#66 And Then There Were None (BBC)

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization of a classic Agatha Christie mystery, starring Lyndsey Marshal, Geoffrey Whitehead and John Rowe.

Ten guests travel to an island at the invitation of someone named U. N. Owen. All are strangers, but they have two things in common: they have all been responsible for someone's death, and none will leave the island alive.

Over the next two days and nights, each of the guests is killed off in a different manner in keeping with the nursery rhyme, 'Ten Little Soldier Boys'. As they are picked off one by one, who could possibly be responsible?

The killers are forced to turn detective so they can find the unknown murderer, but one by one they become victims...

Billed as 'the famous detective story without a detective', 'And Then There Were None' is one of Agatha Christie's darkest and most enduring tales.

http://www.amazon.com/Then-There-Were-None-Dramatisation/dp/1408467607

#65 The Long Goodbye - Philip Marlowe (BBC)

Ed Bishop stars as Philip Marlowe in a powerful great BBC full-cast dramatization of Raymond Chandler's classic noir novel. The first time Marlowe sets eyes on Terry Lennox, he is lying drunk in the passenger seat of a Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith. The next time, he's on Skid Row. For reasons unknown Marlowe takes a liking to Lennox deciding he's a nice guy who's had a hard life. His white hair and scarred face testify to that fact. Though it could be marriage to Sylvia Lennox has taken its toll and turned him prematurely grey? Beautiful and rich, she plays the field with no consideration for the commitment that wedlock is supposed to have.. Lennox says he has a job in Las Vegas lined up so Marlowe helps him out providing him with the cost of the ticket. Two weeks later, Marlowe gets the money back along with a note from Lennox saying he and Sylvia are starting a second honeymoon. But the honeymoon turns sour and the dame ends up dead. Lennox winds up on Marlowe's doorstep in big trouble needing to get away in a hurry. Against his better judgment Marlowe agrees to sneak Lennox out of the country by taking him to Tijuana. Shortly after returning from Mexico, the cops arrive, and Marlowe finds himself in the hoosegow, suspected of helping Sylvia's killer escape. But that's not the end of his problems, not by a long shot.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Long-Goodbye-BBC-Audio/dp/1408427680

#64 The Gloria Scott - Sherlock Holmes (BBC)

Sherlock Holmes, just down from university, solves his very first case.

Holmes on leave from college spends a month with his friend, Victor Trevor, at his father's estate in Norfolk. While there, Holmes amazes Victor's father, a former Justice of the Peace and wealthy landowner who had made his fortune in the goldfields of Australia. While giving a display of his powers of deduction Holmes's deduces that the elder Mr. Trevor was once connected with someone with the initials J. A. whom he wanted to forget. Overcome with emotion his host faints. After coming to the old man explains the reason for having 'taken ill' saying that J. A. had been an old lover. Holmes unconvience by Mr. Trevor's explanation and realizing he has made his host uncomfortable decides to take his leave. Before Holmes leaves the estate a visitor arrives causing Mr. Trevor to drink heavily. Soon the man has moved in with the Trevors and within a few days the old man is found dead

Clive Merrison starring as Sherlock Holmes in the classic Conaan Doyle tale from the BBC.


http://www.amazon.com/Memoirs-Sherlock-Holmes-Radio-Presents/dp/0553471821

#63 Cordially Invited to Meet Death - Nero Wolfe (CBC)

Based on a story by Rex Stout; Adapted by Ron Hartman; Performed by a full cast.

Bess Huddleston, an upper-class party planner, consults Nero Wolfe when she becomes the object of an anonymous-letter campaign aimed at destroying her business. Sent by Wolfe to investigate, Archie discovers that Miss Huddleston is, in her own way, just as eccentric as his employer; the long-suffering Archie hurts himself tripping over an alligator and then is forced to play tag with a pet chimpanzee. Things take a more sinister turn when a highly suspicious death occurs shortly after Archie's visit.
    

Produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)

Starring Mavor Moore as Nero Wolfe. Don Francks as Archie Goodwin. 

Also in the cast: Cec Linder, Frank Perry, Alfie Scott

Music by: Don Gillis

#62 Murder at the Vicarage - Miss Marple (BBC)

Miss Marple, Agatha Christie's immortal spinster sleuth with a razor sharp mind and a intuitive understanding of criminal behavior gets to grips with a compelling murder mystery in the sleepy village of St. Mary Mead, where under a seemingly peaceful exterior of an English country village lurks intrigue, guilt, deception and death. June Whitfield stars as Jane Marple, Agatha Christie's most popular character, in this dramatization of a classic brain-teaser from the 'Queen of Crime'.  

http://www.amazon.com/Murder-Vicarage-BBC-Radio-Presents/dp/0553477676

#61 Appointment With Death - Hercule Poirot (BBC)

 



Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs. Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her. With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he had overheard back in Jerusalem: "You see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?" Mrs. Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he'd ever met. This classic Christie radio drama stars John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot.

http://www.amazon.com/Appointment-Death-Full-Cast-Radio-Drama/dp/0563536497

#60 The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Hercule Poirot (BBC)

Set in 1916, we meet Captain Hastings as he is invalided out of the Great War and goes to convalesce at Styles Court, the family home of his good friend, John Cavendish. By an extraordinary coincidence, billeted in the village is a brilliant little retired detective with an egg-shaped head, who made a considerable impression on the Captain when he was in Belgium. Styles is not a happy household and in the blistering summer heat, tensions mount. Even so, the tragic murder which occurs is not expected. The entire family is drawn into the case but with their reluctant permission, Hastings calls upon the services of the diminutive Belgian. Thus begins one of the great partnerships and friendships in the history of crime.

John Moffatt stars as Hercule Poirot, Simon Williams as Captain Hastings and Philip Jackson as Detective Inspector Japp, who already has reason to be indebted to the distinguished and unique hero of so many mysteries.

http://www.amazon.com/Mysterious-Affair-Styles-Full-Cast-Radio/dp/0563510315