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s e r i e s

hercule poirot

• the mysterious affair at styles (1920)
• the murder on the links (1923)
• poirot investigates (1924)
• the murder of roger ackroyd (1926)
• the big four (1927)
• the mystery of the blue train (1928)
• black coffee (1930)
• peril at end house (1932)
• lord edgware dies (1933) aka thirteen at dinner
• ▧ murder on the orient express (1934) aka murder in the calais coach
• three act tragedy (1934) aka murder in three acts
• death in the clouds (1935) aka death in the air
• the abc murders (1936)
• murder in mesopotamia (1936)
• cards on the table (1936)
• dumb witness (1937) aka poirot loses a client
• ▧ death on the nile (1937) ★
• murder in the mews (1937)
• appointment with death (1938)
• hercule poirot's christmas (1938) aka a holiday for murder / murder for christmas
• sad cypress (1940)
• one, two, buckle my shoe (1940) aka an overdose of death / the patriotic murders
• evil under the sun (1941)
• five little pigs (1942) aka murder in retrospect
• the hollow (1946) aka murder after hours
• the labours of hercules (1947)
• taken at the flood (1948) aka there is a tide
• mrs mcginty's dead (1952) aka blood will tell
• after the funeral (1953) aka funerals are fatal
• hickory dickory dock (1955)
• dead man's folly (1956)
• cat among the pigeons (1959)
• the adventure of the christmas pudding (1960)
• the clocks (1963)
• third girl (1966)
• hallowe'en party (1969) aka a haunting in venice
• elephants can remember (1972)
• poirot's early cases (1974) aka hercule poirot's early cases
• curtain (1975)
• the underdog (1994)
• the complete ariadne oliver (2005)
• the complete ariadne oliver: volume 2 (2005)
• hercule poirot: the complete short stories (2008)
• hercule poirot and the greenshore folly (2013) continued in the series by sophie hannah

tommy and tuppence

• the secret adversary (1922)
• partners in crime (1929)
• n or m? (1941)
• by the pricking of my thumbs (1968)
• postern of fate (1973)
• the house of lurking death (2025)

colonel race

• the man in the brown suit (1924)
• ▧ death on the nile (1937)
• sparkling cyanide (1944) aka remembered death

superintendent battle

• the secret of chimneys (1925)
• the seven dials mystery (1929)
• cards on the table (1936)
• murder is easy (1939) aka easy to kill
• towards zero (1944)

miss marple

• the tuesday night club (1927) aka the solving six
• the murder at the vicarage (1930)
• death by drowning (1932)
• the thirteen problems (1932) aka the tuesday club murders
• the body in the library (1942)
• the moving finger (1942)
• sleeping murder (1976)
• a murder is announced (1950)
• they do it with mirrors (1952) aka murder with mirrors
• a pocket full of rye (1953)
• 4.50 from paddington (1957) aka what mrs mcgillicuddy saw
• the mirror crack'd from side to side (1961)
• a caribbean mystery (1964)
• at bertram's hotel (1965)
• the bloodstained pavement (1966)
• nemesis (1971)
• clues for miss marple (1977)
• miss marple's final cases (1979)
• miss marple and mystery (2008)

quin and satterthwaite

• the mysterious mr quin (1930)
• the love detectives (1993)

parker pyne

• parker pyne investigates (1934) aka mr. parker pyne: detective

murder for all seasons

• midwinter murder (2020)
• midsummer mysteries (2021)
• sinister spring (2023)
• autumn chills (2023)

n o v e l s

• giant's bread (1930) (as by mary westmacott)
• the sittaford mystery (1931) aka murder at hazelmoor
• unfinished portrait (1934) (as by mary westmacott)
• why didn't they ask evans? (1935) aka the boomerang clue
• and then there were none (1939) aka ten little indians
• absent in the spring (1944) (as by mary westmacott)
• death comes as the end (1944)
• the rose and the yew tree (1948) (as by mary westmacott)
• crooked house (1949)
• they came to baghdad (1951)
• a daughter's a daughter (1952) (as by mary westmacott)
• destination unknown (1954) aka so many steps to death
• the burden (1956) (as by mary westmacott)
• ordeal by innocence (1958)
• the pale horse (1961)
• endless night (1967)
• passenger to frankfurt (1970)
• the tuesday night club and other stories (2005)
• the unexpected guest (2008) (with charles osborne)

s h o r t ㅤ s t o r i e s

• the adventure of the cheap flat (1923)
• the disappearance of mr davenheim (1923)
• the lemesurier inheritance (1923)
• the mystery of hunter's lodge (1923)
• the adventure of the 'western star' (1924)
• the adventure of the egyptian tomb (1924)
• the case of the missing will (1924)
• philomel cottage (2011)
• poirot and the regatta mystery (2011)
• sanctuary (2011)
• strange jest (2011)
• tape measure murder (2011)
• the case of the caretaker (2011)
• the case of the missing lady (2011)
• the case of the perfect maid (2011)
• the dead harlequin (2011)
• the dream (2011)
• the gate of baghdad (2011)
• the house at shiraz (2011)
• the man in the mist (2011)
• the mystery of the spanish chest (2011)
• the rajah's emerald (2011)
• the red signal (2011)
• the second gong (2011)
• yellow iris (2011)
• mr eastwood's adventure (2012)
• finessing the king (2012)
• ingots of gold (2012)
• jane in search of a job (2012)
• motive v. opportunity (2012)
• the adventure of the sinister stranger (2012)
• the affair of the pink pearl (2012)
• the case of the discontented soldier (2012)
• the case of the middle-aged wife (2012)
• the coming of mr quin (2012)
• the idol house of astarte (2012)
• the jewel robbery at the grand metropolitan (2012)
• the kidnapped prime minister (2012)
• the king of clubs (2012)
• the manhood of edward robinson (2012)
• the mystery of the blue jar (2012)
• the mystery of the spanish shawl (2012)
• the plymouth express (2012)
• the shadow on the glass (2012)
• the thumb mark of st peter (2012)
• the tragedy of marsdon manor (2012)
• a christmas tragedy (2013)
• greenshaw's folly (2013)
• miss marple tells a story (2013)
• the blue geranium (2013)
• the companion (2013)
• the herb of death (2013)
• double sin (2013)
• how does your garden grow? (2013)
• problem at sea (2013)
• the adventure of johnnie waverly (2013)
• the adventure of the clapham cook (2013)
• the incredible theft (2013)
• the market basing mystery (2013)
• the mystery of the baghdad chest (2013)
• the submarine plans (2013)
• the third-floor flat (2013)
• wasps' nest (2013)
• a fairy in the flat (2013)
• a pot of tea (2013)
• blindman's buff (2013)
• the ambassador's boots (2013)
• the clergyman's daughter / the red house (2013)
• the crackler (2013)
• the gentleman dressed in newspaper (2013)
• the unbreakable alibi (2013)
• accident (2013)
• in a glass darkly (2013)
• s.o.s (2013)
• sing a song of sixpence (2013)
• the call of wings (2013)
• the dressmaker's doll (2013)
• the fourth man (2013)
• the gipsy (2013)
• the lamp (2013)
• the strange case of sir arthur carmichael (2013)
• wireless (2013)
• at the 'bells and motley' (2013)
• harlequin's lane (2013)
• have you got everything you want? (2013)
• the bird with the broken wing (2013)
• the case of the city clerk (2013)
• the case of the discontented husband (2013)
• the case of the distressed lady (2013)
• the case of the rich woman (2013)
• the face of helen (2013)
• the man from the sea (2013)
• the oracle at delphi (2013)
• the pearl of price (2013)
• the regatta mystery (2013)
• the sign in the sky (2013)
• the soul of the croupier (2013)
• the voice in the dark (2013)
• the world's end (2013)
• a fruitful sunday (2013)
• magnolia blossom (2013)
• manx gold (2013)
• next to a dog (2013)
• swan song (2013)
• the actress (2013)
• the edge (2013)
• the girl in the train (2013)
• the house of dreams (2013)
• the lonely god (2013)
• within a wall (2013)
• in the cool of the evening (2013)
• promotion in the highest (2013)
• the island (2013)
• the naughty donkey (2013)
• the water bus (2013)
• the adventure of the italian nobleman (2014)
• the chocolate box (2014)
• the veiled lady (2014)
• christmas adventure (2014)
• murder in the mews (2014) aka dead man's mirror
• while the lights last (2014)
• the cornish mystery (2014)
• the lost mine (2014)
• the double clue (2016)

p l a y s

• the mousetrap (1950) aka three blind mice
• spider's web (1956)
• verdict (1958)
• akhnaton (1973)

n o n f i c t i o n

• come, tell me how you live (1976) (as by agatha christie mallowan)
• an autobiography (1977)
• agatha christie: first lady of crime (1977) (with h r f keating)