Agatha Christie Books in Order

Diplomat Sir Stafford Nye meets a frightened woman at Frankfurt airport and lends her his passport. Their encounter pulls him into international intrigue, where changing identities and an organised unseen enemy make it difficult to know whom to trust.

After wealthy Jason Rafiel dies, Miss Marple receives a strange posthumous request to investigate an unnamed injustice. A paid coach tour becomes her trail of clues, leading her toward an old murder and people determined to keep it buried.

These short stories mix romantic complications, crime and unusual encounters. A mysterious offer of a grand home, a widow's desperate marriage plans and an unfaithful wife's divided loyalties turn everyday ambitions into adventures whose circumstances challenge first impressions.

Ariadne Oliver’s goddaughter needs to know what happened when her parents were found shot at the foot of a cliff fifteen years earlier. With little physical evidence, Poirot revisits the case, gathering old recollections to decide whether the deaths were suicide, passion, or murder.

Explorer Gabriel Stavansson asks Tommy and Tuppence to find his missing fiancée. Their search takes them to a suspicious nursing home, while Tommy tries Sherlock Holmes's methods to uncover what has happened to the elusive woman.

This poetry collection revisits the work gathered in The Road of Dreams and adds poems about things, places, love and contemporary life. Subjects including war, music and personal attachment reveal a different side of Christie's writing beyond mystery fiction.

Retired Tommy and Tuppence move into an old village house and discover a coded message in an inherited book. Its claim that Mary Jordan did not die naturally sends them into a decades-old mystery whose dangers remain alive.

Unemployed Jane Cleveland accepts a well-paid job impersonating a grand duchess whose life is threatened. The danger initially appeals to her appetite for adventure, but kidnapping and deception soon make her question the people who hired her.

This collection follows Hercule Poirot before his reputation is fully established, with Captain Hastings recounting eighteen cases. The mysteries range from thefts and kidnappings to murder, giving Poirot’s deductive habits their early workout.

In his final case, a frail Poirot summons Captain Hastings back to Styles, where their partnership began. Poirot believes a hidden figure he calls X has caused several deaths and is preparing to strike again, but he will not reveal the culprit’s identity to Hastings.

Newly married Gwenda Reed buys a seaside house and begins remembering events she could not possibly know, including a murder. Miss Marple helps her examine the past, even as someone fears the long-hidden truth may return.

Christie recounts her childhood, marriages, wartime experiences and development as a writer in this posthumously published memoir. Family memories and archaeological travels with Max Mallowan offer a personal account of the life behind her detective stories.

Tommy and Tuppence encounter a frightened actress while recovering from an unsuccessful case. A fog-shrouded journey along Morgan's Avenue brings suspicious strangers and a murder into their path, with Tommy adopting the methods of Father Brown.

Eight plays bring Christie's mysteries and psychological dramas to the stage, including The Mousetrap and Witness for the Prosecution. Snowbound guests, courtroom testimony and troubled relationships provide different settings for concealed motives, dangerous choices and shifting suspicion.

This collection gathers six Miss Marple cases alongside two other Christie mysteries. From a man accused of killing his wife to domestic puzzles and unexplained deaths, the stories show Marple's gift for seeing what others miss.

This collection gathers the short stories adapted for The Agatha Christie Hour television series. Romantic adventures, suspicious encounters and supernatural unease sit alongside detective puzzles, offering a range of Christie's shorter fiction beyond her best-known novel-length investigations.

In 1920s London, Leonard Vole is charged with murdering wealthy Emily French, whose fortune was left to him. While a housekeeper’s testimony seems damning, he insists that his enigmatic partner Romaine can establish his innocence in a courtroom mystery.

Set in the summer of 1939, the novel follows fourteen-year-old Jick McCaskill through a season of sheep counts, family quarrels, and wildfire in Montana’s Two Medicine country as he begins to understand both his parents’ past and the hard choices ahead.

A single-volume gathering of Hercule Poirot short fiction, from concise puzzles to longer novellas. Poirot investigates murder, poisonings, thefts, and kidnappings, relying on close observation and the careful reasoning that defines his detective work.

This substantial omnibus gathers fifty previously published short mysteries featuring Hercule Poirot. Spanning early investigations, thefts, murders, locked-room puzzles, travel cases, and The Labours of Hercules, it offers a wide-ranging survey of Christie's shorter Poirot fiction.

This complete collection brings together all twenty of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple short stories. It is an easy way to follow the sleuth through quick cases of murder, theft, deception, and village secrets.

Eight short stories bring together Parker Pyne, Hercule Poirot, Mr. Satterthwaite and Harley Quin. Holiday tensions, an urgent anonymous call and unexpected encounters give these investigators opportunities to apply their different methods to hidden motives and uncertain appearances.

At informal gatherings, Miss Marple and her companions take turns recounting unsolved mysteries. While others debate the evidence, her knowledge of village life and human behaviour helps her recognise the motives behind apparently baffling crimes in thirteen stories.

Edited by Thomas Godfrey, this seasonal anthology gathers 26 mystery and crime tales set around Christmas. Its selections range from classic detective fiction to darker holiday mischief, including work by Ngaio Marsh, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Dorothy L. Sayers.

Edited by Thomas Godfrey, this anthology gathers classic British mystery stories set in and around country estates. The selection ranges from early detective fiction to later crime tales, with contributions from writers including Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Ruth Rendell, and P. D. James.

A regular restaurant customer follows the same meal routine week after week, so a change in his habits catches Hercule Poirot’s attention. What begins as an observation about dining patterns leads him to investigate a possible crime.

Prompted by a box of wartime letters his mother wrote before her early death, Doig reconstructs his family’s moves between Montana ranches and an Arizona defense-workers’ camp, offering a tender portrait of a tough, witty woman and the postwar West she inhabited.

After losing his job in the family firm and access to its fortune, a young man boards a train without a clear plan. Meeting a girl pursued by a mysterious bearded man turns aimless travel into an unexpected adventure.

The murder of Sir James Dwighton points suspicion toward his wife and her lover. Mr. Satterthwaite joins Colonel Melrose's inquiry, but a chance encounter with Harley Quin encourages him to reconsider the apparent evidence and the romantic triangle.

Heiress Lois Hargreaves asks Tommy and Tuppence for help after poisoned chocolates arrive at her home. Suspecting someone within the household may be responsible, the detectives investigate a threat whose danger extends beyond the suspicious gift.

This nine-story collection gathers Christie mysteries written across several decades. Hercule Poirot investigates the death linked to a Spanish chest, while Harley Quin features in the title tale; other entries turn on blackmail, relationships, concealed motives, and dangerous secrets.

Nine early stories combine romantic conflict, unsettling experiences and detective mysteries, including two Hercule Poirot cases. The collection revisits dreams, jealousy and hidden pasts, with background notes explaining the history of pieces first published much earlier in Christie's career.

Philip Ridgeway is accused after more than a million dollars in Liberty Bonds disappear while he is transporting them by ship to America. His fiancée asks Hercule Poirot to clear his name and solve a theft involving a tightly controlled bond trunk.

A stranded motorist enters a Welsh house and finds Laura Warwick beside her husband's corpse with a gun in her hand. She confesses, and he offers to help, but her story raises questions in this novelisation of Christie's play.

Patricia Craig’s international detective-story anthology spans classic and modern crime fiction from Britain, the United States, Europe, Japan, and beyond. The selection includes police procedurals, amateur sleuths, women detectives, and locked-room puzzles, with a story by Garry Disher.

A disappearing bloodstain hints at the truth behind a woman's drowning in this collection of mysteries. Alongside other stories, the puzzle challenges readers to distinguish an apparently impossible event from the human actions concealed beneath it.

Four Miss Marple stories explore suspected poisoning, a disastrous meal, a bungalow burglary and a village girl's drowning. As others exchange accounts of puzzling events, the elderly sleuth draws on her knowledge of human behaviour.

Charles Osborne adapts three Christie plays into novels collected in one volume. A stolen formula, a body in a diplomat's home and a stranger helping construct an alibi lead to separate mysteries of deception and murder.

Seven Christie crime novels are gathered in a boxed set organised around the seven deadly sins. The selection connects different mysteries through the desires and weaknesses that can turn ordinary human motives into reasons for murder.

Thirty-nine short mysteries bring together Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Parker Pyne and Harley Quin. Each detective approaches a different puzzle, offering varied ways to uncover the motives and hidden facts behind apparently baffling events.

A selection of compact Miss Marple mysteries, from village scandals to suspicious deaths and missing clues. These short cases highlight her patient listening, sharp comparisons, and talent for finding danger behind everyday manners.

Ten short mysteries gather cases featuring Christie's recurring detectives, each faced with a puzzle that calls for careful interpretation. The compact collection offers different investigators and approaches to revealing what lies beneath an apparently straightforward situation.

Twelve stories range from Lord Listerdale's disappearance to a ruby necklace hidden among cherries and a soprano's dangerous hatred. Romance, unexpected opportunities and criminal schemes give ordinary encounters consequences their participants could never have anticipated.

Four stories bring together an ominous warning, a threatened murder, suspicious poisonings and a puzzling bungalow affair. Different investigators confront situations where appearances mislead, and understanding the people involved matters as much as identifying the clues.

Miss Marple joins friends who share mysteries and challenge each other to explain them. Across four stories, apparently ordinary observations from village life help her unravel puzzles that leave the more confident guests searching for answers.

Four stories explore love, duty and bitter disappointment alongside threatening events and unexpected discoveries. A ruby necklace, a terrifying witch and a gunshot appear in tales where emotional wounds can matter as much as criminal danger.

This collection combines crime mysteries with tales of unexplained and supernatural events, including The Witness for the Prosecution and Three Blind Mice. Familiar situations become unsettling as characters confront deception, danger and experiences they cannot readily explain.

Four stories follow an actress facing blackmail, a young man whose courage is tested, a poisoning recalled by Miss Marple and a woman protecting her husband. Secrets and desperate choices threaten lives and reputations.

Miss Marple's short cases appear alongside standalone stories of suspense, murder and the supernatural. The collection moves between her observations of human behaviour and unsettling encounters in which other characters face dangers beyond their understanding.

Reading lists, character profiles and a guide to poisons help readers navigate Christie's mysteries. Three sample stories introduce Poirot, Miss Marple and Tommy and Tuppence, offering practical starting points for choosing which books to explore next.

A coded newspaper advertisement persuades Tuppence that something unusual will happen at a costume ball. She and Tommy attend, but a murder amid the disguised guests turns their night out into a difficult investigation.

Tommy and Tuppence investigate a doctor's hoax calls as a mysterious lighter and a blue Russian letter complicate their work. Their detective agency must establish whether the apparently separate incidents point towards a more dangerous scheme.

When banker Matthew Davenheim disappears after leaving home to post letters, Inspector Japp turns to Hercule Poirot. Poirot wagers that he can solve the baffling case without leaving his chair, relying entirely on evidence and deduction.

Letters and photographs document Christie's ten-month journey around the world in 1922 with her husband. Edited by her grandson Mathew Prichard, the travelogue follows encounters and experiences that later contributed to her fiction's settings and plots.

Miss Marple suspects that Mr Sanders intends to murder his wife and tries to protect her. When the woman is killed but her husband has an alibi, Marple must reconsider what her instincts have told her.

A young couple buy a basket of fruit and discover an expensive ruby necklace hidden inside. What began as a simple purchase becomes an unexpected dilemma, as the valuable find brings possibilities neither of them anticipated.

Tommy and Tuppence's detective agency receives a client searching for Janet Smith, a shopgirl he secretly loves. Tuppence promises to locate the missing woman within twenty-four hours, setting herself a deadline that may prove difficult to meet.

Pretending to be a blind detective, Tommy is approached by a duke seeking his missing daughter. He and Tuppence must determine whether the request is genuine while a warning suggests their own agency is being targeted.

An urgent call from detective novelist Ariadne Oliver brings Poirot to Devon, where a staged murder game may be concealing a real crime. This novella preserves Christie's earlier version of material later expanded into Dead Man's Folly.

Rodney and Janet Grierson pray for help for their son Alan, whose disabilities concern them. When an unfamiliar creature appears in their garden, his encounters with unusual animals open a different question about wonder and faith.

On a voyage to Egypt, a difficult passenger is found dead in her cabin. Poirot has quietly listened to the tensions among those aboard, and must use what he has heard to identify the person responsible.

After his car breaks down on the Wiltshire downs, psychic researcher Mortimer Cleveland takes shelter with the Dinsmead family. A message and an atmosphere of unease suggest someone is in danger, requiring him to act quickly.

Opera singer Paula Nazorkoff agrees to a private performance only if the chosen work is Tosca. As she comes face to face with a rival, old grievances threaten to give the evening a dangerous purpose.

An apparent luggage mix-up draws Tommy and Tuppence into an investigation involving bags marked with matching initials. When one traveller denies ever owning the bag attributed to him, the innocent mistake begins to look suspicious.

Millionaire Silas Hamer finds contentment in his wealth until a piper's music gives him an extraordinary sensation of freedom. The experience unsettles his certainties, forcing him to reconsider the connection between possessions and spiritual happiness.

Monica Deane and her mother take in lodgers to maintain an inherited house, but apparent poltergeists drive guests away. Tommy and Tuppence investigate the disturbances and a prospective buyer's unusually determined interest in the property.

A worried woman tells Poirot that her husband may be slowly poisoning her. Poirot and Hastings travel to Cornwall to examine the claim, confronting a murder mystery shaped by suspicion, urgency, and a household with secrets.

Inspector Marriot asks Tommy and Tuppence to pursue a counterfeiter whose forged notes circulate on both sides of the Channel. Connections to wealthy gamblers and mysterious chalk marks lead the partners into a dangerous investigation.

Tommy and Tuppence follow a secret newspaper invitation to a masquerade ball, where a killing creates a fresh puzzle. Costumes conceal identities, and seemingly trivial knowledge about newspapers may help them understand the night's deception.

Mary lives on an isolated island with a holy man struggling to complete his scriptures. The arrival of visitors searching for the Queen of Heaven brings questions of belief into their quiet and secluded life.

Mrs Lancaster moves her family into a house said to be haunted by a child whose father never returned. As signs of the ghost emerge, the household confronts a presence shaped by loneliness and loss.

Poirot and Inspector Japp investigate the apparent suicide of a wealthy man in Market Basing. A detail about the position of the gun makes the easy explanation impossible, turning the death into a tightly constructed puzzle.

Confined to bed with influenza, Hercule Poirot directs Captain Hastings from a distance as Hastings investigates a murder at a country hunting lodge. The case tests whether Poirot's reasoning can compensate for his absence from the scene.

A stubborn donkey refuses to obey its owners and wanders through Judea on its own terms. Taking shelter in a Bethlehem stable, it encounters a newborn child and visitors whose arrival interrupts its restless travels.

Sir Arthur Carmichael begins behaving like a cat, bringing a psychologist to investigate his strange condition. A real cat also seems to haunt the house, but only the investigator can see it, complicating any ordinary explanation.

Eight full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatizations bring together major Hercule Poirot investigations, with John Moffatt playing the detective. The selection adapts The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The ABC Murders, Peril at End House, Death on the Nile, and four other Christie novels.

A collection of classic Christmas mysteries featuring famous detectives, where locked doors, snowy footprints, and holiday gatherings turn deadly. It’s made for short, cozy whodunits with sharp twists and plenty of seasonal atmosphere.

This compact collection presents four self-contained Hercule Poirot mysteries, involving stolen jewels, an apparent suicide, a vanished banker, and deaths linked to an Egyptian tomb. The stories were selected for the 2016 Quick Reads series.

Poirot accepts a dinner invitation from Robert Astwell, only to find that the host is disliked by nearly everyone present. When Astwell is murdered, the gathering supplies Poirot with an unusually large field of plausible suspects.

A young woman can receive her inheritance only if she proves that her education has given her practical intelligence. Poirot helps her unravel her late uncle's challenging will before the promised fortune can slip out of reach.

When antique collector Marcus Hardman’s medieval jewels disappear during a tea party, only four guests could be responsible. Hercule Poirot examines the scene, where two apparently small clues, including a cigarette lighter, point toward the thief.

Twenty-five short adventures revisit Poirot’s formative investigations, drawn from stories published in The Sketch during 1923. Theft, disappearance, political peril, and murder test the Belgian detective’s orderly reasoning as he works through motives including greed, jealousy, and revenge.

This collection assembles 23 Hercule Poirot stories first published in The Sketch in 1923. Through thefts, disappearances, kidnappings, and murders, the detective relies on careful observation and deduction in early cases later reprinted, sometimes under different titles, in other Poirot collections.

Psychic visions, ghostly messages and unsettling transformations shape this collection of supernatural mysteries. Some stories feature Poirot or Miss Marple, while others follow people whose apparently familiar worlds become difficult to explain through ordinary experience.

Winter provides the setting and mood for this collection of Christie mysteries. Gathered around the season's dark days and indoor comforts, the stories bring criminal puzzles and unsettling discoveries into places that might otherwise seem reassuring.

Summer mysteries take Christie's detectives from Cornwall to the French Riviera, through country houses and ancient temples. Poirot, Miss Marple, Parker Pyne and Harley Quin confront hidden dangers beneath settings associated with holidays and sunshine.

Love turns dangerous in these short mysteries featuring Poirot, Miss Marple and Christie's other detectives. Romantic rivalries, disguised intentions and crimes of passion transform personal attachments into puzzles that demand more than trusting appearances.

Twelve autumn mysteries gather secluded cottages, unsettling manors, apparent hauntings and murderous schemes. Poirot, Miss Marple and other Christie detectives investigate threats that emerge as familiar places take on a darker atmosphere in the changing season.

Twelve spring-themed mysteries bring together Poirot, Miss Marple, Harley Quin, Parker Pyne and Tommy and Tuppence. While gardens and longer days suggest renewal, disappearances, suspicious deaths and concealed motives give the season a more troubling side.

Miss Marple arrives at a glamorous hotel in the Swiss Alps just as old grudges begin to surface among the guests. After a guest is found dead and the snow closes in, she must sort performance from truth before the killer strikes again.