Agatha Christie

A wealthy woman is poisoned in her country estate, and a peculiar Belgian refugee staying in the village applies his grey cells to his very first case.

A desperate letter summons Poirot to France, but the man who wrote it is found dead in a golf course bunker before he can explain why.

A retired manufacturer is stabbed in his locked study, and the village doctor narrates Poirot's investigation in a novel that broke every rule of detective fiction.

Poirot faces an international conspiracy of four criminal masterminds bent on world domination, in Christie's most thriller-like novel.

An American heiress is strangled aboard the luxury Blue Train to the Riviera, and her fabulous rubies have vanished.

A young woman on the Cornish coast has survived three apparent accidents, and Poirot becomes convinced someone is trying to kill her.

An actress publicly announces she wants her husband dead, and hours later he is found murdered — but she has an unbreakable alibi.

A passenger is stabbed to death on a snowbound train, and Poirot discovers that every fellow traveller had a motive to kill him.

A clergyman drops dead at a dinner party from no apparent cause, and when it happens again at a second party, Poirot sees the shape of a murderous performance.

A French moneylender is killed mid-flight from Paris to London, and every passenger in the rear cabin is a suspect.

A serial killer taunts Poirot with letters announcing murders in alphabetical order, each victim found beside an ABC railway guide.

The wife of an archaeologist is found bludgeoned at a remote dig site in Iraq, and the closed circle of suspects includes her haunted past.

A collector of murderers invites four suspects and four detectives to a bridge party, and the host is stabbed while the game is in play.

A wealthy spinster writes to Poirot about an attempt on her life, but by the time the letter arrives she is already dead.

A beautiful heiress is shot dead on a Nile steamer during her honeymoon, and everyone aboard the boat had a reason to want her gone.

A tyrannical American matriarch is found dead at an archaeological site in Petra, and her terrorized family are the obvious suspects.

A wealthy patriarch summons his estranged family for Christmas, and on the holiday eve he is found with his throat cut in a locked room.

A young woman stands trial for poisoning her rival in love, and Poirot must find the truth before the jury delivers its verdict.

Poirot's dentist is found shot dead after their appointment, and the investigation spirals into politics, espionage, and identity theft.

A glamorous actress is strangled on a secluded beach at a Devon island hotel, and Poirot must untangle a web of alibis and affairs.

A young woman asks Poirot to prove her dead mother did not poison her father sixteen years ago, and he reconstructs the crime from five witnesses.

A brilliant doctor is shot dead by the swimming pool at a country house weekend, and the tableau of suspects looks almost too perfectly staged.

A war widow's new marriage upends a family's inheritance expectations, and when a stranger arrives claiming a connection, murder follows.

A charwoman is bludgeoned for her savings — or so it seems — and Poirot suspects the convicted lodger is innocent.

At a family funeral, one sister blurts out that the deceased was murdered, and the next day she is found killed with a hatchet.

A string of bizarre thefts at a London student hostel turns sinister when a resident is found poisoned.

Ariadne Oliver summons Poirot to a village fete where her murder hunt game feels too real, and a girl playing the victim is found actually dead.

Smuggled jewels from a Middle Eastern revolution end up hidden at an exclusive girls' school, and two teachers are murdered before Poirot arrives.

A blind woman's sitting room is found full of clocks she does not own and a dead man she has never met.

A distressed young woman tells Poirot she may have committed a murder but cannot remember, then vanishes before he can help.

A child boasts at a Halloween party that she once witnessed a murder, and hours later she is found drowned in the apple-bobbing bucket.

Ariadne Oliver asks Poirot to investigate an old double death — was it the husband who shot the wife, or the wife who shot the husband?

An elderly Poirot returns to Styles, where it all began, to confront a killer who has never technically committed a crime.

The least popular man in St Mary Mead is found shot dead in the vicar's study, and Miss Marple quietly outpaces the official investigation.

A strangled blonde in evening dress is found in the library of a respectable couple, and Miss Marple sees the pattern before anyone else.

Poison pen letters terrorize a quiet village, and when the campaign ends in death, the narrator calls in Miss Marple to find the truth.

A newspaper advertisement announces that a murder will take place at a specific address on Friday evening — and it does.

Miss Marple visits a friend living in a house converted into a rehabilitation centre for young offenders, where a shooting is not what it appears.

A financier is poisoned with taxine and found with rye grain in his pocket, and the nursery rhyme pattern continues with two more deaths.

Miss Marple's friend witnesses a strangling on a passing train, but no body is found — until Marple deduces where it must have been thrown.

A famous actress moves to St Mary Mead and a local woman drops dead at her welcome party, poisoned by a cocktail meant for someone else.

On holiday in the West Indies, Miss Marple meets a bore who claims to have a photograph of a murderer — and is found dead the next morning.

A London hotel preserves Edwardian charm so perfectly that Miss Marple suspects the whole establishment is a facade for something criminal.

A dead man's letter asks Miss Marple to investigate a crime — but does not say what the crime is or who committed it.

A young bride's new house triggers buried childhood memories of witnessing a murder, and Miss Marple helps her uncover the truth.

Two young friends, broke and bored after the Great War, advertise themselves as willing to do anything — and are immediately drawn into an international conspiracy.

Middle-aged and sidelined during World War Two, Tommy and Tuppence go undercover at a seaside guesthouse to unmask a Nazi spy.

A visit to Tommy's elderly aunt in a care home leads Tuppence to a painting that conceals a decades-old mystery and a hidden body.

Retired to a country house, Tommy and Tuppence find a coded message in a children's book that points to an unsolved death from years ago.

A dead body at a grand country house, a missing diamond, and the political future of a Balkan kingdom all collide in a comic thriller.

A practical joke with alarm clocks goes fatally wrong, and an adventurous young woman investigates a secret society called the Seven Dials.

An old woman on a train tells a fellow passenger that a series of village deaths are murders, then is herself killed before she can report it to Scotland Yard.

A murder at a seaside house party was planned long before the guests arrived, and Battle must work backwards from the crime to find its true starting point.

A young woman witnesses a suspicious death at a Tube station and follows the trail to South Africa, where diamonds and a master criminal await.

A table-turning seance spells out a murder — and the victim is found dead at the exact time the spirits predicted.

A dying man's last words are a baffling question, and two resourceful young people set out to discover who Evans is and why nobody asked.

Ten strangers are lured to a remote island, accused of unpunished murders, and killed off one by one according to a nursery rhyme.

Set in ancient Egypt, a concubine's arrival in a wealthy household triggers a chain of murders two thousand years before detective fiction existed.

A woman was poisoned at a dinner party a year ago, and when the survivors reassemble at the same table, history threatens to repeat.

A wealthy patriarch is poisoned in the crooked house where three generations of his family live under one roof, and the killer could be any of them.

An adventurous young woman follows a man to Baghdad and stumbles into an international conspiracy when a dying agent collapses in her hotel room.

Scientists are vanishing around the world, and a suicidal woman is recruited to impersonate a dead passenger on a flight to Morocco.

A man arrives with proof that a convicted murderer was innocent, but instead of gratitude the family is terrified — because the real killer is still among them.

A list of names found in a dead woman's shoe leads to a village inn where three self-proclaimed witches claim they can kill by supernatural means.

A chauffeur marries a wealthy heiress and builds his dream house on cursed land, but the fairy tale turns dark.

A diplomat is drugged at Frankfurt airport and drawn into a global conspiracy involving youth movements and a new world order.