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Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Affair at Styles is the first appearance of Hercule Poirot. In the midst of World War I, the residents of Styles wake one morning to find Emily Inglethorpe has been fatally poisoned. Captain Hastings, staying with the family, enlists the help of his old friend, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. With the evidence mounting against one member of the family, Poirot uses his unique deductive technique to prove who r...

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Originally published: London: Collins, 1948.

Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. Here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two more bodies--a husband and wife shot dead. But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder? Poirot delves back into the past and discovers that old sin leave long shadows"--

Hercule Poirot becomes entangled in a nasty web of family secrets when he comes across a fresh murder at an English country manor.

As instructed, stenographer Shelia Webb let herself into the house at 19 Wilbraham Cresent. 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 the case was the time factor. Although in a state of shock, Shelia clearly remembered having heard a cuckoo clock strike three o'clock. Yet, the four other clocks in the living room all showed the time as 4:13. Even mor...

The site of the house called The Towers had once been known as Gipsy's Acre. It was there that Michael Rogers first met a wealthy American oil heiress, Fenella Guteman, whom he was later to marry. Gypsies' warnings, and revelation of a crime follow.

Originally published in 1920 by Penguin Group.

A dusty man faints in the doorway of Hercule Poirot's bedroom, leaving Poirot the mystery of who this man is and what's wrong with him.

Originally published: London: Collins, 1930.

When the host is found dead at a card game, four investigators - including Poirot himself - look for clues as they set out to discover which guest is the killer.

Originally published: New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1975.

This title was previously published as Murder in three acts"--Title page verso.

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 estranged husband, Derek. Yet Hercule Poirot is not convinced, so he stages an eerie reenactment of the journey, complete with the murderer on ...

Nemean lion -- Lernean hydra -- Arcadian deer -- Erymanthian boar -- Augean stables -- Augean stables -- Stymphalean birds -- Cretan bull -- Horses of Diomedes -- Girdle of Hyppolita -- Flock of Geryon -- Apples of the Hesperides -- Capture of Cerberus.

In one of Christie's most twisted tales, Poirot must navigate the mind of a serial killer as he systematically kills his way through the alphabet.

Originally published as: Murder in retrospect.