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Poirot's Early Cases Agatha Christie · 1963 · ★ 3.9 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate With his career still in its formative years, we learn many things about how Poirot came to exercise those famous "grey cells" so well. Fourteen of the eighteen stories collected herein are narrated by Captain Arthur Hastings—including what would appear to be the earliest Poirot short story, The Affair at the Victory Ball, which follows soon on the events of The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Two… Shares: Private investigators in fiction, Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators

The Hollow Agatha Christie · 1946 · ★ 3.9 · 280p · ≈ 9h · Challenging E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on The Hollow;2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective. Shares: Private investigators in fiction, Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators

The Labours of Hercules Agatha Christie · 1947 · ★ 3.8 · 258p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The Labours of Hercules is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1947. It features Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and gives an account of twelve cases with which he intends to close his career as a private detective. His regular sidekicks (his secretary, Miss Lemon, and valet, George/Georges) make cameo appearances, as… Shares: Private investigators in fiction, Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators

The Clocks Agatha Christie · 1963 · ★ 4.4 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Sheila Webb, typist-for-hire, has arrived at 19 Wilbraham Crescent in the seaside town of Crowdean to accept a new job. What she finds is a well-dressed corpse surrounded by five clocks. Mrs Pebmarsh, the blind owner of No. 19, denies all knowledge of ringing Sheila’s secretarial agency and asking for her by name — yet someone did. Nor does she own that many clocks. And neither woman seems to… Shares: Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators, Investigation

Five Little Pigs Agatha Christie · 1942 · ★ 4.0 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Sixteen years after Caroline Crale has been convicted of the murder of her husband, Amyas Crale, her daughter, Carla Lemarchant, approaches Poirot to investigate the case. Poirot embarks optimistically upon an unprecedented challenge, but soon fears that the case may be as cut and dried as it had first appeared. Shares: Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators, Investigation

Elephants Can Remember Agatha Christie · 1969 · ★ 3.7 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Elephants Can Remember;2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective."The Ravenscrofts didn’t seem that kind of person. They seemed well balanced and placid…" And yet, twelve years earlier, the husband had shot the wife, and then himself — or perhaps it was the other way around, since… Shares: Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators, Investigation

Cards on the Table Agatha Christie · 1936 · ★ 4.0 · 214p · ≈ 7h · Challenging It was the match-up of the century: four sleuths--Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard; Mrs. Ariadne Oliver, famed writer of detective stories; Col. Race of His Majesty's Secret Service; and the incomparable Hercule Poirot - invited to play bridge with four specially invited guests, each of whom had gotten away with murder! But before the first rubber was completed, the host was dead. Shares: Private investigators in fiction, Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding Agatha Christie · 1960 · ★ 3.8 · 264p · ≈ 8h · Moderate First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding...then the discovery of a corpse in a chest...next, an overheard quarrel that led to murder...the strange case of the dead man who altered his eating habits...and the puzzle of the victim who dreamt his own suicide. What links these five baffling cases? The little grey cells of Monsieur Hercule Poirot! Shares: Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators, Investigation

Murder in Three Acts Agatha Christie · 1934 · ★ 3.8 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Sir Charles Cartwright should have known better than to allow thirteen guests to sit down for dinner. For at the end of the evening one of them is dead—choked by a cocktail that contained no trace of poison. Predictable, says Hercule Poirot, the great detective. But entirely unpredictable is that he can find absolutely no motive for murder.… Shares: Private investigators in fiction, Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators

Murder on the Links Agatha Christie · 1923 · ★ 3.9 · 193p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is summoned to France after receiving a distressing letter with a urgent cry for help. Upon his arrival in Merlinville-sur-Mer, the investigator finds the man who penned the letter, the South American millionaire Monsieur Renauld, stabbed to death and his body flung into a freshly dug open grave on the golf course adjoining the property. Meanwhile the… Shares: Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators, Investigation

Death in the Clouds Agatha Christie · 1935 · ★ 3.9 · 254p · ≈ 8h · Challenging From seat number nine, Hercule Poirot is almost ideally placed to observe his fellow air travelers on this short flight from Paris to London. Over to his right sits a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite. Ahead, in seat number thirteen, is the Countess of Horbury, horribly addicted to cocaine and not doing too good a job of concealing it. Across the gangway in seat number… Shares: Private investigators in fiction, Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators

Evil Under the Sun Agatha Christie · 1941 · ★ 4.0 · 230p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Set at the Jolly Roger, a posh vacation resort for the rich and famous on the southern coast of England, Evil Under the Sun is one of Agatha Christie’s most intriguing mysteries. When a gorgeous young bride is brutally strangled to death on the beach, only Hercule Poirot can sift through the secrets that shroud each of the guests and unravel the macabre mystery at this playground by the sea. Shares: Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators, Investigation

Mrs. McGinty's Dead Agatha Christie · 1951 · ★ 3.9 · 254p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Poirot, disillusioned by the "senseless cruel brutality" of modern crime, pays no attention to the sad case of Mrs McGinty, an old woman apparently struck dead by her lodger for thirty pounds that she kept under a floorboard. When, however, he is asked by the investigating officer to take another look at the case to stop an innocent man going to the gallows, he realises that things may not be as… Shares: Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators, England

Taken at the Flood Agatha Christie · 1948 · ★ 3.7 · 226p · ≈ 7h · Challenging A few weeks after marrying an attractive young widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs. Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the Cloade family fortune. Shortly afterwards, Hercule Poirot receives a visit from the dead man's sister-in-law who claims she has been warned by 'spirits' that Mrs. Underhay's first husband is still… Shares: Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators, England

The Big Four Agatha Christie · 1927 · ★ 3.6 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Challenging They are a vicious international quartet of criminals known as "The Big Four". Number One was a brilliant Chinese, the greatest criminal brain of all time; Number Two was a USAmerican multi-millionaire; Number Three was a beautiful Frenchwoman scientist; and Number Four was "the destroyer," the ruthless murderer with a genius for disguise, whose business it was to remove those who interfered with… Shares: Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators, Comic books

Curtain Agatha Christie · 1975 · ★ 4.1 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Moderate wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take place… The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings; there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife Barbara , Nurse Craven, Colonel… Shares: Private investigators in fiction, Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators

Peril at End House Agatha Christie · 1932 · ★ 4.0 · 279p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Hercule Poirot is vacationing on the Cornish coast when he meets Nick Buckley. Nick is the young and reckless mistress of End House, an imposing structure perched on the rocky cliffs of St. Loo. Poirot quickly takes a particular interest in the young woman. Recently, she has narrowly escaped a series of life-threatening accidents. Something tells the Belgian sleuth that these so-called accidents… Shares: Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators, England

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe Agatha Christie · 1940 · ★ 3.8 · 201p · ≈ 6h · Challenging The dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A pistol lay on the floor near his outflung right hand. Later, one of his patients was found dead from a lethal dose of local anaesthetic. A clear case of murder and suicide. But why would a dentist commit a crime in the middle of a busy day of appointments? A shoe buckle holds the key to the mystery. Now – in the words of the… Shares: Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators, English literature

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