Poirot tackles an intriguing and dangerous murder case involving international espionage, a Middle-Eastern revolution and a missing princess in the first of two new mysteries featuring the Belgian sleuth. Masterpiece Mystery!'s "Poirot: Cat Among the Pigeons" airs Sunday, June 21 at 9/8 p.m. CT on KET1 and KET HD and Thursday, June 25 at 9/8 p.m. CT on KET2.
This summer's "Six by Agatha" also includes four new programs featuring spinster sleuth Miss Marple, including "Why Didn't They Ask Evans?" in which a young adventurer, the sole witness to a dying man's enigmatic last words, seeks to solve the riddle they pose by forming an unlikely alliance with Miss Marple and a beautiful socialite, played by Joan Collins.
In "Cat Among the Pigeons," the surviving heir to a Middle-Eastern throne is hidden away from revolutionaries in a small English girl's school, but when -- one by one -- teachers are found murdered, it seems the school may not be such a haven for the princess after all. Then, when Poirot joins forces with famed crime novelist Ariadne Oliver (Zoë Wanamaker, Harry Potter) to save a man from the gallows, he doesn't realize his own life is in danger in "Mrs. McGinty's Dead."
Then it's on to Miss Marple in "A Pocket Full of Rye" as she learns of the deaths of a businessman, his young wife and their housemaid. The circumstances vividly recall the nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence."
Other stories in the series include "Murder Is Easy," about a string of murders in a peaceful village town, and "They Do It With Mirrors," where events are set in motion when the power goes out during rehearsal for an amateur show.
Masterpiece Mystery! is presented by WGBH/Boston.
