Agatha Christie Books in Order

A snowdrift strands the Orient Express, and by morning an American passenger has been stabbed inside his locked compartment. Cut off with the other travelers, Hercule Poirot must determine which of them committed the murder before the train can move on.

Wealthy widow Amelia Rymer finds that money has left her lonely rather than happy. Parker Pyne proposes an unusual remedy, and a visit to a doctor leads to a startling change of identity that challenges her ideas about contentment.

Twelve standalone stories bring ordinary people into unexpected adventures involving theft, murder and mistaken appearances. A stolen emerald, a mysterious necklace and a writer's alarming encounter with the police show how quickly a familiar life can become a puzzle.

Timid Edward Robinson spends prize money on a sports car and sets off for a drive. Getting into the wrong vehicle brings a stolen necklace and an unexpected adventure, forcing him to act with confidence he usually lacks.

A mild vicar dies suddenly at a fashionable dinner party, yet tests find no poison in his cocktail and no clear motive for murder. As further events unsettle the guests, Hercule Poirot and Mr. Satterthwaite trace the design behind the deaths.

Celia, overwhelmed by losses and afraid of facing life alone, meets a portrait painter on an island. During a long conversation, she revisits her past and struggles to decide whether another chance at happiness is still possible.

A dying man's final question, 'Why didn't they ask Evans?', leaves Bobby and his friend Frankie with a mystery. Their attempt to understand those words draws them into a dangerous investigation where an apparently accidental death conceals deeper secrets.

On a flight from Paris to London, a woman is found dead in her seat among a small group of fellow passengers. Hercule Poirot, seated nearby throughout the journey, faces a locked-room murder in which every traveler may have a motive.

A woman is poisoned after giving Poirot an empty packet of seeds, and he discovers that she had already written to request his help. With the obvious suspect on the run, Poirot follows the curious gardening clue to the truth.

At a party hosted by the flamboyant Mr Shaitana, four suspected murderers play bridge while Hercule Poirot, Ariadne Oliver, Colonel Race, and Superintendent Battle look on. When Shaitana is killed, the detectives must determine which player left the table to commit the crime.

Nurse Amy Leatheran arrives at an archaeological dig in Iraq to care for the anxious wife of its director. When murder breaks the camp’s uneasy atmosphere, Hercule Poirot investigates a circle of excavators, visitors, and secrets isolated in the desert.

During a regatta outing, a young woman playfully hides a diamond worth £30,000, only for the jewel to vanish for real. The chief suspect asks Hercule Poirot to prove his innocence and identify the actual thief.

A murderer taunts Hercule Poirot with letters and kills victims in alphabetical order, leaving railway guides at the crime scenes. As panic spreads across Britain, Poirot and Hastings race to uncover the logic behind a killer determined to make the pattern public.

Hercule Poirot’s quiet holiday on Rhodes is disrupted by tempestuous couples and an increasingly volatile love triangle. Suspecting that the tensions can end only in murder, he watches closely as jealousy and deception escalate.

On an Egyptian river cruise, wealthy newlywed Linnet Ridgeway is shot dead despite having feared someone aboard. Hercule Poirot must investigate a crowded vessel shaped by romance, jealousy, old grudges, and conflicting accounts before the killer can evade justice.

When elderly Emily Arundell dies after an apparent accident and poisoning, Hercule Poirot receives a letter she wrote weeks earlier fearing that a relative meant to kill her. With help from Captain Hastings and a terrier named Bob, he revisits the family’s secrets.

This four-story Poirot collection ranges from an impossible-looking shooting to the theft of secret military plans, a death involving a shattered mirror, and a dangerous holiday love triangle on Rhodes. Each case gives the detective a compact puzzle of motive, deception, and evidence.

A withdrawn millionaire asks Hercule Poirot for help after repeatedly dreaming that he will take his own life. Poirot investigates whether the visions are merely nightmares or a warning of a carefully arranged death.

Lord Charles Mayfield uses a country-house party to conceal a meeting about secret fighter-plane plans and to expose a spy. When the plans vanish, Hercule Poirot must determine how the theft was managed and who intended to profit from it.

Hercule Poirot attends a restaurant gathering held one year after a wealthy American’s wife died under suspicious circumstances. With everyone connected to the earlier tragedy assembled again, he must uncover the killer before history can repeat itself.

While traveling in the Middle East, Hercule Poirot encounters the tightly controlled Boynton family and their cruel matriarch. After Mrs. Boynton is found dead among Petra’s cliffs, Poirot has only twenty-four hours to uncover how and why she was murdered.

A Christmas reunion at Simeon Lee’s country house ends in violence when the tyrannical patriarch is found with his throat cut in a locked room. Staying nearby for the holiday, Hercule Poirot investigates a family whose resentments and secrets give everyone a motive.

Ten strangers arrive on an isolated island off Devon, each summoned by a mysterious invitation. Accusations about their pasts are followed by deaths, and the guests must confront the possibility that the person threatening them is already among them.

Luke Fitzwilliam dismisses an elderly woman's warning about a serial killer in her village. When she dies and another predicted victim follows, he investigates deaths disguised as accidents, discovering that a quiet community can offer a murderer ample cover.

Diane Maberly asks Poirot to help after her fiancé ends their engagement, convinced that he is losing his mind. Poirot must determine why the young man has begun behaving so wildly and whether a family history of insanity is really to blame.

Dr. Charles Oldfield seeks Poirot's help when malicious rumors claim he poisoned his late wife. As gossip spreads and threatens to destroy the physician's life, Poirot treats the many-headed scandal itself as the mystery to be solved.

Preparing to retire after twelve final cases modeled on Heracles’s labours, Poirot takes his first assignment: a Pekinese dog stolen for ransom. The supposedly fearsome “lion” leads him into a compact mystery of theft, deception, and motive.

While holidaying in Herzoslovakia, Poirot notices two unsettling women whose presence is troubling fellow guests. When a young politician and a mother and daughter become caught up in the situation, he investigates the scheme behind their fear.

After a dentist is found dead in his surgery and one of his patients dies from an anesthetic overdose, police suspect murder followed by suicide. Hercule Poirot sees a more complicated pattern, with a discarded shoe buckle becoming an important clue.

Elinor Carlisle faces trial for poisoning Mary Gerrard, the woman she believed had become her rival for love and inheritance. The evidence seems overwhelming, but Hercule Poirot examines the events leading to the death to determine whether Elinor has been wrongly accused.

Art collector Emery Power hires Poirot after a valuable goblet is stolen from an auction house. Intrigued by the apples decorating the vessel, Poirot follows the trail to Ireland, where an Irish gambler and a convent figure in the puzzle.

When car trouble leaves Poirot in an English village, a young mechanic asks him to find the beautiful maid who vanished after a brief meeting. The search carries Poirot from the countryside across Europe in an unusually romantic case.

A threatened political scandal prompts Poirot to consider a most unusual commission. When damaging allegations about the former prime minister are set to appear in a newspaper, Poirot agrees to help protect the current prime minister's public standing.

The fourth of Poirot’s self-appointed Herculean labours sends him into the snowy Swiss Alps, where police are hunting a ruthless criminal. At a mountain hotel, Poirot must identify the gangster before the pursuit turns deadly.

Miss Carnaby turns to Poirot after women join a religious cult led by the charismatic Dr. Anderson and begin making wills in his favor. Seeking a chance to atone for her criminal past, she helps Poirot expose what lies behind the group.

Poirot investigates a dangerous household crisis when four increasingly unruly sisters become caught up in cocaine-fueled parties. Their father cannot control them, and Poirot must act before their reckless behavior brings about a tragedy.

Hercule Poirot’s holiday at a Devon seaside resort is interrupted when glamorous actress Arlena Stuart is found strangled on a secluded beach. Her arrival had stirred resentments among the guests, leaving Poirot to test a web of motives against seemingly reliable alibis.

During the Second World War, Tommy and Tuppence go undercover at a seaside hotel to identify enemy agents posing as ordinary guests. Their search for the spies known as N and M tests their ability to recognise danger beneath respectability.

Two relatives cannot find the inheritance their uncle promised them before his death. Miss Marple examines the apparent disappointment as a puzzle, looking for the meaning behind his assurances and the clues that might reveal where the money went.

Mrs Spenlow is murdered, and her husband's calm reaction makes him an obvious suspect. He claims Miss Marple can provide his alibi, drawing her into a village investigation where behaviour and small details may mean more than gossip suggests.

Recovering in bed, Miss Marple receives a manuscript from Dr Haydock about events that ended in a woman's death. The doctor doubts it was an accident, and his written account gives Marple a puzzle to solve without leaving home.

Sixteen years after painter Amyas Crale’s poisoning, his daughter asks Hercule Poirot to clear the name of her late mother, Caroline, who was convicted of the crime. Poirot reconstructs the day through five witnesses, comparing their memories and hidden loyalties.

The Bantrys wake to find a young woman in evening dress dead on their library floor. With another body soon discovered, Miss Marple must identify the victim and expose the scheme behind a murder meant to ruin a respectable household.

The Skinner sisters dismiss a maid suspected of theft and hire a seemingly ideal replacement. When belongings continue to disappear, Miss Marple examines the household's assumptions, wondering whether the supposedly perfect servant is really what her employers believe.

Jerry and Joanna Burton arrive in the village of Lymstock expecting a quiet stay, then receive a vicious anonymous letter. When the poison-pen campaign turns deadly, Miss Marple sees that the village's secrets are more dangerous than its gossip.

Forced to spend time alone, a woman begins re-examining the family relationships she thought she understood. In this Mary Westmacott novel, isolation unsettles her comfortable view of herself and raises painful questions about how others have experienced her life.

In ancient Egypt, a family household becomes a setting for jealousy, resentment and a succession of suspicious deaths. Christie brings her murder-puzzle approach to a distant historical world, where private conflicts threaten the people living under one roof.

A restaurant gathering recalls Rosemary Barton, who died at the same table a year earlier. As the circumstances of her death are reconsidered, Colonel Race investigates relationships and motives that make the remembered tragedy a source of fresh danger.

A house party at seaside Gull's Point brings troubled relationships into close contact. When an elderly widow is murdered, Superintendent Battle must connect earlier events that seemed unrelated, uncovering how a carefully arranged situation has moved towards a fatal moment.

Christie recalls travelling and living around archaeological excavations with her husband, Max Mallowan, in Syria and Iraq. This personal memoir follows the practical difficulties, encounters and everyday pleasures of life on a dig, away from her fictional murder investigations.

At the Angkatell country estate, Hercule Poirot arrives for lunch to find a seemingly staged shooting has become horribly real. As he investigates John Christow’s death, the tangled romantic loyalties among the guests make nearly everyone both suspect and wounded by love.

An unexpected encounter with Countess Vera Rossakoff draws Poirot to a nightclub named Hell, where he uncovers signs of a secret drug operation. This final Herculean case combines old attraction and criminal intrigue.

Before retiring, Hercule Poirot decides to take twelve cases echoing the labours of his mythological namesake. This collection turns the ancient challenges into modern mysteries, giving him one final planned sequence of puzzles that require observation rather than physical strength.

Preparing to retire, Hercule Poirot selects twelve final investigations modeled on the mythic labours of his namesake. This collection contains twelve mysteries, taking him across Europe through cases involving theft, deception, missing people, and murder.

An ambitious working-class man marries a woman from the upper classes and pursues the status he believes he deserves. Written as Mary Westmacott, this novel explores the emotional consequences of social climbing, desire and misplaced expectations.

After Gordon Cloade dies in the Blitz, his new widow inherits his fortune, leaving his relatives desperate and resentful. A claim that her first husband may still be alive draws Hercule Poirot into a case of inheritance, identity, and murder.

This 11-story collection brings together courtroom, crime, and suspense tales, led by the title story. In it, wealthy Emily French is murdered and Leonard Vole is accused, while his partner Romaine claims she can establish his innocence.

This collection combines crime stories and unsettling mysteries, led by Leonard Vole's trial for a wealthy woman's murder. His hopes rest on his partner's testimony, while the surrounding tales explore deception, suspicious circumstances and unexpected turns.

When wealthy Aristide Leonides is poisoned in his sprawling family home, suspicion falls on his much younger wife. Charles Hayward, engaged to the dead man's granddaughter, investigates a household whose tangled relationships make every apparent answer uncertain.

A newspaper notice announces a murder at Little Paddocks, and curious villagers gather to see whether it is a joke. When the lights go out and shots ring out, Miss Marple must untangle a carefully staged crime.

Nine early Hercule Poirot cases range from a dead heiress on a train and a costume-ball murder to suspected poisoning, theft, and disappearance. The collection brings together short mysteries in which Poirot confronts varied crimes and closed circles of suspects.

Victoria Jones travels to Baghdad seeking adventure and becomes entangled in an international conspiracy. When a wounded agent dies in her hotel room, his cryptic final words draw her into a dangerous effort to uncover the truth.

Ann hopes to remarry, but her daughter Sarah cannot accept sharing her mother's life with another man. Written as Mary Westmacott, the novel follows their love as it becomes entangled with jealousy, resentment and attempts to control each other.

Mrs McGinty is killed and her small savings vanish, while her unemployed lodger is convicted of the crime. Asked to revisit the apparently simple village case, Hercule Poirot finds reasons to doubt the verdict—and places himself in danger.

Snow isolates the guests of a country-house guesthouse just as a murder investigation reaches their door. A police officer warns that the killer may be among them, and concealed histories turn the gathering into a deadly puzzle.

Asked to visit Stonygates, the rambling home of Carrie Louise Serrocold, Miss Marple finds a family living beside a rehabilitation center for troubled boys. A shooting turns old worries into murder, and appearances prove deeply misleading.

The title novella traps a group of strangers in a snowbound guesthouse with a murderer in their midst. Other stories bring Poirot, Miss Marple and Harley Quin into cases where small clues overturn the obvious explanation.

Businessman Rex Fortescue dies with grains of rye in his pocket, and a country-house death soon suggests a grim nursery-rhyme pattern. Miss Marple investigates after a young maid she once knew becomes caught up in the case.

Richard Abernethie’s relatives gather for his funeral and the reading of his will, but his sister Cora suggests he was murdered. When Cora is killed the next day, the family solicitor asks Hercule Poirot to uncover the truth.

As prominent scientists vanish, Hilary Craven is offered a dangerous alternative to taking her own life. Assuming the role of a dying woman connected to the disappearances, she enters an international mystery whose destination and purpose remain hidden.

Diana Harmon finds a dying man in her village church and hears him utter the word sanctuary. His relatives' unusual interest in recovering his coat prompts her to consult Miss Marple about the mystery behind his death.

In this play, diplomat's wife Clarissa discovers a corpse just before her husband is due home with an important visitor. She recruits her guests to conceal the body, but a police investigation makes her improvised deception increasingly difficult.

Odd thefts and acts of vandalism unsettle the residents of a London student hostel, from a stethoscope to a diamond ring discovered in soup. Poirot investigates at Miss Lemon’s request, suspecting that the nonsensical list conceals a far more serious threat.

Crime novelist Ariadne Oliver is organizing a mock murder hunt for a Devon village fête when an uneasy feeling prompts her to summon Hercule Poirot. Her fears prove warranted when the staged game collides with real danger at the country house.

Raymond West visits an eccentric country house where its owner is preparing a will. When she is murdered days later, the suspects appear to have secure alibis, leaving his aunt Miss Marple to identify the flaw in the evidence.

Written as Mary Westmacott, this novel explores the fierce attachment between two sisters. Jealousy, love and a desire to protect become difficult to distinguish, raising questions about when devotion supports another person and when it becomes a burden.

Elspeth McGillicuddy sees a woman being strangled on a passing train, but no body or other witness can be found. Taking her friend seriously, Miss Marple sends capable Lucy Eyelesbarrow into a suspicious family home to look for answers.

Dr. Calgary returns with evidence that clears Jacko Argyle of his mother's murder, too late to save him. The revelation brings little comfort to the surviving family, who must confront the possibility that the real killer still lives among them.

A strange doll appears in Alicia Coombe's dressmaking shop and seems to watch the staff from its place on the sofa. Nobody knows where it came from, and its unsettling presence turns an ordinary business into a supernatural mystery.

Professor Karl Hendryk cares for his seriously ill wife while her cousin helps in their London home. A student's growing involvement complicates these relationships, and this psychological play examines devotion, desire and the destructive consequences of misguided idealism.

At an elite English girls’ school, a teacher is found shot in the sports pavilion and further violence follows. As a pupil becomes entangled in secrets linked to political upheaval and stolen jewels, Hercule Poirot is called to protect her and solve the case.

Six short mysteries unite a Christmas country-house adventure and other cases for Hercule Poirot, involving theft, murder, and unsettling clues. The collection also includes “Greenshaw’s Folly,” in which Miss Marple investigates a murder at an eccentric estate.

After a party, Edward Clayton is found stabbed and concealed inside a Spanish chest. Poirot is drawn into the case after a friend fears Clayton’s violent temper threatened his wife, forcing him to reconsider who was truly in danger.

Poirot and Miss Marple appear alongside darker mysteries in this short-story collection. A theft, a dying man's cryptic words, an unsettling doll and dangerous supernatural encounters reveal how apparently simple incidents can conceal deception or unexpected threats.

A murdered priest and a mysterious list of names lead Mark Easterbrook toward the Pale Horse inn. Rumours of witchcraft surround its inhabitants, and he must discover whether supernatural claims hide a more practical and dangerous explanation.

This one-act seaside comedy follows an inspector investigating the theft of an emerald necklace at a British resort. An unusually assorted group of beachgoers, each with motives and secrets, complicates the search for the missing jewel.

Adulterous lovers Sandra and David arrive at a flat for drinks, only to find their hosts absent. Locked inside and apparently framed for murder, they must confront the sinister purpose behind the invitation in this short suspense play.

Hollywood star Marina Gregg's arrival transforms St. Mary Mead, but a charity party ends with a poisoned guest. Recovering from an injury, Miss Marple follows the gossip and a tragic old secret behind the attack.

In this one-act thriller, Mrs. Wingfield lies badly injured after falling from her balcony and cannot communicate. As her relatives gather at her hospital bed, an inventive method may allow her to reveal whether the fall was accident, suicide attempt, or attempted murder.

Stenographer Sheila Webb enters a stranger’s home and discovers a dead man surrounded by clocks set to conflicting times. The baffling scene draws Hercule Poirot into an investigation where the timepieces—and their ownership—may be the key.

On holiday in the Caribbean, Miss Marple listens to Major Palgrave's unsettling story about a long-ago murder. When he is found dead before showing her the evidence, she must uncover which relaxed resort guest has a deadly past.

Miss Marple enjoys the old-fashioned comforts of London's Bertram's Hotel, until its perfection begins to feel suspicious. A guest disappears, crimes circle the hotel, and its polished image starts to conceal something far less harmless.

Published as Agatha Christie Mallowan, this collection gathers religious stories and poems rather than detective fiction. Biblical settings and ordinary lives become ways to explore faith, compassion and difficult human experiences, including themes aimed at adult readers.

This collection brings together mysteries chosen for their unexpected endings. Across separate cases of crime and deception, Christie encourages readers to test seemingly convincing explanations, then reconsider the details that make appearances unreliable and conceal the truth.

Mrs. Hargreaves gives generously to charity but avoids the personal demands of other people's troubles. Seeking solitude on a water bus to Greenwich, she encounters a mysterious passenger whose presence challenges her isolation and her understanding of compassion.

Thirteen short mysteries bring together Miss Marple cases involving murder, theft, suspicious servants, and seemingly supernatural warnings. Each puzzle gives her a chance to turn ordinary observations about people into a clear solution.

After a young woman tells Hercule Poirot she may have committed murder, she abruptly disappears. With Ariadne Oliver’s help, Poirot traces the rumors around the missing “third girl,” seeking proof of whether she is guilty, innocent, or being manipulated.

Michael Rogers dreams of building a beautiful home at Gipsy's Acre and finding happiness with the woman he loves. Local warnings about the land's curse shadow that ambition, turning an apparent love story into a tale of suspicion and dread.

During a visit to an elderly aunt's nursing home, Tommy and Tuppence hear disturbing remarks about poisoning and a child behind a fireplace. What initially sounds like confused conversation draws the couple into a dangerous mystery.

At a Hallowe'en party, thirteen-year-old Joyce claims she once saw a murder, then is found drowned in the apple-bobbing tub. Called in with novelist Ariadne Oliver, Hercule Poirot must decide whether Joyce was killed for telling the truth—and whether an earlier murder lies behind her death.