Poirot – The New Mysteries Collection (Death on the Nile / Sad Cypress / The Hollow / Five Little Pigs)

Poirot – The New Mysteries Collection (Death on the Nile / Sad Cypress / The Hollow / Five Little Pigs)

• Hercule Poirot in The New Mysteries Collection an exclusive collection of four brand-new A&E original films. Adapted from Agatha Christie s celebrated mysteries, each production features an impeccable cast, beautiful settings, and, of course, enough murder and mystery to test the mettle of our inimitably beloved Belgian sleuth. The New Mysteries Collection contains the following four Poirot mov

This set will contain the following four Poirot movies (A&E September 2004 premieres): Death on the Nile, Sad Cypress, The Hollow, Five Little PigsPortly, mincing, gracious, and unrelenting, Hercule Poirot rivals Sherlock Holmes as the greatest sleuth of the English murder mystery genre–a form as strict as a sonnet that’s part logic puzzle, part magician’s misdirection, of which Agatha Christie remains the undisputed queen. The New Mysteries Collection pulls together TV-movie adaptations of four Poirot novels, each a compendium of eccentric characters, intricate plotting, sleek storytelling, and sprinklings of wit (such as a dotty matriarch’s declaration, “Murder is a very awkward thing–it upsets the servants so”). Death on the Nile sets an entire boatful of suspicious character afloat in Egypt, where Poirot’s vacation is disrupted by a splash in the night, falling rock, missing pearls, three murders, and a boozing gargoyle named Salome Otterbourne. The plot is one of Christie’s m

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