Poirot Begins: Featuring the First Four Mysteries of Hercule Poirot

by Agatha Christie

See how it all began in this collection of Agatha Christie's novels showcasing her greatest invention, detective Hercule Poirot.

This collection contains Poirot's first four mysteries, including one of Agatha Christie's most popular novels, "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd."

Witness the brilliance of the Belgian detective who is, in his own estimation, "the best detective in the world." Renowned for his magnificent mustaches and remembered for his little grey cells, this collection is the perfect way to pass the evenings lost in the iconic mysteries of the world's best-selling novelist.

This collection Before the Belgian detective boarded a boat on the Nile or crossed the continent by train, we see him bursting on the scene and exercising his incomparable acumen to solve the Mysterious Affair at Styles. Agatha Christie keeps us enthralled mystery after mystery in this collection of her first four Hercule Poirot novels.

794 pages, Paperback

Published August 26, 2022

About the author

Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.

This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater.

Associated Names:
Agata Christie
Agata Kristi
Агата Кристи (Russian)
Агата Крісті (Ukrainian)
Αγκάθα Κρίστι (Greek)
アガサ クリスティ (Japanese)
阿嘉莎·克莉絲蒂 (Chinese)