Ascendancy is a 1983 British film. It tells the story of a woman who is a member of the British landowning 'Ascendancy' in Ireland during World War I. Gradually, she learns about the Irish independence movement, and becomes involved with it.

Morse and Lewis investigate the disappearance of teenager Valerie Craven who vanished some six months previously while walking home from her exclusive girls school. Morse is the third detective assigned to the case and is convinced that the girl is by now dead. However, the girl's parents receive a note, purportedly from Valerie. Suspicion falls on a number of people, including fellow students, men named in her diary and some of the teachers at her school. When one of the teachers is killed, the missing persons enquiry becomes a murder investigation.

It's a tension filled weekend for Tommy Lynley when he and Helen go the family estate to hold their engagement party. Tommy is estranged from his mother owing to the time he found her in bed with their family physician, Dr. Trenarrow, while his father was dying of cancer in the next room. He's on less than good terms as well with his brother Peter who feels that Tommy abandoned him when their father died. When Mick Cambrey is found dead in his shop in the village, the police arrest his father-in-law John Penellin, the Lynleys long-time estate manager. Lynley and Haver soon determine that the death is related to drug smuggling. When one of the weekend guests, Justin Brooke, is found dead on the estate, they realize something other than heroin was being smuggled.

为别人寻找失踪的厨子？这种小案子，大名鼎鼎的波罗当然不屑一顾。 可是听听这句话“报纸上说你是一位聪明过人的侦探，你是给钱让他们这么写的，还是他们自己想当然写出来的？” 就为托德太太的这句话，傲慢的波罗违心地接下了这个“小得可怜的”案件。 谁知调查才刚开始，托德太太的丈夫就寄来了可怜的一畿尼“咨询费”，要求终止服务。 “他们给我一畿尼？！”这一畿尼犹如第二个耳光，再次狠狠地伤害了波罗强烈的自尊，他决定哪怕自己赔上三千六百畿尼，也要把这个小案子查个水落石出……

Hercule Poirot is bored to tears and with three weeks since his last case, is worried that his little gray cells will stop working. Captain Hastings suggest a evening at the theater to see the latest murder mystery but even that doesn't help when Poirot finds the plot to be absurd. On their return home to Whitehaven Mansions, they learn that the new occupant of the flat two floors below Poirot's has been found shot. She had only moved in that very same day and was an unknown. Poirot puts his little gray cells to good use and assists Inspector Japp of Scotland Yard in identifying the murderer.

波洛侦探（大卫·苏切特 David Suchet 饰）接到了莱蒙太太（保琳·莫兰 Pauline Moran 饰）的电话，邀请他去她家里做客。莱蒙太太的丈夫是国防部官员，他邀请了名为乔安娜（Carmen du Sautoy 饰）的女人去家中小住。莱蒙太太对这个女人的印象极为糟糕，她坚信她正在策划一个阴谋，一个同国家机密息息相关的阴谋。 拗不住莱蒙太太的坚持，波洛勉强赴约。让大家都没有想到的是，当晚，一份机密文件不翼而飞，乔安娜则成为了最大嫌疑人。当所有人都将矛头指向乔安娜的时候，波洛发现了事件的漏洞，他坚信事情一定不是表面看上去的那么简单。

法利（阿兰·霍华德 Alan Howard 饰）是当地非常有名的馅饼生产商，性格傲慢的他在社交圈里树敌不少。一天，波洛侦探（大卫·苏切 David Suchet 饰）收到了法利的来信，要求同他见面。 法利告诉波洛自己每夜都在重复同一个噩梦，梦中，他总是于十二点二 八分这个时间点吞枪自尽。这个梦让法利感到非常的焦虑，甚至怀疑自己是不是中了催眠术。波洛当然不相信这种怪力乱神的说法，但对于法利的经历也没有更好的解释。让他没有想到的是，法利竟然真的在不久之后死去了，所有的迹象都表明这是一场自杀。直觉告诉波洛，一切都不是表面看来的这么简单。

波罗跑去银行核查帐户余额，意外得知帐户被莫名其妙地透支了足足60英镑，这让他很不开心。 当晚，波罗正与黑斯廷斯玩大富翁游戏，银行行长跑来找他，这让他颇感欣慰。谁知银行行长不是为透支一事来道歉的，而是带来了一个消失的神秘银矿，以及因此而发生的一桩诡异的谋杀案…… 对一个传说中的巨大银矿而言，区区60英镑又算得了什么呢？

培杰蕾夫人（阿曼达·沃克尔 Amanda Walker 饰）坚信自己的丈夫想要致自己于死地，并且在除掉她之后和他那金发碧眼的漂亮助手结婚。为此，培杰蕾夫人找到了波洛侦探（大卫·苏切特 David Suchet 饰）向他求助，可是，当波洛赶到康沃尔时，培杰蕾夫人已经死了，这让波洛感到非常的懊悔。 家庭医生告诉波洛，培杰蕾夫人死于胃炎。培杰蕾夫人的侄女福莱达（Chloe Salaman 饰）亦否定了培杰蕾夫人对于丈夫出轨的种种猜想。但对此，家中的仆人却是完全另一种说法，在他们口中，男主人对待女主人一直都算不上好。尽管众说纷纭，但波洛侦探还是很快就理清了自己的思绪，锁定了最大的嫌疑人。

阿伦特尔小姐（Ann Morrish 饰）给波洛侦探（大卫·苏切特 David Suchet 饰）写了一封信，希望波洛能够帮助她解决一些家庭内部的问题，并且暗示可能有什么人想要她的命。来自职业的直觉告诉波洛事有蹊跷，他匆匆忙忙赶到了阿伦特尔小姐的住处。 可惜，波洛的到来并没有挽救阿伦特尔小姐的性命，死前，她将全部的遗产留给了非亲非故的女佣，这让她那些整天惦记着钱的亲戚们感到十分愤怒和不解。在老搭档黑斯廷上尉（休·弗拉瑟 Hugh Fraser 饰）的帮助下，波洛开始了对于事件的调查，他走访了阿伦特尔小姐的众多亲戚和朋友，听取了证词，透过波洛聪慧的思维和缜密的逻辑，真相已然浮出了水面。

As Christmas approaches Sidney prepares to marry brassy Linda Morgan to the much older Bill Davis, to the disgust of the groom's son Felix, when Bill is found murdered at the family firm, supposedly the victim of a robbery. Geordie suspects flash Larry Simkins, owner of the strip club where Linda worked and where she met Bill but the nature of the murder reminds Geordie of an identical unsolved case from three years earlier and switches his attentions to the prime suspect at the time, gruff toy-shop owner Albert Tannen, who is violently attacked. Sidney eventually unmasks the killer whilst Mrs Maguire and Leonard deliver her baby for Amanda, pregnant by estranged husband Guy, cast out by her bigoted father and hoping for a future with Sidney.

西米恩李年轻时候什么坏事都干过，骗过、偷过，总是爱拈花惹草……，在外可能有不少私生子。就是这样一个人，现在年龄大了，虽然有钱，但身体不再健康，终日只有坐在轮椅上，他还有什么乐子呢？于是他专门以“整”他的家人为乐。马上是圣诞节了，他又灵机一动，要所有的儿子（包括一个多年未曾回过家的坏儿子）、儿媳以及一个从未见过面的外孙女都回来团聚，恰好他在南非的儿子前来探望他，他也邀请其留下来过节。表面上好象希望全家团圆，实际上他又在找乐子。他宣称要修改遗嘱，弄得每个人心绪不宁。他还声称生命有危险，听从本地警监哈罗德萨格登推荐，邀请波洛圣诞节来保护他。 圣诞节前一天下午，老李把家里人都叫到他房里，逐个地或激怒、或教训、或讽刺、或羞辱了一番，让他们一个个灰溜溜地离开他的房间了。到了晚上，突然传来了老李的惨叫声，大家从不同的地方冲到其卧室门口。把门撞开进去后，出现大家面前的是一个血淋淋的暴力谋杀现场…… 本地警监哈罗德苏格登承办此案，他要求苏格兰场介入。波洛找来在家过圣诞节的杰普协助他。结果让人大吃一惊……