Joan Hickson stars as the deceptively frail and elderly detective in these BBC television adaptations of the Agatha Christie novels, uncovering murder and foul play in rural England in the 1930s. The mysteries included in the collection are: 'The Body in the Library', 'The Moving Finger', 'A Murder Is Announced', 'A Pocketful of Rye', 'The Murder at the Vicarage', 'Sleeping Murder', 'At Bertram's Hotel', 'Nemesis', '4.50 from Paddington', 'A Caribbean Mystery', 'They Do It With Mirrors' and 'The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side'.