Agatha Christie Books in Order

Recovering from a wartime injury, Captain Hastings visits Styles Court and finds its household strained by suspicion. When Emily Inglethorp is poisoned, Hastings calls on his old friend Hercule Poirot to untangle the family secrets surrounding her death.

Short of money after the First World War, Tommy and Tuppence offer their services as adventurers. A suspicious first assignment draws them into a dangerous conspiracy, where discovering who to trust matters as much as finding the missing information.

Retired Inspector Evans recognises a neighbour as a woman once acquitted of poisoning her husband. Convinced her new marriage may end in another suspicious death, he starts investigating, but his certainty about her intentions puts him on dangerous ground.

Poirot is asked to discreetly recover a priceless ruby stolen from an Eastern prince shortly before his marriage. The search takes him to an English country-house Christmas, where a traditional celebration gives him an unexpected route to the missing jewel.

Jake Levitt recognises a successful actress as a woman whose past he can exploit. When he tries to blackmail her, protecting her new life becomes a matter of performance, deception and deciding who is really controlling the scene.

When three-year-old Johnnie Waverly is abducted from his wealthy family’s home and held for ransom, suspicion falls on the household. Poirot must untangle the apparent inside job and discover who has engineered the child’s disappearance.

Poirot is intrigued when a woman boasts of renting an unusually cheap flat in a fashionable London building. Taking rooms nearby to investigate, he waits for the innocent-looking bargain to reveal the hidden purpose behind it.

Hercule Poirot reluctantly accepts what seems to be a minor domestic matter: the disappearance of a cook from Clapham. Applying his usual rigor to the overlooked details, he finds that the missing woman’s case points toward a far larger and more complicated mystery.

Members of an expedition that opened the tomb of Pharaoh Men-her-Ra begin dying, apparently victims of an ancient curse. Hercule Poirot investigates whether supernatural vengeance is truly at work or whether a human explanation lies beneath the mounting deaths.

Poirot faces a locked-room puzzle after an Italian nobleman is found dead alone in his apartment. With a meal prepared for three beside the body, he must determine how the victim died and what happened to the missing diners.

A celebrated actress receives demands to surrender the Western Star, a magnificent diamond said to belong elsewhere. As blackmail letters and a second famed jewel complicate the affair, Hercule Poirot takes on a glittering case of threats and hidden motives.

At a costume ball, the murder of young Lord Cronshaw is followed by the death of his fiancée, Coco, from a cocaine overdose. Hercule Poirot must look beyond the masked festivities and theatrical costumes to uncover how the two deaths connect.

While holidaying in Brighton with Hastings, Hercule Poirot is asked to solve the theft of a pearl necklace from a hotel room. With only two apparent suspects, the detective approaches the seemingly simple robbery as a precise test of logic.

When Britain’s Prime Minister and his secretary are abducted in France, Hercule Poirot is called into a crisis with international consequences. With little more than a day to locate them, Poirot and Hastings must untangle an espionage plot before time runs out.

During a family bridge game, a bloodstained woman bursts in, cries murder, and collapses. Poirot investigates the killing behind her arrival, weighing the facts of an unusual case that ultimately tests how strictly justice should be applied.

A long-standing family curse says no first-born son of the Lemesurier line will live to inherit. When Poirot investigates the grim pattern, he must decide whether the apparent curse is real or whether a human explanation lies behind the family tragedies.

Hercule Poirot recounts the case that left him with shares in a Burmese mine. When a Burmese official disappears in London carrying valuable mining securities, a murder investigation draws Poirot into a maze of espionage and competing interests.

An urgent appeal takes Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings to France, but their prospective client is already dead when they arrive. A body on a golf course, a puzzling overcoat, a love letter, and a second killing turn the investigation into a shifting maze.

Aboard the Plymouth Express, a scent of chloroform leads to the body of Mrs. Rupert Carrington, daughter of an American millionaire. Hercule Poirot investigates a crime involving murder, theft, and a body hidden in plain sight on the train.

Top-secret plans for a new English submarine disappear from the household of Lord Alloway, an aspiring Prime Minister. Called in to help, Hercule Poirot must identify the thief amid a politically sensitive theft with national-security stakes.

After elderly Mr. Maltravers dies shortly after taking out substantial life insurance, his wife maintains that the death was natural. The insurance company turns to Hercule Poirot to determine whether suicide—or something more sinister—lies behind the apparent tragedy.

Lady Millicent, soon to marry, asks Hercule Poirot to recover a compromising old love letter before the man blackmailing her can send it to her future husband. The request draws Poirot into a case of deception, pressure, and an ethically awkward solution.

An inheritance allows Alix King to leave her old life and marry a man she barely knows. In their secluded cottage, troubling discoveries turn her hopes for happiness into fear about her husband's past and his intentions.

This collection brings together eleven short cases for Hercule Poirot, often alongside Captain Hastings. The investigations range from stolen jewels and a missing banker to a kidnapped prime minister, each solved through Poirot’s close attention to motives and small details.

At a New Year's Eve gathering, Mr Satterthwaite meets the mysterious Harley Quin. Talk turns to an old friend's unexplained suicide, and Quin's questions make the guests reconsider a tragedy they thought they understood and the relationships surrounding it.

Anne Beddingfeld witnesses a death on a London Underground platform and becomes suspicious of a man who flees the scene. Following a cryptic clue takes her towards South Africa and into a dangerous tangle of crime and intrigue.

While playing golf, Jack Harrington repeatedly hears a woman crying for help near a cottage. Nobody else seems to hear her. His search for an explanation raises disturbing questions about his own senses and a mysterious blue jar.

Crime writer Anthony Eastwood is struggling to turn a title into a story when a mysterious woman telephones for help. Following her plea draws him into an adventure where the boundary between his fiction and real danger becomes uncertain.

A young man's instinctive warning of danger returns during a dinner party. As talk touches on psychology and supernatural foreknowledge, the feeling becomes harder to dismiss, leaving him unsure whether his alarm signals imagination or a real threat.

At a house party, guests discuss the ghostly image of a murdered cavalier in a window. When a real killing follows, Mr Satterthwaite and Harley Quin must untangle jealousy, love and the misleading shadow of an old legend.

Hastings asks Poirot about the one case he failed to solve. Poirot looks back to his Belgian police days, when the death of a French deputy on the verge of high office seemed connected to a fatal box of chocolates.

Anthony Cade agrees to carry out an errand for a friend and finds himself entangled in an international conspiracy. At the country estate of Chimneys, political secrets and murder bring Scotland Yard into a case with much wider consequences.

Mr Satterthwaite hears a guilty verdict against Martin Wylde for the murder of Vivien Barnaby. An encounter with Harley Quin prompts him to reconsider the evidence, sending his search for the truth as far as Canada.

Elderly widow Mary Harter gets a radio to pass the time without straining her weak heart. When her dead husband's voice interrupts the broadcasts, she begins preparing for death, while the source of the messages remains unsettlingly unclear.

Painter Alan Everard finds his portrait of his beautiful wife lifeless, while a sketch of quiet Jane Haworth feels truthful. The contrast draws him towards a deeper understanding of the women around him and the support behind his success.

A newly married man vanishes from a village home, leaving his wife and their possessions behind. Meeting at an inn, Mr Satterthwaite and Harley Quin review the puzzling details and question the assumptions that have shaped the mystery.

A woman is about to leave for South Africa with her lover when news arrives that her husband's financial empire is collapsing. Torn between escape and loyalty, she must decide what her marriage and its obligations really mean.

A young clerk wakes from a dream filled with extraordinary happiness, then meets a woman who seems to fulfil its promise. As love reshapes his ordinary life, the dream raises questions about whether it offers hope or something darker.

Returning to England after years abroad, Frank Oliver finds himself without friends or a place to belong. A neglected figure in the British Museum seems to share his loneliness, offering an unexpected starting point for connection and romance.

After a wealthy man receives news about the blackmailer who drove a woman to suicide, he is murdered before he can reveal the name. In the village of King’s Abbot, Hercule Poirot leaves retirement to investigate the killing and the secrets surrounding it.

A man changes clothes in a seaside bathing hut and accidentally leaves wearing someone else's trousers. Finding a priceless emerald in the pocket turns a simple mistake into a mystery, with the stone's owner and his own safety suddenly uncertain.

Visiting the conventional Denmans, Mr Satterthwaite encounters Harley Quin on a lane bearing a suggestive name. A masquerade performance needs replacement dancers after an accident, drawing the gathering into questions of love, identity and the danger beneath appearances.

A dust-covered stranger collapses in Hercule Poirot’s bedroom, leaving clues connected to the number four. Poirot and Hastings pursue a shadowy international conspiracy whose agents move from sensational crimes to threats that put the detective himself in danger.

Poirot investigates when a renowned chess player dies during a closely watched match, in what appears to be a death intended for his reclusive Russian opponent. The case leads him into the international conspiracy surrounding the mysterious Big Four.

Claire Halliwell accepts that the man she loves has married someone else. When she discovers his wife's affair, her loyalty becomes harder to separate from jealousy, and a quiet country life gives way to a troubling moral choice.

Mr Satterthwaite and Harley Quin witness a violent fight outside an opera house. Sensing that love and jealousy lie behind it, Satterthwaite looks beyond the spectacle to discover who may be in danger and how he can help.

On his annual visit to Monte Carlo, Mr Satterthwaite encounters Harley Quin and a troubling love triangle. Amid the casino's distractions, the two men examine the relationships involved, hoping to prevent appearances and mistaken loyalties from destroying someone's happiness.

Lady Barbara asks Mr Satterthwaite to investigate her daughter's claim that their home is haunted. A voice demanding the return of something stolen deepens the unease, while Harley Quin's questions steer Satterthwaite towards the truth behind the apparent haunting.

In Corsica, Mr Satterthwaite meets a young woman distressed by the accusation of theft against her fiancé. With Harley Quin's help, he considers the story behind the charge, hoping to clear a name and restore the couple's future.

Poirot and Hastings set out for a holiday in Devon but meet a woman whose antique miniatures vanish from her bag on the train. Their interrupted journey becomes an investigation into a theft that may be more carefully arranged than it first appears.

Raymond West tells the Tuesday Night Club about a research trip involving stolen gold and a kidnapping. The story gives his listeners plenty to puzzle over, but Miss Marple looks past its adventure to the practical details others overlook.

A grieving man rewrites his will in favour of a spiritualist, leaving his family excluded. When the sealed document proves blank, the Tuesday Night Club must work out how it changed and whether motive or opportunity provides the decisive clue.

Dr Pender recounts a house-party death near a shrine to an ancient goddess. A baronet appears to have been stabbed with nobody close enough to strike him, leaving Miss Marple to search for a human explanation beneath the supernatural atmosphere.

When wealthy Ruth Kettering is murdered aboard the luxurious Blue Train to the Riviera, her valuable jewels vanish with her. Hercule Poirot follows a tangled case of relationships, identities, and theft that stretches from the train to the French coast.

Miss Marple recalls the case of her niece, accused of poisoning an abusive husband. Suspicious purchases and a sudden death make the situation look bleak, but her aunt examines the overlooked details that might reveal what really happened.

Bored with ordinary married life, Tommy and Tuppence accept a chance to run a detective agency for the secret service. Their new roles come with instructions to watch for a coded number, linking everyday inquiries to an international spy ring.

Tommy and Tuppence take charge of Blunt's International Detective Agency and tackle thefts, disappearances and murder. Borrowing methods from famous fictional detectives, the couple turn each new case into a test of ingenuity while a spy investigation runs beneath their work.

Sir Edward Palliser is asked to help an old acquaintance whose great-aunt has been murdered. With the police unable to settle the case, he examines the family's relationships and small inconsistencies to discover what happened inside the household.

A valuable pink pearl disappears during a house party, and the worried family turns to Tommy and Tuppence. Adopting the approach of a famous fictional investigator, Tommy examines the guests and their stories to find where the jewel has gone.

Mrs Pritchard fears a psychic's prediction that blue flowers will announce her death. When she dies after the warnings seem to come true, Miss Marple must examine whether a supernatural threat or an ordinary human scheme explains the sequence.

A painting catches Mr Satterthwaite's attention by echoing a death from fourteen years earlier and including a figure resembling Harley Quin. Its details reopen questions about the old tragedy, drawing art, memory and the present into the same mystery.

A deeply unhappy man plans to end his life, but Harley Quin and Mr Satterthwaite intervene. Their encounter becomes a search for the connections and possibilities he can no longer see, with his future depending on a change of perspective.

A warning from Mr Carter sends Tommy and Tuppence into another confrontation with No. 16, a Russian agent skilled in disguise. Trying Poirot's orderly methods, they prepare to recognise a dangerous enemy who could arrive under almost any identity.

House guests arrange eight alarm clocks as a joke on the persistently sleepy Gerry Wade. By morning one clock is missing and the prank has turned tragic, leaving the surviving guests to investigate the ominous significance of Seven Dials.

Four young people discover a woman's body in the flat beneath their own at Friar Mansions. Luckily, Hercule Poirot lives in the same building and begins untangling the clues behind the apparently straightforward murder.

Una Drake claims she can prove she was in two places at once and challenges her fiancé to explain how. Afraid he will lose her if he fails, he hires Tommy and Tuppence to break the apparently impossible alibis.

Poirot calls on an old friend not to investigate a completed crime, but to stop one from happening. Convinced that a dangerous situation is nearing its end, he works against time to prevent a murder before anyone is killed.

In this Poirot play, physicist Sir Claud Amory discovers that a dangerous formula has been stolen from his home. After he is poisoned, Poirot, Captain Hastings, and Inspector Japp must identify the thief and murderer before the formula can be used.

Composer Vernon Deyre struggles to balance his musical ambition with love, family expectations and the upheaval of war. Published under Christie's Mary Westmacott name, this novel follows the emotional costs of building a life around a consuming artistic drive.

Engaged cousins Fenella and Juan return to the Isle of Man for their uncle's will. Learning that he discovered buried treasure sends them searching through a trail of clues, with their inheritance depending on solving the island mystery.

Actress Jane Helier recounts a puzzling theft involving jewels, a bungalow, and a struggling playwright accused of a crime. Miss Marple claims uncertainty, but her private response suggests she has seen through the confusion.

At a country-house gathering, Mr Satterthwaite hears a séance produce messages referring to Harley Quin. When a death follows, the apparent suicide becomes a troubling puzzle, and Quin's guidance helps him reconsider what happened among the guests.

A woman drowns while travelling with her companion, leaving behind a story that appears to be a tragic accident. Miss Marple listens closely and spots the quiet inconsistency that changes the meaning of the death.

Sir Henry Clithering brings Miss Marple an old case involving a murdered man and four people left under suspicion. The crime seems impossible to prove, but Marple notices the small detail that can clear the innocent and identify the guilty.

Dolly Bantry recalls a dinner where poisoned food made several guests ill and killed one young woman. Miss Marple must decide whether the death was accidental or deliberate, and why this particular guest suffered when others survived.

When the unpopular Colonel Protheroe is shot in the vicar's study, nearly everyone in St. Mary Mead seems to have a reason for wanting him dead. Miss Marple quietly sorts through conflicting alibis, gossip, and motives in her first novel case.

Mr Satterthwaite's interest in other people's lives draws him into mysteries of love, jealousy and death. Across this collection, the elusive Harley Quin asks questions that change his understanding of events, bringing an uncanny presence to human problems.

A stabbed body arrives in a rowing boat in the quiet town of Whynmouth. Inspector Rudge encounters a secretive vicar, a missing niece and questions about the victim's identity in this mystery written collaboratively by members of the Detection Club.

A séance in a snowbound Dartmoor house announces that Captain Trevelyan has been murdered. With his home six miles away and roads blocked, checking the message becomes an urgent journey, followed by a search for the truth behind the warning.

While vacationing by the sea, Hercule Poirot meets Nick Buckley, a young woman who has narrowly survived a series of apparent accidents. After a bullet grazes her hat, Poirot takes charge of her protection and investigates a scheme that turns deadly.

Contented clerk Mr Roberts grows tired of his predictable routine while his family is away. Turning to Parker Pyne for adventure brings romance and intrigue into his life, but the excitement soon becomes more complicated than he expected.

Reginald Wade's wife wants to leave him for another man but gives their marriage six more months. He asks Parker Pyne to restore her affection, prompting a plan involving a glamorous woman and the unpredictable effects of jealousy.

Retired Major Wilbraham finds life in England painfully dull after service abroad. Parker Pyne offers an answer to his boredom, drawing him towards romance, danger and an African treasure hunt that promises to test his appetite for adventure.

Daphne St John tells Parker Pyne she stole a diamond ring to settle gambling debts. Now she wants to return it without its owner discovering the theft, leaving Pyne to arrange a delicate solution to her desperate problem.

Mrs Packington is unhappy because her husband has become interested in a young secretary. Answering Parker Pyne's advertisement introduces her to a handsome companion, and the new attention challenges the assumptions holding her troubled marriage in place.

The morning after a party, a husband’s stabbed body is discovered hidden in a chest. Mrs. Clayton asks Poirot to clear her lover, Major Rich, of the murder charge and uncover who put the victim’s body there.

Poirot, Miss Marple and Parker Pyne investigate separate puzzles in this collection of short mysteries. Theft, murder and strained relationships give each investigator different clues to interpret, offering varied approaches to crimes driven by desire, money and private resentment.

A man is found shot in a locked room, with secured doors and windows making the apparent suicide impossible to accept. Hercule Poirot tackles the locked-room puzzle, seeking to learn how the shot was fired and who could have committed the crime.

At gatherings in St. Mary Mead and later at the Bantrys' home, guests take turns presenting baffling crimes. Across thirteen compact cases, Miss Marple repeatedly proves that village experience can solve puzzles no one else understands.

A young wife boards the Orient Express troubled by her husband's cryptic message. Meeting Parker Pyne offers a chance to discuss her unhappiness, but a jewel robbery that has yet to occur suggests another problem hidden within the journey.

Actress Jane Wilkinson asks Hercule Poirot to help free her from her estranged husband, Lord Edgware. When the peer is stabbed soon afterward, Jane seems the obvious suspect—except she has a convincing alibi, forcing Poirot to reconsider everything.

A priest, a lawyer and a psychiatrist discuss a puzzling case aboard a train while a fourth passenger listens quietly. When the stranger contributes his own knowledge, their confident explanations face a challenge that reaches beyond their professional understanding.

Travelling across the Syrian Desert towards Baghdad, Parker Pyne hears a passenger's anxious hint of trouble. The man dies before explaining further, leaving Pyne to examine the other travellers and piece together the reason behind the killing.

Dickie Carpenter's childhood encounter with a mysterious woman leaves him frightened of warnings and fate. When his old fears return in adult life, he must face the possibility that what terrifies him could be trying to protect him.

This collection moves beyond ordinary detection into disturbing dreams, strange warnings and apparently supernatural events. Twelve stories, including The Witness for the Prosecution, explore deception and danger while leaving characters unsure whether familiar explanations can account for what they experience.

In Persia, Parker Pyne hears about an Englishwoman living as a recluse in Shiraz. A pilot's concern draws him towards her isolation, refusal to meet English visitors and the possibility that a concealed tragedy explains her strange behaviour.

Travelling under an assumed name in Delphi, Parker Pyne discovers that someone else is using his identity. A woman consulting the impostor may be in danger, prompting the real Pyne to investigate what the stranger wants from her.

A party travelling to Petra begins discussing honesty before a valuable pearl earring disappears. Suspicion falls on a man with a criminal past, but Parker Pyne must determine whether the group's assumptions identify the thief or conceal the truth.

Captain Sessle is found stabbed, with a hatpin and a scrap of red wool directing suspicion towards a woman. Tommy and Tuppence question the investigation, using an armchair detective's approach to look beyond the evidence that seems most obvious.

A man facing prosecution for his wife's murder asks Miss Marple for help. She was stabbed in a hotel room, but he insists he is innocent, leaving Marple to reconstruct how the crime happened from the account presented to her.