Order of Agatha Christie Books

Problem at Pollensa Bay

Parker Pyne Investigates

The Listerdale Mystery

The Hound of Death

The Mysterious Mr. Quin

Passenger to Frankfurt

Endless Night

The Pale Horse

Ordeal by Innocence

Destination Unknown

They Came to Baghdad

Crooked House

Sparkling Cyanide

Death Comes as the End

And Then There Were None

Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?

The Sittaford Mystery

The Seven Dials Mystery

The Secret of Chimneys

The Man in the Brown Suit

Postern of Fate

Tommy and Tuppence, now in their twilight years, move into a new house and stumble across a coded message in an old book Mary Jordan did not die naturally. It sparks a decadesold mystery involving wartime treachery and a longforgotten murder. This final Beresford adventure is dreamier and more nosta...

By the Pricking of My Thumbs

Tommy and Tuppence Beresford returnolder, wiser, and perhaps not ready for what theyre about to face. After visiting an elderly relative in a care home, Tuppence becomes obsessed with a strange woman who spoke cryptically about a child behind the fireplace. When that woman vanishes and another dies,...

N or M?

Partners in Crime

The Secret Adversary

Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple's Last Case

Let sleeping murder lie, they said. But Gwenda Reed doesnt listen. After buying a new house, she begins to remember things she shouldntlike where the door used to be and who was murdered in the hallway. Miss Marple unravels a ghost story turned crime thriller, a tale of childhood trauma and suppress...

Nemesis

Miss Marple receives a letter from beyond the gravefrom a recently deceased millionaire who asks her to investigate a crime though he doesnt say what it is. Sent on a mystery tour with a group of strangers, Marple must piece together a murder without a victim, a suspect, or even a confirmed crime. T...

At Bertram’s Hotel

Bertrams is a charming, oldfashioned hotel in London where nothing ever seems to changeand thats exactly the problem. Beneath the lace doilies and crumpets lies a highstakes criminal operation. When a guest disappears and a clergyman is nearly killed, Miss Marples instincts kick in. The novel is mor...

A Caribbean Mystery

Miss Marple takes a vacationbut murder follows. When a retired major whispers about a murderer he once knew and then ends up dead, Marple is pulled into an exotic mystery involving secrets, seduction, and sundrenched lies. Christie uses the setting to its fullest every lazy beach chair and rum cockt...

The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side

Hollywood glamour invades sleepy St. Mary Mead when a film star moves into the manorand soon after, a local woman drops dead at her party. Was the drink meant for the actress? Or is there a darker truth behind that fatal cocktail? Miss Marple, now elderly and feeling her age, takes on one of her mos...

4.50 from Paddington

An elderly woman sees a murder take place on a passing trainbut no one believes her, and no body is found. Enter Miss Marple, who sends her loyal friend Lucy Eyelesbarrow undercover into the Crackenthorpe household, where secrets pile up faster than the bodies. Christies blend of railway logic, dome...

A Pocket Full of Rye

Another nursery rhyme, another murder. When financier Rex Fortescue is found dead with rye in his pocket, followed by two more rhymerelated killings, the case seems bizarreuntil Miss Marple connects the dots. The household is straight out of a gothic family novel greedy heirs, bitter spouses, and di...

They Do It with Mirrors

Miss Marple visits a friend whos running a rehabilitation center for juvenile delinquentsbut its not the boys who cause trouble. A sudden murder, staged like a magic trick, throws everyone into suspicion. Christie uses the theme of illusion and misdirection to build a plot that reads like a magician...

A Murder is Announced

The Moving Finger

Lymstock should be a sleepy English villagebut its seething with secrets. An anonymous letterwriting campaign has begun, and the poison pens are hitting their mark. When one of the recipients takes their own life or was it murder?, the tension boils over. Enter Miss Marple, undercover and underestim...

The Body in the Library

Miss Marples backand murder has come to the respectable Bantry household. A young womans body is found in their library, and no one knows who she is or how she got there. As the investigation winds through dance halls and seaside hotels, Marple quietly observes the livingand listens to the dead. Chr...

The Murder at the Vicarage

Meet Miss Marplequiet, elderly, sharp as a scalpel. In her debut, the sleepy village of St. Mary Mead is rocked by the murder of Colonel Protheroe. Everyone had a reason to hate him, and most had the opportunity to kill him. The story unfolds through the eyes of the village vicar, adding layers of l...

Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly

Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case

Hercule Poirots final bowpublished after Christies death but written decades earlier as a planned finale. Set in Styles Court, the location of his first case, Poirotnow aged and wheelchairboundcalls on Hastings to help investigate a series of murders none of which have yet occurred. The killer? A ma...

Elephants Can Remember

Ariadne Oliver returns to ask Poirots help with a case from the past did General Ravenscroft really kill his wife and then himself? Or is the truth buried deeper? Elephants refers to those who rememberwitnesses from decades ago whose memories are as unreliable as they are revealing. Christie explore...

Hallowe’en Party

At a childrens Halloween party, a young girl claims she once saw a murderbut no one believes her. Hours later, shes found drowned in the applebobbing tub. Poirot is called in to make sense of a mystery where the past has long been buriedand someone will do anything to keep it that way. Christie expl...

Third Girl

A young woman bursts into Poirots office claiming she might have committed a murderthen bolts before giving any details. Poirot, with the help of Ariadne Oliver, digs into the girls bohemian flatsharing life, her elusive parents, and a past that might be catching up. The novel explores 1960s youth c...

The Clocks

A typist is sent to a blind womans home, only to discover a mans body surrounded by six clocks, none of which belong to the house. The victim? Unknown. The murderer? Unseen. The motive? Unclear. Poirot is brought in by a young intelligence agent to decode a riddle that seems deliberately theatrical....

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

Cat Among the Pigeons

Murder hits Meadowbank, a prestigious girls school, where teachers and students alike become suspects. Smuggled jewels, Middle Eastern politics, and international espionage swirl in the backgrounduntil Poirot steps in to cut through the chaos. The novel is delightfully layered part school story, par...

Dead Man’s Folly

Poirot is invited to a summer fte at Nasse House to judge a mock murder mystery gameonly for a real body to turn up. What starts as fun and games quickly spirals into a sinister plot involving manipulation, impersonation, and one of Christies creepiest female characters. Set against an idyllic river...

Hickory Dickory Dock

Strange thefts plague a London student hostel. Poirot thinks its beneath himuntil a resident turns up dead. Christie captures the energy of 1950s youth culture international students, odd obsessions, secret romances. Theres comedy and chaos, but underneath lies a disturbing darkness. The killer uses...

After the Funeral

When Richard Abernethie dies, his family gathers to mourn. But then his sister says, It was murder, wasnt it?and by the next day, shes dead too. Poirot steps into a classic inheritance plot brimming with secrets, resentments, and false identities. Christie plays with appearances whos real, whos pret...

Mrs. McGinty’s Dead

A humble cleaning lady is murdered with a blunt instrument. A lodger is convicted. Case closeduntil Poirot reopens it and discovers a tangle of identities, secrets, and a journalists forgotten article. Christie uses this seemingly simple murder to explore gossip, media, and the legacy of wartime cri...

Taken at the Flood

A wealthy war widow dies in an air raid, leaving her fortune to her mysterious new husband. Her relativescut off and suspicioussoon start dying. Poirot investigates a tangle of identity, inheritance, and postwar instability. Christie captures the unease of a changing England, where old money clashes...

The Hollow

Five Little Pigs

Sixteen years after a woman was convicted of murdering her husband, her daughter asks Poirot to reinvestigate. With only memories and testimonies to go on, Poirot must reconstruct the crime using logic and insight. Each of the five suspectseach a pig in the nursery rhymeoffers a different version of...

Evil Under the Sun

Sun, sea, sand... and strangulation. When a glamorous, flirtatious actress is found murdered at a posh seaside resort, Poirot is once again forced to cut his vacation short. The suspects? A tightknit group of hotel guests, all brimming with jealousy and concealed desire. Christies mastery of atmosph...

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

A dentist is murdered. A patient vanishes. And a simple rhyme becomes the killers calling card. What begins as a seemingly mundane investigation spirals into a complex web of political secrets, double identities, and ruthless ambition. Poirot must navigate both the genteel and the grimy sides of Lon...

Sad Cypress

Told partly from the perspective of the accused, this courtroomdramameetsmurdermystery is one of Christies most emotionally resonant works. Elinor Carlisle is on trial for murderpoisoning her romantic rival. The case is tight. The evidence damning. But Poirot, sensing something off, digs into the su...

The Girdle of Hyppolita

Hercule Poirot’s Christmas

Who says murder isnt festive? In this gloriously gruesome holiday special, wealthy Simeon Lee invites his estranged family home for Christmasonly to be found dead in a locked room, throat slit. With money, grudges, and family drama snowballing, Poirot is called in to crack the case. Christie blends ...

Appointment with Death

Set against the arid backdrop of Petra, this psychological thriller brings Poirot facetoface with one of Christies most monstrous victims Mrs. Boynton, a tyrannical matriarch who controls her family with an iron will. When shes found dead, seemingly of natural causes, Poirot suspects otherwise. Ever...

Dead Man's Mirror

Death on the Nile

Ah, Egyptthe golden heat, the pyramids, the majestic Nile. And, of course, murder. A honeymoon cruise turns deadly when beautiful heiress Linnet Ridgeway is shot in her cabin. Poirot, aboard for a holiday, finds himself drawn into a complicated love triangle spiraling into obsession, betrayal, and r...

Dumb Witness

Cards on the Table

Murder in Mesopotamia

The A.B.C. Murders

A chilling change of pace for Poirot. This time, its not a murder of passion or inheritancebut a serial killer, methodical and taunting. A mysterious letter arrives, addressed to Poirot, warning of a murder in Andover. The body appears, and so does an A.B.C. Railway Guide near the corpse. Then anoth...

Death in the Clouds

Murder at 10,000 feet? Only Agatha Christie would dare. On a flight from Paris to London, a passenger is killed midairseemingly unnoticed by everyone around her. Poirot, also on board, investigates the airborne murder where the killer had nowhere to run. The challenge? Figuring out how a poison dart...

Three Act Tragedy

Murder on the Orient Express

This is the murder mystery that even people whove never read Christie know by nameand for good reason. When an American tycoon is stabbed twelve times aboard the snowbound Orient Express, Poirot must solve a murder in a train where every passenger could be guilty. The luxury, isolation, and cosmopol...

Lord Edgware Dies

Black Coffee

Peril at End House

Poirot takes a seaside holidayof course, murder tags along. Young and enigmatic Nick Buckley escapes death multiple times, prompting Poirot to believe shes being hunted. But why would anyone want this charming young woman dead? And why does her house, End House, seem to harbor so many secrets? Chris...

The Mystery of the Blue Train

Murder takes the fast track aboard the luxurious Blue Train traveling from London to the French Riviera. Heiress Ruth Kettering is found dead, her face disfigured and her priceless ruby missing. Poirot, conveniently aboard, investigates a cast of elegant passengerseach with something to hide. The gl...

The Big four

Unlike her usual closedcircle mysteries, Christie dives into the world of international espionage. Poirot faces off against a criminal organization known as The Big Four, each member more sinister and elusive than the last. The plot gallops across continentsParis, London, Italy, the Orientblending t...

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

This novel changed everything. With its genredefying twist ending no spoilers, but wow, Christie shattered the conventions of detective fiction. Set in the sleepy village of Kings Abbot, the sudden suicide of a widow, followed by the murder of wealthy Roger Ackroyd, brings Poirot out of retirement. ...

Murder on the Links

Set in a quiet French seaside town, this second outing for Poirot plunges him into a bizarre casean English millionaire is found dead on a golf course, face down in a grave he seemingly dug for himself. Poirot, called to the scene before the murder, now finds himself upstaged by a young, arrogant Fr...

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

The world met Hercule Poirot in this groundbreaking debutan eccentric, fastidious Belgian refugee with a flair for logic and a genius for solving murder. Set in a classic English manor during WWI, the death of wealthy Emily Inglethorp via strychnine shakes the household. Everyones a suspect the much...