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Agatha Christie crime and mystery stories
Alphabetical list and summaries
Often North American editions have different titles or different
combinations of stories. I've noted those that I have.
- 4:50 from Paddington (1957)
- Hero: Miss Marple
- Summary: Old biddie witnesses murder of woman in a passing
train; body turns up in outhouse of mansion belonging to a family
of oddities waiting for their father to die; doctor has his eye on
the daughter and her share of the money, but first has to murder his
estranged French wife.
- Murderer: Dr Quimper.
- Bought: 1997-12-27
- Notes: [2004-02-15]
- A Caribbean Mystery (1964)
- Hero: Miss Marple
- Summary: Ancient ex-army bore dies, possibly because he's
recognised someone at the idyllic island hotel as a successful
double murderer; after another couple of murders of extraneous
characters, the planned third wife murder is prevented in the
nick of time.
- Murderer: Tim Kendall, the hotellier.
- Bought: 1977-04-10
- Notes: [2004-02-15]
- After the funeral (1953)
- Hero: Poirot.
- Summary: Family patriarch dies, suspicion planted that this
could be murder. Another death follows, a murder, presumed consequent
to the first, but is in fact the only real murder.
- Murderer: Miss Gilchrist, the meek companion.
- Bought: 1977-06-17.
- Notes: Film version was "Murder at the Gallop". [1999]
- A murder is announced (1950)
- Hero: Miss Marple
- Summary: Small town newspaper has personal ad announcing a
murder at 6:30, and right on cue a murder there is. Further murders
as the family, most of them pretending to be someone else, fight
over a big inheritance.
- Murderer: Charlotte Blacklock (masquerading as Letitia
Blacklock)
- Bought: 1980-09-06
- Notes: [2004-02-19]
- A pocket full of rye (1953)
- Hero: Miss Marple (and Inspector Neele)
- Summary: Three murders made up to fit a nursery rhyme, but
it's really a simple attempt by the black sheep on the family
fortune.
- Murderer: Lance Fortescue, the bad son.
- Bought: ? (2/6)
- Notes: [2004-02-20]
- Appointment with death (1938)
- Hero: Poirot.
- Summary: Evil, ugly old woman keeps her family under her spell
to enjoy their destruction. On a trip to the Holy Land she dies.
The family is suspected, but in fact she has recognised a former
inmate from her days as an American prison warder, now an English
Lady, and has decided to play with a new toy.
- Murderer: Lady Westholme, the overbearing MP.
- Bought: 1980-09-06
- Notes: [1999]
- At Bertram's Hotel (1965)
- Hero: Miss Marple
- Summary: An anachronistic London hotel is really a cover for
a criminal gang, organising robberies on a grand scale. The murder
occurs late as a sort of decoration, a daughter is concerned that
a potential blackmailer could lose her the inevitable large
inheritance. The stories are linked by the girl's estranged
mother turning out to be the mastermind of the gang and by their
sharing a man.
- Murderer: Elvira Blake, the daughter.
- Bought: 1979-12-27
- Notes: [2004-02-22]
- By the pricking of my thumbs (1968)
- Hero: Tommy and Tuppence Beresford
- Summary: Tuppence is convinced that a friend of Tommy's aged
aunt has been abducted; while snooping around after her she is
bashed on the head. She and Tommy help to uncover a criminal
gang and also unmask a multiple murderer, who turns out to be
the missing woman.
- Murderer: Mrs Lancaster, aka Julia Starke
- Bought: ? (30p)
- Notes: [2004-02-23]
- Cards on the table (1936)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: Amateur Mephistopheles invites to a dinner party four
successful murderers and four sleuths. During post-prandial bridge
he is murdered. Which of the four did it is revealed only after
several more deaths, leaving three of the four murderers dead and
the one whose suspected murder was actually an accident still alive; he
marries the girl he saves from an attempted drowning.
- Murderer: Dr Roberts
- Bought: ? (25p)
- Notes: [2004-02-27]
- Cat among the pigeons (1959)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: An eccentric English girls school gets mixed up with
a race to find the lost jewels of the ruler of Ramat, who is killed
escaping from a revolution. Some domestic scores are settled
in the confusion. Poirot appears first in chapter 17.
- Murderers: Ann Shapland (twice) and Miss Chadwick (once).
- Bought: 1981-02-23
- Notes: [2004-02-28]
- Crooked House (1949)
- Hero: Charles Hayward
- Summary: Charles and Sophia want to marry, but not until the
murder of her grandfather is solved; her family live all together
in an idiosyncratic house and any of them could have done it;
large inheritances are involved as usual, and an illicit romance,
but the real motive is spite and attention seeking.
- Murderer: Josephine, the odd child
- Bought: ? (30p)
- Notes: [2004-02-29]
- Curtain: Poirot's last case (1975)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: Poirot, now very old and apparently crippled, is
staying at Styles, scene of his first case and now a seedy guest
house; he summons Hastings to help him catch a murderer by proxy, one
who induces others to commit murder while himself remaining safe;
more deaths and near-misses occur before Poirot brings an end to
it all by murdering the culprit, faking it as a suicide, and then
dying himself.
- Murderer: Poirot
- Bought: 1977-11-20
- Notes: Written in 1940s though published only in 1975.
[2004-03-04]
- Dead man's folly (1956)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: Ariadne Oliver is engaged to design a murder mystery
at a country house; she suspects her story is being manipulated
to cover a real murder and summons Poirot; a murder occurs and
baffles Poirot and the police; then there's another murder, disguised
as an accident. Poirot at last realises that the rich owner of the
house is not who he seems, that his wife is also not who she
seems, and that the murders were to prevent discovery of a another,
previously unsuspected, murder.
- Murderers: James Folliat posing as Sir George Stubbs, and his
wife.
- Bought: 1980-01-12
- Notes: [2004-03-06]
- Death comes as the end (1945)
- Hero: Hori (and others)
- Summary: Set in Egypt in 2000BC; an extended family live in
apparent harmony, until its head brings home a sexy new concubine;
she dies mysteriously, then more deaths occur, as if the whole
family is to die one by one; it's the eldest son taking revenge for
being denied respect.
- Murderer: Yahmose
- Bought: 1980-02-18
- Notes: [2004-03-10]
- Death in the clouds (1935)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: Poirot is a passenger in an aeroplane; an old Frenchwoman
is killed with a poisoned dart, it must be one of the passengers
or crew; the victim was a moneylender and possibly a blackmailer
and had pots of money; the murderer was plotting to get her money
by marrying and then killing the woman's estranged daughter.
- Murderer: Norman Gale (alias James Richards)
- Bought: ? (25p)
- Notes: [2004-03-112]
- Death on the Nile (1956)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: Poirot is on holiday in Egypt, as are a rich young woman
with her new husband, and the usual assortment of posh
people; the husband's former fiancée turns up to revenge
herself; on a Nile cruise the rich girl is shot. A few more deaths
occur, some pearls are stolen, a spy is caught. The new husband
and his girlfriend are in it together for the girl's millions.
- Murderers: Simon Doyle and Jacqueline de Bellefort
- Bought: 1978-12-06
- Notes: [2004-03-19]
- Destination unknown (1954)
- Hero: Hilary Craven
- Summary: This is not a detective story, though there is a
murder. A wealthy collector, having collected everything, is
now collecting people, top scientists, hoping to make a further
fortune selling back the fruits of their work. He has built
for his collection a sort of luxury prison cum laboratory hidden in
the mountains; our hero allows herself to be taken there, but
leaves a trail for the authorities.
- Murderer: -
- Bought: 1977-04-09
- Notes: [2004-03-25]
- Dumb witness (1937)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: An old woman dies, leaving an odd will that benefits
a paid companion and cuts out her family. Poirot is summoned much
later, by a delayed letter; the woman suspected one of her family of
trying to kill her. Indeed, one of them had tried and did later
succeed, but not the one she suspected. All ends happily: the
killer kills herself and the money is shared out fairly.
- Murderer: Bella Tanios
- Bought: 1977-03-22
- Notes: [2004-03-26]
- Elephants can remember (1972)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: An odious woman at a literary lunch asks Ariadne
Oliver to look into a mysterious double suicide which happened
a long time ago; Poirot is asked to assist. It was not a suicide
pact; in fact it was a murder (by Dolly of twin Molly), followed by
a cover-up with Dolly pretending to be Molly. Later Molly's husband
saw his duty and shot Dolly and then himself. The odious woman
doesn't want the truth, she wants to discourage her adopted son from
marrying Molly's daughter and thus disconnecting her from her
son's fortune.
- Murderer: Dorothea or Dolly, the unstable twin.
- Bought: 1976-11-20
- Notes: [2004-03-29]
- Endless night (1967)
- Hero: -
- Summary: There is no detective and the murderer is the
narrator. Mike Rogers has murdered for trivial gain before;
he schemes with a woman he meets in Hamburg to arrange an
unlikely marriage between him and a fabulously rich girl, and
then to kill her and get her money. But he breaks down, and
kills the girlfriend too.
- Murderer: The narrator, Mike Rogers.
- Bought: 1979-09-15
- Notes: [2004-03-26]
- Evil under the sun (1941)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: Set in an hotel on a near-island in the SW; a
rich woman who attracts and destroys men appears to be pulling
another man away from his wife, but then is found murdered on a
beach; in fact the couple are unmarried and after her money.
- Murderer: Edward Corrigan posing as Patrick Redfern, abetted
by Christine Deverill posing as Christine Redfern.
- Bought: 1980-09-27
- Notes: [1999]
- Five little pigs (1943)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: Poirot investigates murder of 16 years ago, to satisfy
the daughter of the convicted woman, who had died shortly
thereafter. She had not defended herself, because she had
mistakenly believed her sister, whom she had injured as a
child, was guilty.
- Murderer: Elsa Greer, the girl determined to have the accused
woman's husband.
- Bought: 1979-09-15
- Notes: [1999]
- Hallowe'en party (1969)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: A Hallowe'en party for children; a child boasts of
having seen a murder and a few hours later she is dead. Complications
abound, with wills forged and genuine, various previous deaths,
and a mysterious sunken garden. The designer of the garden and
the bossy organiser woman are in it together, scheming to collect
an old woman's fortune by forgery and murder and then to run
away to a Greek island. But then their plans are upset, and more
deaths are necessary.
- Murderer: Rowena Drake and Michael Garfield
- Bought: ? (30p)
- Notes: [2004-03-30]
- Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1938)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: It was the policeman that did it. Mr Lee, a
cantankerous old millionaire, gathers his scattered family
together at Christmas to make mischief. He is killed, with lots
of blood. It appears it must be one of the family, but in fact
it was done by someone outside using a string to overturn furniture
and operate a screaming balloon so that the death appeared to be
later than it was. Sugden is one of Lee's many illegitimate sons,
and joined the police force and waited years for an opportunity
to kill his father.
- Murderer: Superintendent Sugden
- Bought: 1977-04-01
- Notes: [2004-07-18]
- Hickory, Dickory, Dock (1955)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: Miss Lemon makes a mistake. She's upset by her sister's
problem. Her sister manages a student hostel, where some petty thefts
have been taking place. Poirot is intrigued, investigates, and before
long there have been three murders. The hostel is a centre for
smuggling, organised by Valerie and Nigel. Nigel is a bad lot (he'd
have to be with that name) who'd previously killed his mother and
been allowed to get away with it, and now murders again and again
to prevent discovery of his activities. We learn that Miss Lemon's
Christian name is Felicity.
- Murderer: Nigel Chapman, formerly Nigel Stanley
- Bought: 1976-11-20
- Notes: [2004-05-30]
- Lord Edgware dies (1933)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: Lord Edgware, by being alive, is preventing his estranged
wife Jane from re-marrying and is conveniently stabbed. Jane is a
famous actress and is one of the targets of Carlotta, another young
actress, specialising in mimicry. Jane persuades Carlotta to
impersonate her for real at a dinner party to establish an alibi
while Jane kills her husband; then she
kills Carlotta as well. Later she has to kill a third time when
her ignorance of mythology leads Donald to suspect the
impersonation. An early one; Japp and Hastings are perhaps a little too
skeptical still.
- Murderer: Jane Wilkinson, Lady Edgware
- Bought: 1979-12-27
- Notes: [2004-07-18]
- Miss Marple's final cases (1979)
- Hero: Miss Marple
- Summary: A collection of six Miss Marple short stories published
after Christie's death but written from 1934 onwards. Also contains
two other short mysteries,
- Murderer: various
- Bought: 1980-10-23
- Notes: My copy was bought in Canada. [2004-05-15]
- Mrs McGinty's dead (1952)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: Mrs McGinty, an old charwoman, is bashed on the head
and 30 pounds is stolen; the inadequate James Bentley, her lodger, is
arrested and convicted. Superintendent Spence thinks he didn't do it
and asks Poirot to investigate. Mrs McGinty, reading the Sunday scandal
sheets, had recognised a local as the son of a woman in a famous murder
case, and was then murdered to prevent discovery. Another death, of the
man's adoptive mother, occurs for the same reason before the man is
brought to justice and Bentley released.
- Murderer: Robin Upward
- Bought: 1979-12-27
- Notes: [2004-07-17]
- Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: Set at an archæological dig in the Middle East. The
lovely Louise, Dr Leidner's new wife, is murdered. Poirot is
conveniently nearby. It must be one of the expedition members
because of the closed nature of the expedition house. Poirot is
assisted by a nurse, and for once the assistant is not the
villain. There are various clues in anonymous letters, missing
gold ornaments and a strange feeling of tension in the group. Dr
Leidner is really the same person as Louise's first husband, whom
she betrayed as a spy and who was supposed killed in an accident
having escaped execution. The method is ingenious: he entices his
wife to poke her head out of the window and then drops a heavy
object onto her from the roof. Father Lavigny, who is an imposter,
is a crook but not the murderer; he is stealing the gold.
- Murderer: Dr Leidner, the devoted husband
- Bought: 1977-03-17
- Notes: [2004-06-04]
- Murder in the mews (1937)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: A collection of four short Poirot stories. In the title
story, a suicide is made out to look like murder in an attempt to
incriminate a nasty specimen of a blackmailer. In the second the
man above suspicion steals his own plans to buy back an embarassing
letter held by a foreign power. In the third, Ruth's real mother
murders to prevent her daughter being disinherited. In the fourth
Marjorie and Commander Chantry conspire to murder Valentine and
get Douglas convicted for it, so they can inherit and marry, but
Poirot misses nothing.
- Murderers: suicide, (theft) Lord Mayfield, Miss Lingard, Commander
Chantry.
- Bought: 1978-07-01
- Notes: Three of these stories (omitting "The Incredible Theft")
appear in a North American compilation called "Dead Man's Mirror"
which I bought in Calgary 1980-10-23. [2004-06-09]
- Murder is easy (1939)
- Hero: Luke Fitzwilliam with Bridget Conway
- Summary: Luke, a colonial policeman returning to England,
meets an old lady in the train who tells a tale of serial murder
in a quiet country town. He decides to investigate for himself.
Suspicion comes to rest on the local squire, but it's actually
his former fiancée, whom he jilted, getting her own back
by framing him. Bridget solves it first and gets herself nearly
killed before being rescued by the hero and marrying him.
- Murderer: Honoria Waynflete
- Bought: 1977-12-28
- Notes: [2004-05-09]
- Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: Poirot has to hurry back to London in a bleak winter
and is suprised to find no free sleeping berths on the Orient
Express. He is able to wangle a share of a second-class berth.
A murder occurs. Poirot is able to establish that the victim is
a notorious child kidnapper and murderer who has escaped justice.
Three goodies: Poirot, a director of the train company and a
convenient doctor, solve the mystery while the train is stuck
in a snowdrift. They all did it, each stabbing once. It was
a carefully-planned execution, upset by the snow. A convenient
alternative explanation is concocted for the Yugoslavian police
by the time the line is cleared.
- Murderer: All twelve of them
- Bought: ? (40p)
- Notes: [2004-05-23]
- Nemesis (1971)
- Hero: Miss Marple
- Summary: The rich businessman Jane met in "A Caribbean Mystery"
dies, leaving her a lot of money on condition that she accepts
a vague challenge. Gradually, following instructions and arrangements
left by the man before he died, she proves that his son was
innocent of the murder he was convicted of and obtains his release
and the death of the true murderer.
- Murderer: Clotilde Bradbury-Scott
- Bought: 1977-12-07
- Notes: [2004-05-09]
- N or M (1941)
- Hero: Tommy and Tuppence Beresford
- Summary: A second world war adventure. Our heroes, now middle
aged, are brought out of retirement to root out the Fifth Column,
whose leaders are thought to be based in a seedy guest house on
the south coast. After a few mishaps they succeed; naturally the
least likely candidates are the real villains and the German, whom
everyone suspects, is innocent. As ever, there is an unlikely
last-minute rescue; this time Tuppence lays a trail of aniseed that
a clever dog follows, railway and car journeys included.
- Ringleader: Mrs Sprot
- Bought: 1976-12-31
- Notes: [2004-04-26]
- One, two, buckle my shoe (1940)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: Poirot's dentist is shot; seemingly it's suicide.
Poirot is unconvinced and delves. At first it looks like a plot to
assassinate Blunt, a banker on whom the stability of Britain rests,
but it is another sordid personal affair. Blunt married an actor
in his youth, but later also married a rich heiress, more as business
move. Years later, with the new wife dead, all is going well until
the marvellously-named Maybelle Sainsbury Seale appears from the
past and remembers him with the first wife. She is killed, and then
a fat Greek blackmailer, and so on. The orginal wife is being kept
in various places under various names, and some of the time is
impersonating Maybelle.
- Murderer: Alistair Blunt, the banker
- Bought: 1976-12-31
- Notes: I also have "An Overdose of Death" bought in Toronto
1980-10-25 which is the same story. This claims to have been formerly
titled "The Patriotic Murders". [2004-06-07]
- Ordeal by innocence (1958)
- Hero: Dr Arthur Calgary
- Summary: A rich woman is unable to have children of her own
so adopts a large family of misfit children, now grown. She is
hit on the head with a poker. One of the children, Jacko, a thoroughly
bad lot, is convicted and dies in prison. Our Dr Calgary comes
back from a Polar expedition two years later to discover that
he has vital evidence that would have cleared Jacko. That means
that the murderer is still at large. She commits another murder
and attempts a third before she is driven to confess. But as she
was in conspiracy with Jacko, his death was really only justice.
- Murderer: Kirsten Lindstrom
- Bought: 1977-12-17
- Notes: [2004-05-28]
- Parker Pyne investigates (1934)
- Hero: Parker Pyne
- Summary: A collection of twelve short stories. In the first few
Mr Pyne arranges little situations to make various losers happier.
Later the stories turn more conventionally Christie, Pyne travels
to the Middle East on holiday but finds himself required to solve
various mysteries including a death or two.
- Murderer: various
- Bought: ? (3/6)
- Notes: [2004-06-25]
- Partners in crime (1929)
- Hero: Tommy and Tuppence Beresford
- Summary: A series of short stories loosely linked. T & T take
over a detective agency being used as a mail drop by Russian spies
and meanwhile take on ordinary cases, solving them while pretending
to be various fictional detectives. Lastly they get the spies. How
many times can these people get drugged, bound and gagged.
- Murderer: various
- Bought: 1979-03-07
- Notes: [2004-05-10]
- Passenger to Frankfurt (1970)
- Hero: Sir Stafford Nye
- Summary: Another rather unbelievable story about a band of rich men
trying to take over the world, in this case by financing a worldwide
movement of young anarchists following a fake son of Hitler. For a
change it's not Tommy & Tuppence, but some of the same shady
characters appear. No-one gets bumped on the head, in fact violence
is kept firmly in the background until the last few pages when the
spies are unmasked. He gets the girl in the end.
- Murderer: An evil band of rich men
- Bought: 1977-04-24
- Notes: [2004-07-02]
- Peril at End House (1932)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: Poirot and Hastings are on holiday when they meet
scatty young woman Nick (really Magdala) and are told of the strange
accidents that have happened to her; Poirot believes her life is
threatened and attempts to protect her. Nick's cousin Maggie (also
Magdala) Buckley, is invited and gets herself killed, apparently
in mistake for Nick. In fact, the cousin is secretly engaged to a
famous aviator, who has become rich and then died leaving her the
fortune. Nick kills her cousin intending to impersonate her and
claim the inheritance, implicating Frederica for the murder. The
Crofts are forgers also after money. Commander Challenger is a
dope pedlar. Frederica Rice is the good girl.
- Murderer: Nick (Magdala) Buckley
- Bought: ? (3/6)
- Notes: [2004-05-28]
- Poirot investigates (1924)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: A collection of eleven short stories featuring Poirot
and Hastings. Three murders, two jewel thefts, stolen plans, stolen
bonds, serial murder, a kidnapping, a disappearing banker and a
hidden will.
- Murderer: various
- Bought: 1979-01-27
- Notes: [2004-05-12]
- Poirot's early cases (1974)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: A collection of 18 very short Poirot stories. One,
"The submarine plans", is a simpler version of "The incredible theft"
which appears in "Murder in the Mews". Several have a Sherlock
Holmes feel, opening with Poirot and Hastings in Poirot's rooms
receiving a mysterious visitor. The stories were written between
1923 and 1967 or 1974.
- Murderer: various
- Bought: 1979-04-04
- Notes: [2004-06-22]
- Postern of fate (1973)
- Hero: Tommy and Tuppence Beresford
- Summary: Tommy & Tuppence, now in their 70s, retire to a
house in the country. However, it doesn't take them long to find
a mystery to investigate, linked to espionage and fifth columns.
In deference to her age Tuppence is spared getting banged on the
head or tied up, but she does get grazed by a bullet. There is
a murder along the way when the gardener is knocked on the head.
- Murderer: Iris Mullins
- Bought: 1976-11-28
- Notes: [2004-05-27]
- Sad cypress (1933)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: A rich old widow is dying, and her niece Elinor and
her fiancé Roddy (the widow's husband's nephew) are expecting
an inheritance. But it all goes wrong, Roddy falls for Mary Gerrard
and Elinor gets all the money herself, as the widow died intestate;
the engagement is off. Then Mary is poisoned, and Elinor is tried
for murder. The widow is found also to have been poisoned.
Poirot is brought in by the young doctor and shows that the nurse
is really a dodgy character from New Zealand, and would get all the
money as Mary is in fact the illegitimate daughter of the widow and
therefore the true heir, and the nurse has persuaded Mary to make a
will leaving it all to her under her real name. The nurse killed both
the widow and Mary. And Elinor prefers the young doctor after all.
- Murderer: Nurse Hopkins, aka Mary Riley
- Bought: ? (50p)
- Notes: [2004-05-30]
- Sleeping murder (1976)
- Hero: Miss Marple
- Summary: Gwenda comes back to England from New Zealand to find
a house for herself and her new husband. Moving in, she gradually
realises that the house is oddly familiar, and further investigation
reveals that she had lived there briefly as a child. But her mind
is triggered by a phrase in a play to remember that she had seen a
murder being committed there. They follow the clues and find the
murderer, who until now was unsuspected as no body had been found,
and suspicion had been directed to Gwenda's father. Along the way
an unimportant character is murdered for knowing too much. The
couple live happily ever after.
- Murderer: Dr James Kennedy
- Bought: 1978-07-07
- Notes: Written in the 1940s [2004-05-21]
- Sparkling cyanide (1945)
- Hero: Anthony Browne
- Summary: A beautiful and rich but rather dim woman appears
to commit suicide by cyanide poisoning at her birthday party,
at which time her duller but brainier sister Iris gets the money.
All is well for a while, before anonymous letters suggest that
the death was murder. Then a second cyanide poisoning occurs at
a sinister party held at the same restaurant exactly one year
after the first. This second death is of the wrong person, by
accident the people sit one place up along the table and get the
wrong drinks. The murderer Victor is after the money; his mother is
next in line when Iris dies but George dies instead. The secretary
Ruth is in league with the murderer, and finally tries again to
to murder Iris; she is saved in the nick of time to marry the hero.
Anthony's strange background is because he's a secret agent on our
side.
- Murderer: Victor Drake (helped by Ruth Lessing)
- Bought: 1978-12-18
- Notes: [2004-07-11]
- Taken at the flood (1948)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: A whole family of Cloades is expecting money from
Gordon Cloade but he re-marries and is killed before making a new
will and the money goes to the new wife. She is an obvious
gold-digger, controlled by an adventurer brother. A stranger
appears, purporting to know that the wife's former husband is
still alive; he is killed. He is proved not to be the former
husband or to know him, but an imposter trying blackmail on behalf
of one of the family. Later
the new wife is killed too. And at the end we learn that she was
also an imposter, she had been a servant in the bombed house in
which the genuine wife died and David Hunter had persuaded her
to take her name. The first death is accidental, the second is
suicide, only the last is murder.
- Murderer: David Hunter
- Bought: 1977-12-28
- Notes: [2004-07-03]
- Ten little niggers (1939)
- Hero: None, they are all murderers
- Summary: Ten people are lured, on various pretexts, to a
luxury house on a small island, which is then cut off by a storm.
Each of them is accused of having killed someone, actively or
passively, and got away with it. Then they get bumped
off one-by-one, following the script of a nursery rhyme. There's
no-one else on the island. One of them was actually falsely
accused, but he's the one that's killing off the others. The
trick is that his death is faked part way through the sequence
so that he can finish off the last few; he's terminally ill and
kills himself to complete the set.
- Murderer: Justice Wargrave
- Bought: ? (4/-)
- Notes: I assume more recent issues have a new title [And then
there were none]. My copy is probably 1969 or 1970.
[2004-04-29]
- The ABC murders (1936)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: A series of murders, in places and of victims taken
in alphabetical order; each announced by a taunting letter to
Poirot. It appears to be the work of a madman with a railway
timetable, but in fact it's all to hide one quite ordinary killing,
for money.
- Murderer: Franklin Clarke
- Bought: 1980-01-20
- Notes: [2004-03-20]
- The adventure of the Christmas pudding (1960)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: A collection of five Poirot stories and one Miss
Marple. The title story: A jewel theft. The mystery of the Spanish
chest: A jealous husband is persuaded to hide in the chest and then
murdered. The underdog: A woman's intuition is proved correct, it
was the meek secretary. Four-and-twenty blackbirds: An imposter is
given away by choosing the wrong food in a restaurant. The dream:
Another imposter, establishing a false story of dreams to make a
simple murder seem to be suicide. Greenshaw's folly: The housekeeper
impersonates her boss to disguise the time of death and establish
various alibis.
- Murderer: various
- Bought: ? (4/-)
- Notes: [2004-07-14]
- The big four (1927)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: Poirot and Hastings track down a gang of four intent
on world domination, a Chinaman, an American, a French woman and
a British actor. Poirot is given a grand funeral, only to reappear
at the climax. This is obviously one of the early ones.
- Murderer: Mostly Number Four
- Bought: ? (25p)
- Notes: [2004-04-17]
- The body in the library (1942)
- Hero: Miss Marple
- Summary: The body of a young girl is found in St Mary Mead,
in the library of Colonel Bantry. A rich cripple is about to change
his will to leave most of his money to a girl he's suddenly decided
to adopt; his remaining family, all in-laws, are hard up and
disapprove. The son-in-law and his wife (he's secretly re-married)
take action. A second girl is murdered and the identities switched
in an attempt to create alibis. Basil Blake is good: he appears a
rotter but is redeemed in the eyes of the Colonel because he did something heroic in the war.
- Murderers: Mark Gaskell and Josie (his wife)
- Bought: 1979-12-15
- Notes: [2004-05-15]
- The clocks (1963)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: A man is found dead, drugged and stabbed, in the
house of a blind woman. The circumstances are mysterious, there
are four clocks all set to the wrong time, the man cannot be
identified, a temporary secretary is enagaged apparently just to find
the body. But, as Poirot says, the complexity must mean it's really
quite simple, and it is. The family Bland claimed an inheritance
from a foreign relative due to his first wife, and now they are
about to be found out by a visitor who knew the first wife.
The second wife is Miss Martindale's sister. As ever, there is
a second murder of a witness, a dim girl. The blind woman is the
mother of Sheila, the girl who found the body and who pairs off
with the narrator Colin. Colin is in the secret service, and in a
second thread the blind woman is the spy.
- Murderer: Miss Martindale
- Bought: ? (3/6)
- Notes: [2004-07-10]
- The hollow (1946)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: The Angkatell clan and friends gather at The Hollow for
a country weekend, Poirot has a cottage nearby and is invited to
lunch. He is faced with a murder scene, centre stage a man dead and
his wife holding a revolver. The death is real but it's as if everyone
is playing a part. Henrietta, who is the dead man's lover, knows that
the apparently dull-witted wife did it and with the rest of the
family creates all sorts of false leads. At the end Gerda tries to
kill Henrietta too but Poirot saves her and instead Gerda kills
herself.
- Murderer: Gerda Christow, the wife
- Bought: 1976-12-17
- Notes: Saw the play 2006-09-23, this version omits Poirot.
- The hound of death (1933)
- Hero: various
- Summary: A collection of 12 short stories with a spooky or
supernatural theme.
- Murderer: various
- Bought: 1979-04-04
- Notes: [2004-06-27]
- The labours of Hercules (1947)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: Poirot as ever is about to retire and before he
does he will take on just twelve more cases. These will
be twelve supreme mental tests, a modern-age version of the very
physical labours of Hercules. Conveniently twelve puzzles
present themselves, with the appropriate parallels and in the
right order, but perhaps not quite Herculean in magnitude.
- Murderer: None
- Bought: 1977-11-30
- Notes: Copyright date 1939 [2004-04-20]
- The Listerdale mystery (1934)
- Hero: various
- Summary: A collection of 12 short mysteries.
- Murderer: various
- Bought: 1977-01-03
- Notes: [2004-05-19]
- The man in the brown suit (1924)
- Hero: Anne Beddingfeld
- Summary: Anne's professor father dies and she sets off to see
the world. In London she witnesses a man falling off an Underground
platform and being fried; it looks suspicious and she picks up a
mysterious slip of paper. Then she goes off to South Africa and
has adventures chasing the master criminal called The Colonel
and her hero Harry, who has been framed for the theft of diamonds.
All turns out for the best, Harry is cleared and is revealed to be
potentially rich. But they reject the money and live happily ever
after on an African island. The murderer, unusually, is allowed to
escape unharmed, perhaps because the victim was a blackmailer.
- Murderer: Sir Eustace Pedler (aka The Colonel)
- Bought: ? (25p)
- Notes: [2004-05-10]
- The mirror crack'd from side to side (1962)
- Hero: Miss Marple
- Summary: Marina Gregg, film actress, comes to live in St Mary
Mead. She hosts a fete, at which the victim, Heather, goes on
about how years ago she'd crawled from her sickbed to meet Marina.
However, by so doing she'd given Marina German Measles, which
resulted in her child being born an imbecile. So Marina kills her.
More deaths follow of various blackmailers. Christie gets in a few
shots against modern life, such as women in trousers.
- Murderer: Marina Gregg
- Bought: 1979-12-15
- Notes: [2004-07-12]
- The moving finger (1943)
- Hero: Miss Marple
- Summary: Jerry Burton, recovering from a war wound, goes with
his sister Joanna to a quiet country town. Poison pen letters
start arriving, and then a suicide as a result. Then a murder too.
The letters are a smokescreen, to hide the murder of a wife in
favour of another woman, which is what the suicide is; the
second murder is the inevitable attempt to eliminate a potential
witness. With the inevitability of a Gilbert & Sullivan finale
the characters pair off at the end; the sister with the doctor,
the brother with the bushel-hidden Megan; Aimée and Emily
go off on a cruise together. The siblings play at sleuthing and
fail; Miss Marple is brought in very late to find the correct
solution.
- Murderer: Mr Symmington
- Bought: 1979-10-13
- Notes: [2004-07-07]
- The murder at the vicarage (1930)
- Hero: Miss Marple
- Summary: The most hated man in St Mary Mead, Colonel Protheroe,
is found shot in the vicar's study. And it's the simplest story:
man wants another man's wife and his money. In this case Lawrence
gets Anne to actually do the shooting, and they jointly arrange
their alibis. The archæologist is an imposter, he's really
a thief.
An early one and quite neat.
- Murderer: Anne Protheroe and Lawrence Redding
- Bought:? (65p)
- Notes: [2004-06-19]
- The murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: The local squire is stabbed in his study. Was he
murdered for his money, or because he knew the identity of a
blackmailer? The doctor had realised at the time that Mrs Ferrars
had poisoned her husband and he was blackmailing her; she killed
herself to escape him but she had sent a last letter to Ackroyd
naming the doctor. An example of the narrator as villain despite
acting as the detective's assistant.
- Murderer: Dr Sheppard
- Bought: 1976-12-12
- Notes: [2004-05-01]
- The murder on the links (1923)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: Set around a villa in France. A rich man, based in
England but in France for the summer, is found dead by a fresh
grave, stabbed. His wife is found tied up, with tales of masked and
bearded men, secrets and South America. It is not how it seems.
He's really a Frenchman, a wanted murderer, now grown old and
settled into a new identity. He's recognised, blackmailed and
arranges with his wife's help a mock death and disappearance,
but it all goes wrong. The blackmailer hears of the plan, is
not to be cheated and tries instead for all the money, by killing
the victim and marrying the son. Along the way Hastings meets his wife.
Poirot has to deal with two imbecile associates, Hastings and Giraud.
- Murderer: Marthe Daubreuil
- Bought: 1978-07-01
- Notes: [2004-04-30]
- The mysterious affair at Styles (1920)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: Hastings is convalescing at his friend's mother's
grand house, Styles. Said mother has recently re-married a man
heartily disliked by the rest of the family and thought to be after
her money. She dies. Much appears to point to the step-father,
but he has an alibi. Poirot is living nearby with some other
Belgian refugees; Hastings has met him before, and calls him in.
The missing link is discovered, the alibi blown. It was a
conspiracy.
- Murderer: Alfred Inglethorp (with Evelyn Howard)
- Bought: 1976-12-10
- Notes: The first Poirot story. [2004-04-08]
- The mysterious Mr Quin (1930)
- Hero: Mr Satterthwaite and Harley Quin
- Summary: Satterthwaite appears in other books but here he
has a set of twelve short stories to himself. He is an old batchelor
who studies real-life dramas. In each story he unravels an unsolved
or potential crime or resolves happily some human sadness, often
by the trick of viewing from a distance so that events in the past
can be seen more dispassionately and so the truth discovered. His
solutions are always seeded by the mysterious Mr Quin, who appears
from nowhere, asks a few pertinent questions, then suddenly
disappears.
- Murderer: various
- Bought: 1977-12-07
- Notes:[2004-07-06]
- The mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: Millionaire buys expensive jewels for daughter married
to a bad sort, she gets murdered on the Blue Train to S
France, jewels disappear.
- Murderer: Knighton, the millionaire's secretary.
- Bought: 1979-12-27
- Notes: [1999]
- The Pale Horse (1961)
- Hero: Mark Easterbrook and Ginger (Katherine Corrigan)
- Summary: A useful organisation. You want someone out of the
way, they'll do it. You don't pay, you just make a bet that someone
will survive another month, and you always lose. The mechanism is
supposed to be black magic, not illegal nowadays. This all centres
around a former pub, the Pale Horse, inhabited by three weird women.
Our heroes stumble across this firm when an RC priest is murdered
and they try a sting operation. In reality the black magic is prosaic
thallium poisoning, and Ginger is saved just in time. Osborne doesn't
even do anything with all the money he makes. Venables, the first
suspect, made his money from bank robberies.
- Murderer: Zachariah Osborne
- Bought: 1977-12-17
- Notes: [2004-06-01]
- The secret adversary (1922)
- Hero: Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley
- Summary: The first Tommy and Tuppence, in which they are not
yet married. A sinister gang is trying to destabilise Britain and
foment a revolution by manipulating public opinion over a general
strike. To do this they are trying to get hold of an embarrassing
old treaty that was saved from the wreck of the Lusitania by an
American girl. With the help of an American millionaire, and
the intelligence service, our duo discover the leader of the gang,
a megalomaniac QC in whom they have been confiding almost to the
end.
- Murderer: (and villain) Sir James Peel Edgerton MP
- Bought: 1978-12-18
- Notes: [2004-06-17]
- The secret of Chimneys (1925)
- Hero: Anthony Cade or Prince Nicholas Obolovitch of
Herzoslovakia
- Summary: An international intrigue, centered on the historic
house of Chimneys owned by Lord Caterham and run by his daughter
Bundle. Britain is secretly negotiating to establish a king in
Herzoslovakia with a favourable view on their oil being exploited
by British companies, but there is competition with various political
factions. The British candidate for king is shot, some possibly
explosive memoirs are missing, and some odd love letters are stolen.
This knits together, and takes in a sub-plot of a stolen
diamond hidden in the house and a famous French jewel thief. At the
end nearly everyone is not what they seem. The French detective is
really the jewel thief, the hero is really the next in line for
king, the governess is an ex-Queen and accomplice of the thief,
the American is a detective.
- Murderer: Mme Brun or Queen Varaga
- Bought: 1978-12-18
- Notes: [2004-06-11]
- The Seven Dials mystery (1929)
- Hero: Superintendent Battle (and Bundle, Lady Eileen Brent)
- Summary: A typical early Christie: big houses stuffed with
servants, titles and silly nicknames. Another one where the
goodies unwittingly work with the baddies. The Seven Dials
appears to be a sinister criminal gang and Bundle is hot on
their heels, but in fact it is an unofficial amateur police cell
investigating the loss of various important papers, and run by
Superintendent Battle. All ends well despite Bundle telling all
to the murderer. She gets to marry Bill the good guy.
- Murderer: Jimmy Thesiger (with Loraine Wade)
- Bought: ? (25p)
- Notes: [2004-04-23]
- The Sittaford mystery (1931)
- Hero: Emily Trefusis.
- Summary: The village of Sittaford is cut off by snow as its
main inhabitants are playing with table-turning. The table announces
a murder at exactly that time in the neighbouring town. The Major
sets off on foot over the snow to prove it wrong, but it isn't.
Emily's fiancé is accused, and Emily sets out to prove his
innocence. Actually the Major used skis, and did the murder himself.
He was jealous of the victim, and also wanted to keep the competition
prize money that really belonged to the victim. The Willets are a
diversion; they are part of a plot to spring a convict from the prison.
- Murderer: Major John Burnaby.
- Bought: 1979-12-31
- Notes:I also have "Murder at Hazelmoor" (bought 1980-10-25 at
Toronto) which appears to be a rather heavily edited North American
version of this story. [2004-04-12]
- The thirteen problems (1932)
- Hero: Miss Marple
- Summary: A series of twelve loosely-connected short stories
involving six people at the house of Colonel and Mrs Bantry; they
pose each other mysteries, all of which only Miss Marple is able to
solve. The thirteenth story is a real murder in which Miss Marple
prevents a miscarriage of justice.
- Murderer: Mrs Bartlett and others
- Bought: 1978-12-18
- Notes: Early stories, working up the concept of the fluffy
old spinster and her odd association with murder. [2004-06-06]
- They came to Baghdad (1951)
- Hero: Victoria Jones
- Summary: A spy story. A secret organisation is attempting to
sow discord between the USA and the USSR, and in particular it is
anxious to prevent evidence of its existence being presented at a
summit meeting in Baghdad. Victoria blunders into the thick of this
by falling for one of the senior villains. With the help of British
Intelligence she comes through, finds the vital clues, and ends up
with one of the good guys.
- Murderers: various
- Bought: (probably the same age as me) (2/-)
- Notes: [2004-05-16]
- They do it with mirrors (1952)
- Hero: Miss Marple
- Summary: Jane is asked to stay at an old house, which Lewis
Serrocold is using as an experimental rehabilitation centre for
young delinquents; a friend thinks there's something fishy going on
there. Lewis is running a major embezzlement operation, training
people to get work in companies and cream off huge sums. Lewis's
wife Carrie Louise is not being poisoned, this is a blind. The
first murder is to prevent exposure; other murders follow as
ever. The key is that all of the rooms are connected via the terrace.
- Murderer: Lewis Serrocold
- Bought: 1979-03-07
- Notes: [2004-05-16]
- Third girl (1966)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: Poirot meets the swinging Sixties, assisted by Ariadne
Oliver (who eats not a single apple). A young girl is manipulated
by drugs to the point that she's prepared to believe she has
committed murder. Her father ran away years ago and died in
Africa, but a dodgy collaborator steals his identity and comes back as
a rich man. He and a woman conspirator murder a woman who might
recognise him and a blackmailing painter who helped forge his
identity, and create false evidence against his supposed daughter.
Mary and Frances are the same person.
- Murderer: Frances Cary (with Robert Orwell as Andrew Restarick)
- Bought: ? (4/-)
- Notes: [2004-05-14]
- Three act tragedy (1935)
- Hero: Poirot
- Summary: The first murder, of a clergyman at a house party hosted
by a famous actor, is not taken for murder until the second murder
using the identical method of nicotine poisoning in a drink. The
second murder is the real one, the first was a dress rehearsal to
test the method. The actor was present at the second murder playing
the part of the butler. A third murder is incidental. Propriety
is maintained as the young girl Egg, who becomes engaged to the
middle-aged actor, is paired off with someone nearer her own age.
- Murderer: Sir Charles Cartwright (alias Mugg), the actor
- Bought: ? (25p)
- Notes: [2004-05-23]
- Towards zero (1944)
- Hero: Superintendent Battle
- Summary: An elaborately contrived attempt to have Audrey
Strange, Nevile's first wife, hanged for murder. She left him
for another man, and he decided that she had to die. Meanwhile
he married again and the story is set around an odd family
gathering with both wives present. Nevile kills the old woman (his
guardian's wife) and leaves clues so as to point too obviously to
himself and less obviously to Audrey. Justice is however properly
done and the right people end up paired off. There is a mention
of Poirot.
- Murderer: Nevile Strange
- Bought: ?
- Notes: Title page of my copy is stamped "Coronet Bookshop,
Rashid Street, South-gate, Baghdad"; no idea how I got it.
[2004-05-22]
By the magic of the Internet, the daughter of the
former owner of the Coronet Bookshop found this entry via Google
and she now has the book. I have a new copy at about 42 times the
price of the earlier books here. [2014-02-18]
- Why didn't they ask Evans? (1934)
- Hero: Lady Frances Derwent (Frankie) and Bobby Jones
- Summary: An unlikely adventure story, in which two
young things track down a drug smuggling gang and a murderer.
Moira and Roger are in league, they have stolen a fortune by
murder and a forged will, but their plans are upset as first
Carstairs, and then Frankie and Bobby, start asking questions.
Their last-minute rescue by Badger is amusingly contrived. And
Evans? She
turns out to be Bobby's father's maid; she had the vital clue
all along.
- Murderers: Roger Bassington-ffrench (and Moira Nicholson)
- Bought: ? (4/-)
- Notes: Notable for the number of occurrences of the word
"ejaculate", for example twice on page 152 including: "Rather stiffly,
Bobby managed to ejaculate:"; things were different in 1934!
[2004-04-01]
Short story index
- Miss Marple's final cases
- Sanctuary
- Strange Jest
- Tape-measure Murder
- The Case of the Caretaker
- The Case of the Perfect Maid
- Miss Marple Tells a Story
- The Dressmaker's Doll
- In A Glass Darkly
- Murder in the mews
- Murder in the Mews
- The Incredible Theft
- Dead Man's Mirror
- Triangle at Rhodes
- Parker Pyne investigates
- The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife
- The Case of the Discontented Soldier
- The Case of the Distressed lady
- The Case of the Discontented Husband
- The Case of the City Clerk
- The Case of the Rich Woman
- Have You Got Everything You Want?
- The Gate of Baghdad
- The House at Shiraz
- The Pearl of Price
- Death on the Nile
- The Oracle at Delphi
- Poirot investigates
- The Adventure of the "Western Star"
- The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor
- The Adventure of the Cheap Flat
- The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge
- The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
- The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb
- The Jewel Robbery at the "Grand Metropolitan"
- The Kidnapped Prime Minister
- The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim
- The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman
- The Case of the Missing Will
- Poirot's early cases
- The Affair at the Victory Ball
- The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
- The Cornish Mystery
- The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly
- The Double Clue
- The King of Clubs
- The Lemesurier Inheritance
- The Lost Mine
- The Plymouth Express
- The Chocolate Box
- The Submarine Plans
- The Third-Floor Flat
- Double Sin
- The Market Basing Mystery
- Wasps' Nest
- The Veiled Lady
- Problem at Sea
- How Does Your Garden Grow?
- The adventure of the Christmas pudding
- The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
- The Mystery of the Spanish Chest
- The Under Dog
- Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds
- The Dream
- Greenshaw's Folly
- The hound of death
- The Hound of Death
- The Red Signal
- The Fourth Man
- The Gipsy
- The Lamp
- Wireless
- The Witness for the Prosecution
- The Mystery of the Blue Jar
- The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael
- The Call of Wings
- The Last Seance
- SOS
- The Listerdale mystery
- The Listerdale Mystery
- Philomel Cottage
- The Girl in the Train
- Sing a Song of Sixpence
- The Manhood of Edward Robinson
- Accident
- Jane in Search of a Job
- A Fruitful Sunday
- Mr Eastwood's Adventure
- The Golden Ball
- The Rajah's Emerald
- Swan Song
- The mysterious Mr Quin
- The Coming of Mr Quin
- The Shadow on the Glass
- At the Bells and Motley
- The Sign in the Sky
- The Soul of the Croupier
- The Man from the Sea
- The Voice in the Dark
- The Face of Helen
- The Dead Harlequin
- The Bird with the Broken Wing
- The World's End
- Harlequin's Lane
- The thirteen problems
- The Tuesday Night Club
- The Idol House of Astarte
- Ingots of Gold
- The Bloodstained Pavement
- Motive v Opportunity
- The Thumb Mark of St Peter
- The Blue Geranium
- The Companion
- The Four Suspects
- A Christmas Tragedy
- The Herb of Death
- The Affair at the Bungalow
- Death by Drowning
Agatha Christie in French
I have one, Les Indiscrétions d'Hercule Poirot, which is a
translation by Yves Massip of After the Funeral in the series Livre
de Poche. It has a list of other title, which I reproduce below with
the equivalent English title where it can be guessed.
- Les Indiscrétions d'Hercule Poirot
- After the Funeral
- Le Meurtre de Roger Ackroyd
- The murder of Roger Ackroyd
- Dix Petits Nègres
- Ten little niggers
- Les Vacances d'Hercule Poirot
- Evil under the sun
- Le Crime du golf
- The murder on the links
- Le Vallon
- The hollow
- Le Noël d'Hercule Poirot
- Hercule Poirot's Christmas
- Meurtre en Mésopotamie
- Murder in Mesopotamia
- A.B.C. contre Poirot
- The ABC murders
- Cartes sur table
- Cards on the table
- La Mystérieuse affaire de Styles
- The mysterious affair at Styles
- Cinq petits cochons
- Five little pigs
- Meurtre au champagne
- Sparkling cyanide
- Les Sept Cadrans
- The Seven Dials mystery
- L'affaire Prothéro
- The murder at the vicarage
- Mr Brown
- The secret adversary
- Le Train blue
- The mystery of the Blue Train
- L'Homme au complet marron
- The man in the brown suit
- Le Couteau sur la Nuque
- Lord Edgware dies
- La Mort dans les Nuages
- Death in the clouds
- Le Secret de Chimneys
- The secret of Chimneys
- La Maison de Péril
- Peril at End House
- Cinq heures vingt-cinq
- The Sittaford mystery
- Les Quatre
- The big four
- Mort sur le Nil
- Death on the Nile
- Un Cadavre dans la Bibliothèque
- The body in the library
- Un Meurtre sera commis le...
- A murder is announced
- Le Chat et les Pigeons
- Cat among the pigeons
- La Nuit qui ne finit pas
- Endless night
- Allô, Hercule Poirot
- Mrs MacGinty est morte
- Mrs McGinty's dead
- Un meurtre est-il facile?
- Murder is easy
- Le Mystère de Listerdale
- The Listerdale mystery
- La Dernière énigme
- Sleeping murder
- À l'hôtel Bertram
- At Bertram's Hotel
- Le Cheval Pâle
- The Pale Horse
- Mr Quinn en voyage
- The mysterious Mr Quin
- Poirot résout trois énigmes
- Murder in the mews
- Je ne suis pas coupable
- Sad cypress
- Pourquoi pas Evans?
- Why didn't they ask Evans?
- L'Heure Zéro
- Towards zero
- Un, Deux, Trois...
- One, two, buckle my shoe
- N ou M?
- N or M
- Rendez-vous à Bagdad
- They came to Baghdad
- Une poignée de seigle
- A pocket full of rye
- La Plume empoisonnée
- The moving finger
- La Maison biscornue
- Crooked House
- Le Train de 16 heures 50
- 4:50 from Paddington
- Le Major parlait trop...
- A Caribbean Mystery
- Témoin à charge
- Le Flux et le reflux
- Taken at the flood
- Drame en trois actes
- Three act tragedy
- Poirot joue le jeu
- Dead man's folly
- La Mort n'est pas a fin
- Death comes as the end
- Les Pendules
- The clocks
- Le Crime est notre affaire
- Partners in crime
- Témoin muet
- Dumb witness
- Miss Marple au club du mardi
- The thirteen problems
- Le Club du mardi continue
- Une mémoire d'éléphant
- Elephants can remember
- Rendez-vous avec la mort
- Appointment with death
- Trois souris
- Le miroir se brisa
- The mirror crack'd from side to side
- Le Retour d'Hercule Poirot
- Jeux de glaces
- They do it with mirrors
- Le Cheval à Bascule
- Postern of fate
- Pension Vanilos
- Hickory, Dickory, Dock
- Témoin indésirable
- Ordeal by innocence
- Némésis
- Nemesis
- Associés contre le crime
- Partners in crime [again?]
- Le Bal de la Victoire
- Les Enquêtes d'Hercule Poirot
- Poirot investigates
- Passager pour Francfort
- Passenger to Frankfurt
- Poirot quitte la scène
- Curtain: Poirot's last case
Oddities
Hero counts
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Miss Marple | 14 |
Tommy and Tuppence | 5 |
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