ITV1 is showing the two hour The Mystery of the Blue Train starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot. The film starts at 8pm this evening.

The Mystery of the Blue Train is from series 12 of the David Suchet Poirot series - the latest to have been screened - and was premiered on ITV1 on New Year's Day.

David Suchet stars in Taken at the Flood, the third of this season of new Hercule Poirot films. It will be screened on 2nd April on ITV1 in the UK.

A stranger is found murdered at Warmsley Vale and the Cloade family ask for Poirot's help to find out if the dead man was Rosaleen Cloade's first husband.

David Suchet is back in the Hercule Poirot season on ITV1 on Sunday 26th March.

In After the Funeral, the family of the late Richard Abernethie, a wealthy old man, gather to hear his will when one of the family remarks that he must have been murdered.

David Suchet returns as Hercule Poirot on ITV1 in the UK on Sunday 19th March in Cards on the Table.

Look out for Honeysuckle Weeks (of Foyle's War) and Zoe Wanamaker as Ariadne Oliver, Christie's humorous self-caricature.

The works of Agatha Christie

The dates of the first publication or stage play and the US titles are listed. The English titles are in parentheses if they are different.

Unless otherwise stated the
publishers are Dodd, Mead in New York and Collins in London.

Hercule Poirot appeared on film for the first time in 1931. Alibi was an adaptation of Michael Morton's stage version of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926). He was played by the tall, dark and handsome matinee idol Austin Trevor. In spite of his physical unsuitability, Trevor played the dapper detective in two more films, Black Coffee (1931), an adaptation of Christie's first play, and Lord Edgware Dies (1934) based on the 1933 novel.

HICKORY DICKORY DOCK

US title: HICKORY DICKORY DEATH UK publication: 1955 (Collins) US publication: 1955 (Dodd, Mead)

The story has no real connection with the nursery rhyme. Poirot is introduced to the affair through Miss Lemon, making her first appearance in a Poirot novel. Her sister, who runs a boarding house for students, has had an outbreak of petty theft. Poirot investigates, and the trail leads to murder.

THE ABC MURDERS

Other titles: THE ALPHABET MURDERS (in US reprint, Pocket Books, 1966) UK publication: 1935 (Collins) US publication: 1935 (Dodd, Mead)

David Suchet returned as Hercule Poirot with eight new two hour dramas after a break of a few years.

David Suchet began filming Poirot TV films again in June 2003. The first of these was Five Little Pigs followed by Sad Cypress, Death on the Nile and The Hollow.

David Suchet returned to play Hercule Poirot in 2004 in the remake of Death on the Nile. The film was premiered on UK television in April 2004.