Yellow Iris
A short radio play for live performance featuring Hercule Poirot
30 minutes
9
Synopsis
A distressed phone call from a mystery woman brings Hercule Poirot to the hotel Jardin des Cygnes, where a man commemorates the four-year anniversary of his wife’s sudden death – a death under very suspicious circumstances that Poirot himself witnessed. Gathered is everyone present on that fateful night and now Poirot must find a killer in the midst, before they strike again.
Play information
Location
The action takes place in restaurant of the hotel Jardin des Cygnes.
Running time
30 minutes
Character list
- Number of male characters: 7
- Number of female characters: 2
- Hercule Poirot
- Pauline Weatherby
- Señora Lola Valdez
- Barton Russell
- Anthony Chappell
- Stephen Carter
- Waiter
- Cloakroom Attendant
- Compére
More about this play
Yellow Iris marked Hercule Poirot's debut appearance on Radio and Christie later used the central idea and setting for her 1945 full-length novel Sparkling Cyanide.
Additional information
Part of the live radio triple bill Murder on Air which also includes Butter in a Lordly Dish and Personal Call.
