless the cruise turns into a series of killings for him to solve. Text: www.TV.com All Rights Reserved. Pictures: TV serie Granada Production All Rights Reserved. Novels: Agatha Christie Ltd All Rights Reserved RHODES 1937 h Arc cal i g o aeol TRIANGLE AT RHODES vel a r T Poirot is staying at the Palace Hotel on the Aegean island of Rhodes. Among his fellow guests are an English couple, Commander and Mrs Chantry – and Poirot notices the beautiful Mrs Valentine Chantry flirting with other men. And then she is found dead, poisoned, and at once her husband is suspected. Is this a simple crime of passion, or is there some other motive at work? To solve the mystery, Poirot has to unravel a number of tangled relationships between those staying at the Palace Hotel. And he does not have the help of Hastings, who is not on the island. Text: www.TV.com All Rights Reserved. Pictures: TV serie Granada Production All Rights Reserved. Novels: Agatha Christie Ltd All Rights Reserved SYRIA 1937 ica g o l eo a h c Ar APPOINTMENT WITH THE DEATH l vel a r T On holiday in Jerusalem, Poirot hears about an archaeological expedition to Syria led by the eccentric Lord Boynton and his son Leonard, who believe they are on the track of the head of St John the Baptist. Drawn to visit the dig, Poirot meets Boynton's dominating, fabulously rich, American-born second wife. However, events are overtaken by the discovery of Lady Boynton's dead body and revelations about her fortune. Poirot is given the task of finding the killer. As ever, he has no shortage of suspects. Text: www.TV.com All Rights Reserved. Pictures: TV serie Granada Production All Rights Reserved. Novels: Agatha Christie Ltd All Rights Reserved ALEPPO 1934 ica g o l eo a h c Ar MURDER ON THE ORIENT-EXPRESS l vel a r T Travelling on the Orient Express, Poirot is approached by a desperate American named Ratchett. Afraid that someone plans to kill him, Ratchett asks Poirot for help. Sadly the very next day Ratchett's worst fears become reality, when he is found dead in his cabin, a victim of multiple stab wounds. With nothing but a scrap of paper to go on, Poirot must piece together Ratchett’s identity before he can establish which of his fellow passengers murdered him. Text: www.agathachristie.com All Rights Reserved. Pictures: PC Game Trailer 2006 The Adventure Company All Rights Reserved. BAGDAD 1936 ica g o l eo a h c Ar MURDER IN MESOPOTAMIA l vel a r T Poirot visits Hastings at an archaeological dig in Mesopotamia (the present-day Iraq), where he meets an impostor, a missing person, a thief, drugs, forged letters, sexual jealousy, professional rivalry, dark secrets and (need we say?) murder. All must be revealed. Text: www.TV.com All Rights Reserved. Pictures: TV serie Granada Production All Rights Reserved. Novels: Agatha Christie Ltd All Rights Reserved