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Hercule Poirot Series

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Mysteries with the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. These can mostly be read as stand-alone in any order, but based on internal chronology The Mysterious Affair at Styles is the first Poirot story and Curtain was written to be the final Poirot story and should be read last. This list is numbered using internal chronology. Because of spoilers about…

Book 1

The Mysterious Affair at Styles
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4.00 · 381133 Ratings · 14011 Reviews · published 1920 · 20 editions
Agatha Christie's debut novel was also the first t…

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    Book 2

    The Murder on the Links
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    3.86     · 82326 Ratings · 6006 Reviews · published 1923 · 2227 editions
    When Hercule Poirot and his associate Arthur Hasti…

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    Book 3

    Poirot Investigates
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    3.95     · 58728 Ratings · 3061 Reviews · published 1924 · 4 editions
    First there was the mystery of the film star and t…

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    Book 4

    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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    4.26     · 241132 Ratings · 19134 Reviews · published 1926 · 1098 editions
    Considered to be one of Agatha Christie's greatest…

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    Book 5

    The Big Four
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    3.58     · 52609 Ratings · 4246 Reviews · published 1927 · 9 editions
    Framed in the doorway of Poirot’s bedroom stood an…

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    Book 6

    The Mystery of the Blue Train
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    3.86     · 56811 Ratings · 3757 Reviews · published 1928 · 458 editions
    A mysterious woman, a legendary cursed jewel, and …

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    Book 7

    Black Coffee: A Mystery Play in Three Acts
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    3.65     · 2421 Ratings · 149 Reviews · published 1930 · 12 editions
    An intriguing story concerning a physicist named S…

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    Book 7.5

    Black Coffee
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    3.57     · 21791 Ratings · 1528 Reviews · published 1998 · 172 editions
    Inventor Sir Claude Amory feels a bitter taste in …

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    Book 8

    Peril at End House
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    3.99     · 61221 Ratings · 4007 Reviews · published 1932 · 209 editions
    Hercule Poirot is vacationing on the Cornish coast…

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    Book 9

    Lord Edgware Dies
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    3.94     · 45315 Ratings · 2871 Reviews · published 1933 · 7 editions
    It's true; Hercule Poirot had been present when th…

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    Book 10

    Murder on the Orient Express
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    4.20     · 562325 Ratings · 36152 Reviews · published 1934 · 934 editions
    Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the famous …

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    Book 11

    Three Act Tragedy
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    3.84     · 34691 Ratings · 2541 Reviews · published 1934 · 3 editions
    Who wouldn't be pleased to attend a small dinner p…

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    Book 12

    Death in the Clouds
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    3.86     · 48568 Ratings · 2963 Reviews · published 1935 · 400 editions
    A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclos…

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    Book 13

    The A.B.C. Murders
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    4.03     · 149357 Ratings · 8805 Reviews · published 1936 · 657 editions
    When Alice Asher is murdered in Andover, Hercule P…

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    Book 14

    Murder in Mesopotamia
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    3.93     · 53564 Ratings · 3138 Reviews · published 1936 · 104 editions
    An archaeologist’s wife is murdered on the shores …

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    Book 15

    Cards on the Table
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    3.95     · 53379 Ratings · 3290 Reviews · published 1936 · 167 editions
    A flamboyant party host is murdered in full view o…

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    Book 16

    Murder in the Mews
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    3.78     · 21416 Ratings · 1210 Reviews · published 1937 · 413 editions
    Librarian's note: this entry is for the collection…

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    Book 17

    Dumb Witness
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    3.89     · 34456 Ratings · 2268 Reviews · published 1937 · 366 editions
    Everyone blamed Emily Arundell’s accident on a rub…

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    Book 18

    Death on the Nile
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    4.12     · 233412 Ratings · 15685 Reviews · published 1937 · 738 editions
    Agatha Christie's most daring travel mystery.

    The t…

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    Book 19

    Appointment with Death
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    3.87     · 53294 Ratings · 3226 Reviews · published 1938 · 487 editions
    Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some …

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    Book 20

    Hercule Poirot's Christmas
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    3.98     · 71818 Ratings · 6499 Reviews · published 1938 · 531 editions
    In Hercule Poirot's Christmas, the holidays are an…

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    Book 21

    The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories
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    3.88     · 9629 Ratings · 557 Reviews · published 1939 · 1 edition
    A collection of nine of Agatha Christie's intrigui…

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    Book 22

    Sad Cypress
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    3.92     · 35450 Ratings · 2360 Reviews · published 1940 · 364 editions
    Christie's classic mystery has Poirot racing to so…

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    Book 23

    One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
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    3.78     · 33915 Ratings · 2138 Reviews · published 1940 · 4 editions
    A dentist's suspicious death leads Poirot to drill…

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    Book 24

    Evil Under the Sun
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    3.98     · 67350 Ratings · 3295 Reviews · published 1941 · 3 editions
    豔陽下的謀殺案（克莉絲蒂繁體中文版20週年紀念珍藏16）(Evil Under the Sun)

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    Book 25

    Five Little Pigs
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    4.03     · 66253 Ratings · 4917 Reviews · published 1942 · 459 editions
    It was an open and shut case. All the evidence sai…

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    Book 26

    The Hollow
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    3.80     · 32482 Ratings · 2373 Reviews · published 1946 · 390 editions
    Lady Angkatell, intrigued by the criminal mind, ha…

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    Book 27

    The Labours of Hercules
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    3.76     · 24684 Ratings · 1381 Reviews · published 1947 · 338 editions
    First published in book form in 1947, The Labours …

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    Book 28

    The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories
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    3.90     · 7960 Ratings · 744 Reviews · published 1948 · 164 editions
    The title story in this mystery collection revolve…

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    Book 29

    Taken at the Flood
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    3.75     · 22100 Ratings · 1678 Reviews · published 1948 · 397 editions
    A few weeks after marrying an attractive young wid…

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    Book 30

    Three Blind Mice and Other Stories
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    3.82     · 16500 Ratings · 1061 Reviews · published 1950 · 168 editions
    The feature of this nine short story collection is…

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    Book 31

    The Under Dog and Other Stories
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    3.73     · 5997 Ratings · 493 Reviews · published 1951 · 109 editions
    A dead heiress, a murdered recluse, and a slain pl…

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    Book 32

    Mrs. McGinty's Dead
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    3.85     · 29762 Ratings · 1597 Reviews · published 1952 · 320 editions
    ‘Mrs McGinty’s dead!’ ‘How did she die?’ ‘Down on …

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    Book 33

    After the Funeral
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    3.90     · 37252 Ratings · 2222 Reviews · published 1953 · 14 editions
    The master of a Victorian mansion dies suddenly – …

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    Book 34

    Hickory Dickory Dock
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    3.77     · 29969 Ratings · 1708 Reviews · published 1955 · 333 editions
    An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was…

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    Book 35

    Dead Man's Folly
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    3.82     · 28186 Ratings · 1618 Reviews · published 1956 · 359 editions

    Whilst organising a mock murder hunt for the villa…

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    Book 36

    Cat Among the Pigeons
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    3.86     · 39474 Ratings · 2270 Reviews · published 1959 · 427 editions
    Unpleasant things are going on in an exclusive sch…

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    Book 37

    The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
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    3.81     · 22271 Ratings · 1552 Reviews · published 1923 · 220 editions
    An English country house at Christmas time should …

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    Book 38

    Double Sin and Other Stories
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    3.75     · 5361 Ratings · 419 Reviews · published 1961 · 5 editions
    A superb collection of treats for mystery lovers, …

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    Book 39

    The Clocks
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    3.74     · 32717 Ratings · 1812 Reviews · published 1963 · 608 editions
    Sheila Webb, typist-for-hire, has arrived at 19 Wi…

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    Book 40

    Third Girl
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    3.68     · 28698 Ratings · 1627 Reviews · published 1966 · 33 editions
    Three young women share a London flat. The first i…

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    Book 41

    Hallowe'en Party
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    3.66     · 52515 Ratings · 4204 Reviews · published 1969 · 358 editions
    A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of ap…

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    Book 42

    Elephants Can Remember
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    3.65     · 37904 Ratings · 2414 Reviews · published 1972 · 34 editions
    Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. For here, m…

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    Book 43

    Poirot's Early Cases: 18 Hercule Poirot Mysteries
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    3.92     · 12817 Ratings · 736 Reviews · published 1974 · 101 editions
    Many of Poirot's early cases are short stories. Wi…

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    Book 44

    Curtain
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    4.09     · 41258 Ratings · 2569 Reviews · published 1975 · 323 editions
    Arthritic and immobilized, Poirot calls on his old…

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    Book 45

    Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories
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    3.53     · 4187 Ratings · 290 Reviews · published 1991 · 46 editions
    The cover states; "A new collection from the undis…

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    Book 46

    The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories
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    3.74     · 4977 Ratings · 400 Reviews · published 1997 · 47 editions
    A grand treasure for fans of the grande dame of my…

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    Book 47

    While the Light Lasts
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    3.59     · 4347 Ratings · 342 Reviews · published 1997 · 124 editions
    A macabre recurring dream … revenge against a blac…

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    Book 1, 12

    The Mysterious Affair at Styles / The ABC Murders
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    4.21     · 127 Ratings · 8 Reviews · 3 editions
    TWO BESTSELLING MYSTERIES IN ONE GREAT PACKAGE! 

    Fr…

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    Book 1-3

    The First 3 Hercule Poirot Mysteries: The Mysterious Affair at Styles / Murder on the Links / Poirot Investigates
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    4.20     · 345 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2010 · 11 editions
    The first three Hercule Poirot books see the forme…

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    Book 4, 10, 18

    Hercule Poirot: meisterlikud mõrvad
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    4.13     · 23 Ratings · published 2010 · 1 edition
    Käesolevasse kogumikku on koondatud Hercule Poirot…

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