Agatha Christie

Ten strangers with guilty secrets are lured to an island mansion, and one by one they are murdered according to a nursery rhyme — with no apparent killer among them.

Poirot and Hastings return to Styles Court for the last time. Poirot is elderly and gravely ill, but he has identified a murderer who has never been convicted — and he intends to act. Written during World War II, published posthumously in 1975.

Sixteen years after artist Amyas Crale was poisoned, his daughter asks Poirot to clear her mother's name. Poirot interviews the five witnesses who were present that summer, and each gives a different account of the same events.

Hercule Poirot is stranded on the snowbound Orient Express when a fellow passenger is murdered — and soon discovers that every suspect has an alibi and none of them can be trusted.

Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of a wealthy village squire in what became the most controversial and celebrated mystery novel ever written.

The Chipping Cleghorn Gazette carries a curious advertisement: a murder is announced and will take place on Friday evening at 6:30pm at Little Paddocks. The village assumes it's a party game. When the appointed time arrives and shots are fired, Miss Marple must untangle a mystery where even the victim's identity is uncertain.

When Aristide Leonides, the wealthy patriarch of a three-generation household, is poisoned in his own home, his granddaughter Sophia asks her fiancé Charles Hayward to uncover which family member is responsible. Christie called this one of her personal favourites.

Hercule Poirot investigates a murder aboard a luxury Nile steamer, where every passenger has a motive and the truth is buried beneath layers of deception.

Hercule Poirot receives a taunting letter predicting a murder — and the victim's name begins with A, the murder location begins with A, and a copy of the ABC railway guide is left at the scene. The killer works alphabetically, and the police assume a serial killer with no motive. Poirot is certain the obvious answer is a decoy.

An eccentric host gathers four sleuths and four people who have gotten away with murder for a dinner of bridge. By evening's end the host is dead in his chair, stabbed while his guests played cards — and one of the four murderers has killed again, in the same room, unseen.

Poirot takes his holiday at Smugglers' Island off the Devon coast — and finds himself surrounded by the usual Christie ensemble: the glamorous actress everyone resents, the various husbands and wives with complicated relationships, and the idle rich who have all the time in the world for grudges. When the actress is found strangled, everyone on the island claims an alibi.

When a young woman's body is found in the library at Gossington Hall, the owners call on their friend Miss Jane Marple. Investigating from St Mary Mead, the village spinster must determine who the victim was before she can determine who killed her.

After a wealthy man's funeral, his scatty younger sister blurts out that he was murdered — and the next day she is brutally killed herself. Was her remark idle nonsense, or did it sign her death warrant? Hercule Poirot infiltrates the grieving family to find out.

An American family on holiday in Petra, Jordan, is controlled by a tyrannical matriarch, Mrs Boynton. When she is found dead at an archaeological dig, Poirot must determine which of her long-oppressed family members finally snapped.

A spiteful old millionaire summons his estranged family home for Christmas, then is found with his throat cut behind a bolted door, the room a wreck and a pool of blood spreading across the floor. Hercule Poirot, dining nearby, is drawn into a very bloody locked-room puzzle.

A young bride buys an English seaside house and finds it uncannily familiar — she knows where a hidden door once was and recoils from a memory of a strangled woman on the stairs. Miss Marple warns her to let sleeping murder lie, but the past will not stay buried.

A glamorous film star buys a grand house in St. Mary Mead, and at her welcome party a starstruck local woman is poisoned. The intended victim seems obvious — yet the truth lies in a frozen look on the actress's face and a single line of poetry that Miss Marple cannot forget.

When the universally disliked Colonel Protheroe is found shot dead in the vicarage study, the quiet English village of St. Mary Mead erupts with suspects, false confessions and gossip — and an elderly spinster proves the sharpest mind for miles around.

When Emily Inglethorp is found dead at Styles Court, her stepson calls in his Belgian refugee friend Hercule Poirot to investigate. Christie's debut novel introduces one of fiction's most beloved detectives and establishes the country-house mystery template.

From the window of a parallel train, elderly Elspeth McGillicuddy watches a man strangle a woman — then the other train is gone and no body is ever found. Only her friend Miss Marple believes her, and only Miss Marple will prove it.

A wealthy financier dies of poisoning with a curious handful of rye in his jacket pocket. When two more deaths follow a pattern straight out of a nursery rhyme, Miss Marple arrives with a personal stake and a chilling theory about who is keeping the rhyme.

A humble charwoman is beaten to death and her lodger is sentenced to hang for it. But the policeman who built the case cannot shake his doubts and begs Hercule Poirot to look again. Buried in an old newspaper, Poirot finds a clue that links a long-dead scandal to a quiet English village.

Beautiful Elinor Carlisle stands in the dock, accused of poisoning her rival in love. The motive, means and opportunity all point to her alone — and the case against her looks airtight. Only Hercule Poirot, brought in by a doubting doctor, believes there may be another truth.

Arriving for lunch at a country house, Hercule Poirot walks in on what looks like a staged tableau: a man dying beside the pool, his wife standing over him with a revolver. It is too neat to be true — and the truth, hidden among a tangle of lovers, runs far deeper.

A vicar's son finds a man dying at the foot of a cliff. The stranger's last gasped words — 'Why didn't they ask Evans?' — make no sense, but they will not leave Bobby Jones alone. With the dauntless Lady Frankie at his side, he sets out to learn who Evans is and what they should have asked.

On an afternoon flight from Paris to London, a moneylender is found dead in her seat, apparently killed by a poisoned dart from a blowpipe. The cabin was sealed, the passengers few — and one of them is Hercule Poirot, who slept through the perfect murder.

At a remote archaeological dig in Iraq, the famous archaeologist's beautiful, fearful wife is found bludgeoned in her room — a room no stranger could have entered unseen. A nurse narrates the strange events, and Hercule Poirot happens to be passing through the desert.

At a retired actor's cocktail party a mild old clergyman drops dead, his glass holding no trace of poison and his killing apparently without motive. When a second guest dies the same way, Poirot joins the host's amateur sleuthing to explain a murder with no discernible reason.