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# Agatha Christie Classic Mystery Collection (Murder Is Easy/Caribbean Mystery/Murder with Mirrors/Thirteen for Dinner/Dead Man's Folly/Murder in Three Acts/Sparkling Cyanide/The Man in the Brown Suit)

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Product Description               Agatha Christie Classic Mystery Collection (DVD) (8-Pack)Who slipped poison into the cocktail of kindly old Rev. Babbington?... Why is a mysterious brown-suited stranger trailing a young woman through exotic lands?...What is the secret behind the malevolent deeds at palatial Stonygates? Discover the answers and much more in this star-packed collection of murder most foul, mystery most fun. All eight movies are on DVD for the first time. And all are from novels by the mistress of mystery, Agatha Christie. It'd be a crime to miss them!]]>                  .com               The grande dame of teacake murder mysteries, Agatha Christie, has kept generations of readers--and viewers--in her thrall, and this magnificent boxed set is a must for any Christie fan, rabid or casual. The collection includes eight films made for British TV in the '80s, most starring the first lady of the American theater, Helen Hayes, as Miss Marple, and the inimitable Peter Ustinov as Poirot. It would be hard to imagine more acting talent packed into compact TV mysteries.  The three Hayes tales (also available as a separate set) are Murder Is Easy costarring Bill Bixby, a still-radiant Olivia de Havilland, and a young Jonathan Pryce; A Caribbean Mystery, with Barnard Hughes and Swoosie Kurtz; and the grande-dame-duet Murder with Mirrors, with Hayes playing opposite her onetime real-life nemesis, Bette Davis. Mirrors alone is worth the price of the set, as Hayes is in fine form, completely un-vain and sweetly droll. As she heads toward a country manor to visit her "dear friend" Carrie Louise, played by Bette Davis. Davis, in one of her last film performances, plays a woman who may--or may not--be being slowly poisoned to death, but regardless is frail and slightly incoherent. Davis looks quite frail herself, and her line delivery seems a bit uncertain--perhaps extremely effective Method acting, or perhaps she was indeed as frail as she looks; either way, film fans won't want to miss this.  In the three Ustinov films (also available as a separate set), Thirteen for Dinner features Ustinov's Poirot trying to solve the murder of one Lord Edgeware, investigating, among others, the lovely mystery woman played by a witchy Faye Dunaway. (And in a fun bit of foreshadowing, David Suchet, who would go on to play a formidable, more metrosexual Poirot himself, appears here in the role of Poirot's sidekick Japp.) Dead Man's Folly finds Poirot and an old friend, a mystery writer played by Jean Stapleton, at a "murder hunt" party at which the dead body really does turn up dead. Murder in Three Acts finds Poirot far afield in sunny Acapulco, at a glorious villa belonging to a suave actor played by Tony Curtis. A random death-by-martini at a posh party opens the door to the possibility of murder--handy that Poirot is there to help the local constables. The supporting cast features top '80s TV actors like Emma Samms as the actor's arm candy, and Diana Muldaur (the wicked Rosalind Shays on L.A. Law). The production values are also topnotch--with gorgeous location shots in Mexico adding romance but also unnerving isolation to the proceedings. The two non-Marple and -Poirot films (and thus not included on those individual DVD sets) are Sparkling Cyanide, starring Anthony Andrews and Harry Morgan as officers investigating serial poisonings, and The Man in the Brown Suit, a zippy yarn of international intrigue, with Stephanie Zimbalist as a tourist in Cairo caught in a nightmare of stolen diamonds and death. Supporting roles by Rue McClanahan, Tony Randall, and Edward Woodward add texture to the mysterious proceedings. Never has murder most foul been so deliciously entertaining. --A.T. Hurley

## Product Details

- **Genre:** Mystery & Suspense
- **Format:** Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, Multiple Formats, NTSC
- **Contributor:** Barnard Hughes, Bette Davis, Bill Bixby, Brock Peters, Emma Samms, Faye Dunaway, Helen Hayes, Jean Stapleton, John Mills, Lesley-Anne Down, Olivia de Havilland, Peter Ustinov, Rue McClanahan, Stephanie Zimbalist, Swoosie Kurtz, Tony Curtis, Tony Randall
- **Language:** English
- **Runtime:** 8 hours and 38 minutes

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Classic and hilarious Ms. Marple and Poirot
*by K***N on April 19, 2020*

This collection has a combination of Poirot and Ms. Marple movies and two others, 8 in total. Helen Hayes plays Miss Marple, an elderly British lady who gets entangled in a number of mysteries in her small town. Peter Ustinov plays Hercule Poirot, a Belgian private detective. There are a number of guest stars including Bette Davis, Tony Curtis, David Suchet and Olivia de Haviland.A Caribbean Mystery is set in St. Honore where Ms. Marple went for a vacation paid by her nephew after ill health. She runs into Major Palgrave who boasts that he has a picture of a murdered, before showing her the picture, Major Palgrave suddenly changes the subject. Ms. Marple finds him looking at a group of people. Shortly after, Major Palgrave turns up dead. Ms. Marple is sure it is murder and starts inspecting the other people at the hotel. This includes the owners, a clergyman and his sister, a wealthy businessman and his secretary and nurse, an American and his wife, and three other guests. The maid that found Major Palgrave then turns up dead and the owner's wife starts having nightmares. It is up to Ms. Marple to figure out what is going on at the hotel.Murder with Mirrors has Ms. Marple visiting her friend, Carrie Louise at the request of Carrie Louise's son, a lawyer. Carrie Louise's husband turned their house into a halfway house for convicts. Carrie Louise's husband tells Ms. Marple that he believes someone is slowly poisoning Carrie Louise, but he has not told her. Carrie Louise's son comes to the house but shortly later is found murdered. Also, a lot of drama is produced by the convicts, one of them insisting he has a connection to the household. Ms. Marple has to find a way to get the killer and determine what was going on with Carrie Louise.Thirteen for Dinner is a Poirot mystery starting with Poirot attending a performance by an impressionist, Carlotta Adams. He meets Jane Wilkinson who requests that Poirot help her get a divorce. Poirot meets the husband, Lord Edgeware, who states that he already agreed to the divorce. The next day, Lord Edgeware dies and Poirot starts an investigation. Poirot begins to suspect that Carlotta Adams might be involved but before he can question her, she turns up dead. Poirot has to find the thread connecting all these people and find who would want them dead.Dead Man's Folly introduces a new character to the Poirot mysteries, Ariadne Oliver, a mystery writer. Poirot and Hastings, his sidekick are called to a manor in Devon on Ariadne's request. Ariadne is organizing a mystery game but believes that there is something foul going on. The game goes ahead, but a young girl playing the game is found dead. An old man is later dredged from the lake, found dead. One of the ladies of the manor also suddenly disappears. Ariadne, Poirot and Hastings has to find the danger surrounding Dead Man's Folly.Murder in Three Acts, Poirot and Hastings vacation in Acapulco, Mexico. There they run into Charles Cartwright, an American actor at a party along with a clergyman, a writer, Daisy Eastman and her daughter, Egg, Ricardo Montaya and a doctor. Later Babbington is murdered, but no one seems to have opportunity or motive. The crime goes unsolved, but later the doctor also shows up murdered the exact same way. If Poirot does not solve the murder now, the murderer may go away forever.Murder is Easy starts with Luke Fitzwilliam, a professor from MIT, on a train with Lavinia Pinkerton who states she is heading to Scotland Yard to report a murder. Before she can get there, Lavinia dies. Curious, Luke attends the funeral and looks for someone that Lavinia stated would die next, Dr. Humbleby. A couple of days later Dr. Humbleby is found dead. Luke looks at the townspeople and tries to figure out which one could be a serial killer. At the time, he bonds with one of the townspeople, Bridget, however she is entangled with someone.The Man in the Brown Suit, Anne Beddingfield a tourist is a witness to a murder, when looking at the body, she sees a man in a brown suit run from the scene. She books a trip on a boat and runs into a number of people connected to the murder. Sir Eustace Pedler, Suzanne Blair and Colonel Race. She befriends Suzanne and on the boat, she runs into the same intriguing man in the brown suit. Anne keeps investigating and finds that certain items were hidden on the boat she's on. As people realize Anne is investigating, people start trying to stop her, is the man in the brown suit out to help or her harm her?Sparkling Cyanide, the movie starts out at a dinner party where Rosemary Barton, the wife of a lawyer dies. Cyanide is found in Rosemary's drink and a suicide note is discovered, however the circumstances are still suspect. Tony Browne, a guest at the dinner party, starts looking further into the death. Soon later, another body shows up. Aided by Iris, Rosemary's sisters, Tony seeks the truth.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I <3 Agatha!
*by I***N on July 13, 2015*

This is a great collection of super fun mysteries. My copy has one strange flaw, the subtitles turn on for a moment in "Dead Man's Folly" but they turn off again after a couple of lines. And it contains my absolute favorite "The Man in the Brown Suit" which is so much fun. I highly recommend this to any hardcore Christie fan. The films are full of great stars, great plot twists, and the 80's hair and costumes are worth the price alone.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Actress...Good Movies
*by L***R on August 14, 2019*

A lot of women have played the great sleuth, Miss Marple, of Agatha Christi fame. But, none does it like the First Lady of the Theater..Miss Helen Hayes. Totally enjoyable movies and I have passed them on to be shared by other fans of Miss Christie's. Worth the money and you'll watch them more than once, I'm sure.

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