Hercule Poirot
I’m working my way through Agatha Christie’s books about the great detective Hercule Poirot. I find him a comforting, familiar friend in the course of long trips.
Here is a full list, in publication order, taken straight from wikipedia. Links to my reviews to the right.
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) – my review 2009-02-09
- Murder on the Links (1923) – my review 2009-03-13
- Poirot Investigates (1924, ss) – my review 2009-04-18
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) – my review 2009-02-03
- The Big Four (1927) – my review 2009-04-30
- The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928) – my review 2009-05-16
- Black Coffee (1930 play – novel adapted from play published in 1998)
- Peril at End House (1932) – my review 2009-02-04
- Lord Edgware Dies (1933) – my review 2009-09-05
- Murder on the Orient Express (1934) – my review 2009-09-06
- Three Act Tragedy (1935) – my review 2009-10-07
- Death in the Clouds (1935) – my review 2009-10-17
- The A.B.C. Murders (1936) – my review 2009-10-21
- Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
- Cards on the Table (1936)
- Death on the Nile (1937)
- Dumb Witness (1937)
- Murder in the Mews (1937, ss)
- Appointment with Death (1938)
- Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
- Sad Cypress (1940)
- One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1940)
- Evil Under the Sun (1941)
- Five Little Pigs (1942)
- The Hollow (1946)
- The Labours of Hercules (1947, ss)
- Taken at the Flood (1948)
- Mrs McGinty’s Dead (1952)
- After the Funeral (1953)
- Hickory Dickory Dock (1955)
- Dead Man’s Folly (1956)
- Cat Among the Pigeons (1959)
- The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960, ss)
- The Clocks (1963)
- Third Girl (1966)
- Hallowe’en Party (1969)
- Elephants Can Remember (1972)
- Poirot’s Early Cases (1974, ss)
- Curtain (written about 1940, published 1975)
- Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (1991, ss)
- While the Light Lasts and Other Stories (1997, ss)
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