The WORST episodes of The Little Murders of Agatha Christie

#1 - 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...

#2 - Five Little Pigs

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/8/2011

Emma Vargas was convicted of poisoning her husband, a famous painter and womanizer. But was she really guilty? Without physical evidence or fingerprints, Lampion and Larosière will have to solve the riddle thanks to the different and contradictory accounts of the five main suspects. Reopening a fifteen-year-old business is not easy...

#3 - The ABC Murders

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/9/2009

A killer challenges Larosière: he sends him letters, giving the date and place of his murders, and signed ABC... Larosière and Lampion will have to discover why a mysterious psychopath, who kills alphabetically by name of victim and place and who leaves ABC bus schedules in his path, has fun taunting them...

#4 - The House of Peril (Peril at End House)

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/6/2009

During the first paid holidays, Larosière decided to take a vacation. He is so bored that he is about to leave when he meets a young and very attractive stylist who is sought at all costs to eliminate. The commissioner, delighted to have a business to put in his mouth, decides to protect it and brings in Lampion who is hired incognito as a handyman...

#5 - 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.

#6 - The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (The Mirror Cracked)

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 9/8/2017

The Mirror Crack'd. The famous actress Blanche Dulac narrowly escapes a murder attempt on her film set. With a depressed Swan Laurence turning to drugs after the death of Dr Maillol, the love of his life, Alice and Marlène go undercover and join the film crew.

#7 - Sleeping Murder

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/17/2012

Sacha, 20, escapes from the psychiatric hospital where she was locked up and hides in an isolated house. From the first evening, she is the victim of a terrible hallucination: she has the vision of the body of a bloodied woman at the bottom of the stairs. Has the house been the scene of an atrocious drama or is Sacha taken over by his bouts of dementia? What is the link between the murder of a woman not far from there and the presence in the region of this very disturbed young woman? It is Inspector Lampion's new passion for psychoanalysis that will allow Commissioner Larosière (yet very skeptical about the meanders of the unconscious!) and his assistant to unravel the threads of this strange affair.

#8 - The Murder at the Vicarage (The Protheroe Affair)

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 9/9/2016

After a young secretary is found dead by hanging, Laurence quickly determines it was murder intended to look like suicide. Avril goes undercover as the secretary's replacement to help investigate.

#9 - The Moving Finger

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/11/2009

During an exchange of bullets, Lampion was wounded and Larosière decided to send him to the countryside during his convalescence. But this one is not easy because a mysterious crow sends anonymous letters denouncing all the shameful secrets of the villagers. The investigative duo decides to take matters into their own hands when the crow, tired of croaking, begins to kill.

#10 - Eeny Meeny Miny Moe (Ordeal by Innocence)

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/16/2009

Jacko Vallabrégue is accused of killing his adoptive mother. While he has just been killed by his comrade in prison, an unexpected witness proves his innocence. Larosière, who had Jacko locked up, takes over the investigation to find the real culprit. But who of Mrs. Vallabrégue's other three adopted children is the perpetrator of the crime, if not Jacko, whom they had all held to be the only possible culprit...

#11 - The Body in the Library

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/28/2011

After a very drunken night, Commissioner Larosière wakes up with the corpse of a young woman in his bed! He has no memory of what happened and realizes with horror that he is now the number one suspect in a murder case. Especially since the girl is a prostitute who worked in a brothel where Larosière had his habits. While Larosière is imprisoned, Lampion struggles to prove his boss's innocence. The commissioner manages to escape, and it is hidden from the Blue Bird (in other words like a rooster in paste!) that he will lead the investigation of Lampion to confuse the real one.

#12 - The Cat and the Mice (Cat Among the Pigeons)

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/8/2010

A mysterious murder with no apparent motive was committed near an institution for young girls good chic good kind. And here is our dear Commissioner Larosière and the unpayable Lampion landing in the middle of a band of more or less charming mice in search of a cat that plays on their nerves. Unless the cat in question is simply... one of the mice.

#13 - 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.

#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 - 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...

#16 - 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.

#17 - Towards Zero (Zero Hour)

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

#18 - 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.

#19 - Taken at the Flood

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/15/2011

When a popular young girl marries a millionaire who could be her grandfather, and the bad tongues go wild. But when he dies in an arson attack and the family discovers a will in favor of the young widow, the police get involved. The whole family relied on the inheritance and stands as one man against the young woman and against her brother, a disturbing adventurer. Who is the girl really? A white goose or an unscrupulous manipulator?

#20 - 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.

#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 - 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.

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

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

#24 - Appointment with Death (Rendezvous With Death)

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

#25 - 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.