Christie’s first detective novel introduces Hercule Poirot, who investigates a poisoning at an English country house during World War I.
This lively thriller introduces Tommy and Tuppence, one of Christie’s most charming detective duos.
The pair also appear in three later novels: "N or M?", "By the Pricking of My Thumbs," and "Postern of Fate."
Poirot travels to the French coast, where a killing on a golf course draws him into a knot of family secrets, deception, and false identities.
After witnessing a strange accident, a bold young woman is swept into an international adventure filled with danger, romance, and hidden identities.
A grand country house becomes the center of political intrigue, clandestine meetings, and murder in this fast-moving conspiracy tale.
One of Christie’s most famous novels, this village mystery features Poirot solving a murder with a groundbreaking twist.
Poirot takes on an international criminal organization in a globe-spanning adventure packed with danger, espionage, and high-stakes plotting.
During an elegant train journey, Poirot investigates a murder tied to stolen jewels, wealth, and a cast of glamorous suspects.
A secret society, cryptic signals, and an aristocratic setting set the stage for a playful but suspenseful mystery.
Published in 1930, this is the first Christie novel to feature Miss Marple, though the character had already appeared in short stories.
Christie published "Giant’s Bread" under the pen name Mary Westmacott. She wrote six novels in total using that name.
"The Floating Admiral" is notable for being a collaborative novel written by members of the Detection Club, which included Christie.
Each chapter was contributed by a different author, turning the book into both a literary experiment and a puzzle for mystery fans.
In an isolated country setting, unsettling events and long-buried secrets lead to a murder that is far from straightforward.
Poirot looks into a series of attempts on a young woman’s life, only to uncover motives much darker than they first appear.
When a wealthy nobleman is murdered after a sensational divorce dispute, Poirot sorts through alibis, blackmail, and theatrical misdirection.
Stranded aboard the famous train, Poirot investigates a murder in which every passenger seems to be hiding something.
This semi-autobiographical novel steps away from detective fiction to explore the emotional life of a woman in crisis.
A dying man’s final words launch two amateur sleuths into a clever mystery full of disguises, danger, and surprising turns.
A sequence of murders staged with theatrical precision forces Poirot to think like both a detective and a dramatist.
When a passenger is killed mid-flight, Poirot must identify the murderer from a tightly confined group of suspects.
Poirot faces a serial killer who appears to choose victims in alphabetical order, leaving behind a chilling pattern of clues.
At an archaeological dig in the Middle East, Poirot investigates a murder shaped by jealousy, tension, and the strain of close quarters.
A murder takes place during a bridge party, and Poirot must read character as carefully as cards to uncover the killer.
An elderly woman’s suspicious death leads Poirot into a case involving inheritance, family tension, and one unusually important witness.
A luxurious Nile cruise turns deadly as Poirot investigates a crime fueled by love, envy, and betrayal.
During a trip through the Middle East, Poirot becomes entangled in a family’s toxic relationships and the murder that follows.
A tense family Christmas gathering ends in murder, leaving Poirot to sort through resentments, rivalries, and lies.
In a seemingly peaceful village, a disturbing series of deaths suggests that murder may be easier to hide than anyone imagines.
Ten strangers invited to a remote island are killed one by one according to a sinister nursery rhyme in Christie’s most famous standalone novel.
Poirot investigates a poisoning case shaped by love, inheritance, and the suspicion that appearances are misleading.
What begins with an apparently simple death grows into a wider conspiracy as Poirot follows small clues to a startling conclusion.
At a sunny seaside resort, Poirot peels back glamour and flirtation to expose a carefully planned murder.
"N or M?" is a wartime spy novel featuring Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, now older and drawn into undercover work during World War II.
Miss Marple investigates after the body of a young woman turns up in the library of a thoroughly respectable home.
Reopening a case from years earlier, Poirot interviews the people who were there and reconstructs a murder from memory alone.
Poison-pen letters spread fear through a village, and before long the scandal escalates into murder.
This subtly constructed mystery follows a series of events that seem disconnected until everything converges at the true point of danger: zero hour.
Under the Mary Westmacott name, Christie delivers a psychological novel about self-deception, loneliness, and painful self-discovery.
Set in ancient Egypt, this unusual historical mystery centers on family conflict, suspicion, and a series of deadly events.
A woman’s death at a dinner table seems accidental at first, but the truth points to a carefully arranged murder.
At a country house weekend, Poirot encounters a murder wrapped up in emotion, vanity, and complicated relationships.
After sudden changes in a family fortune, Poirot investigates a case where greed and desperation prove especially dangerous.
Written as Mary Westmacott, this novel explores love, ambition, politics, and emotional entanglement rather than detective work.
A murder inside a wealthy family reveals a house full of secrets in one of Christie’s darkest and most inventive novels.
When a newspaper announces the time and place of a murder in advance, Miss Marple steps in after the impossible seems to happen.
This adventurous thriller mixes espionage, danger, and international intrigue against a vivid Middle Eastern backdrop.
Poirot looks into the death of a charwoman and discovers that the victim may have known far more than anyone realized.
At a sprawling household full of tension and deception, Miss Marple investigates a murder hidden behind carefully staged appearances.
Another Mary Westmacott novel, this story examines family conflict, sacrifice, and the emotional strain between a mother and daughter.
After a funeral, a single blunt remark raises doubts about a death—and soon Poirot is unraveling a family mystery with deadly consequences.
Miss Marple investigates a series of killings connected by nursery-rhyme imagery and the dark secrets of a wealthy household.
This Cold War-era thriller follows a woman drawn into an international mystery involving vanished scientists and hidden agendas.
What begins as a series of odd petty thefts in a student hostel grows into a murder investigation for Poirot.
A murder mystery game at a country estate becomes horrifyingly real when Poirot is called in too late to prevent death.
"The Burden" is the sixth and final novel Christie published under the name Mary Westmacott.
After a woman witnesses a murder from a passing train, Miss Marple works to prove that the crime really happened—and to find the body.
New evidence undermines an old conviction, forcing a family to confront the possibility that the real murderer is still among them.
A murder at a girls’ school brings together politics, jewels, and hidden identities before Poirot enters the scene.
This eerie mystery blends murder with rumors of witchcraft as a series of deaths seems linked to a sinister organization.
When a Hollywood actress settles in St. Mary Mead, celebrity glamour soon gives way to tragedy and murder.
A dead man, a blind woman, and four mysterious clocks create one of Poirot’s strangest and most puzzling cases.
While vacationing in the Caribbean, Miss Marple finds that even a tropical paradise can hide deadly motives.
Behind the charm and old-fashioned comfort of a London hotel, Miss Marple uncovers criminal activity and murder.
A troubled young woman claims she may have committed murder, drawing Poirot into a case clouded by confusion and shifting identities.
This haunting psychological novel turns a dream of happiness into a story of obsession, dread, and ruin.
This later Tommy and Tuppence novel begins with an unsettling clue in a nursing home and develops into a sinister mystery.
At a Halloween party, a child boasts of having seen a murder before being killed, and Poirot must uncover which past crime sparked the tragedy.
This late thriller is driven by espionage, political anxiety, and an unlikely encounter at an airport that spirals into global intrigue.
"Nemesis" follows Miss Marple as she undertakes a posthumous challenge to solve a crime and deliver justice.
Poirot revisits an old double tragedy, relying on long memories and overlooked details to uncover what really happened.
Tommy and Tuppence, now elderly, investigate strange clues found in an old house and uncover a mystery stretching back into the past.
In Poirot’s final novel, he returns to Styles Court to confront a killer unlike any he has faced before.
In this posthumously published Miss Marple mystery, a young woman’s vague childhood memories lead to the truth about a long-hidden murder.
