These Radio 4 dramatizations of two Poirot mysteries were first broadcast in 1993 and 1994, respectively. In the first of them, a young girl is found drowned at a Hallowe'en party, and the second is about a reopened murder case, the apparent killer having long ago been convicted and since died.
Lord Bellingham, Carsely's biggest landholder, has enraged locals by saying he is going to sell off their allotments to make way for a new housing development. So when he turns up dead, poisoned by antifreeze, nobody mourns his passing ... Agatha is introduced to three old-timers Harry Perry, Bunty Daventry and Josephine Merriweather, whilst visiting the Carsley’s allotments. They are lamenting the neglected...