Hercule Poirot mysteries

Set in the summer of 1917, the story follows the war-wounded Hastings to the Styles St. Mary estate of his friend John Cavendish. The Cavendish household is wrought with tension due to the marriage of John's widowed mother to a suspicious younger man. In the village, Hastings runs into his old friend Hercule Poirot and, when the estate's trouble turns deadly, the friends unite to solve a most baffling case.

Although Hercule Poirot has retired and is now devoting his time to growing vegetable marrows, when murder occurs nearly on his doorstep he once again gets involved with finding the killer.

The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie, published in 1928, is a classic addition to Christie's renowned collection of detective novels. This captivating mystery revolves around the luxurious Blue Train, where a murder takes place during a journey to the French Riviera. The story features the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot, who must unravel a complex web of relationships, motives, and clues to solve the crime. Christie's masterful...

Lady Edgware asks for Poirot's help with her husband who is refusing to divorce her. When Lord Edgware is found murdered the next morning his wife is the primary suspect, but she was at a dinner party miles away with twelve witnesses to prove it. So why do others insist that she visited him on the night of the murder? Poirot will need all the help he can get from "his little gray cells" to figure out this case.

Five people in one room; four of them absorbed in a game of bridge; the fifth sitting quietly by the fire with a thin steel dagger in his heart! Hercule Poirot investigates yet another most intriguing murder.

All the best ingredients are here: an idyllic cruise in an exotic setting, a beautiful young woman on her honeymoon, a shocking murder with suspects galore. Fortunately Hercule Poirot is on the scene, thanks to a cruise holiday on the River Nile, and he exercises all his "little grey cells" in probing the passengers' airtight alibis.

An elderly housekeeper is dead and her boarder has been convicted of her murder but Hercule Poirot knows that there is more to it than that.

A frightened girl bring Hercule Poirot one of his most challenging cases. A killer is terrorizing a famous school for girls; an unsuspecting student has become a magnet for evil and death. Will Poirot be able to unravel the clues in time to save her?

A near-fatal dose of poison, a blood-stained knife, a revolver, and a family who are not what they seem figure in an extraordinary case that takes celebrated detective Hercule Poirot from a village estate to the bohemian streets of London--in a matter of life and death.

Hercule Poirot agrees to help a friend investigate the twelve-year-old double suicide deaths of Lord and Lady Ravenscroft.

In Agatha Christie's short story, "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding," Poirot is asked to attend a Christmas celebration in order to apprehend a jewel-thief who has taken advantage of an unwary eastern prince. Full of English holiday tradition and plenty of intrigue, this holiday tale first appeared in the December 12, 1923 issue of The Sketch magazine.

Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple join up to match wits, nerve, and guile with the most cunning of killers and the most elusive of evildoers.