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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 13 Episode 5 - Curtain: Poirot's Last Case
    8.6/10(2859 votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 4 Episode 1 - The ABC Murders
    8.5/10(3214 votes)

    #2 - 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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  3. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 9 Episode 1 - Five Little Pigs
    8.4/10(4565 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 5 Episode 6 - The Chocolate Box
    8.2/10(2010 votes)

    #4 - The Chocolate Box

    S5:E6

    Poirot returns to Belgium for the first time since the Great War. There he revisits a twenty-year-old murder mystery that was never officially solved.

    Director:Ken Grieve
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 2 Episode 1 - Peril at End House
    8.1/10(2676 votes)

    #5 - Peril at End House

    S2:E1

    Poirot and Hastings take a holiday in Cornwall, looking for peace and quiet. They meet Miss Nick Buckley, who lives near their hotel at End House, and she tells Poirot she has had three near-fatal accidents in a few weeks. He then finds a bullet hole in her hat, returns with her to End House and is drawn into a complex murder investigation.....

    Director:Renny Rye
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 13 Episode 4 - The Labours of Hercules
    8.1/10(2513 votes)

    #6 - 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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  7. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 6 Episode 1 - Hercule Poirot's Christmas
    8.0/10(2996 votes)

    #7 - 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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  8. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 6 Episode 4 - Dumb Witness
    8.0/10(2402 votes)

    #8 - Dumb Witness

    S6:E4

    Poirot and Hastings are at Lake Windermere for an attempt on the world speed-boat record. An elderly widow is hurt by falling down stairs, then later killed by poisoning with phosphorus.

    Director:Edward Bennett
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 8 Episode 1 - Evil Under the Sun
    8.0/10(3038 votes)

    #9 - 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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  10. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 9 Episode 2 - Sad Cypress
    8.0/10(2985 votes)

    #10 - Sad Cypress

    S9:E2

    Young Elinor Carlisle, engaged to marry the dashing Roddy Winter, finds herself charged with the fatal poisoning of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. Poirot has the job of saving Elinor, but the evidence against her is overwhelming.

    Director:David Moore
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 9 Episode 3 - Death on the Nile
    8.0/10(4624 votes)

    #11 - Death on the Nile

    S9:E3

    A wealthy British heiress honeymooning on a Nile cruise ship is stalked by a former friend, whose boyfriend she had stolen before making him her new husband.

    Director:Andy Wilson
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 10 Episode 3 - After the Funeral
    8.0/10(2901 votes)

    #12 - After the Funeral

    S10:E3

    Hercule Poirot's solicitor, Gilbert Entwhistle, asks Poirot to help solve a riddle and a murder.

    Director:Maurice Phillips
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 12 Episode 3 - Murder on the Orient Express
    8.0/10(5447 votes)

    #13 - Murder on the Orient Express

    S12:E3

    Poirot investigates the murder of a shady American businessman stabbed in his compartment on the Orient Express when it is blocked by a blizzard in Croatia.

    Director:Charles Palmer
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 13 Episode 1 - Elephants Can Remember
    8.0/10(2542 votes)

    #14 - 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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  15. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 3 Episode 1 - The Mysterious Affair at Styles
    7.9/10(2653 votes)

    #15 - 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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  16. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 7 Episode 2 - Lord Edgware Dies
    7.9/10(2498 votes)

    #16 - Lord Edgware Dies

    S7:E2

    Lady Edgware has a dilemma in that her husband has consistently refused to give her a divorce. She asks Hercule Poirot to visit the man and see if there is any possibility of convincing him. When Lord Edgware is found dead, there is no great surprise, but there are a good number of suspects.

    Director:Brian Farnham
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 11 Episode 2 - Cat Among the Pigeons
    7.9/10(2535 votes)

    #17 - Cat Among the Pigeons

    S11:E2

    Poirot finds a connection between a recent murder and a revolution in the Middle Eastern kingdom of Ramat.

    Director:James Kent
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 12 Episode 4 - The Clocks
    7.9/10(2511 votes)

    #18 - The Clocks

    S12:E4

    Four clocks surround an unidentified corpse in a blind woman's house, and a young typist is summoned to the crime scene. However, Poirot is convinced that the complicated setup is merely hiding a simpler solution.

    Director:Ashley Pearce
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 13 Episode 3 - Dead Man's Folly
    7.9/10(2260 votes)

    #19 - 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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  20. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 2 Episode 5 - The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim
    7.8/10(1958 votes)

    #20 - 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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  21. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 4 Episode 2 - Death in the Clouds
    7.8/10(2365 votes)

    #21 - Death in the Clouds

    S4:E2

    On an airplane, flying from Paris to London, one of the passengers is killed by a poison dart while Poirot sleeps.

    Director:Stephen Whittaker
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 5 Episode 3 - The Yellow Iris
    7.8/10(1778 votes)

    #22 - 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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  23. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 6 Episode 3 - Murder on the Links
    7.8/10(2405 votes)

    #23 - Murder on the Links

    S6:E3

    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.

    Director:Andrew Grieve
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 12 Episode 2 - Hallowe'en Party
    7.8/10(2622 votes)

    #24 - 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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  25. Agatha Christie's Poirot Season 1 Episode 10 - The Dream
    7.7/10(2082 votes)

    #25 - 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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Best Episodes Summary

"Curtain: Poirot's Last Case" is the best rated episode of "Agatha Christie's Poirot". It scored 8.6/10 based on 2859 votes. Directed by Hettie Macdonald and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/13/2013. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "The ABC Murders".