HERCULE POIROT AND THE CASE OF THE CHRISTMAS RUBY
(After Agatha Christie's 1928 novel "The Mystery of the Blue Train")
For a Christmas present the American heiress Katherine Van Aldin is given the most coveted ruby in the world—the "Heart of Fire" by her loving father. She then boards the famous Blue Train to meet a lover on the French Riviera. En route she meets an English country girl possessing a fortune from a recent inheritance. The women leave behind an unfaithful husband, an industrialist father, and a host of other shadowy international figures with mysterious pasts. But when the Blue Train arrives in Nice, one of them is dead, and vacationing Hercule Poirot is drawn into service once again. On this train, no one is who they seem, and only Detective Poirot can disentangle the disguises and deceptions. Adapted for 8 actors (5m/3w).
THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD
(after Agatha Christie's 1926 novel "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd")
In the sleepy village of King’s Abbot, a widow’s sudden suicide sparks rumors that she murdered her first husband, was victim of blackmail, and was carrying on a secret affair with the wealthy local Roger Ackroyd. The following evening Ackroyd is murdered - but not before receiving a letter identifying the widow’s blackmailer. King’s Abbot is crawling with suspects: nosy neighbors, scheming servants, and an Ackroyd family full of secrets and money problems. It’s now up to the famous detective Hercule Poirot, who has retired to King’s Abbot, to solve the case. THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD is the story that made Agatha Christie a household name and ushered in a new era of popular crime novels.
MURDER ON THE LINKS
(after Agatha Christie's early novel "Murder on the Links")
Hercule Poirot gets a telegram from a businessman seeking help, but when he arrives in France...the man has already been murdered. What starts as a romance quickly turns intensed udes, dysting cotties ith an eye moving set of theories as to who killed whom. And what happened in Paris 20 years ago and where did those killers disappear to? An early novel by the Mistress of the whodunnit, MURDER ON THE LINKS is a thriller that will leave you guessing until the final scene. In a fresh, faithful, actor-friendly version for the stage, MURDER ON THE LINKS is a newfound work from the world's greatest mystery writer
THE SECRET OF CHIMNEY MANOR
(after Agatha Christie’s early novel “The Secret of Chimneys”)
“One of the best of Agatha Christie's early thrillers.” -Charles Osborne
Anthony Cade leaves South Africa with the simplest if tasks: deliver a mysterious manuscript and a bundle of strange love letters. What he finds in England is a murdered Prince, ruffian Barons, hints of lost crown jewels, all under the roof of a historical manor house called “Chimneys.” This “lost story” of Agatha Christie’s – after one of her very first novels – is packed with multiple detectives, international oil conspiracies, and the memory of a failed country whose royal family was assassinated…or scattered to all corners of the world. In a fresh, funny, actor-friendly version for the stage, THE SECRET OF CHIMNEY MANOR is a newfound work from the world’s greatest mystery writer.
Anthony Cade leaves South Africa with the simplest if tasks: deliver a mysterious manuscript and a bundle of strange love letters. What he finds in England is a murdered Prince, ruffian Barons, hints of lost crown jewels, all under the roof of a historical manor house called “Chimneys.” This “lost story” of Agatha Christie’s – after one of her very first novels – is packed with multiple detectives, international oil conspiracies, and the memory of a failed country whose royal family was assassinated…or scattered to all corners of the world. In a fresh, funny, actor-friendly version for the stage, THE SECRET OF CHIMNEY MANOR is a newfound work from the world’s greatest mystery writer.
