The 12 Best Agatha Christie Shows You Can Stream On BritBox Right Now

Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?

Could your dying last words send two people on a wild goose chase if the statement you uttered was bizarre enough? Actors Will Poulter and Lucy Boynton play the two amateur sleuths in Christie’s witty 1934 novel, Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?

Poulter takes on the role of Bobby Jones, a curious young man who’s playing a round of golf when he hits his ball over a cliff’s edge. There’s no finding his ball, but what he discovers instead is a man dying on the rocks. Even stranger, the man’s last words are, “Why didn’t they ask Evans?”

Bobby and his companion, portrayed by none other than Lucy Boynton, make it their mission to answer that very question.

Towards Zero

When recently-divorced Nevile Strange (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), a handsome and beloved tennis star, shows up with his new wife, things seem a bit strained at his family home — especially given his ex-wife's continued presence. Tensions rise, family fights, and everything seems to be out of order...all leading to the untimely murder, of course. Who did it? Well, that's one mystery you'll have to solve!

Murder Is Easy

Agatha Christie's Murder Is Easy is definitely an all-time classic tale. In this two-part thriller series, Luke Fitzwilliam (David Jonsson) meets Miss Pinkerton (Penelope Wilton), and sets off to investigate a potential serial killer in a small English town. In the process, he realizes he needs to solve these murder cases before the killer strikes again...but will the eccentric members of this village make it any easier on him? It doesn't seem so.

Like Fitzwilliam says, "This village really is a place where...murder is easy."

Agatha Christie's Poirot

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Christie penned her first published book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1916, and David Suchet tackles the lofty role of Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in the TV adaptation.

In this tale, he settles in England close to Styles Court at the estate of his well-off, elderly benefactor, Emily Inglethorp. Then, after Emily becomes poisoned, Hercule Poirot is forced to investigate all potential suspects–including Emily’s young husband, her bitter stepsons, and a visiting London poison specialist.

The Murder on the Orient Express

This iconic Christie novel is the 10th in her Hercule Poirot series and takes readers (or BritBox viewers) on a chilly murder investigation in the midst of a snowstorm. It’s not long after midnight when the Orient Express navigates through the Balkans, but come sunrise, the train is one passenger short.

That’s because an American tycoon was found stabbed 12 times inside his compartment. Even more puzzling? His compartment’s door had been locked from the inside. It just so happens that Hercule Poirot is on the train, too, and he has to quickly find the murderer on the train before they kill again.

Death on the Nile

Would it even be a Hercule Poirot novel without an intriguing location and the detective just so happening to be close by? Probably not. In Death on the Nile, a peaceful cruise is traversing the Nile when everything goes haywire because a beautiful young girl, Linnet Ridgeway, gets shot.

Hercule Poirot is vacationing on board as well and remembers another passenger who had an outburst prior to Linnet’s murder, saying, “I’d like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.” But, of course, the answer to the mystery was never that straightforward.

Peril at the End House

Peril at the End House sees Hercule Poirot as a vacationer on the coast when he encounters a young mistress named Nick Buckley. He takes a liking to her but soon learns that Nick has repeatedly evaded multiple life-threatening accidents.

The detective finds it hard to believe that such a series of events was a plain coincidence, so he decides to investigate who’s trying to get rid of the mistress and why. In the process, he has to uncover the dark secrets of Nick’s estate before she’s targeted again.

Poirot’s Last Case

Released in 1975, Poirot’s Last Case is the final time the detective ever appeared in Christie’s works–and the last book the author published before her death.

In this tale, Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings find themselves back in the country house where they solved their first crime together nearly 30 years prior. The twist? They have to stop a five-time serial killer before he strikes again.

Agatha Christie: Marple

The Murder at the Vicarage

The Murder at the Vicarage marks the first book in Christie’s Miss Marple series. Joan Hickson portrays the amateur consulting detective, who happens upon a mysterious murder in the small English village of St. Mary Mead.

A hated local magistrate and land owner, Colonel Protheroe, gets killed in his very own study via a gunshot wound to the head. But even though everyone wished ill upon the Colonel and could’ve had a motive, Miss Marple still sets out to determine exactly who took his life.

A Murder Is Announced

Picture this: you’re reading the newspaper and stumble across a personal advertisement, inviting complete strangers to participate in a murder mystery game. Would you attend? In A Murder Is Announced, Letitia Blacklock is hosting the evening and invites the residents of Chipping Cleghorn via a newspaper ad. And Miss Marple finds it tough to turn down such an invitation. So, thankfully, she’s there when the lights go dark at the event, and a young boy is murdered by real gunshots. This sets Miss Marple on a true quest to find the killer.

The Pale Horse

In 1961, Christie published The Pale Horse, which focuses on the murder of Miss Marple’s priest friend, Father Gorman. He’d been visiting a woman on her deathbed, who handed him a list of names and urged him to “stop” something.

Father Gorman put the list into his shoe and assured the woman that he would, but on his way home, he was ruthlessly murdered. Miss Marple wants justice for her acquaintance and “becomes entangled in an organization centered around an inn run by purported witches.”

Endless Night

It’s many people’s dream to settle down and build their very own dream house with the love of their life. But what happens when the foundation is set upon cursed land?

In Endless Night, published in 1967, Michael Rogers always fantasized about constructing a home on Gipsy’s Acre and living happily ever after with Ellie, an heiress. The only problem is that the property is supposedly cursed, and Michael doesn’t listen to the warnings from locals.

He comes to realize that perhaps he should’ve paid attention, though, because “fatal accidents” unfold at Gypsy’s Acre. That’s where Miss Marple enters the picture to investigate the couple’s downfall.