The BEST episodes of The Little Murders of 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 - 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?

#3 - 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.

#4 - 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!

#5 - Hickory Dickory Dock

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/28/2015

Marlène asks for Laurence's help on a case involving her sister Solange, who runs a boarding house where a young woman dropped dead of poisoning.

#6 - A Caribbean Mystery (Albert Major Talks Too Much)

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 9/23/2016

After a scooter accident, Alice Avril finds herself in a strange hospital where surgeons experiment with heart transplants in a secret lab. When one overly curious patient turns up dead with a syringe in his eye, Alice realises her life is in danger.

#7 - The Pale Horse

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 9/2/2016

Sybille, a psychic operating in a funfair, offers to cast a spell that can kill your worst enemy at a distance! Laurence doesn’t believe such twaddle until one of Avril’s friends suddenly dies from a striking case of flu. The Chief Inspector has to admit it might be a case of murder...

#8 - 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.

#9 - Murders of the 3rd type

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/12/2023

The presenter of a television show is murdered. Some accuse the murder of extraterrestrials... Greco, more down-to-earth, conducts his investigation as rationally as possible. Max, on the other hand, in love with the expert of the ministry, begins to believe the most surreal theories.

#10 - In a snap of the finger

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/13/2023

A murder is committed during a demonstration by Frédéric Light, a medium capable of communicating with the dead. If the obvious culprit seems to be Nicole, a spectator, Greco guesses that the solution is not so simple: would the murder have been committed by hypnosis? Greco, fascinated by Light, gets in touch with her deceased mother. Rose calls on an expert to prove the medium's quackery.

#11 - Deadly karma

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/23/2024

Pierre Baldini, a businessman at the head of a luxury empire, is found murdered in his home. He had just disinherited his daughter Jade and bequeathed his fortune to hippie friends. Greco is troubled, because Jade - who quickly becomes the most plausible suspect - may well be his lost daughter...

#12 - 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.

#13 - 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?

#14 - 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…

#15 - The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly (Strange Kidnapping of Little Bruno)

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 8/26/2016

Police captain Swan Laurence has died on duty. Eight days earlier, he was called to protect the son of famous novelist Eloïse Zennefort.

#16 - 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.

#17 - 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!

#18 - I Am Not Guilty

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/15/2010

Anonymous letters warn Commissioner Larosière of the impending murder of a wealthy suffragette who is using her fortune to advance the cause of women. But how do you infiltrate a weekend of feminist activists without attracting attention? Disguising Inspector Lampion as a woman seems to be the best solution. Despite his perfect camouflage, Emile Lampion fails to prevent the criminal from striking. His superior then enters the scene. He notes that the organizer of the meeting and her maid have been killed. The daughter who inherits would make an ideal culprit. Louis Servais, trusted man of the murdered lady and especially secret lover of the daughter heiress, does not validate this hypothesis at all...

#19 - 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.

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

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

#21 - They Do It with Mirrors

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/29/2013

Doctor Bousquet heads a reintegration center for offenders. His family is not so fond of the presence of criminals and the sick in their home. Commissioner Laurence leads the investigation into two murders in the center and tries to get rid of curious journalist Alice Avril without much success. There is not much love in the family of doctor Bousquet. Are it actually Dr. Bousquet's patients who are dangerous?

#22 - Mrs McGinty's Dead (Miss McGinty's Dead)

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/11/2015

April's ex-husband is accused of murder. She discovers him hiding in her apartment, and doesn't turn him to the police.

#23 - A Body for Breakfast

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

#24 - Appointment with Death (Rendezvous With Death)

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

#25 - 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.