siphoning off a few thoughts

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)