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And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie

Alternate title: Ten Little Indians

Ten people, each with something to hide, are invited to a lonely mansion on Indian Island by a host who, surprisingly, fails to appear. On the island they are cut off from everything but one another and the inescapable shadows of their own past lives.... (learn more about this book)

Hercule Poirot: Book 9

Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie

Alternate title: Murder in the Calais Coach

Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American... (learn more about this book)

Hercule Poirot: Book 17

Death on the Nile

by Agatha Christie

Young, beautiful, and rich, Linnet Doyle (used to be Ridgeway) sparks the interest of Detective Hercule Poirot when she and her new husband Simon Doyle take a cruise on the same ship as he, and he senses trouble in paradise. Reprint.

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Hercule Poirot: Book 4

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie

Roger Ackroyd was a man who knew too much.

He knew the woman he loved had poisoned her first husband. He knew someone was blackmailing her - and now he knew she had taken her own life with a drug overdose.

Soon the evening post would let him know who the mystery blackmailer was.... (learn more about this book)

Hercule Poirot: Book 12

The A.B.C. Murders

by Agatha Christie

Also published as The Alphabet Murders.

Alice Ascher, a shopkeeper in Andover, is bludgeoned to death at her place of work. Next to die is Miss Bernard in Bexhill, then Mr. Clarke in Churston. More disturbing than the alphabetic sequence of the killings or the ABC Railway guide that the... (learn more about this book)

Hercule Poirot: Book 1

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie

The heiress of Styles has been murdered, dying in agony from strychnine slipped into her coffee. And there are plenty who would gain from her death: the financially strapped stepson, the gold digging younger husband, and an embittered daughter-in-law. Agatha Christie's eccentric and hugely... (learn more about this book)

Miss Marple Mysteries: Book 3

The Body in the Library

by Agatha Christie

When the Bantry's wake to find the body of a beautiful young stranger in their library, Dolly Bantry knows there's only one person to call: her old friend Miss Marple.

Who was the young girl? What was she doing in the library? And is there a connection with another dead girl, whose... (learn more about this book)

Miss Marple Mysteries: Book 1

The Murder at the Vicarage

by Agatha Christie

'Anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe', declared the parson, brandishing a carving knife above a joint of roast beef, 'would be doing the world at large a favour!'

It was a careless remark for a man of the cloth. And one which was to come and haunt the clergyman just a few hours later... (learn more about this book)

Hercule Poirot: Book 22

Evil Under the Sun

by Agatha Christie

Set at the Jolly Roger, a posh vacation resort for the rich and famous on the southern coast of England, Evil Under the Sun is one of Agatha Christie’s most intriguing mysteries. When a gorgeous young bride is brutally strangled to death on the beach, only Hercule Poirot can sift through the... (learn more about this book)

Miss Marple Mysteries: Book 13

Sleeping Murder

by Agatha Christie

Gwenda and Giles Reed, a newly married young couple believe that they have found the perfect house in the little seaside town of Dillmouth. But after moving in Gwenda quickly starts experiencing uncanny flashes of awareness. Events come to a head during a performance of the Duchess of Malfi... (learn more about this book)