The BEST episodes of Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie

#1 - Murder on the Links (Crime Does Not Pay)

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/10/2014

Avril goes undercover in a cabaret where a waitress was killed, and the boss kidnapped. Superintendent Laurence has to deal with an inspector from the "police of the police" who wants him removed from the investigation.

#2 - Murder is Easy

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/4/2015

April receives a marriage proposal from Emile Deboucke, an older rich spinning mills owner. Her engagement is not a bed of roses, and soon she has to deal with a series of murders.

#3 - Cards On The Table

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/3/2014

Superintendent Laurence and Alice Avril are invited to dinner by an odd collector, who wants to introduce them to four killers who have pulled off the perfect crime – the one that goes unpunished. But in the course of this strange evening, Shaitana keels over dead. Who’s the killer amongst these four suspects?

#4 - Why Didn't They Ask Martin? (Why Not Martin?)

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/27/2013

Avril comes to a dying man's rescue on a cliff. While she hears his last words, she notices a small woman's portrait next to him. She seeks help at the nearby village, but when she returns, the man has died and the photo is missing. Commissioner Laurence gets on the case: who was that man? And who is this mysterious woman in the photo?

#5 - Dumb Witness

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/22/2013

A rich woman and her maid are found murdered in an old castle. The only witnesses are a dog, and the ghosts haunting the place. Fascinated by divination, the superintendent's mother fully intends to participate in her son's investigation.

#6 - Halloween Party (Murder at the Kermesse)

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/26/2014

After a gunfight, Laurence is left temporarily blind. Meanwhile, a young girl is found drowned in a bucket of water during her school fair. Laurence decides to hide his condition to investigate himself. He and Avril dive deep into the secrets of a small northern town where everyone has something to hide…

#7 - A Murder is Announced (Murder Party)

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/18/2015

Marlène is puzzled by an ad in the paper for a "murder party". Laurence believes it's a joke, but at set time, a man interrupts the party violently and drops dead.

#8 - The Knife in the Neck

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/14/2012

Larosière is surprised to see his daughter, Juliette, who has run away from her mother's home, complaining of suffocating under her thumb. The commissioner does not see his arrival with a good eye because a young girl has just been brutally murdered in a theater. Larosière and Lampion find themselves immersed in the universe of a troupe of actors, with its jealousies and its hatreds. Larosière finds with delight the star who enchanted her youth, Sarah Morlant. But when the main actor of the play is found dying, a knife stuck in the back of the neck, the case thickens. The commissioner is obliged to replace him at short notice in the role of Dom Juan, which is not to displease this ham...

#9 - Appointment with Death (Rendezvous With Death)

Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 9/20/2019

#10 - Third Girl (High Fashion Crimes)

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 9/15/2017

Haute couture crime. Patricia, a designer's assistant at a leading Paris fashion house, is fragile and unstable. So, when she confesses to a murder, Swan Laurence suspects she's been manipulated. Alice is outraged at their working conditions and starts a strike just before a major fashion parade.

#11 - Towards Zero (Zero Hour)

Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 9/13/2019

#12 - Evil Under the Sun (A Crazy Case)

Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 9/6/2019

#13 - The Sittaford Mystery (Murderous Melodies)

Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 9/28/2018

Young pop singer Nicky and her fiancé Mike (who is also her guitarist) regularly feature on the cover of Salut Les Copains magazine, recently founded in 1962. When Mike is found murdered, Nicky is devastated. She cancels all her concerts, putting her career in jeopardy. Laurence finds himself investigating in circles for which he has nothing but contempt: a record company with its pop artists. Then Nicky’s producer hears Alice Avril’s wonderful voice and decides to make her a star, the new sensation!

#14 - Christmas Crime

Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 12/22/2017

Two orphans witness the murder of a Santa Claus at an outdoor Christmas market.

#15 - Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Murders For Sale)

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 9/7/2018

#16 - Three Act Tragedy

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 8/31/2018

August is not looking good for Alice. Overdrawn at the bank, she cannot afford to go on vacation and so decides to take acting classes. She is stunned when she meets her teacher: he is Laurence’s perfect doppelganger! Despite his long hair and glasses, he looks just like the police officer’s identical twin. When a young actor collapses during a class and turns out to have been poisoned, the coach, Herbert, is the prime suspect. Naturally, Laurence loathes the man on sight. So who does Marlène inevitably fall head over heels in love with? Laurence’s double, of course!

#17 - The Man in the Brown Suit

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 9/1/2017

With the Cold War in full swing, Detective Laurence gets caught up in an affair of espionage with the Soviet Union. The Russian ballets that perform at the Lille opera house harbor spies in their midst, and top secret microfilms have gone missing. To help the French secret services, Laurence agrees to disguise himself as a woman to replace the opera secretary who's been murdered. Marlene sets out to teach "Brigitte" the secrets of femininity, which is no small task. Avril, however, finds this Brigitte particularly unlikeable. And on top of that, hasn't she seen her somewhere before?

#18 - Residential School Murders

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/8/2024

Julie Froment, the French teacher at a very select boarding school, is murdered while Rose was giving a lecture on psychology. Greco and Beretta are astonished to see that the evidence is accumulating against her: Rose was indeed attending boarding school with the victim of whom she was the pain sufferer. Beretta enlists as a substitute teacher to understand the truth.

#19 - A Body for Breakfast

Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 10/16/2020

#20 - The night that never ends

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/29/2021

Introducing Annie Greco, the first woman to be appointed commissioner in France in 1971. As soon as she arrived at the Lille police station, she had to go to a crime scene. Actor Richard Planck was found dead in his caravan while filming his new feature film. And the main suspect is the young star of the film, Anna Delange, who had a stormy romantic relationship with Richard. Greco recruits as her deputy the worst head of the police station, inspector Max Beretta, who, in order to deal with his problems of violence, is obliged to follow a therapy with a young psychologist, Rose Bellecour, who is a bit crazy.

#21 - The darkroom

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/5/2021

Two young models are murdered a few days apart. The first clues lead Gréco to the fashion magazine "Femmes" and its sultry photographer, John Devers, who likes very young girls. When a third young model from the magazine is murdered, the divisional commissioner puts Gréco on the sidelines and entrusts the case to a Parisian crime star. Offended to death, Gréco resigns. But she makes it a point of honour to find the murderer before anyone else. She leads the investigation from her hotel room, with her two assistants Max and Rose in a submarine at the police station.

#22 - The valley

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/10/2021

Greco and Max investigate in a cosmetic surgery clinic where the jet-set of the whole world is operated, in the greatest secrecy. A young surgeon was murdered, then it was the turn of the big boss to be shot dead. What is behind Dr. Rivière's luxurious clinic? Rose is very embarrassed because her own mother, the wealthy Barbara Bellecour, is on the list of suspects. Barbara was indeed not only the faithful patient but one of Dr. Rivière's mistresses.

#23 - When mice dance

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/17/2021

Commissioner Gréco and Inspector Max Beretta are dragged into a sulphurous place, a magnificent castle transformed into an ultra-select nightclub, where Madame Maude gathers for the pleasure of her rich customers young students who are not cold in the eyes. But the French secret services have already taken over the premises for a secret operation, and Greco's team will have no choice but to investigate incognito. Rose, always in the game and ready to make herself useful, disguises herself as a call girl while Beretta assumes that of client, which causes many misunderstandings...

#24 - Dying on stage

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/29/2022

During the tour of the Nelly & Sky variety stars, a guitarist dies, crushed by a projector. It was Sky who was targeted, as a second murder attempt quickly proved. To protect the star, Gréco imposes Beretta as guitarist for the next concerts... A big challenge for the inspector... Rose discovers, horrified, that the murderer could be one of her patients! Indeed, Rico, a musician very psychologically disturbed, is convinced that Sky stole a song from him and vowed revenge.

#25 - Until death do us part

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/5/2023

Two young unmarried women are murdered within weeks of each other. Their common point: they frequented the same marriage agency "Pour la vie", hoping to meet their soulmate. Greco decides to trap the murderer by registering herself with the agency. She accepts dinner invitations from suspicious singles. And more if affinities... All the service is on the teeth because to play with fire, Greco could well burn himself ... Rose discovers that Max Beretta is also a regular at the agency "For Life", in order to permanently forget his ex-wife.