The BEST episodes of The Little Murders of Agatha Christie season 2

#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 - 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.

#9 - 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?

#10 - 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…

#11 - 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.

#12 - 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!

#13 - 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.

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

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

#15 - 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?

#16 - 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.

#17 - A Body for Breakfast

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

#18 - Appointment with Death (Rendezvous With Death)

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

#19 - 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?

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

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

#21 - The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 9/16/2016

60-year-old Emilie Beauregard, the wealthy owner of a luxury spa hotel, is married to Adrien, a massage therapist half her age. When Emilie is poisoned to death, everyone suspects her husband. Everyone that is but Laurence, who hates solutions that seem too obvious.

#22 - Towards Zero (Zero Hour)

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

#23 - 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.

#24 - Christmas Crime

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

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

#25 - Sparkling Cyanide

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/5/2013

Elvire Morenkova had everything one could dream of. She was a beautiful, rich, famous movie star, but committed suicide during a shoot. Immensely rich, Elvira had lovers and enemies, and Commissioner Laurence doesn't believe she died by her own hand.