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The mysteryous affair at styles.
main character: hercule poirot
This novel is the first mystery novel published by Agatha christie. -
The murder of Roger Ackroyd
Main character: Hercule Poirot
Poirot retires to a village near the home of a friend, Roger Ackroyd, to pursue a project to perfect vegetable marrows. Soon after, Ackroyd is murdered and Poirot must come out of retirement to solve the case. -
The big four.
Main character: Hercule Poirot
Captain Arthur Hastings returns to England after an 18-month-long stay in Argentina.[6] He intends to visit his old friend Hercule Poirot and is shocked to find Poirot about to leave for South America. -
The mystery of the Blue Train
Poirot boards Le Train Bleu, bound for the French Riviera. So does Katherine Grey, who is having her first winter out of England, after recently receiving a relatively large inheritance. On board the train Grey meets Ruth Kettering, an American heiress leaving her unhappy marriage to meet her lover. -
The murder at the vicarage
Reverend Leonard Clement, the vicar of St Mary Mead, narrates the story. He lives with his much younger wife Griselda and their nephew Dennis. Colonel Lucius Protheroe, Clement's churchwarden, is a wealthy, abrasive blowhard who also serves as the local magistrate, and is widely disliked in the village. At dinner one evening, -
Murder on the orient express
Main character: Hercule Poirot
The elegant train of the 1930s, the Orient Express, is stopped by heavy snowfall. A murder is discovered, and Poirot's trip home to London from the Middle East is interrupted to solve the case. -
The Sittaford Mystery
Sittaford is a tiny village on the fringe of Dartmoor. Mrs Willett and her daughter Violet are the newly installed tenants of Sittaford House, a residence owned by Trevelyan, a retired Navy captain. -
The ABC Murders
Main character: Hercule Poirot
The initial premise is that a serial killer is murdering people with alliterative names. The murders follow an alphabetical order, starting with a victim whose initials were A. A. The murders appear to lack a motive, yet Poirot suspects that there was a clear motive behind one of the murders. -
Murder in Mesopotamia
Nurse Amy Leatheran arrives at an archaeological dig near Hassanieh, Iraq, to assist the Swedish-American archaeologist, Dr Eric Leidner, in caring for his seemingly-neurotic wife, Louise. -
Death On the Nile
While on holiday in Aswan to board the steamer Karnak, set to tour along the Nile River from Shellal to Wadi Halfa, Hercule Poirot is approached by successful socialite Linnet Doyle née Ridgeway. She wants to commission him to deter her former friend Jacqueline de Bellefort from hounding and stalking her.