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.

Geraldine McEwan returns to ITV1 as Jane Marple on 30th April in The Sittaford Mystery.

This is based on an Agatha Christie novel in which Miss Marple did not feature. ITV has bought the TV rights of all the Agatha Christie novels and is including Miss Marple in several of them to increase the number of viewers.

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 Mousetrap as a play has been running for many years....

It is simply written... it doesn't have flying cars or a song and dance routine.... and yet it has become a CLASSIC...

A murder has occured but 'who-dunnit'..... ?????...

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.

AT BERTRAM'S HOTEL

UK publication: 1965 (Collins) US publication: 1966 (Dodd, Mead)

Raymond West and his wife again decide to do something for Miss Marple, and give her a week's stay at Bertram's Hotel in London, which she had loved as a girl. She is about 75 years old by this point, and the story is slower-paced, giving her woolly thought processes time to be explored.

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)