Hercule Poirot 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.