The BEST episodes written by Stewart Harcourt
#1 - Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 12 - Episode 4
On the Orient Express from Istanbul, a ruthless American businessman is found dead.
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#2 - By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Agatha Christie's Marple - Season 2 - Episode 3
When Tommy and Tuppence Beresford visit Tommy's elderly aunt at Sunny Ridge Nursing Home, Tuppence is told by another resident, Mrs. Lancaster, that the corpse of a child is hidden behind a fireplace. Tuppence realises there could be more to the old lady's words than she originally thought, especially when Tommy's aunt dies weeks later, and Mrs. Lancaster mysteriously disappears. With Tommy away on business, who better to help her than Miss Marple, who is visiting an old friend at the nursing home. With a cryptic painting on their hands, the two end up in the Norfolk village of Farrell St. Edmund to find the subject of their painting, a lone cottage in a wooded forest, while also trying to learn the closely-guarded secrets of the residents.
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#3 - The Blue Geranium
Agatha Christie's Marple - Season 5 - Episode 3
While visiting her friend Dermot in Little Ambrose, Miss Marple is drawn into investigating the apparently drowning of a recent acquaintance. Within a few days, a second occupant suspiciously dies from fright.
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#4 - Part Two
Treasure Island (2012) - Season 1 - Episode 2
Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver are forced to choose between the elusive treasure and their lives, as danger lurks behind every corner on their quest to reach the loot.
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#5 - The Clocks
Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 12 - Episode 1
Poirot goes to Dover to help determine who is responsible for a man's murder.
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#6 - A Murder Is Announced
Agatha Christie's Marple - Season 1 - Episode 4
The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are summoned by a newspaper notice to the house of Letitia Blacklock, anticipating a murder game. But things become too real when someone is shot dead.
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#7 - Maigret's Dead Man
Maigret (2016) - Season 1 - Episode 2
One morning, an agitated man calls the Police judiciaire asking for Maigret. He claims he's being followed by someone trying to kill him. Before Maigret can get the details he hangs up, calls back again from various cafés, until the calls finally stop. That night, his body is found, his face badly beaten, stabbed to death. Ridden with guilt for not having saved “his" dead man, Maigret is determined to find the murderer.
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#8 - Maigret Sets a Trap
Maigret (2016) - Season 1 - Episode 1
In 1955, four women are stabbed to death in Montmartre after dark. Justice Minister Morel leans on Chief inspector Jules Maigret to catch the murderer. He sets a trap, using a policewoman as a decoy.
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#9 - Part One
Treasure Island (2012) - Season 1 - Episode 1
Teenager Jim Hawkins, Captain Smollett, Squire Trelawney and Dr Livesey prepare to set sail in search of an elusive hoard of gold, following the discovery of a treasure map that once belonged to a notorious pirate. Unfortunately, crew member Long John Silver wants the riches for himself, and persuades his fellow sailors to back him in a mutiny.
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#10 - A Certain Justice (1)
Dalgliesh (2021) - Season 2 - Episode 3
Dalgliesh, Kate Miskin, and new D.S. Daniel Tarrant investigate the murder of an abrasive female defence barrister who successfully defended a shady young man on murder charges, only for him to begin dating her daughter.
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#11 - A Certain Justice (2)
Dalgliesh (2021) - Season 2 - Episode 4
As Dalgliesh's team sort out the complicated motives surrounding the victim's murder, they are running out of time to save her daughter from her dangerous fiancee.
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#12 - Gently Upside Down
Inspector George Gently - Season 4 - Episode 1
Gently and Bacchus investigate when a schoolgirl's body is discovered in a shallow grave.
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#13 - Night at the Crossroads
Maigret (2016) - Season 2 - Episode 1
Georges Simenon's Night At The Crossroads is a complex tale of murder, deceit and greed in an isolated country community. Maigret has been interrogating a mysterious Dane, Carl Andersen, for hours without a confession. Why was the body of a diamond merchant found in his car at his isolated mansion? He's either innocent or a very good liar. What does his beautiful but vulnerable sister know? And what compels everyone at the Three Widows Crossroads to be so secretive? Maigret sets out to find his killer.
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#14 - The Wellspring of Death
Agatha Raisin - Season 1 - Episode 3
Roy lures Agatha back into the world of PR. She represents a local mineral water company -- but a murder there throws a spanner in the works.
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#15 - Hell's Bells
Agatha Raisin - Season 1 - Episode 2
Bell-ringer Amanda Ballard is found hanged in the belfry with a suicide note left beside her, but Agatha is not convinced she took her own life and enlists a reluctant Roy to help her research the case.
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