Bandon Public Library

The brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is on the case in these episodes of the wildly popular British television adaptation, in which David Suchet stars as the foppish and downright vain sleuth who solves the thorniest of cases with his formidable intellect. Set in glittering 1930s Europe, these adaptations capture every splendid detail of the Art Deco era.

He's the most-watched sleuth in the history of PBS's Mystery! David Suchet stars as the dapper, diminutive Belgian who solves the most serpentine cases with the sharpest of minds and the driest of wits.

Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again....