Hercule Poirot mysteries
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a classic detective novel by Agatha Christie and features her iconic detective, Hercule Poirot. The story is set in England during World War I and revolves around the wealthy widow Emily Inglethorp, who dies under suspicious circumstances. Captain Arthur Hastings, a friend of the family, enlists the help of Hercule Poirot to investigate the case. As Poirot delves into the intricate web of relationships and motives...
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 2
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The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie is a masterfully crafted detective novel that plunges readers into the mysterious world of murder and intrigue. The story opens with Hercule Poirot receiving a desperate plea for help from Paul Renauld, a wealthy man residing in France. When Poirot and his companion, Captain Hastings, arrive at Renauld's estate, they discover him dead in a freshly dug grave on a golf course. As Poirot delves into the investigation,...
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a classic detective novel by Agatha Christie, first published in 1926. The story is narrated by Dr. James Sheppard, a close friend of the victim, Roger Ackroyd. The novel revolves around the murder of wealthy widower Roger Ackroyd in his country house, Fernly Park. Hercule Poirot, the famous Belgian detective, is called in to investigate the case. What makes this novel particularly intriguing is its unconventional narrative...
4) The Big Four
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 4
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Embark on a riveting literary journey with Agatha Christie's "The Big Four," a captivating novel that takes the celebrated detective Hercule Poirot beyond the familiar terrain of conventional murder mysteries. In this enthralling tale, Poirot and his steadfast companion, Captain Hastings, are drawn into the mysterious web of a powerful and elusive criminal organization known only as "The Big Four."
The story unfolds against the backdrop of an international...
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 5
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The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie, published in 1928, is a classic addition to Christie's renowned collection of detective novels.
This captivating mystery revolves around the luxurious Blue Train, where a murder takes place during a journey to the French Riviera. The story features the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot, who must unravel a complex web of relationships, motives, and clues to solve the crime.
Christie's masterful...
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In the Agatha Christie classic Peril at End House, a young woman who has recently survived a series of very close calls appears to be the target of a dedicated killer-and it's up to Hercule Poirot to save her life.
On holiday on the Cornish Riviera, Hercule Poirot is alarmed to hear pretty Nick Buckley describe her recent "accidental brushes with death." First, on a treacherous Cornish hillside, the brakes on her car failed. Then, on a coastal path,...
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Thirteen at dinner , Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 7
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 8
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Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again....
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 9
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In Agatha Christie's classic, Three Act Tragedy, the normally unflappable Hercule Poirot faces his most baffling investigation: the seemingly motiveless murder of the thirteenth guest at dinner party, who choked to death on a cocktail containing not a trace of poison.
Sir Charles Cartwright should have known better than to allow thirteen guests to sit down for dinner. For at the end of the evening one of them is dead-choked by a cocktail that contained...
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Hercule Poirot must solve a perplexing case of midair murder in Death in the Clouds when he discovers that the woman in seat two of the airborne aeroplane he's traveling on is quite unexpectedly-and unnaturally-deceased.
From seat No. 9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers on the short flight from Paris to London. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat...
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The A B C murders , Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 11
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 12
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Suspicious events at a Middle Eastern archaeological excavation site intrigue the great Hercule Poirot as he investigates Murder in Mesopotamia, a classic murder mystery from Agatha Christie. Amy Leatheram has never felt the lure of the mysterious East, but when she travels to an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert to nurse the wife of a celebrated archaeologist, events prove stranger than she could ever have imagined. Her patient's bizarre visions...
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 13
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In Agatha Christie's classic mystery, Cards on the Table, the wily Hercule Poirot is on the case when a bridge night turns deadly Mr. Shaitana is famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he is a man of whom everybody is a little afraid. So when he boasts to Hercule Poirot that he considers murder an art form, the detective has some reservations about accepting a party invitation to view Shaitana's "private collection." Indeed, what begins...
14) Dumb Witness
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 14
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Miss Emily was old, rich, and afraid-and now, she's dead. Her terrified plea to Hercule Poirot came a little too late. All that's left is a house full of greedy heirs, and a very strange letter that could solve the mystery-or add to it. This title was previously published as Poirot Loses a Client.
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 15
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Following the success of Murder on the Orient Express directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, Twentieth Century Fox will next adapt this classic Hercule Poirot mystery for the big screen.
Beloved detective Hercule Poirot embarks on a journey to Egypt in one of Agatha Christie's most famous mysteries, Death on the Nile.
The tranquility of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She...
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 17
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In Hercule Poirot's Christmas, the holidays are anything but merry when a family reunion is marred by murder-and the notoriously fastidious investigator is quickly on the case.
Christmas Eve, and the Lee family's reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed.
When Hercule Poirot offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not...
18) Sad Cypress
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 18
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Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, only one man still presumed Elinor was innocent until proven guilty: Hercule Poirot was all that stood between Elinor and the gallows.
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The patriotic murders , Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 19
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 20
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The classic Evil Under the Sun, one of the most famous of Agatha Christie's Poirot investigations, has the fastidious sleuth on the trail of the killer of a sun-bronzed beauty whose death brings some rather shocking secrets into the light.
The beautiful bronzed body of Arlena Stuart lay face down on the beach. But strangely, there was no sun and Arlena was not sunbathing…she had been strangled.
Ever since Arlena's arrival the air had been thick...
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Murder in retrospect , Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 21
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22) The Hollow
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 22
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A far-from-warm welcome greets Hercule Poirotas he arrives for lunch at Lucy Angkatell's country house. A man lies dying by the swimming pool, his blood dripping into the water. His wife stands overhim, holding a revolver. As Poirot investigates, he begins to realize that beneath the respectable surface lies a tangle of family secrets and everyone becomes a suspect. This title was previously published as Murder After Hours.
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The labours of Hercules , Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 23
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 24
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In Agatha Christie's classic puzzler Taken at the Flood, the indefatigable Hercule Poiroit investigates the troubling case of a twice-widowed woman. A few weeks after marrying an attractive widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs. Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the Cloade family fortune. Shortly afterward, Hercule Poirot receives a visit from the dead man's sister-in-law...
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 25
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In Mrs. McGinty's Dead, one of Agatha Christie's most ingenious mysteries, the intrepid Hercule Poirot must look into the case of a brutally murdered landlady.
Mrs. McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion falls immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes reveal traces of the victim's blood and hair. Yet something is amiss: Bentley just doesn't seem like a murderer.
Could the answer lie in an article clipped...
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Funerals are fatal , Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 26
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 27
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A most unusual series of crimes at a student hostel intrigues Inspector Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie's Hickory Dickory Dock, especially when a simple case of kleptomania paves the way to murder. Hercule Poirot doesn't need all his detective skills to realize something is troubling his secretary, Miss Lemon-she has made three mistakes in a simple letter. It seems an outbreak of kleptomania at the student hostel in which her sister works is distracting...
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 28
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When a mock murder game staged for charity threatens to turn into the real thing, the intrepid Hercule Poirot is called in to take part in this Dead Man's Folly, a classic from the queen of suspense, Agatha Christie. Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fete, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well-known crime writer, agrees to organize their murder hunt. Despite weeks of meticulous...
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Murder is part of the curriculum at an exclusive school for girls in Agatha Christie's Cat Among the Pigeons, as the intrepid Poirot sets out to bring a stealthy killer to justice.
Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion while the rest of the school sleeps. There, among the lacrosse sticks, they stumble upon the body of an unpopular games mistress-shot through the heart point-blank.
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30) The Clocks
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 30
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Time is ticking away for a murderer in Agatha Christie's classic, The Clocks, as Hercule Poirot investigates the strange case of a corpse surrounded by numerous timepieces in a blind woman's house. Sheila Webb expected to find a respectable blind lady waiting for her at 19 Wilbraham Crescent-not the body of a middle-aged man sprawled across the living room floor. But when old Miss Pebmarsh denies sending for her in the first place, or of owning all...
31) Third Girl
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In this breathtaking Agatha Christie mystery, the Third Girl sharing a London flat with two others announces to Hercule Poirot that she's a murderer and then disappears. The masterful investigator must figure out whether the missing girl is a criminal, a victim, or merely insane. Three young women share a London flat. The first is a coolly efficient secretary. The second is an artist. The third interrupts Hercule Poirot's breakfast confessing that...
32) Hallowe'en Party
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 32
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When a Halloween Party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirots to unmask a murderer in Agatha Christie's classic murder mystery, Hallowe'en Party. At a Halloween party, Joyce-a hostile thirteen-year-old-boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the `evil presence'....
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 33
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A classic Hercule Poirot investigation, Agatha Christie's Elephants Can Remember has the expert detective delving into an unsolved crime from the past involving the strange death of a husband and wife. Hercule Poirot stood on the clifftop. Here, many years earlier, there had been a fatal accident followed by the grisly discovery of two bodies-a husband and wife who had been shot dead. But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion?...
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 34
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The legendary detective saves his best for last as he races to apprehend a five-time killer before the final curtain descends in Curtain: Poirot's Last Case, the last book Agatha Christie published before her death.
The crime-fighting careers of Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings have come full circle-they are back once again in the rambling country house in which they solved their first murder together.
Both Hercule Poirot and Great Styles have...
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In Agatha Christie's short story, "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding," Poirot is asked to attend a Christmas celebration in order to apprehend a jewel-thief who has taken advantage of an unwary eastern prince. Full of English holiday tradition and plenty of intrigue, this holiday tale first appeared in the December 12, 1923 issue of The Sketch magazine.
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Previously published in the print anthology Murder in the Mews: Four Cases of Hercule Poirot. A young woman commits suicide while her roommate is away for the weekend. However, the lead inspector is sufficiently doubtful about the cause of death to call for the help of Hercule Poirot.
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Hercule Poirot's early cases
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Hercule Poirot's casebook
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A beautiful heiress has been found dead on a train. A playboy has been stabbed through the heart during a costume ball. An elderly woman suspects that she is being slowly poisoned to death. A prince fears for his reputation when his fiancée is embroiled in another man's murder. A forgotten recluse makes headlines after he is shot in the head. Who but Agatha Christie could concoct such canny crimes? Who but Belgian detective Hercule Poirot could possibly...
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Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and his assistant, Captain Hastings, solve perplexing cases of murder and deceit in this short mystery collection., the first short story collection to feature the famous detective, he takes on the case of a Hollywood film star and her highly coveted diamond, the suspicious suicide of a man who’s worth more dead than alive, the curse of a pharaoh’s tomb, the abduction of a Prime Minister, and much more.
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From the acclaimed author of Murder on the Orient Express, eight short mystery stories featuring Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.
Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings are on a bus to North Devon to help a friend when they encounter a case of stolen miniatures. Miss Marple investigates the murder of a woman who made changes to her will just a few days before her death. A gentleman is questioned about a killing that has yet to occur. A strange doll in...