There are 38 books in the Hercule Poirot series. The newest book is Curtain which came out in 1983.

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles

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One morning at Styles Court, an Essex country manor, the elderly owner is found dead of strychnine poisoning. Arthur Hastings, a soldier staying there on sick leave from the Western Front, ventures out to the nearby village of Styles St. Mary to ask help from his friend Hercule Poirot, an…
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The Murder on the Links

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An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course.

An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save…

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Poirot Investigates

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First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond... then came the 'suicide' that was murder... the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat... a suspicious death in a locked gun-room... a million dollar bond robbery... the curse of a pharoah's tomb... a jewel robbery by the sea...…

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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

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The classic "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd", finally at a fair price!The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in June 1926 in the United Kingdom. It is the third novel to feature Hercule Poirot as the lead detective.

In…

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The Big Four

The Big Four
The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense--creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characters--brings her entire oeuvre of ingenious whodunits, locked room mysteries, and perplexing puzzles to audio. In her classic The…

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The Mystery of the Blue Train

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"When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again--for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition. What is more, her precious rubies are missing. The prime suspect is Ruth's…

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Black Coffee

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A full-length Hercule Poirot novel, adapted from Agatha Christie's stage play by Charles Osborne

Sir Claud Amory's revolutionary new formula for a powerful explosive is stolen. Locking his house-guests in the library, Sir Claud switches off the lights to allow the thief to replace the formula, no questions asked. When…

8
Peril at End House

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Car brakes fail
A boulder misses
Accidents? Or not?

On holiday in Cornwall, Poirot meets a pretty young woman with an unusual name, 'Nick' Buckley.

Upon discovering a bullet-hole in Nick's sun hat, the great detective decides the girl needs his protection. He also begins to unravel the mystery of…

9
Lord Edgware Dies

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In this official authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, detective Hercule Poirot must solve a most confounding conundrum when Lord Edgwarehas a most unnatural death.

When Lord Edgware is found murdered the police are baffled. His estranged actress wife was seen visiting him just before his death and Hercule…

10
Murder on the Orient Express

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THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY OF ALL TIME—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH AND PRODUCED BY RIDLEY SCOTT!

“The murderer is with us—on the train now . . .”

Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the…

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Three Act Tragedy

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At an apparently respectable dinner party, a vicar is the first to die...

Thirteen guests arrived at dinner at the actor's house. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, who choked on his cocktail, went into convulsions and died.

But when his martini…

12
Death in the Clouds

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A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passenger plane...

From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13,…

14
Murder in Mesopotamia

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What secrets lie in the past?

Fifteen years ago, during the Great War, Louise Leidner's first husband was tried as a spy, sentenced to death, and then escaped, only to die in a train crash.

So how is he sending her death threats from beyond the grave? Death threats upon…

15
Cards on the Table

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A dangerous game
A deadly outcome

Mr Shaitana has the most unusual hobby: he collects criminals who have evaded justice.

Among his dinner guests are four suspected murderers. And, to match them, four experts in crime, including Hercule Poirot.

To understand which of them went on to kill their host,…

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Murder in the Mews

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4 short stories featuring the great detective himself...

How did a woman holding a pistol in her right hand manage to shoot herself in the left temple? What was the link between a ghost sighting and the disappearance of top secert military plans? How did the bullet that killed Sir…

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Death on the Nile

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The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful. A girl who had everything... until she lost her life.

Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: 'I'd like…

20
Hercule Poirot's Christmas

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It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture, followed by a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed.

But when Hercule Poirot, who is staying in the village with a friend…

21
Sad Cypress

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An elderly stroke victim dies without having arranged a will...

Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison.

Yet,…

22
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

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The traditional counting-out song is presented with bright and attractive pictures by illustrator Jan Lewis in this special padded boardbook. You can see the classic verse brought to life as an amusing story of mischievous mice playing tricks on a hapless cat and dog, then helping out some cute fluffy…

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Five Little Pigs

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Agatha Christie's ingenious murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.

Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other suspects: Philip Blake (the stockbroker) who went to market; Meredith Blake…

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The Hollow

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Agatha Christie's ingenious mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.

Lucy Angkatell invited Hercule Poirot to lunch. To tease the great detective, her guests stage a mock murder beside the swimming pool. Unfortunately, the victim…

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The Labors of Hercules

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In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet - reasoned the detective - like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters.

So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Poirot made up his mind to accept just twelve…

27
Taken at the Flood

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A man returns from the dead, and the body of a mysterious stranger is found in his room...

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…

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Mrs. McGinty's Dead

Mrs. McGinty's Dead

An old widow is brutally killed in the parlour of her cottage...

'Mrs McGinty's dead!'
'How did she die?'
'Down on one knee, just like I!'

The old children's game now seemed rather tasteless. The real Mrs McGinty was killed by a crushing blow to the back of the head…

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After the Funeral

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Hercule Poirot is called on to investigate the murder of a brother and sister, in this classic Agatha Christie mystery now available in an updated edition with a foreword Sophie Hannah.

 “He was murdered, wasn’t he?”

When Cora Lansquenet is savagely murdered, the extraordinary remark she had made the previous…

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Hickory Dickory Dock

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Learn to tell the time with the Tarrytown fleet!

Jay Jay fans can use the small graphic on each spread and the moveable clock hands to learn how to tell time in this interactive book. All set to the classic nursery rhyme, Hickory Dickory Dock.

One of the most poular…

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Dead Man's Folly

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Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now
Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These readers have been carefully adapted using the Collins COBUILD grading…

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Cat Among the Pigeons

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Unfortunately, schoolgirl Julia Upjohn knows too much...

Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion, while the rest of the school sleeps. There, among the lacrosse sticks, they stumble upon the body of the unpopular games mistress - shot through the heart from point…

33
Double Sin and Other Stories

Double Sin and Other Stories
In one of London's most elegant shops, a decorative doll in green velvet adopts some rather human, and sinister, traits....A country gentleman is questioned about a murder that has yet to be committed....In summoning spirits, a medium is drawn closer to the world of the dead than she ever imagined…

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The Clocks

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Continuing the new look unabridged Poirot titles, read by Hugh Fraser.

As instructed, stenographer Sheila Webb let herself into the house at 19 Wilbraham Crescent. It was then that she made a grisly discovery: the body of a dead man sprawled across the living room floor.

What intrigued Poirot about…

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Third Girl

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A perplexed girl thinks she might have killed someone...

Three single girls shared the same London flat. The first worked as a secretary; the second was an artist; the third who came to Poirot for help, disappeared convinced she was a murderer.

Now there were rumours of revolvers, flick-knives and…

36
Hallowe'en Party

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When a Halloween Party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirots to unmask a murderer in Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery, Hallowe’en Party.

At a Halloween party, Joyce—a hostile thirteen-year-old—boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body…

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Elephants Can Remember

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THE NEW-LOOK SERIES OF HERCULE POIROT AUDIO BOOKS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY, NOW ON CD.

Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. For here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident - the broken body of a woman was discovered on the rocks at the foot of the cliff.…

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Curtain

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A 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,…