Agatha Christie

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Agatha Christie
  • Bibliography:
    282 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1920
  • Latest Book:
    January 2024
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About the Author

Agatha Christie is the bestselling author of all time. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair of Styles, was the first to feature her iconic character, detective Hercule Poirot. Christie also created her other famous crime-solver, Miss Jane Marple. Miss Marple has appeared in twelve of her novels and twenty short stories. Both Poirot and Marple have been widely featured in films and television including Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile.

She sold over 2 billion novels that have been translated into over 45 languages. Christie wrote 80 novels and short story collections as well as a dozen plays. Her play The Mousetrap is the longest running play in theater history. She dabbled in nonfiction, writing some poetry as well as an autobiography. Christie also wrote 6 romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. She died in 1976.

Full Series List in Order

Colonel Race

1 - The Man in the Brown Suit (Jan-1924)
2 - Cards on the Table (Jan-1936)
3 - Death on the Nile (Apr-1933)
4 - Sparkling Cyanide // Remembered Death (Jan-1945)

Hercule Poirot Mysteries

1 - The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Oct-1920)
2 - The Murder on the Links (1923)
2.5 - The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly (Jan-1923)
3 - Poirot Investigates: Anthology ()
3.01 - The Adventure of the Western Star ()
3.02 - The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor ()
3.03 - The Adventure of the Cheap Flat (May-1923)
3.04 - The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge (May-1923)
3.05 - The Million Dollar Bond Robbery (May-1923)
3.06 - The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb (Sep-1923)
3.07 - The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan ()
3.08 - The Kidnapped Prime Minister ()
3.09 - The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim ()
3.1 - The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman (Oct-1923)
3.11 - The Case of the Missing Will (Oct-1923)
3.12 - The Chocolate Box (May-1923)
3.12 - The Clue of the Chocolate Box (May-1923)
3.13 - The Case of the Veiled Lady (Oct-1923)
3.13 - The Veiled Lady (Oct-1923)
3.14 - The Lost Mine (Nov-1923)
4 - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
5 - The Big Four (1927)
6 - The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
6.5 - The Under Dog (Jan-1929)
7 - Black Coffee (1930)
8 - Peril at End House (1932)
9 - Lord Edgware Dies // Thirteen at Dinner (1933)
10 - Murder on the Orient Express // Murder in the Calais Coach (Jan-1934)
11 - Three Act Tragedy // Murder in Three Acts (1934)
12 - Death in the Clouds // Death in the Air (1935)
12.5 - Poirot and the Regatta Mystery (Jan-1935)
13 - The A.B.C. Murders (1936)
14 - Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
15 - Cards on the Table (Jan-1936)
16 - Death on the Nile (Apr-1933)
17 - Dumb Witness // Poirot Loses a Client (1937)
18.1 - Murder in the Mews (1937)
18.2 - The Incredible Theft (Jan-1937)
18.3 - Dead Man's Mirror (1937)
18.4 - Triangle at Rhodes (Jan-1937)
19 - Appointment With Death (1938)
20 - Hercule Poirot's Christmas // Murder for Christmas // A Holdiay for Murder (1938)
20.5 - The Dream (Jan-1939)
21 - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe // Patriotic Murders // An Overdose of Death (1940)
22 - Sad Cypress (1940)
23 - Evil Under the Sun (1941)
23.5 - Four and Twenty Blackbirds (Jan-1941)
24 - Five Little Pigs // Murder in Retrospect (1942)
25 - The Hollow // Murder After Hours (1946)
26 - The Labours of Hercules // The Labors of Hercules (Jan-1947)
27 - Three Blind Mice (Jan-1948)
28 - Taken at the Flood // There is a Tide (1948)
29 - Mrs. McGinty's Dead (1952)
30 - Funerals Are Fatal // After the Funeral // Murder at the Gallop (Mar-1953)
31 - Hickory Dickory Dock // Hickory Dickory Death (1955)
32 - Dead Man's Folly (1956)
33 - Cat Among the Pigeons (1959)
35 - The Clocks (1963)
35 - Third Girl (1966)
36 - Halloween Party (1969)
37 - Elephants Can Remember (Sep-1972)
38 - Hercule Poirot's Early Cases: Antology (Sep-1974)
38 - Poirot's Early Cases: Antology (Sep-1974)
39 - Curtain: Poirot's Last Case (Sep-1975)
41 - A Haunting in Venice (Nov-1969)
The Plymouth Express ()
The Adventure of the Clapham Cook (Nov-1923)
The Cornish Mystery (Nov-1923)
Christmas Adventure (Dec-1923)
The Lemesurier Inheritance (Dec-1923)
The Regatta Mystery (May-1936)
The Affair at the Victory Ball (Jan-1951)
The King of Clubs (Jan-1951)
The Market Basing Mystery (Jan-1951)
The Submarine Plans (Jan-1951)
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960)
The Mystery of the Spanish Chest (Oct-1960)
The Theft of the Royal Ruby (Oct-1960)
Double Sin (Jan-1961)
Hercule Poirot's Casebook // Hercule Poirot's Complete Short Stories (Oct-1984)

Miss Marple Mysteries

0.01 - The Tuesday Night Club (Dec-1927)
0.02 - The Idol House of Astarte (Jan-1928)
0.03 - Ingots of Gold (Feb-1928)
0.04 - The Blood-Stained Pavement (Mar-1928)
0.05 - Motive v. Opportunity ()
0.06 - The Thumbmark of St. Peter (May-1928)
0.07 - The Blue Geranium (Dec-1929)
0.08 - The Companion (Feb-1930)
0.09 - The Four Suspects (Jan-1930)
0.1 - A Christmas Tragedy (Jan-1930)
0.11 - The Herb of Death (Mar-1930)
0.12 - The Affair at the Bungalow (May-1930)
1 - The Murder at the Vicarage // Appointment With an Assassin (Oct-1930)
1.01 - Death by Drowning (Nov-1931)
1.02 - The Thirteen Problems // The Tuesday Club Murders // Thirteen at Dinner (1932)
1.03 - In a Glass Darkly (Jul-1934)
1.04 - Miss Marple Tells a Story (Jan-1939)
1.05 - The Case of the Caretaker (Jan-1941)
1.06 - The Tape-Measure Murder (Nov-1941)
1.07 - Strange Jest // The Case of the Buried Treasure (Nov-1941)
2 - The Body in the Library (Feb-1942)
2.01 - The Case of the Perfect Maid = The Maid Who Disappeared (Apr-1942)
3 - The Moving Finger (Jul-1942)
4 - A Murder Is Announced (1950)
5 - They Do It With Mirrors // Murder With Mirrors (Jan-1952)
6 - A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)
7 - The 4:50 From Paddington // What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw (1957)
7.01 - Greenshaw's Folly (Oct-1960)
7.02 - Sanctuary (Jan-1961)
7.03 - The Dressmaker's Doll (Jan-1961)
8 - The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1962)
9 - A Caribbean Mystery (1964)
10 - At Bertram's Hotel (1965)
11 - Nemesis (1971)
12 - Sleeping Murder (Aug-1976)
The Thumb Mark of St. Peter (Jan-1928)

Mr. Harlequin Quin

1 - The Coming of Mr. Quin ()
2 - The Shadow on the Glass ()
3 - At the 'Bells and Motley' ()
4 - The Sign in the Sky (Jul-1925)
5 - The Soul of the Croupier (Oct-1926)
6 - The Man from the Sea ()
7 - Voice in the Dark (Oct-1926)
8 - The Face of Helen (Oct-1926)
9 - The World's End (Oct-1926)
10 - The Bird with the Broken Wing (Oct-1926)
11 - The Dead Harlequin (Oct-1926)
12 - Harlequin's Lane (Oct-1926)
13 - At the Crossroads = The Love Detectives (Oct-1926)
14 - The Harlequin Tea Set (Jan-1971)
The Mysterious Mr. Quin: Short-Stories (Oct-1926)

Parker Pyne

1 - The Case of the Discontented Soldier (Aug-1932)
2 - The Case of the Distressed Lady (Aug-1932)
3 - The Case of the City Clerk (Aug-1932)
4 - The Case of the Discontented Husband (Aug-1932)
5 - The Case of the Rich Woman (Aug-1932)
6 - The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife (Oct-1932)
7 - Have You Got Everything You Want? (Apr-1933)
8 - The Gate of Baghdad (Apr-1933)
9 - The House at Shiraz (Apr-1933)
10 - Death on the Nile (Apr-1933)
11 - The Oracle at Delphi (Apr-1933)
12 - The Pearl of Price (Jun-1933)
13 - Problem at Pollensa Bay (Nov-1935)
14 - The Regatta Mystery (May-1936)
Parker Pyne Investigates // Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective (Nov-1934)

Superintendant Battle

1 - The Secret of Chimneys (1925)
2 - The Seven Dials Mystery (1929)
3 - Cards on the Table (Jan-1936)
4 - Murder Is Easy (1939)
5 - Towards Zero (1944)

Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries

1 - The Secret Adversary (1922)
2 - Partners in Crime (1929)
2.01 - A Fairy in the Flat (Jan-1929)
2.02 - A Pot of Tea (Jan-1929)
2.03 - The Affair of the Pink Pearl (Jan-1929)
2.04 - The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger (Jan-1929)
2.05 - Finessing the King (Jan-1929)
2.05 - The Gentleman Dressed in Newspaper (Jan-1929)
2.06 - The Case of the Missing Lady (Jan-1929)
2.07 - Blindman's Buff (Jan-1929)
2.08 - The Man in the Mist (Jan-1929)
2.09 - The Crackler (Jan-1929)
2.1 - The Sunningdale Mystery (Jan-1929)
2.11 - The House of Lurking Death (Jan-1929)
2.12 - The Unbreakable Alibi (Jan-1929)
2.13 - The Clergyman's Daughter // The Red House (Jan-1929)
2.14 - The Ambassador's Boots (Jan-1929)
2.15 - The Man Who Was No. 16 (Jan-1929)
3 - N or M? (1941)
4 - By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968)
5 - Postern of Fate (Nov-1973)

Book List in Order: 282 titles

  • The Mysterious Affair at Styles

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 1

    Set in the summer of 1917 in an Essex country estate, the story follows the war-wounded Captain Arthur Hastings to the Styles St. Mary manor of his friend John Cavendish. The Cavendish household is wrought with tension due to the marriage of John'...

  • The Wife of the Kenite

    "The Wife of the Kenite" is an early suspense story originally published in 1923....

  • The Woman of Kenite

    The Woman and the Kenite was a little known short story which was published in a little known Italian Magazine in the 1920's. Unusually for Agatha Christie it was a horror short story which is not normally associated with the Great Author. The story ...

  • The Secret Adversary

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    Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries - 1
    Harlequin Romance - 359

    Tommy Beresford and Prudence 'Tuppence' Cowley are young, in love… and flat broke. Just after Great War, there are few jobs available and the couple are desperately short of money. Restless for excitement, they decide to embark on a daring ...

  • The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 2.5

    When little Johnnie Waverly is kidnapped, there is only one man his parents trust with the case -- the inimitable Hercule Poirot!...

  • The Curious Disappearance of the Opalsen Pearls

    While on holiday in Brighton with Hastings, Poirot cannot resist the case of a missing necklace. Also published as "The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan."...

  • The Kidnapping of Johnnie Waverly

    Poirot is called in to investigate the kidnapping of three-year-old Johnnie Waverlyfrom his home in Surrey. Evidence points to someone in the household, but the most likely suspect has an alibi....

  • The Murder on the Links

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 2
    Harlequin Romance - 441

    Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is summoned to France after receiving a distressing letter with a urgent cry for help. Upon his arrival in Merlinville-sur-Mer, the investigator finds the man who penned the letter, the South American millionaire Mons...

  • The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 3.09

    Mr. Davenheim, a wealthy financier, leaves his home to mail a letter, then fails to return. The story fills the newspapers and intrigues Hercule Poirot, who challenges Inspector Japp with the claim that he can solve the case before the police, and wi...



  • The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 3.07

    Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings are on holiday at the opulent Grand Metropolitan Hotel in Brighton, where they meet the wife of a wealthy stockbroker. As they discuss the jewels worn by Mrs. Opalsen, the great detective relates his experiences in...

  • The Adventure of the Western Star

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 3.01

    Movie star Mary Marvell consults with Hercule Poirot after receiving threatening letters that warn her to return her diamond, the famous "Western Star," to its rightful owner. But who does own the diamond, and is it even the genuine article?...

  • The Kidnapped Prime Minister

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 3.08

    Just as World War I is drawing to an end, the prime minister is kidnapped. It is down to Hercule Poirot to locate him before a crucial conference, to avert an international crisis. ...

  • The Plymouth Express

    • / Mystery
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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries

    When Ebenezer Halliday's daughter's body is found stuffed underneath a train seat, the wealthy American industrialist hires Hercule Poirot to locate the murderer and over one hundred thousand dollars' worth of stolen jewels....

  • The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 3.02

    An aging, heavily-insured country squire whose estate is in financial ruin is thought to have committed suicide. Hercule Poirot investigates, in the guise of a representative of the victim's insurance company, to uncover the identity of the real murd...

  • The Actress // A Trap for the Unwary

    Previously published in the print anthology The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories.Jake Levitt can’t believe his luck when, one evening at the theatre, he recognizes the lead actress as Nancy Taylor, a girl he knows a lot about. A story of blackma...

  • The Adventure of the Cheap Flat

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 3.03

    Hastings is at a friend's house with several other people when the talk turns to flats and houses. Mrs Robinson tells the party how she and her husband have managed to obtain a flat in Knightsbridge for a very attractive price. Poirot is interested i...

  • The Chocolate Box

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 3.12

    Sitting in front of a fire, Hastings listens as Poirot recounts his greatest failure. When a wealthy French deputy dies, everyone believes it is from natural causes. Poirot is on vacation from the Belgian police when a young lady comes to him convinc...

  • The Clue of the Chocolate Box

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 3.12

    Hastings mentions his belief that Poirot had never known failure in his professional career. Poirot said that was not true and relates the one occasion when he failed to solve a crime, years earlier when he was a police detective in Brussels....

  • The Million Dollar Bond Robbery

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 3.05

    Philip Ridgeway, a young banker is suspected of stealing one million dollars in Liberty Bonds on a transatlantic journey to New York. His fiancee appeals to Hercule Poirot to prove his innocence and to clear his name. Ridgeway is the nephew of Mr Vav...



  • The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 3.04

    Belgian investigator Hercule Poirot tasks his friend Arthur Hastings with solving a murder that is more like a riddle. Originally published in Sketch, May 26, 1923....

  • The Mystery of the Cheap Flat

    When Poirot investigates the rental of an unusually cheap apartment, he finds that two spies attempt to rent their apartment to someone with the same name and similar appearance to avoid retribution from the mafia. Captain Hastings finds out from Ger...

  • The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 3.06

    Poirot is consulted by Lady Willard, the widow of the famous Egyptologist, Sir John Willard. He was the archaeologist on the excavation of the tomb of the Pharaoh Men-her-Ra together with the American financier Mr Bleibner. Both men died within a for...

  • The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 3.1

    Poirot and Hastings are in their rooms with a near neighbour, Dr Hawker, when the medical man's housekeeper arrives with the message that a client, Count Foscatini, has phoned for the doctor, crying out for help. Poirot, Hastings and Hawker rush to F...

  • The Case of the Missing Will

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 3.11

    Poirot receives an unusual request from Miss Violet Marsh. She was orphaned at fourteen years of age, when she went to live with her Uncle Andrew in Devon. He was recently returned from making his fortune in Australia. He was opposed to his niece bet...

  • The Case of the Veiled Lady

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 3.13

    A heavily veiled lady arrives and identifies herself as Lady Millicent Castle Vaughan, whose engagement to the Duke of Southshire was recently announced. At age sixteen she wrote an indiscreet letter to a soldier...a letter now in the hands of a blac...

  • The Veiled Lady

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 3.13

    Agatha Christie has written a mystery that turns the world of crime upside down, proving there is no honor among thieves, and once again praising the little grey cells of Hercule Poirot. Here's how she proceeds... A beautiful young lady veiled in Spa...

  • The Adventure of the Clapham Cook

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries

    From the Original Daily Sketch Magazine short story on the 14 November 1923 - Issue 1607. Poirot is not interested in investigating some of the cases which appear in the newspapers and which Hastings tries to bring to his attention. These include a b...

  • The Cornish Mystery

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries

    Poirot receives a visit from a Mrs Pengelley, a middle-aged woman who is afraid that she is being poisoned by her husband, a dentist. She has been ill after eating but her doctor states that she is suffering from acute gastritis. She and her husband ...

  • The Lost Mine

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 3.14

    Hercule Poirot always kept a healthy symmetrical balance in the bank of four hundred forty-four pounds, four and four pence. But what about investments? Hastings proposes he buy shares worth three hundred pounds in oil fields promising a yield of 100...



  • Christmas Adventure

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries

    e-artnow presents to you a collection of the greatest mystery cases and puzzles for you to solve and relax with during Christmas and winter holidays:Agatha Christie:The Mysterious Affair at StylesThe Murder on the LinksThe Kidnapped Prime Minister Th...

  • The Lemesurier Inheritance

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries

    The Lemesuriers are supposed to be under a medieval curse derived from a medieval ancestor of the family - he suspected his wife of being unfaithful and that their son was not his own. As punishment he murdered them both and dying she cursed his fami...

  • The Man in the Brown Suit

    Colonel Race - 1
    Harlequin Romance - 337

    Newly-orphaned Anne Beddingfeld is a nice English girl looking for a bit of adventure in London. But she stumbles upon more than she bargained for! Anne is on the platform at Hyde Park Corner tube station when a man falls onto the live track, dying i...

  • The Coming of Mr. Quin

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    Mr. Harlequin Quin - 1

    It's dark and cold, with snow drifts everywhere, when Mr. Harley Quin appears at the door of Royston Hall under the premise that his car has broken down. Once inside, he finds a small party celebrating the new year. Quin remarks that he knew t...

  • Poirot Investigates: Anthology

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 3

    An Hercule Poirot anthology. What do a movie star, an archaeologist, a French maid, a prime minister, a wealthy dowager, and an Italian count have in common? Half of them have fallen victim to a terrible crime. The others have fallen under suspicion....

  • The Shadow on the Glass

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    Mr. Harlequin Quin - 2

    At Mr. and Mrs. Unkerton's party in Greenway's House, Mr. Satterthwaite learns of a haunted window: no matter how many times it is replaced, it always contains the image of a gentleman in a plumed hat. When gunshots are heard, Satterthwaite finds tha...

  • While the Light Lasts

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    An Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories.In the excruciating heat of the African sun, George Crozier is traveling with his new wife, Deidre. They have not been married long, and George is aw...

  • The Road of Dreams

  • The Secret of Chimneys

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    Superintendant Battle - 1
    Harlequin Romance - 377

    A bit of adventure and quick cash is all that good-natured drifter Anthony Cade is looking for when he accepts a messenger job from an old friend. It sounds so simple: deliver the provocative memoirs of a recently deceased European count to a London ...

  • The Sign in the Sky

    Mr. Harlequin Quin - 4

    Previously published in the print anthology The Mysterious Mr. Quin.Mr. Satterthwaite attends the trial of young Martin Wylde, accused of murder. Shortly after the guilty verdict is returned, Satterthwaite runs into his mysterious friend Harley Quin....



  • Within a Wall

    Previously published in the print anthology The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories.Alan Everard, a successful modernist painter, is married to the beautiful society girl Isobel Loring, who eagerly promotes her husband's work. At one of her tea parti...

  • At the 'Bells and Motley'

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    Mr. Harlequin Quin - 3

    Previously published in the print anthology The Mysterious Mr. Quin.When Mr. Satterthwaite’s chauffeured car breaks down in isolated Kirklington Mallet, he seeks refuge at the local inn. There he finds only one other guest -- the mysterious Mr. Qui...

  • The House of Dreams

    Previously published in the print anthology The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories.John Seagrove, a young city clerk, awakens early one morning in his London bedsit, desperately clinging to a dream that has just transformed his life. The next day, w...

  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 4

    Belgian Inspector Hercule Poirot has retired to the countryside in the small English village of King's Abbot. Dr. Sheppard, observing his new neighbor, is sure that he must be a former hairdresser. But the brutal murder of a local squire reveals ...

  • Magnolia Blossom

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    Previously published in the print anthology The Golden Ball and Other Stories.Theodora Darrell is running away with her lover -- and her husband's business associate -- Vincent Easton, when she learns that her husband, Richard, is facing financial ru...

  • The Lonely God

    Previously published in the print anthology The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories.Frank Oliver returns to England after years of overseas service only to realize he no longer knows anyone there. On visiting the British Museum, he encounters the “...

  • At the Crossroads = The Love Detectives

    Mr. Harlequin Quin - 13

    Mr. Satterthwaite and Colonel Melrose are comfortably ensconced in the Colonel’s study when the phone suddenly rings. Someone has been murdered, and, as the county chief constable, the Colonel lets Satterthwaite accompany him to the scene of the cr...

  • The Bird with the Broken Wing

    Mr. Harlequin Quin - 10

    Previously published in the print anthology The Mysterious Mr. Quin.While staying with the Keeleys at their country house, Mr. Satterthwaite happens to be in the library while the younger guests are holding a séance. Among the nonsensical messages a...

  • The Dead Harlequin

    Mr. Harlequin Quin - 11

    When Mr. Satterthwaite visits a new exhibit at the Harchester Galleries, there is one painting that bears an unusual likeness to a mysterious acquaintance of his, Mr. Quin. In one bold move he purchases the canvas on the spot, and in another invites ...

  • The Face of Helen

    Mr. Harlequin Quin - 8

    Previously published in the print anthology The Mysterious Mr. Quin.At Covent Garden for a performance of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, Mr. Satterthwaite spots Mr. Quin during the intermission. After the show, they witness a fight outside the o...



  • Harlequin's Lane

    Mr. Harlequin Quin - 12

    Previously published in the print anthology The Mysterious Mr. Quin.While visiting the rather dull, conventional Denmans, Mr. Satterthwaite unexpectedly meets Mr. Quin on a road called Harlequin's Lane. Even he can't foresee the impact that Quin will...

  • The Mysterious Mr. Quin: Short-Stories

    Mr. Harlequin Quin

    A conjurer of skill with an instinct for detection, Mr. Harley Quin has an almost magical flair for appearing at the scene of the most remarkable crimes. But is it just a trick of light that haunts his shadow with a ghostly apparition? Is it fate tha...

  • The Soul of the Croupier

    Mr. Harlequin Quin - 5

    Previously published in the print anthology The Mysterious Mr. Quin.On his annual trip to Monte Carlo, Mr. Satterthwaite finds himself in the company of Mr. Quin, who is caught up in a mysterious love triangle....

  • Voice in the Dark

    Mr. Harlequin Quin - 7

    Previously published in the print anthology The Mysterious Mr. Quin.Mr. Satterthwaite’s old friend Lady Barbara Stanleigh asks him to investigate her daughter Margery’s claim that the family seat is haunted. He and Mr. Quin set about solving the ...

  • The World's End

    Mr. Harlequin Quin - 9

    Previously published in the print anthology The Mysterious Mr. Quin.Mr. Satterthwaite has come to Corsica with his friend the Duchess of Leith. There they meet the Duchess’s cousin Naomi Carlton-Smith. Distraught that her fiancé has been accused o...

  • The Big Four

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 5

    They are a vicious international quartet of criminals known as "The Big Four". Number One was a brilliant Chinese, the greatest criminal brain of all time; Number Two was a USAmerican multi-millionaire; Number Three was a beautiful Frenchwoma...

  • The Edge

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    Previously published in the print anthology The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories.Claire Halliwell lives a quiet country life with her dogs. A conscientious and popular parish worker, she takes everything in her stride -- even when Sir Gerald Lee, ...

  • The Unexpected Guest

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    A classic from Agatha Christie, the original queen of mystery.When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog in South Wales and makes his way to an isolated house, he discovers a woman standing over the dead body of her wheelchair-bound husba...

  • The Tuesday Night Club

    Miss Marple Mysteries - 0.01

    After a supper of canned lobster and a dessert of canned trifle, three people become ill and Mrs Jones is found dead. Although a bout of botulism is suspected, the Tuesday Night Club is keen to investigate further… ...

  • The Idol House of Astarte

    Miss Marple Mysteries - 0.02

    Years ago, a murder was committed on the night of a costume party thrown by Sir Richard Haydon. Sir Richard's estate contained the grove of Astarte, which held a mysterious stone summer house rumored to have been the site of numerous sacred rites in ...

  • The Thumb Mark of St. Peter

    Miss Marple Mysteries

    In this classic short story, Miss Marple steps in to investigate when her niece is accused of murdering her violent husband. During the first meeting of the Tuesday Night Club at Miss Jane Marple’s home, her guests present real tales of mystery. Mi...

  • The Mystery of the Blue Train

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 6

    Bound for the Riviera, detective Hercule Poirot has boarded Le Train Bleu, an elegant, leisurely means of travel, free of intrigue. Then he meets Ruth Kettering. The lovely American heiress--bailing out of a doomed marriage--is en route to reconcile ...

  • Ingots of Gold

    Miss Marple Mysteries - 0.03

    Raymond West approaches the Tuesday Night Club after his visit to John Newman, a friend who is searching for the Spanish ship Otranto which was shipwrecked off the coast of Cornwall. When John Newman disappears for days, upon his return he claims tha...

  • The Blood-Stained Pavement

    Miss Marple Mysteries - 0.04

    Joyce Lempiere tells the Tuesday Night Club of an incident that occurred five years ago when she was vacationing at a small inn on the Cornish coast. She was painting a picture of the front of the inn, including details of wet bathing suits drying on...

  • Mystery of the Blue Train

    "The Mystery of the Blue Train" by Agatha Christie is a classic detective novel that unfolds aboard the luxurious Blue Train. When a precious gem is stolen, the enigmatic Hercule Poirot steps in to unravel the complex web of lies, deceit, and hidden ...

  • Motive v. Opportunity

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    Miss Marple Mysteries - 0.05

    At a meeting of the Tuesday Night Club, attorney Mr. Petherick relates an incident involving the late Simon Clode, a wealthy client. Obsessed by his granddaughter's death, Clode turned to spiritualist Eurydice Spragg to contact her in the afterlife, ...

  • The Thumbmark of St. Peter

    Miss Marple Mysteries - 0.06

    A classic Agatha Christie short story, featuring Miss Marple, from the collection Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories.Fifteen years ago, Miss Marple’s niece, Mabel Denman, was accused of murdering her abusive and violent husband. Can Miss Marpl...

  • The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger

    Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries - 2.04

    Tommy and Tuppence Beresford wait anxiously for a letter from Russia that may contain information of international importance hidden beneath the stamp. The letter is anticipated by more than just the Beresfords, and they must fight to keep the inform...

  • The Affair of the Pink Pearl

    Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries - 2.03

    Agatha Christie’s Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are Partners in Crime -- or rather partners in crime solving -- and must demonstrate their deductive skills in a wide range of confounding cases after agreeing to take over Blunt’s Internat...

  • The Ambassador's Boots

    Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries - 2.14

    Previously published in the print anthology Partners in Crime.The monogrammed kit bag of the American ambassador to England, Randolph Wilmot, is switched with Senator Ralph Westerman’s. Wilmot hires Tommy and Tuppence to find out why. When the sena...

  • Blindman's Buff

    Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries - 2.07

    While lunching in the chic Gold Room, Tommy masquerades as a blind detective. It is then that the Beresfords are approached by the elegant Duke of Blairgowrie for help in locating his missing daughter....

  • The Case of the Missing Lady

    Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries - 2.06

    When a six-foot-tall tan giant of man comes into Albert Blunt’s International Detective agency, Tommy and Tuppence -- married couple and detective aficionados -- are in for a treat. Not only has Mr. Stavansson emerged after a two-year Arctic advent...

  • The Clergyman's Daughter // The Red House

    Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries - 2.13

    A woman inherits a large house from her old aunt, but she has no means of maintaining it. She must take in lodgers to make ends meet, but, unfortunately, the house seems to be inhabited by poltergeists. This makes it rather hard to retain tenants. To...

  • The Crackler

    Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries - 2.09

    Previously published in the print anthology Partners in Crime.Tommy and Tuppence sleuth after a clever counterfeiter who has been flooding both sides of the Channel with phony bills. In a dark alley, Tommy finds chalked Xs over all the doors -- but w...

  • A Fairy in the Flat

    Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries - 2.01

    Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are called to duty at an international detective agency. On assignment, they are told to be wary of the number sixteen. If they see it in writing or hear it in conversation with a stranger, that means they are close to fi...

  • Finessing the King

    Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries - 2.05

    A personal advertisement written in code attracts the attention of Tuppence Beresford. When Tuppence suspects that the code involves the Three Arts Ball, she persuades Tommy to attend dressed in costume. Tuppence's suspicions prove to be correct when...

  • The Gentleman Dressed in Newspaper

    Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries - 2.05

    During a lull in business, Tommy and Tuppence amuse themselves by perusing the paper’s personal columns. One cryptic ad reads, “Three hearts … 12 tricks … Ace of Spades … finesse the King.” Tommy is certain it is a secret message indicati...

  • The House of Lurking Death

    Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries - 2.11

    Throwing on an almost convincing French accent, Tommy is determined to act the Great Detective Hanaud to his and Tuppence’s latest, lovely client. Miss Hargreaves has recently received a box of chocolates from nobody knows who, and, due to her disl...

  • The Man in the Mist

    Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries - 2.08

    The rather disgruntled pair of Tommy and Tuppence are sequestered in the Grand Adlington Hotel, having made a pig’s ear out of their latest case. But, while mournfully sipping cocktails, with Tommy oddly dressed as a parson, they are gleefully acco...

  • The Man Who Was No. 16

    Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries - 2.15

    Previously published in the print anthology Partners in Crime.The Beresfords finally come face to face with their secret adversary. In order to crack the case, they must ape the techniques of the great Hercule Poirot....

  • A Pot of Tea

    Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries - 2.02

    Previously published in the print anthology Partners in Crime.The Beresfords meet their first client, a man whose secret affair with a shopgirl goes terribly awry when she disappears. Tommy assures him they will find her within twenty-four hours, tho...

  • The Sunningdale Mystery

    Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries - 2.1

    Captain Sessle is found stabbed through the heart with a hatpin, and the only clue is a bit of red wool in his hand. A pretty blonde is charged because she was wearing a bright red wool coat, but the Beresfords aren’t so sure. Was there more behind...

  • The Third-Floor Flat

    A woman's body is found in the third-floor flat of Friar Mansions, and who should live on the very same block but the perspicacious Hercule Poirot?...

  • The Unbreakable Alibi

    Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries - 2.12

    A woman wants to prove that she was in two different places at the same time! Tommy and Tuppence are on the case....

  • The Under Dog

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 6.5

    A dead heiress on a train, a murdered recluse, a wealthy playboy slain at a costume ball are but a few of the unfortunate victims of confounding crimes committed in the pages of Agatha Christie’s The Under Dog and Other Stories, a superio...

  • Partners in Crime

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    Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries - 2

    Who is the beautiful actress whose trail leads to a perfectly staged murder? What are a mother and daughter to do when a haunted house becomes their deadly inheritance? Where better than a costume ball to conceal the identity of a masked killer? A...

  • The Seven Dials Mystery

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    Superintendant Battle - 2

    Seven clocks ticking ominously in a suicide's room and a dying friend whose last words are 'seven dials' lead dapper Jimmy Thesiger and his irrepressible girlfriend to a Soho club. There they learn of the Seven Dials Society: seven masked conspira...

  • Next to a Dog

    Previously published in the print anthology The Golden Ball and Other Stories.Widow Joyce Lambert is poor and out of work. So fond is she of her little half-blind aging terrier, Terry -- a gift from her late husband -- that she will do just about any...

  • The Man from the Sea

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    Mr. Harlequin Quin - 6

    Previously published in the print anthology The Mysterious Mr. Quin.Mr. Satterthwaite has moved to a Mediterranean island, where he encounters Anthony Cosden just as Cosden is about to leap to his death. Apparently this was not Cosden’s first attem...

  • The Blue Geranium

    in Murderous Schemes
    Miss Marple Mysteries - 0.07

    Previously published in the print anthology The Thirteen Problems.A woman is warned by a psychic of the evil and danger in her house. On a full moon, she must watch for the signs: blue primrose means caution, blue hollyhock is danger, and blue gerani...

  • A Christmas Tragedy

    Miss Marple Mysteries - 0.1

    Fans of the amiable, omniscient Miss Marple will be delighted by the first publication in one volume of all 20 short stories that Christie centered on the elderly sleuth. Wearing her black lace mittens, Miss Marple sits in her chair, knitting and dig...

  • The Four Suspects

    Miss Marple Mysteries - 0.09

    Previously published in the print anthology The Thirteen Problems. At a health resort, Miss Marple becomes suspicious that a man she meets is planning on murdering his wife. ...

  • Black Coffee

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 7

    Sir Claud Amory's formula for a powerful new explosive has been stolen, presumably by a member of his large household. Sir Claud assembles his suspects in the library and locks the door, instructing them that the when the lights go out, the formu...

  • The Companion

    Miss Marple Mysteries - 0.08

    Previously published in the print anthology The Thirteen Problems. A murder-suicide in a small village mimics events that took place years before. ...

  • The Herb of Death

    Miss Marple Mysteries - 0.11

    Previously published in the print anthology The Thirteen Problems. A dinner party takes a deadly turn when somebody poisons the guests. ...

  • Giant's Bread

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    Vernon Deyre is a sensitive and brilliant musician, even a genius. But there is a high price to be paid for his talent, especially by his family and the two women in his life. His sheltered childhood in the home he loves has not prepared Vernon for...

  • The Affair at the Bungalow

    Miss Marple Mysteries - 0.12

    A beautiful actress tells a mysterious tale, but Miss Marple has her suspicions about the story’s truth....

  • Manx Gold

    Previously published in the print anthology The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories.Two cousins, Fenella Mylecharane and Juan Faraker, are engaged. When their eccentric uncle dies, they eagerly return to the Isle of Man for the reading of the will. H...

  • The Murder at the Vicarage // Appointment With an Assassin

    Miss Marple Mysteries - 1

    KILL AND TELL It came as no great shock when Colonel Protheroe was found shot to death. The Colonel had earned the hatred of almost everyone in the village. The question was: Who had gotten to him first? The police relaxed when their first susp...

  • Murder at Hazlemoor

    T-R-E-V D-E-A-D M-U-R-D-E-R It was only a parlor game intended to while away the hours on a bitter winter night. But when the psychic table turning pronounced Captain Trevelyan "dead," the guests at Sittaford House became nervous. And when, a ...

  • The Floating Admiral

  • The Sittaford Mystery // The Murder at Hazelmoor

    The Sittaford Mystery is Dame Agatha at her most intriguing, as a séance in a snowbound house predicts a particularly grisly murder.In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a table for a seance. Tension ris...

  • Death by Drowning

    Miss Marple Mysteries - 1.01

    A young girl finds out she’s pregnant and throws herself off a bridge, but Miss Marple is not so sure it was suicide....

  • The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest

    A beautiful and bewitching woman wants Hercule Poirot's help to exonerate her lover, accused of murdering her husband. The husband's body was found in a chest -- now the question is: who put it there?...

  • Peril at End House

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 8

    The Majestic Hotel seems the ideal retreat for Hercule Poirot--until he meets lovely Nick Buckley. She's the last of a long line of Buckleys inhabiting End House, an imposing estate perched in isolation on the rocky cliffs of St. Loo. And a lucky Buc...

  • The Thirteen Problems // The Tuesday Club Murders // Thirteen at Dinner

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    Miss Marple Mysteries - 1.02

    BANQUET OF FEAR They all came together in the old mansion on a dark winter night . . . the brilliant Scotland Yard detective . . . the honored old clergyman . . . the dazzling woman artist . . . the celebrated lawyer ... the handsome young writer ...

  • The Second Gong

    Lytcham Close, one of the oldest stately homes in England, is owned by the last remaining heir and ruled by his intolerable whims. Old Hubert demands complete silence when he plays music and times dinner exactly by a resounding gong. Rushing down at ...

  • The Case of the City Clerk

    Parker Pyne - 3

    Previously published in the print anthology Parker Pine Investigates.Plans for England’s new submarine have been stolen from the aspiring Prime Minister. Hercule Poirot is summoned to crack the case, but none of the witnesses’ accounts are the sa...

  • The Case of the Discontented Husband

    Parker Pyne - 4

    Previously published in the print anthology Parker Pine Investigates.Reginald Wade goes to Parker Pyne when he learns that his wife has decided to leave him for another man. Reggie’s only hope is that his wife has declared a six-month grace period....

  • The Case of the Discontented Soldier

    Parker Pyne - 1

    When civilian life proves too dull for Major Wilbrahams, he contacts Parker Pyne to escape his boredom. Pyne's assistant arranges a chance meeting with the beautiful Freda Clegg and the two join forces, but on leaving for Africa they encounter more t...

  • The Case of the Distressed Lady

    Parker Pyne - 2

    Previously published in the print anthology Parker Pine Investigates.Daphne St. John enlists Parker Pyne’s aid. She must return a valuable diamond she stole to pay off gambling debts. Now, repenting her rash act, Daphne needs help to return the dia...

  • The Case of the Rich Woman

    Parker Pyne - 5

    Previously published in the print anthology Parker Pine Investigates.Mrs. Abner Rymer needs help from Parker Pyne. She may be a rich widow, but she’s been shunned by her friends and is very lonely. After Pyne takes her to see Dr. Constantine, an Or...

  • The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife

    Parker Pyne - 6

    Maria Packington suspects her husband of having an affair. In an attempt to revitalize her marriage, she responds to an ad from Mr. Parker Pyne--who promises to provide solutions to unhappiness. Maria's life soon undergoes a rapid transformation…...

  • Lord Edgware Dies // Thirteen at Dinner

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 9

    Jane Wilkinson was once America's darling of the stage. Today she is better known as the unfaithful wife of eccentric Lord Edgware. Unfortunately, her confidential admission to Hercule Poirot that she'd do anything to escape her miserable marriage co...

  • Death on the Nile

    Colonel Race - 3
    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 16
    Parker Pyne - 10

    Linnet Doyle is young, beautiful, and rich. She's the girl who has everything--including the man her best friend loves. Linnet and her new husband take a cruise on the Nile, where they meet the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot It should be an idyll...

  • The Gate of Baghdad

    Parker Pyne - 8

    Just as boredom is setting in on his long trip by motor coach across the desert to Baghdad, Mr. Parker Pyne reads about the case of the missing Mr. Long, the famous defaulting financier who, as the papers would have it, is in South America. Another m...

  • The House at Shiraz

    Parker Pyne - 9

    Mr. Parker Pyne is having trouble trying to get to Beirut, what with his rusty linguistic skills and the less-than-comfortable travelling arrangements. But, with the help of a German pilot, Herr Schlagel, he is soon able to get his bearings. Herr Sch...

  • The Oracle at Delphi

    Parker Pyne - 11

    Previously published in the print anthology Parker Pine Investigates.Parker Pyne is traveling incognito under the name of Mr. Thompson. In Delphi, he learns that someone calling himself Parker Pyne is being consulted by Mrs. Peters, who refers to him...

  • Have You Got Everything You Want?

    Parker Pyne - 7

    Elsie Jeffries, married for eighteen months to successful businessman Edward Jeffries, meets Parker Pyne by chance on the Simplon-Orient Express. She has seen Pyne’s advertisements and feels he may be able to help her. She tells Pyne she has seen a...

  • The Pearl of Price

    Parker Pyne - 12

    A party of tourists is traveling from Amman to a camp in Petra. The group includes an American magnate and his daughter Carol. When Carol loses one of her earrings, Jim Hurst, an ex-convict, becomes a prime suspect. But is he really guilty, and can P...

  • The Call of Wings

    One frosty evening, millionaire hedonist Silas Hamer is gripped with a sudden fear of his own mortality. He encounters a man who he believes has triggered his spiritual awakening....

  • The Fourth Man

    A cleric, a lawyer, and a psychiatrist find themselves together on a train bound for Newcastle. There is a fourth man in the compartment, who apparently pays no attention to his companions' animated conversation. But do they have something to learn f...

  • The Gipsy

    Dickie Carpenter has a phobia of gipsies stemming from a terrifying childhood encounter. When his fears come back to haunt him, should he be frightened, or could a gipsy prove to be his salvation?...

  • The Gypsy

  • The Lamp

    Thirty years ago, a house was inhabited by a man and his young son. One day the man traveled to London, was recognized as a criminal, and shot himself. What ever happened to the boy?...

  • The Mystery of the Blue Jar

    Every morning at the same hour on the golf course, Jack Hartington hears mysterious cries for help coming from a cottage. He speaks to the resident and learns that she has unsettling dreams of a woman with a blue Chinese vase. Believing that the crie...

  • The Red Signal

    At a séance, Sir Alington, a venerable expert of the mental condition, is pestered by Mrs. Eversleigh about the importance of the sixth sense. Soon, a young man named Dermot is drawn in and tells them both about the sixth sense he experiences, a red...

  • S.O.S.

    Previously published in the print anthology The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories.One rainy night on the Wiltshire Downs, the Dinsmeads' evening meal is interrupted by a stranger. Mortimer Cleveland enters their lives when his car breaks ...

  • The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael

    Previously published in the print anthology The Golden Ball and Other Stories.When Sir Arthur Carmichael, the young and healthy heir to a large estate, starts behaving strangely, psychiatrist Edward Carstairs is summoned to assess the situation. Sir ...

  • Wireless // Where There's a Will

    Wealthy Mrs. Harter has a heart condition. Her nephew, Charles, who lives with her, buys her a radio for amusement, but strange messages come from it. Could her dead husband really be sending her messages? And why is he warning that her life is in da...

  • The Witness for the Prosecution

    An Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Hound of Death and Other Stories. 1920s London. A murder, brutal and bloodthirsty, has stained the plush carpets of a handsome London townhouse. The victim is the glamorous and enormously rich...

  • The Hound of Death

    An Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Hound of Death and Other Stories. A young Englishman visiting Cornwall finds himself delving into the legend of a Belgian nun who is living as a refugee in the village. Possessed of supernatur...

  • The Last Seance

    Raoul Daubreuil insists his fiancée give up her activities as a talented and successful medium when they marry. However, he agrees to attend what is to be her last séance -- with Madame Exe. But even Raoul can't foresee the tragedy ahead....

  • Murder on the Orient Express // Murder in the Calais Coach

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 10

    En route to Paris, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot has booked winter passage on the fabled Orient Express. Among the curious assortment of fellow passengers, one wealthy American holds a unique distinction: He has been found dead of multiple stab wo...

  • Three Act Tragedy // Murder in Three Acts

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 11

    The Reverend Stephen Babbington seldom imbibed, but for the glittering soiree given by renowned actor Sir Charles Cartwright, he indulged in a cocktail .. .and fell over dead. Since there was no trace of poison and no motive for murder, the case was ...

  • Why Didn't They Ask Evans? // The Boomerang Clue

    It started when a false step from a misty footpath sent a mysterious stranger plummeting to his death. How was Bobby Jones to know that witnessing the dying man's last words--"Why didn't they ask Evans?"--would send him on a death-defying chase? Bobb...

  • Unfinished Portrait

    A STUNNING NOVEL OF DEATH AND DESTINY 'In Celia we have more nearly than anywhere else a portrait of Agatha' Max Mallowan Bereft of the three people she has held most dear -- her mother, her husband and her daughter -- Celia is on the ...

  • Accident

    Visiting the country, retired Inspector Evans meets Mrs. Marrowdene. Could she be the same woman he once suspected of murdering her husband? And what are her plans for her new spouse?...

  • A Fruitful Sunday

    Previously published in the print anthology The Golden Ball and Other Stories.Edward Palgrove has saved up to buy a small car, which he and his fiancée, Dorothy Pratt, are both proud of. But neither one is prepared for the journey it will take them ...

  • The Girl in the Train

    Previously published in the print anthology The Golden Ball and Other Stories.George Rowland, a bored playboy, disowned for the seventh time by his wealthy uncle, is on the train to London. When a beautiful girl bursts into his compartment, frantical...

  • The Golden Ball

    Is it a gesture of good will or a sinister trap that lures Rupert St. Vincent and his family to a magnificent estate? How desperate is Joyce Lambert, a destitute young widow whose only recourse is to marry a man she despises? What unexpected circu...

  • Jane in Search of a Job

    Jane Cleveland is in desperate need of a job, and when she sees an ad for a woman of her description needed to impersonate a grand duchess, she cannot believe her luck. The royal retainers tell Jane that the job will be dangerous because attempts hav...

  • The Listerdale Mystery

    A classic Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Golden Ball and Other Stories.After Mr St Vincent’s death, his family are plunged into poverty. Living in reduced circumstances their lives change when they find an elegant town house wi...

  • The Manhood of Edward Robinson

    Sane and sensible Edward Robinson secretly dreams of fast cars, adventurous women, and danger, but his fiancée, Maud, keeps him grounded in reality. When Edward wins money in a newspaper competition, he immediately buys the sleek red car of his drea...

  • Mr. Eastwood's Adventure // The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl

    Mystery writer Anthony Eastwood is lured to the crime scene of a faked murder, where two individuals masquerading as police officers arrest him and charge him for murder. As the phony police officers escort Mr. Eastwood home, the true goal of the mas...

  • Philomel Cottage

    The recently married Alix Martin is obsessed with a recurring dream of her new husband’s murder. Each time she can see the murderer clearly, and it’s the mild-mannered man she had previously been engaged to, taking his revenge. But, what’s wors...

  • The Rajah's Emerald

    James has found himself at the fashionable resort Kimpton-on-Sea, all due to the persuasion of his girlfriend Grace, who during the last few months of their courtship has become more difficult to deal with. Among the upper echelons of society, includ...

  • Sing a Song of Sixpence

    Great Aunt Lily Crabtree has been brutally murdered. Members of the family are under suspicion -- but who is the guilty party? ...

  • Swan Song

    Previously published in the print anthology The Golden Ball and Other Stories.Famed soprano Paula Nazorkoff is invited to give a private performance at Rustonbury Castle. She accepts, since the castle is close to the home of the world-famous retired ...

  • In a Glass Darkly

    Miss Marple Mysteries - 1.03

  • Parker Pyne Investigates // Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective

    Parker Pyne

    The personal ad posed a simple question: Are you happy? If not, consult Mr. Parker Pyne. The answer is a resounding no for a jealous wife who suspects her husband of infidelity...for a lonely widow driven to assume a new identity...for a distraught m...

  • Poirot and the Regatta Mystery

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 12.5

    Available for the first time in the U.S., this retelling of “The Regatta Mystery” features Hercule Poirot at his finest. A diamond merchant and his party step off their yacht to enjoy the festivities at shore. But when the youngest member of the ...

  • How Does Your Garden Grow?

    in Garden of Deadly Delights

    A DAZZLING BOUQUET OF MYSTERY AND MURDER Here, amid the lush, heady beauty of a garden setting, everything's coming up roses...or turning up corpses. Focusing on crime that flourishes amid the flora, this blooming collection of 19 tales provides m...

  • Death in the Clouds // Death in the Air

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    It was a most extraordinary case. A woman murdered with the venom-dipped dart of a South African blow-gun on a routine flight over the English Channel. More bizarre still: that the killing could go completely unnoticed by the plane's other passengers...

  • Problem at Pollensa Bay

    Parker Pyne - 13

    An Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories.Parker Pyne is on holiday at the Hotel Pino D’Oro on the island of Mallorca. Unfortunately also staying at the hotel are two fellow British guests, Mrs. Adela ...

  • Cards on the Table

    Colonel Race - 2
    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 15
    Superintendant Battle - 3

    DEATH HELD THE TRUMPS A game of bridge in which all four players were successful murderers . . . a corpse that sat by the fireplace while the game went on . . . a score card that might contain the only clue to a cunning killer .. . And Hercule ...

  • The A.B.C. Murders

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 13

    "Mr. Hercule Poirot -- you fancy yourself, don't you, at solving mysteries that are too difficult for our poor thick-headed British police? Let us see, Mr. Clever Poirot, just how clever you can be." Was the anonymous note a brilliant challenge or a ...

  • Murder in Mesopotamia

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 14

    At the request of archaeologist Dr. Eric Leidner, Amy Leatheran has accepted a position as companion to his wife, Louise, a woman prone to "nervous terrors"--and in need of a confidante. She's found one in Amy. But what is the young nurse to make of ...

  • The Regatta Mystery

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries
    Parker Pyne - 14

    There's a body in a trunk, a dead girl's reflection caught in a mirror, one corpse back from the grave, and another envisioned in the recurring nightmare of a terrified eccentric. What's behind such ghastly misdeeds? Try money, revenge, passion, and ...

  • The Incredible Theft

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 18.2

    Previously published in the print anthology Murder in the Mews: Four Cases of Hercule Poirot. When the specifications for a new bomber plane are stolen, the Air Marshal enlists Hercule Poirot to help him find the culprit. ...

  • Triangle at Rhodes

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 18.4

    October on the island of Rhodes is a veritable paradise of privacy, beauty, and calm -- or so Hercule Poirot has imagined. The reality is quite different, as the arrival of famed Chanel beauty Valentine Chantry causes a ripple of malice to be felt ac...

  • Dumb Witness // Poirot Loses a Client

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 17

    At first Hercule Poirot found Miss Emily's letter quite typical--a dramatic, somewhat hysterical appeal for confidential assistance. What piqued Poirot's interest was that it was dated two months prior. Who would wait so long to postmark a life-and...

  • Murder in the Mews

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 18.1

    Agatha Christie’s classic Murder in the Mews presents a mystifying criminal conundrum that will seriously test the superior detecting skills of the unflappable Hercule Poirot.Barbara appears to have committed suicide while her flatmate was away for...

  • Dead Man's Mirror

    in Dead Man's Mirror and Other Stories
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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 18.3

    Three On A Match ...is never lucky, especially when Hercule Poirot is involved. And this time the indomitable master sleuth is involved with a terrifying trio of deaths. There is the bizarre aristocrat found dead in the locked study of his isolated ...

  • Appointment With Death

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 19

    You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?" Ominous words for Hercule Poirot to overhear on his first night of vacation in the Holy Land. They come true when a tourist is murdered in full view of her fellow sightseers. And not surprising....

  • Hercule Poirot's Christmas // Murder for Christmas // A Holdiay for Murder

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 20

    On the night before Christmas, cruel, tyrannical, filthy rich Simeon Lee is found in his locked bedroom with his throat cut Now Hercule Poirot must put his deductive powers to the test to solve one of his most chilling cases--and to prevent a clever ...

  • The Dream

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 20.5

    Hercule Poirot is reluctant to answer a letter demanding his services by the reclusive and eccentric millionaire Benedict Farley. Farley wants him to diagnose his recurring dream of death, in which he shoots himself at precisely 3:28 p.m. Then, a wee...

  • Miss Marple Tells a Story

    Miss Marple Mysteries - 1.04

    There's a body in a trunk; a dead girl's reflection is caught in a mirror; and one corpse is back from the grave, while another is envisioned in the recurring nightmare of a terrified eccentric. What's behind such ghastly misdeeds? Try money, revenge...

  • Problem at Sea

    Poirot is undergoing the trial of a sea voyage to Egypt, supposedly as a holiday. Not enjoying one bit the motion of the waves, he joins in the conversations of the other passengers. Among them is a General Forbes who is angrily dismissive of a man w...

  • Yellow Iris

    An alarming telephone call, in which the phrases “it’s life and death” and “the table with the yellow irises” are whispered, causes Hercule Poirot to rush to the luxuriant restaurant Jardin des Cygnes, desperate to stop an impending murder ...

  • Ten Little N*gers // Ten Little Indians // And Then There Were None

    First, there were ten -- a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a little private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in ...

  • Murder Is Easy

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    A quiet English village is plagued by a fiendish serial killer in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie’s classic thriller, Murder is Easy.Luke Fitzwilliam does not believe Miss Pinkerton’s wild allegation that a multiple murderer is at work in the qu...

  • Easy to Kill

    Agatha Christie's ingenious murder mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Luke Fitzwilliam could not believe Miss Pinkerton's wild allegation that a mu...

  • And Then There Were None

    Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon by the mysterious U.N.Owen. Over dinner, a record begins to play, and the voice of an unseen host accuses each person of hiding a guilty secret. Th...

  • One, Two, Buckle My Shoe // Patriotic Murders // An Overdose of Death

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 21

    It was shortly after his 12:30 appointment that Dr. Morley was found with a bullet through his right temple. The gun was on the floor beside him. The authorities were satisfied that the amiable old dentist had shot himself. Hercule Poirot was not. Bu...

  • Sad Cypress

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 22

    Cousins by marriage and lovers by inclination, Roddy and Elinor were the ideal match. He loathed any display of emotion, while she was composed at all times. Then they got an anonymous letter warning that their rich Aunt Laura was thinking of cutting...

  • The Case of the Caretaker

    Miss Marple Mysteries - 1.05

    Doctor Haydock, the resident GP of St. Mary Mead, hopes to cheer up Miss Marple as she recovers from the flu with a little story. The tale revolves around the return of the prodigal son of Major Laxton, the devilishly handsome Harry Laxton. Harry, af...

  • Four and Twenty Blackbirds

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 23.5

    Hercule Poirot is about to tuck into a very traditional English supper with his old friend Bonnington when a lone diner sparks his interest. Like clockwork, the man has eaten at the restaurant on Thursdays and Tuesdays for the last ten years, but no ...

  • Evil Under the Sun

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 23

    When lovely Arlena Marshall was found strangled at the Jolly Roger Hotel, her fellow guests at the posh English resort were shocked--but not surprised. After all, the notorious beauty had lived for passion. What was more natural than that she shoul...

  • N or M?

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    "N OR M?" The final words of a dying man ... the code names of Hitler's most dangerous agents ...the elusive clue that sends that elegant detective team, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, to a fashionable seaside resort on a mission of wartime intelli...

  • Strange Jest // The Case of the Buried Treasure

    Miss Marple Mysteries - 1.07

    Miss Marple is accosted at a party by a pair of lovebirds who think that a lately deceased uncle has buried their inheritance. The naïve pair expects Miss Marple to instantaneously summon forth where the buried treasure is. But, this careful observe...

  • The Tape-Measure Murder

    Miss Marple Mysteries - 1.06

    Miss Politt has been waiting and waiting outside Laburnum Cottage for Mrs. Spenlow, to no avail. She nervously acquires the help of her next-door neighbor, whose gumption and persistence reveal that Mrs. Spenlow is dead on the hearthrug. The whole of...

  • Five Little Pigs // Murder in Retrospect

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 24

    Poirot Perplexed Hercule Poirot had never faced a problem as thorny as this one. He had to find out who savagely hated a man whose work the world loved. He had to prove the innocence of a woman already convicted of murder. He had to make sense of ...

  • The Body in the Library

    Miss Marple Mysteries - 2

    The iconic Miss Marple must investigate the case of a girl found dead in Agatha Christie’s classic mystery, The Body in the LibraryIt’s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing an e...

  • The Case of the Perfect Maid = The Maid Who Disappeared

    Miss Marple Mysteries - 2.01

    When her maid asks Miss Marple to intervene in the delicate problem of her rather opinionated cousin Gladys, she doesn’t think much can be done. Poor Gladys has been accused of stealing a precious brooch belonging to her employers, the reserved Mis...

  • The Moving Finger

    Miss Marple Mysteries - 3

    The placid village of Lymstock seemed the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his accident under the care of his sister, Joanna. Then the poison pen letter arrived, viciously alleging illicit sexual activity between Jerry and Joanna. Ev...

  • Death Comes As the End

    In Death Comes As the End, Dame Agatha Christie transports us back to ancient Egypt 2000 B.C. where a priest’s daughter, investigating a suspicious death, uncovers an asp’s nest of jealousy, betrayal, and serial murder.It is Egypt in 2000 BC, whe...

  • Towards Zero

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    THIS MASTERPIECE OF MURDER brings violent death to a woman who in life never harmed anyone. She didn't even have time to yell before the heavy golf club shattered her skull. All the evidence pointed in one direction--unpremeditated violence. Eve...

  • Absent in the Spring

    Returning from a visit to her daughter in Iraq, Joan Scudamore finds herself unexpectedly alone and stranded in an isolated rest house by flooding of the railway tracks. This sudden solitude compels Joan to assess her life for the first time ever an...

  • Sparkling Cyanide // Remembered Death

    Colonel Race - 4

    It had all started at Rosemary's birthday party. Six guests saw her take a glass of champagne--and die. At first they said suicide. Then they began to remember things: her passionate letter to a mysterious lover, handsome Anthony Browne's threats, an...

  • The Hollow // Murder After Hours

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 25

    RECIPE FOR MURDER All the ingredients were there. An isolated English country house. A hostess with a taste for staging cruel human dramas. A guest list selected for a perfect blending of love, illicit passion, and burning hate. And as the piece d...

  • Come, Tell Me How You Live

    Agatha Christie Mallowan's memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan Agatha Christie was already well known as a crime writer when she accompanied her husband, Max Mallowan, to Syria and ...

  • The Labours of Hercules // The Labors of Hercules

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 26

    In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet--reasoned the detective--like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters. So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Po...

  • Three Blind Mice

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 27

    TRAPPED IN TERROR It began with a singularly brutal murder in London...and with a note that read: This is the first, with a drawing that showed three mice...and an oddly familiar bar of music. Of course that was London for you--a locale far remo...

  • Taken at the Flood // There is a Tide

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 28

    Warmsley Vale. To all appearances, it was just another sleepy English village shaken up by a series of bizarre coincidences ...or were they cunningly deliberate crimes? A young bride--just two weeks a widow--was made sole heir to an enormous fortune....

  • Crooked House

    The rich old man was dead. Who in his sumptuous household had poisoned him? His young wife--now richer than ever and fancy free? His sons--now cut off without a shilling? His granddaughters--now very likely to come into an inheritance? Or his ...

  • The Mousetrap and Other Stories

    Agatha Christie created magnificent works of suspense for the theater, and eight of her riveting stage dramas are collected in The Mousetrap and Other Plays -- including the title piece, the longest running play in history, still a smash hit in Londo...

  • A Murder Is Announced

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    Miss Marple Mysteries - 4

    The date was advertised in the Gazette: A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks, at 6 :30 P.m. Friends please accept this, the only intimation. Everyone thought it was a harmless game. And so on th...

  • The Adventure of the King of Clubs

    The Oglander family was playing bridge in the drawing room of their house in Streatham last night when the French windows burst open and a woman staggered in, blood on her dress. She managed to say, "Murder " and then collapsed. The family fetched bo...

  • The Adventures of the King of Clubs

    The Oglander family was playing bridge in the drawing room of their house in Streatham when the French windows burst open and a woman staggered in, blood on her dress. She managed to say, "Murder!" and then collapsed. Hercule Poirot is called...

  • The Affair at the Victory Ball

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries

    Chief Inspector Japp asks Poirot to assist Scotland Yard in the strange events which took place at a recent costumed Victory Ball. A group of six people, headed by the young Viscount Cronshaw, attended dressed in the costume of the Commedia dell'arte...

  • The King of Clubs

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries

    A dead heiress on a train, a murdered recluse, a wealthy playboy slain at a costume ball are but a few of the unfortunate victims of confounding crimes committed in the pages of Agatha Christie’s The Under Dog and Other Stories, a superio...

  • The Market Basing Mystery

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries

    At Japp's suggestion Poirot and Hastings joined him for the weekend in the small countryside town of Market Basing. Enjoying Sunday breakfast, the three are interrupted when the local constable requested Japp's help. Walter Protheroe, the reclusive o...

  • The Mystery of the Plymouth Express

    Chief Inspector Japp asks Poirot to assist Scotland Yard in the strange events which took place at a recent costumed Victory Ball....

  • The Submarine Plans

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries

    Poirot is summoned urgently by special messenger late at night to 'Sharples', the home of Lord Alloway, head of the Ministry of Defence and a potential future Prime Minister. Travelling there with Hastings, he is introduced by their host to Admiral S...

  • They Came to Baghdad

    She fell head over heels for the charming young man one afternoon. And by nightfall, Victoria Jones had conspired to follow him to Baghdad. But no daydream of love could match the real life adventure that unfolded: a stranger was stabbed in her bed, ...

  • They Do It With Mirrors // Murder With Mirrors

    Miss Marple Mysteries - 5

    Responding to her friend Carrie's urgent invitation, Miss Jane Marple has arrived at her sprawling estate. To Miss Marple's surprise, Carrie's remote "Gothic monstrosity" has been turned into a home for delinquent boys. What's more, Carrie's own ch...

  • Mrs. McGinty's Dead

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 29

    Train Coming! Hercule Poirot leaned forward to look. Yes, the train was coming at last. Then suddenly he felt a hard purposeful shove in the small of his back... . Hercule Poirot had come too close to a killer. Now he was marked for death. He h...

  • A Pocket Full of Rye

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    The shocking thing about Rex Fortescue's murder was that the contemptible tycoon wasn't knocked off sooner. But when two less-deserving souls fall victim to the killer, Miss Jane Marple is engaged to detect. The only link appears to be buried in a no...

  • Funerals Are Fatal // After the Funeral // Murder at the Gallop

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 30

    BETTER OFF DEAD! Richard Abernethie was dead, but none of his quarrelsome relatives was particularly sorry. They were certainly better off. For Richard's will made them all extremely rich! But at the funeral a strange thing happened. Aunt Cora,...

  • Destination Unknown // So Many Steps to Death

    Lovely red-haired Hilary Craven wanted to die. The sleeping pills were ready on her bedside table, when a knock sounded on the hotel-room door... . With that knock, and the entrance of a cheerful, owlish young man, her plans for self-imposed death...

  • Spider's Web

    A classic from the original queen of mystery: Agatha Christie....

  • Hickory Dickory Dock // Hickory Dickory Death

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 31

    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 s...

  • Dead Man's Folly

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 32

    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 ...

  • Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly

    Never before published -- the lost classic, unseen for sixty years! A party game goes dead wrong in this ingenious mystery from the most beloved novelist of all time. Hercule Poirot, the world's favorite detective, has agreed to take part in a moc...

  • The 4:50 From Paddington // What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw

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    SHE WAS THE ONLY WITNESS TO A MURDER! Standing with his back to her was a man. His hands were around a woman's throat. He was slowly, relentlessly strangling her. As Mrs. McGillicuddy watched, fascinated, the end came. The body went limp and c...

  • Ordeal by Innocence

    Dr. Arthur Calgary, the one man who could prove Jack Argyle's innocence, came forward at last--too late to save the young man convicted of the brutal murder at Sunny Point. Now Calgary is determined to clear Jack's name .. . But if Jack didn't kil...

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 33

    "YOU SEEM TO HAVE EXPLANATIONS FOR EVERYTHING, M. POIROT!" "That," said Inspector Kelsey with a slightly malicious smile, "is his specialty." And fortunate it was that M. Poirot had been called in on the case. Three people were already dead. ...

  • The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

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    First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding... then the discovery of corpse in chest...next, an overheard quarrel that led to murder... the strange case of the of the dead man who altered his eating habits... and the puzzle of...

  • Greenshaw's Folly

    Miss Marple Mysteries - 7.01

    The lady of the house at Greenshaw’s Folly is murdered in the midst of drawing up her will....

  • The Mystery of the Spanish Chest

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries

    Major Hastings and Hercule Poirot are not interested in the mystery of the Spanish Chest, which has been reported in the papers so often that it seems to be an entirely closed case. But, when Hastings persuades Poirot to attend a fabulous party given...

  • The Theft of the Royal Ruby

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries

    A priceless ruby is stolen from a Far Eastern prince while he is in England. The ruby is intended for the prince's bride-to-be, and Hercule Poirot must find it before a scandal erupts....

  • The Double Clue

    Poirot is called in by Marcus Hardman, a collector of various antique precious objects, to investigate a jewel robbery. The theft occurred from his safe when he was holding a small tea party at his house. He showed his guests his collection of mediev...

  • Double Sin

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries

    A BLOOD-RED RUBY... A WASP'S NEST OF FEAR... A MANSION MADE FOR MURDER... confront that suave master sleuth, Hercule Poirot, and the inimitable Miss Jane Marple, as they match wits with as cunning and deadly a killing crew as Agatha Christie has e...

  • The Dressmaker's Doll

    Miss Marple Mysteries - 7.03

    Previously published in the print anthology The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories.Alicia Coombe manages her very smart dressmaking business with the help of her young assistant, Sybil. One day, a doll appears in the shop -- a floppy, long...

  • Sanctuary

    Miss Marple Mysteries - 7.02

    Bunch, engrossed in her flower arrangements for the church, is placing the chrysanthemums when she sees a man crumpled over on the chancel steps, dying. The man can only utter one word, “sanctuary.” No one at the vicarage understands what he mean...

  • Wasps' Nest

    Sitting on the garden terrace of his large house on a summer evening, John Harrison is delighted to receive an unexpected visit from Hercule Poirot. The detective tells him that he is in the locality to investigate a murder but amazes Harrison by adm...

  • The Pale Horse

    Father Gorman tucked the list of names the dying woman had given him into his shoe. Then on his way home, Father Gorman was himself murdered. But the police found the list and when Mack Easterbrook came to investigate, he discovered a chilling and ...

  • Thirteen for Luck

    LUCK for the avid followers of Miss Christie's quartet of sleuths: the suave Hercule Poirot, the determined Miss Marple, the unflappable Harley Quin and the indomitable Mr. Parker Pyne. LUCK but not good--for the most fascinating collection of m...

  • The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

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    At her Victorian mansion in St. Mary Mead, Marina Gregg received her visitors like a queen holding court. Moments later, one of her guests was dead -- poisoned. Was it murder by mistake? The fading film star's tumultuous past featured an abundant ...

  • The Clocks

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 35

    Four strange clocks appeared in old Miss Pebmarsh's living room. Who had brought them, and why? A strange man had also appeared--and he was very dead....

  • A Caribbean Mystery

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    Miss Marple Mysteries - 9

    Frail Jane Marple, recovering from a bout of pneumonia, is basking In the warm West Indian sunshine. But she isn't as content as she thinks she ought to be. The scenery is beautiful, yet every day seems the same. Then her new acquaintance, Major Palg...

  • Surprise! Surprise!

    FIRST-CLASS TICKET Hercule Poirot boards a bus and goes to the aid of a beauty in a beastly predicament. Miss Jane Marple cycles into a viper's nest of danger and intrigue. Mr. Parker Pyne takes a train to a mansion where a dance of diabolic...

  • At Bertram's Hotel

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    Miss Marple Mysteries - 10

    Miss Jane Marple loved to stay at Bertram's Hotel. It was as dignified, unobtrusive, and quietly elegant as Miss Marple herself--until murder paid an unexpected visit....

  • In the Cool of the Evening

    With Star Over Bethlehem, the beloved Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie shines in a totally unexpected way, offering readers a wondrous collection of poems and holiday short stories.A retelling of the Christmas Story in a way you’ve never heard...

  • The Island

    With Star Over Bethlehem, the beloved Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie shines in a totally unexpected way, offering readers a wondrous collection of poems and holiday short stories.A retelling of the Christmas Story in a way you’ve never heard...

  • The Naughty Donkey

    With Star Over Bethlehem, the beloved Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie shines in a totally unexpected way, offering readers a wondrous collection of poems and holiday short stories.A retelling of the Christmas Story in a way you’ve never heard...

  • Promotion in the Highest

    With Star Over Bethlehem, the beloved Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie shines in a totally unexpected way, offering readers a wondrous collection of poems and holiday short stories.A retelling of the Christmas Story in a way you’ve never heard...

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    With Star Over Bethlehem, the world’s bestselling author shines in a totally unexpected way, offering readers a wondrous collection of poems and holiday short stories. ...

  • The Water Bus

    With Star Over Bethlehem, the beloved Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie shines in a totally unexpected way, offering readers a wondrous collection of poems and holiday short stories.A retelling of the Christmas Story in a way you’ve never heard...

  • Third Girl

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 35

    From her tousled appearance to her perplexed stare, there was so much about the young girl that struck Hercule Poirot as peculiar. But it was her vague confession to a possible murder she's not even sure she committed that really threw the Belgian de...

  • Thirteen Clues for Miss Marple

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    Suddenly...Murder! A sea captain whose brides habitually make him a widower...a last will and testament bound up in a riddle...a beautiful woman with a haunting secret...a brother and sister caught in a web of evil...a proper evening meal where th...

  • Endless Night

    The people of Kingston Bishop said that anyone who owned Gipsy's Acre was courting sorrow and danger...was buying death... But Mike and Ellie were in love. They would build their house on Gipsy's Acre, and their bright happiness would banish its ...

  • By the Pricking of My Thumbs

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    Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries - 4

    There was nothing remarkable about Mrs. Lancaster's departure from the Sunny Ridge establishment for elderly ladies. Except for the painting she left behind--and a single, disturbing question that echoed in Tuppence Beresford's mind... Tommy and ...

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    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 36

    "I saw a murder once!" Joyce boasted. "I did, I did!" But who at the Hallowe'en party would believe a thirteen-year-old with a reputation for lying? Later that night Joyce was found kneeling beside a bucket of bobbing apples...

  • A Haunting in Venice

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 41

    Inspiration for the major motion picture A Haunting in Venice, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, coming in 2023!In this authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, a Halloween Party turns deadly, and it falls to Hercule Poirot to unmask a m...

  • Passenger to Frankfurt

    Sir Stafford Nye suffered from a somewhat dubious reputation among his colleagues in the upper reaches of the Foreign Office--not from a lack of loyalty but from a lack of seriousness. But only such a man could reist the spell of the charismatic figu...

  • The Harlequin Tea Set

    in The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories
    Mr. Harlequin Quin - 14

    A priceless treasure for collectors and fans, The Harlequin Tea Set brings together nine brilliant Christie stories that have remained long out of print--until now. In "The Mystery of the Spanish Chest," featuring Hercule Poirot, the legendary detec...

  • Nemesis

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    Miss Marple Mysteries - 11

    Nemesis -- one who inflicts retribution or justice -- seems an odd name for an elderly, rather frail woman. But not if that old lady is the formidable Miss Jane Marple. Soon after the death of financier Rafiel, the man who'd called her by that na...

  • Elephants Can Remember

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 37

    Elephants Can Remember signals the return of two of Agatha Christie's greatest creations, Mrs. Ariadne Oliver and Hercule Poirot, as this matchless pair follow a twisting trail of guilt and terror to a shocking crime committed long ago and a diabolic...

  • My Flower Garden

    Poetry...

  • Remembrance

  • Postern of Fate

    Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries - 5

    Mary Jordan did not die naturally. Underlined words in a children's book spell out a chilling message. And a dangerous trail of clues leads inexorably to a long-ago murder in Agatha Christie's renowned thriller. This intriguing mystery is concocted f...

  • Hercule Poirot's Early Cases: Antology

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 38

    Captain Hastings recounts 18 of Poirot's early cases from the days before he was famous...Hercule Poirot delighted in telling people that he was probably the best detective in the world. So turning back the clock to trace eighteen of the cases wh...

  • Poirot's Early Cases: Antology

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 38

    Captain Hastings recounts 18 of Poirot's early cases from the days before he was famous...Hercule Poirot delighted in telling people that he was probably the best detective in the world. So turning back the clock to trace eighteen of the cases which ...

  • Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries - 39

    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 Her...

  • Sleeping Murder

    Miss Marple Mysteries - 12

    A young bride, sent by her husband to look for a suitable house, finds the one that seems meant for her, a charming Victorian villa called Hillside. It's all so perfect -- until she begins to fear the house might be haunted. But Miss Jane Marpl...

  • Starring Miss Marple // The Invincible Miss Marple

    in Starring Miss Marple

  • Miss Marple's Final Cases

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  • The Scoop: At the Inquest

  • Hercule Poirot's Casebook // Hercule Poirot's Complete Short Stories

    Hercule Poirot Mysteries

    :Here for the first time in one volume, is the complete collection of fifty stories about Hercule Poirot. The shrewd detective with the egg-shaped head and the enormous black mustaches was created by one of the great storytellers of the world. Only s...

  • Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories

    Miss Marple : The Complete Short Stories: The Tuesday Night Club -- The Idol House of Astarte -- Ingots of Gold -- The Bloodstained Pavement -- Motive v. Opportunity -- The Thumbmark of St. Peter -- The Blue Geranium -- The Companion -- The Four Susp...

  • Miss Marple Investigates: Anthology

    Contains: "The Case of the Perfect Maid" "The Case of the Caretaker" "The Tape Measure Murder" "Strange Jest"...

  • Three Puzzles for Poirot: Anthology

    in Three Puzzles for Poirot

    Third girl + Poirot Loses a Client + Funerals Are Fatal...

  • Murders Abroad: Five Complete Novels

    in Murders Abroad

    Murderers Abroad: Five Complete Novels: They Came to Baghdad Murder in Mesopotamia The Mystery of the Blue Train Passenger to Frankfurt So Many Steps to Death...

  • On the Case With Inspector Poirot

  • The Burden

    A SUPERB NOVEL OF POSSESSIVE LOVE 'Sometimes you haven't the right currency. And then someone else has to pay...' Agatha Christie Laura Franklin bitterly resented the arrival of her younger sister Shirley, an enchanting baby loved ...

  • The Rose and the Yew Tree

    A CAPTIVATING NOVEL OF LOVE AND INTRIGUE Everyone expected Isabell Charteris, beautiful, sheltered and aristocratic, to marry her cousin Rupert when he came back from the War. It would have been such a suitable marriage. How strange that John Ga...

  • The Mysterious Affair at Styles and The Murder on the Links

    THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES: Someone has poisoned wealthy Emily Inglethorp. But who? And how? Everyone suspects Emily's young husband, Alfred ... and Alfred seems to be actually trying to get arrested and charged. But why? And why did Emily draw ...

  • The Plymouth Express Affair

    Hercule Poirot is on the case in this early adventure by Agatha Christie. A young woman has been found dead on a train, with robbery of her jewels seen as the primary motive. Her wealthy American father asks the famed Belgian detective to solve the m...

  • The Grey Cells of Mr. Poirot

    Agatha Christie was an English mystery novel and short story writer, and playwright. Her enduring works include 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, especially those featuring the two recurring characters of Hercule Poirot and Miss Mar...

  • Publicity

    “Publicity,” the first in a series of 12 mystery stories featuring Tommy & Tuppence, was originally published in the The Sketch on September 24, 1924. These tales were billed “Tommy and Tuppence -- A Detective Series by Agatha Christie” a...

  • Midwinter Murder

    An all-new collection of winter-themed mysteries from the master of the genre, just in time for the holidays. There's a chill in the air and the days are growing shorter... It's the perfect time to curl up in front of a crackling fireplace...

  • Midsummer Mysteries

    Agatha Christie’s most famous characters -- including Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple -- solve even the most devilish of conundrums as the sun beats down in this all-new summer themed collection from the Queen of Mystery. Summertime -- as the tem...

  • A Deadly Affair

    From the Queen of Mystery -- this all-new collection of stories about love gone horribly wrong will get your heart racing. Love can propel us to our greatest heights . . . and darkest depths. In this new collection of Agatha Christie short stories...

  • Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

    Agatha Christie’s legendary sleuth, Jane Marple, returns to solve twelve baffling cases in this brand-new collection, penned by a host of acclaimed authors skilled in the fine art of mystery and murder One doesn't stop at one murder... Ja...

  • Sinister Spring

  • Autumn Chills

  • Murder For All Seasons

  • Murder on the Orient Express: A Graphic Novel

    Experience Agatha Christie’s masterpiece as you’ve never seen it before with this brand-new graphic novel adaptation -- featuring gorgeous full-color illustrations by Bob Al-Greene.“The murderer is with us -- on the train now . . .”Just ...

  • A Greyhound Investigates The Mysterious Affair At Styles

    Unleash the Mystery!Step into the world of Agatha Christie like never before with this unique retelling through the nose of Reggie, a courageous greyhound and former Mercy Dog. This intrigue-filled tale stays true to its roots while offering a fresh ...

  • The Hunter's Lodge

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    The Hunter's Lodge Case is a classic short story by Agatha Christie, first published in 1924 as part of the Poirot Investigates collection. This tale showcases Christie's beloved Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, in one of his early adventures.The s...

  • The Missing Will

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    The Missing Will, published in 1924 as part of the short story collection Poirot Investigates, is a prime example of Agatha Christie's early mastery of the short mystery format. This story features her famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, and sh...

Award-Winning Books by Agatha Christie

The Mysterious Affair at Styles
1997 Audies -- Mystery-Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Agatha Christie has published 282 books.

Agatha Christie does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Greyhound Investigates The Mysterious Affair At Styles, was published in January 2024.

The first book by Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was published in October 1920.

Yes. Agatha Christie has 7 series.
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