The Mysterious Affair at Styles isn’t just Agatha Christie’s first Poirot novel, it’s currently the only Poirot novel in the public domain. It was written on a bet that Christie couldn’t write a detective novel in which the reader couldn’t deduce the criminal. Her attempt laid the foundation for one of literature’s most famous detectives.

In this novel we’re introduced to Poirot as he’s settling in to a new life

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While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift. Passengers awake to find the train still stranded and to discover that a wealthy American has been brutally stabbed to death in his private compartment. Incredibly, that compartment is locked from the inside. With no escape into the wintery landscape the killer must still be on board. Fortunately, the brilliant...

A murder in a small English village leads Hercule Poirot into a strange mystery involving a determined, curious spinster, the local doctor, and a wide range of suspects with possible motives and mysterious relationships.

Published in 1924, "Poirot Investigates" is a collection of short stories featuring Agatha Christie's Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. This compilation is significant in Christie's oeuvre as it demonstrates her ability to craft compelling mysteries in a shorter format, while still maintaining the complex plots and misdirection for which she was becoming known. The collection includes eleven stories in the UK edition (and fourteen in the US...

Hercule Poirot is determined to solve an old husband and wife double murder that is still an open verdict. Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. For here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident - the broken body of a woman was discovered on the rocks at the foot of the cliff. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two more bodies - a husband and wife - shot dead. But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion?...

Publisher's description: The train hurtled through the night, bearing its pampered passengers toward the idle pleasures of the Cote d'Azure. But one of them would never again waken to the warm tropical sun. On her way to keep a secret rendezvous, a young heiress is strangled, and her jewel case, containing the notorious Heart of Fire rubies, stolen. Hercule Poirot pits himself against a cast of formidable characters including a wayward husband,...

Hercule Poirot and three other top detectives are invited to a bridge party where they are challenged to spot four murderers.

Mrs McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion fell immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes revealed traces of the victim's blood and hair. Yet something was amiss: Bentley just didn't look like a murderer. The redoubtable detective Hercule Poirot believed he could save the man from the gallows -- what he didn't realise was that his own life was now in great danger.

Agatha Christie's classic novel featuring Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, who is called upon to investigate the murder of Mrs. Boynton, the cruel and tyrannizing matriarch of the Boynton family.