Marple finds herself on a bit of a holiday and staying at the very posh Bertram's Hotel, where she stayed as a child and for which she has very fond memories. Things take a sinister turn when a hotel maid, Tilly Rice, is found strangled on the roof. Miss Marple can't help but investigate but is assisted by Jane Cooper, also a hotel maid, who is in fact a younger version of Miss Marple. When an attempt is made on the life of a hotel guest, Elvira Blake the two Janes work together to find the motive and the identity of the killer.

A young woman's corpse is dumped in the library of Gossington Hall, home of Jane Marple's friend Dolly Bantry and her husband Arthur. Pompous Chief Constable Melchett suspects a connection with Basil Blake, an arty young man who lives locally but Blake is dismissive when Melchett visits him. Then Superintendent Harper rings from the coastal town of Danemouth. Ruby Keane, a young girl employed as a dancer at the Majestic Hotel there, has gone missing, and her cousin Josie Turner identifies the corpse as Ruby's. Ruby is in favour with millionaire Conway Jefferson, whose own son and daughter were killed in a wartime air raid, and he wants to adopt her. His son-in-law Mark Gaskell, and daughter-in-law Adelaide react variously to the news. Miss Marple is convinced that the solution to Ruby's murder may be found at the hotel and she and Dolly book into a suite to investigate.

Colonel Lucius Protheroe is probably the least-liked individual in St Mary Mead. All resent his superior and demanding attitude. So, when he is found dead in the vicarage study, there is no end of suspects. His wife Ann was having an affair with a local artist, Lawrence Redding. His daughter Lettice bridled under his strict rule. There is also the vicar and his assistant, whom Protheroe suspected of stealing church funds. Finally, there is the mysterious Mrs. Lester with whom he clearly had some previous connection. Jane Marple, recuperating at home from a sprained ankle, had a bird's eye view of all the comings and goings at the vicarage around the time of the murder and she gladly assists Inspector Slack in solving the crime.

英国一个小镇的居民们，在当地的报纸上读到一则奇怪的启事，启事里声称周五下午在居民利迪西亚的家里将会发生一起谋杀案。好奇的人们聚集起来，等待看热闹。当启事上所说的时刻到来，灯光突然熄灭，一个年轻的旅馆雇员被杀。警察认为是其刊登的启事，他原本打算借此劫财。但是头脑灵光的玛普尔小姐却觉得事情没有这么简单……

艾丝贝夫人搭乘下午四时五十分的快车，前往梅契斯特探望老朋友玛波小姐。途中，在与一班列车交汇时，艾丝贝由窗口惊见那辆列车上一名女子遭人勒毙。然而报案后，警方却遍寻不到尸首。玛波小姐认为，此案应与铁路线上路斯佛宅邸的克氏家族有关，于是进行暗中查探。后来克家仓库的石棺中发现了一具女尸，整件疑案顿时有了转机…

When Tommy and Tuppence visit an elderly aunt in her nursing home, Tuppence is concerned by the odd behavior of some staff and residents. So when Tuppence hears about Aunt Ada's sudden death and the disappearance of her friend Mrs Lancaster, she realizes her concerns were right. Tuppence meets Miss Marple and together they follow a path of clues that lead them to the Norfolk village of Farrell St Edmund, where they find a community guarding an array of secrets. Only by getting to the bottom of these secrets do they begin to unravel the truth about the mystery of Aunt Ada's death and Mrs Lancaster's disappearance.

Marple is asked to help Gwenda, a wealthy young woman who has bought a house on the English coast, only to experience disturbing visions. Thanks to Miss Marple's investigations, Gwenda discovers that, instead of spending all her life in India, she had lived in the house as a child. The visions are actually flashes of memory - and she realizes she witnessed the murder of a beautiful woman named "Helen".

While visiting her friend Dermot in Little Ambrose, Miss Marple is drawn into investigating the death of Eddie Seward, whom she'd met on the bus and who is found having apparently drowned in the river.Within a few days however, there is a second suspicious death, that of Mary Pritchard who seems to have died from fright. She was disliked by many and had recently caused a scene when her husband George was inaugurated as the Captain of the local golf club. Even Dermot disliked her as did her sister Philippa, who was once engaged to George, whom she described as the love of her life. Phillipa ended up marrying George's brother, Lewis Pritchard, and they are constantly having money problems. A third death - this time one of George Pritchard's former mistresses - convinces Inspector Somerset that George, who conveniently confesses, is the murderer. Miss Marple thinks otherwise and sets out to prove it.

When Clive Trevelyan - Member of Parliament, war hero and heir apparent to Prime Minister Winston Churchill- is killed, Miss Marple sets about to solve the case. Trevelyan has made his fortune many years before in Egypt having secretly uncovered a lost tomb. He is killed during a major snowstorm when there are no police available. There are several possible suspects including Trevelyan's ward, James Pearson and his fiancée Emily Trefusis; his political agent, John Enderby; a journalist Charles Burnaby; a visiting American Martin Zimmerman; and several other apparently disinterested parties. A convict has also escaped from Dartmoor prison. Miss Marple concludes that Trevalyan's murder is related to his days in Egypt and sets about to identify the murderer.

Miss Jane Marple is shocked when she receives a note from an old friend,Father Gorman only to read in the newspaper the very same day that he was murdered. He had attended a dying woman, Mrs. Davis, who died the previous evening and it was while he was on his way home that he was apparently attacked. The police have put it down to a mugging but the letter Miss Marple received from him intrigues her: a list of surnames and a quote from the bible. The policeman in charge of the case, Inspector Lejeune is skeptical about it all being a murder but when Miss Marple inspects Mrs. Davis' rooms, she finds an identical list to that sent to her by Father Gorman and also a reference to the Pale Horse Inn in Much Deeping, Hampshire. She soon checks into the inn and pursues her own investigation.

Hollywood star Marina Gregg leaves Los Angeles for the picturesque countryside of St Mary Mead. Having taken up residence at Gossington Hall with her dashing young English husband, film director Jason Rudd, his secretary, Ella Blunt and Marina's exclusive personal assistant, Hailey Preston, it's not long before she becomes lady of the manor. When the glamorous couple decide to throw a benefit for the St John Ambulance, the grounds are abuzz with curious locals including previous owner of Gossington Hall, Dolly Bantry. But when a local fan, Heather Badcock consumes a poisoned daiquiri, Marina finds herself starring in a real-life mystery - supported by Miss Marple and Inspector Hewitt, who suspect that the lethal cocktail was intended for someone else. But who? If it was meant for Marina, then why?

When troubled war veteran Jerry Burton and his sister Joanna relocate to the quiet little village of Lymstock in order to allow Jerry to recuperate from injuries received in what he claims is a motorcycle accident, they are expecting nothing more than country sleepiness and tedium. Much to their surprise, however, they find themselves embroiled in the middle of scandal and secrets; someone is sending vicious poison-pen letters to the residents. A local dignitary has already taken his own life over the letters, and it's not long before local gossip Mona Symmington also commits suicide after receiving a letter. But when the letter-writer apparently resorts to murder, Jerry finds his curiosity stoked despite himself, and he's not the only one; Miss Jane Marple is also in Lymstock, and she's decided that it's long past time someone got to the bottom of this unpleasant business.

Marple is called upon to solve her most perplexing case yet. Upon his death, financier John Rafiel asks her to solve a murder. Only problem is that the murder may or may not have place as yet and the victim is unknown. All that he has given her is two tickets on the Daffodil Tour Company's Mystery Tour. It soon becomes obvious that others on the tour were also "selected" by Mr. Rafiel. Jane Marple, assisted by her nephew Raymond West, concludes that the case must be related to that of Verity Hunt, a young woman who in 1939 was running away from an overattentive landlord and eventually disappeared. When a member of the tour dies mysteriously, she also realizes that someone is desperate to keep a deep, dark secret.

Marple is visiting an old school friend, Lady Camilla Tressilian, along with an eclectic group: Neville Strange and his wife Kay, his former wife Audrey and her childhood friend and cousin Thomas Royde, Ted Latimer and finally Freddie Treves, a retired solicitor. When Treves is found dead the day after a dinner party at Lady Tressilian's home and Lady Tressilian herself is found bludgeoned to death a short time later, Miss Marple must sort through the complex set of relationships among all the players, and determine what role the tale of a child's crime may have had to play in the deaths.

结识小明（杨静怡 饰）前，小四（张震 饰）是典型的乖孩子。作为父母的希望和兄妹的骄傲，全家人都指望他考上名牌大学。他有一个喜欢摇滚乐的自称“小猫王“（王启赞 饰）的好友，两人虽会去树林看人幽会，但过的却是与周围那些在“小公园”里混的少年人完全两样的生活。
喜欢上小明后，小四便像跌进一个无底深渊，开始被外界的各种力量牵着鼻子走。新结识的仰慕对象honey（林鸿铭 饰）猝死，一向敬重的父亲的自尊与精神因为某次事件严重受损，再加上“看透”了小明一次次“欺骗玩弄”他的感情，血气方刚又有很强道德感的小四终于走上犯罪的道路，期望用自己的刀结束事件的根源。但小四不知的是，他眼中的根源只是这条食物链中微不足道的一环……

赫尔克里波洛（大卫·苏切特 David Suchet 饰）：一个讲法语的比利时人，五短身材，枣核脑瓜，偏爱修饰自己月牙弯的胡子，其貌不扬，还有洁癖，但是既和蔼又可爱。而他最出名的是脑袋里“小小的灰色细胞”，这让他先后侦破过诸如东方快车谋杀案、尼罗河上的惨案、ABC谋杀案 等案件，成为与福尔摩斯齐名的大侦探。
本系列根据“举世公认的侦探小说女王”——英国小说家阿加莎·克里斯蒂同名系列小说改编，自1989年至2013年，共拍摄13季。包括《首相绑架案》《约翰.威佛利历险记》《ABC谋杀案》《康沃尔谜案》《罗德兹三角》《双重罪恶》《厨子惊魂》《非凡盗贼》《恶梦》《俱乐部之王》《戴面具的女郎》《矿藏之谜》《玛斯登陆庄园惨案》《死人之镜》等

《大侦探波洛》第二季共10集，于1990年播出。其中第1集和第10集为长篇小说改编，片长100分钟；其他8集均为短篇小说改编，片长50分钟。第10集《斯泰尔斯庄园奇案》是1990年9月ITV为了纪念阿婆诞辰100周年推出的特别篇，改编自阿婆的第一部长篇小说，也是时间顺序上波洛的第一案，适宜作为全剧首集观看。
1、Peril at End House 悬崖山庄奇案
2、The Veiled Lady 蒙面女人
3、The Lost Mine 矿藏之谜
4、The Cornish Mystery 康沃尔谜案
5、The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim 无影无踪
6、Double Sin 双重罪恶
7、The Adventure of the Cheap Flat 廉价公寓的秘密
8、The Kidnapped Prime Minister 惊天绑票
9、The Adventure of the Western Star 西方之星;
10、The Mysterious Affair at Styles 斯泰尔斯庄园奇案

《大侦探波洛》第三季共10集，故事均改编自短篇小说，于1991年播出。
1、How Does Your Garden Grow? 花园疑案
2、The Million Dollar Bond Robbery 百万美元证券失窃案
3、The Plymouth Express 普利茅斯快车上的谋杀案
4、Wasps' Nest 蜂窝谜案
5、The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor 马斯顿庄园的悲剧
6、The Double Clue 双重线索
7、The Mystery of the Spanish Chest 西班牙箱子之谜
8、The Theft of the Royal Ruby 红宝石之玉失窃案
9、The Affair at the Victory Ball 舞会谜案
10、The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge 猎人小屋

《大侦探波洛》第四季共3集，均改编自长篇小说，每集片长100分钟左右，于1992年播出。
1、The ABC Murders ABC谋杀案
2、Death in the Clouds 云中命案
3、One, Two, Buckle My Shoe 牙医之死

《大侦探波洛》第五季共8集，于1993年播出，每集片长50分钟，均改编自短篇小说，这也是本系列剧的最后一个短篇季。
1、The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb 埃及墓地历险记
2、The Underdog 弱者的愤怒
3、The Yellow Iris 黄色鸢尾
4、The Case of the Missing Will 遗嘱失踪案
5、The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman 意大利贵族奇遇记
6、The Chocolate Box 巧克力盒谜案
7、Dead Man's Mirror 死人之镜
8、Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan “大都市”酒店珠宝失窃案