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From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 3 Episode 1 - The Mysterious Affair at Styles
    8.7/10(6 votes)

    #1 - The Mysterious Affair at Styles

    S3:E1

    Recovering from the horrors of World War I, British Army officer Arthur Hastings hopes to find peace and quiet at a country manor in the English countryside. But when the matriarch dies during the night from strychnine poisoning, Hastings enlists the help of an old friend staying nearby with other war refugees to help solve the murder: former Belgian police detective Hercule Poirot.

    Director:Ross Devenish
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 13 Episode 5 - Curtain: Poirot's Last Case
    8.5/10(24 votes)

    #2 - Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

    S13:E5

    An ailing Poirot returns to Styles with Hastings nearly three decades after solving their first mystery together there in order to prevent an unscrupulous and ingenious serial killer from claiming more victims.

    Director:Hettie Macdonald
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 9 Episode 1 - Five Little Pigs
    8.3/10(28 votes)

    #3 - Five Little Pigs

    S9:E1

    Lucy Crale hires Poirot to solve the murder of her father sixteen years before, and Poirot finds a number of possible suspects who are still alive.

    Director:Paul Unwin
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 3 Episode 5 - Wasps' Nest
    8.2/10(20 votes)

    #4 - Wasps' Nest

    S3:E5

    Poirot visits a garden fete, where a wasps' nest adds to the tension. He meets the son of an old friend who has his girl-friend, a fashion model, with him, and Poirot soon suspects that they are both in danger. He has to solve a mystery which includes cyanide, failing brakes and mixed-up love lives. Meanwhile, Hastings has a new hobby which Poirot finds helpful in cracking the case.

    Director:Brian Farnham
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 4 Episode 1 - The ABC Murders
    8.2/10(28 votes)

    #5 - The ABC Murders

    S4:E1

    Beside the bodies of three murder victims lies a copy of the ABC Railway Guide.

    Director:Andrew Grieve
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 2 Episode 5 - The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim
    8.0/10(20 votes)

    #6 - The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim

    S2:E5

    Matthew Davenheim, a rich banker, disappears on a walk from his country house to the village post office, and Inspector Japp of Scotland Yard is put onto the case. Poirot, who has developed an interest in conjuring tricks, bets Japp five pounds that he can solve the mystery without leaving his apartment.

    Director:Andrew Grieve
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 3 Episode 2 - How Does Your Garden Grow?
    8.0/10(23 votes)

    #7 - How Does Your Garden Grow?

    S3:E2

    Suggestions of a Communist conspiracy cast suspicion on a murdered woman's Russian servant. Meanwhile, Poirot has a rose named after him, and a ceremony at the Chelsea Flower Show makes him the centre of attention. Hastings receives a packet of seeds and develops hay fever.

    Director:Brian Farnham
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 5 Episode 3 - The Yellow Iris
    8.0/10(17 votes)

    #8 - The Yellow Iris

    S5:E3

    Friends and family gather at a dinner party to mark the second anniversary of a woman's death. Meanwhile, Poirot is caught up in a coup d'etat and arrested as a spy, which prevents him from solving a murder at a French restaurant owned by an Italian in Buenos Aires.

    Director:Peter Barber-Fleming
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 6 Episode 1 - Hercule Poirot's Christmas
    8.0/10(24 votes)

    #9 - Hercule Poirot's Christmas

    S6:E1

    Poirot's Christmas is interrupted by Simeon Lee, who believes his life is threatened. Simeon is soon killed and his diamonds stolen.

    Director:Edward Bennett
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 13 Episode 1 - Elephants Can Remember
    8.0/10(19 votes)

    #10 - Elephants Can Remember

    S13:E1

    Poirot investigates a strange and gruesome murder of an elderly psychiatrist. Ariadne Oliver is pressed to try and uncover the truth behind two decade-old deaths. They soon find out that their separate investigations are linked and work together to try and solve the mystery.

    Director:John Strickland
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 13 Episode 3 - Dead Man's Folly
    8.0/10(20 votes)

    #11 - Dead Man's Folly

    S13:E3

    Ariadne Oliver is asked to devise a murder hunt for a Devon fête, but her sense of foreboding summons Poirot to the scene. Her fears are realized when, during the fête, the girl playing her murder victim winds up well and truly murdered.

    Director:Tom Vaughan
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 13 Episode 4 - The Labours of Hercules
    8.0/10(19 votes)

    #12 - The Labours of Hercules

    S13:E4

    In an effort to recover his confidence after a rare professional failure, Poirot sets off for the Swiss Alps in pursuit of a missing maid.

    Director:Andy Wilson
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 3 Episode 6 - The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor
    7.9/10(18 votes)

    #13 - The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor

    S3:E6

    Poirot is summoned to Marsdon by the owner of a country inn there to solve a murder. But the inn-keeper is a would-be thriller writer, and to Poirot's dismay the murder turns out to be fictional. Thankfully, though, there is soon a real (if seemingly supernatural) murder at the big house. Things get even more interesting when a young wife claims that a tree in her garden is haunted by a laughing ghost, and there are also signs of black magic from East Africa. Poirot lays a clever ambush to smoke out the killer,confident that he or she will turn out to be human.

    Director:Renny Rye
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 3 Episode 9 - The Theft of the Royal Ruby
    7.9/10(21 votes)

    #14 - The Theft of the Royal Ruby

    S3:E9

    Poirot prepares to spend a quiet Christmas on his own with a box of chocolates, but he has to give up his plans when the British government asks for his urgent help. Prince Farouk, a young member of the Egyptian royal family visiting London, has lost a famous ruby, and this is deemed to be a matter of national security.

    Director:Andrew Grieve
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 8 Episode 1 - Evil Under the Sun
    7.9/10(28 votes)

    #15 - Evil Under the Sun

    S8:E1

    After collapsing with heart problems, Hercule Poirot visits a seaside health farm on Burgh Island. While there, the flirtatious heiress Arlena Stewart is found strangled on a secluded beach.

    Director:Brian Farnham
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 11 Episode 3 - Third Girl
    7.9/10(19 votes)

    #16 - Third Girl

    S11:E3

    Three single girls share a London flat. The first works as a secretary; the second is an artist; the third, who comes to Poirot for help, disappears believing she is a murderer.

    Director:Dan Reed
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 12 Episode 1 - Three Act Tragedy
    7.9/10(21 votes)

    #17 - Three Act Tragedy

    S12:E1

    When a vicar chokes to death on a cocktail while attending a party held by actor Sir Charles Cartwright, Poirot initially dismisses the idea of murder but reconsiders when another guest dies in the same manner.

    Director:Charles Palmer
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 12 Episode 2 - Hallowe'en Party
    7.9/10(34 votes)

    #18 - Hallowe'en Party

    S12:E2

    During a village's Hallowe'en party, a young girl boasts of having witnessed a murder from years before. No one believes her tale until her body is found later on in the evening, drowned in the apple-bobbing bucket.

    Director:Philip Martin
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 1 Episode 5 - The Third Floor Flat
    7.8/10(23 votes)

    #19 - The Third Floor Flat

    S1:E5

    Poirot discovers a murder in his own block of flats, and goes on the trail of boisterous neighbours and strange nocturnal noises in the lift shaft.

    Director:Edward Bennett
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 1 Episode 10 - The Dream
    7.8/10(20 votes)

    #20 - The Dream

    S1:E10

    Millionaire business man Benedict Farley, a well known eccentric, consults Poirot about bad dreams he has been having. Mr. Farley has dreamed repeatedly of killing himself. Sadly, he does not follow Poirot's advice. When Farley is found dead, Poirot fails to believe that it is suicide and suspects a murder plot relying on hypnosis.

    Director:Edward Bennett
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 2 Episode 2 - The Veiled Lady
    7.8/10(23 votes)

    #21 - The Veiled Lady

    S2:E2

    Poirot calls to see the veiled lady of the title (Lady Millicent Castle-Vaughn) at her London hotel. Lady Millicent is about to be married, but a mean blackmailer called Lavington has got hold of a love letter she wrote years before to another man. Lavington wants twenty thousand pounds, and Poirot makes up his mind to recover the letter himself, even if it means impersonating a Swiss locksmith.

    Director:Edward Bennett
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 2 Episode 4 - The Cornish Mystery
    7.8/10(20 votes)

    #22 - The Cornish Mystery

    S2:E4

    Poirot travels to Cornwall, summoned by a Mrs Pengelley, who suspects her dentist husband is poisoning her because he's fallen in love with his young assistant. Unhappily, Poirot finds Mrs Pengelley dead on his arrival, so he sets out to catch her killer.

    Director:Edward Bennett
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 3 Episode 3 - The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
    7.8/10(22 votes)

    #23 - The Million Dollar Bond Robbery

    S3:E3

    The London and Scottish Bank is sending a huge shipment of Liberty Bonds to New York on the liner Queen Mary. Poirot, who suffers terribly from sea-sickness, is asked to see the bonds safely across the Atlantic.

    Director:Andrew Grieve
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 3 Episode 8 - The Mystery of the Spanish Chest
    7.8/10(22 votes)

    #24 - The Mystery of the Spanish Chest

    S3:E8

    Poirot is called in to help a woman who lives in fear of her husband, and he is invited to a dinner party which goes horribly wrong.

    Director:Andrew Grieve
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 3 Episode 11 - The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge
    7.8/10(16 votes)

    #25 - The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge

    S3:E11

    Hercule Poirot accompanies his friend Captain Hastings on a weekend shooting party at the home of Harrington Pace, but he isn't having a very good time. He comes down with the flu and takes to his bed but when Pace is shot dead in his study, he rises to the occasion to assist Inspector Japp in solving the case.

    Director:Renny Rye
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Mysterious Affair at Styles" is the best rated episode of "Agatha Christie's Poirot". It scored 8.7/10 based on 6 votes. Directed by Ross Devenish and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/16/1990. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Curtain: Poirot's Last Case".