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Hercule Poirot

12 books in reading order by Agatha Christie

  1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles

    Book 1

    The Mysterious Affair at Styles

    by Agatha Christie

    Set in the summer of 1917 in an Essex country estate, the story follows the war-wounded Captain Arthur Hastings to the Styles St. Mary manor of his friend John Cavendish....

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  2. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

    Book 3

    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

    by Agatha Christie

    Belgian Inspector Hercule Poirot has retired to the countryside in the small English village of King's Abbot. Dr. Sheppard, observing his new neighbor, is sure that he must be a...

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  3. Murder on the Orient Express

    Book 8

    Murder on the Orient Express

    by Agatha Christie

    ***While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift.*** Passengers awake to...

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  4. The ABC Murders

    Book 11

    The ABC Murders

    by Agatha Christie

    There's a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way though the alphabet. There seems little chance of the murderer being caught - until her makes the crucial...

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  5. Murder in Mesopotamia

    Book 12

    Murder in Mesopotamia

    by Agatha Christie

    Nurse Amy Leatheran had never felt the lure of the ‘mysterious East,’ but she nonetheless accepts an assignment at Hassanieh, an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert, to care...

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  6. Cards on the Table

    Book 13

    Cards on the Table

    by Agatha Christie

    It was the match-up of the century: four sleuths--Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard; Mrs. Ariadne Oliver, famed writer of detective stories; Col. Race of His Majesty's Secret Service; and the...

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  7. Poirot Loses a Client

    Book 14

    Poirot Loses a Client

    by Agatha Christie

    Hercule Poirot has a hard time finding a single suspect in the murder of an old lady everyone loved.

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  8. Death on the Nile

    Book 15

    Death on the Nile

    by Agatha Christie

    The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway ( Linnet Doyle) had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, rich...

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  9. Evil Under the Sun

    Book 20

    Evil Under the Sun

    by Agatha Christie

    Set at the Jolly Roger, a posh vacation resort for the rich and famous on the southern coast of England, Evil Under the Sun is one of Agatha Christie’s most...

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  10. Five Little Pigs

    Book 21

    Five Little Pigs

    by Agatha Christie

    Sixteen years after Caroline Crale has been convicted of the murder of her husband, Amyas Crale, her daughter, Carla Lemarchant, approaches Poirot to investigate the case. Poirot embarks optimistically upon...

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  11. Hallowe'en Party

    Book 31

    Hallowe'en Party

    by Agatha Christie

    Mystery writer Ariadne Oliver has been invited to a Hallowe’en party at Woodleigh Common. One of the other guests is an adolescent girl known for telling tall tales of murder...

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  12. Curtain

    Book 33

    Curtain

    by Agatha Christie

    wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take place… The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to...

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