Agatha Christie from I Cannot Live Without Books

Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot Series, Book #17) by Agatha Christie The tranquility 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… Read more about this item

Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot Series, Book #19) by Agatha Christie Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sits the corpse of Mrs. Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist is the only sign of the fatal injection that killed her. With only twenty-four hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark… Read more about this item

At Bertram's Hotel (Miss Marple Series, Book #10) by Agatha Christie When Miss Marple com es up from the country for a vacation in London, she finds what she's looking for a Bertram's Hotel: traditional decors, impeccable service, and an unmistakable atmosphere of danger behind its highly polished veneer. Yet, not even Miss Marple can foresee the violent chain of events set… Read more about this item

Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot Series, Book #3) by Agatha Christie 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 pharaoh's tomb; a jewel robbery by the sea; the… Read more about this item

The Clocks (Hercule Poirot Series, Book #34) by Agatha Christie Sheila Webb expected to find a respectable blind lady waiting for her at 19 Wilbraham Crescent -- not the body of a middle-aged man sprawled across the living room floor. But when Old Miss Pebmarsh denies sending for her in the first place or owning all the clocks that surround the… Read more about this item

Nemesis (Miss Marple Series, Book #12) by Agatha Christie In utter disbelief, Miss Marple reads the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr. Rafiel -- an acquaintance she had met briefly while traveling. He had left instructions for her to investigate a crime after his death. The only problem is, he'd failed to tell her who was involved or… Read more about this item

Cat Among the Pigeons (Hercule Poirot Series, Book #32) by Agatha Christie 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 an unpopular games mistress -- shot through the heart point-blank. The school is thrown into chaos when the… Read more about this item

Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot Series, Book #20) by Agatha Christie On Christmas Eve at Gorston Hall, the Lee family's festivities are shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs -- in a locked bedroom -- the tyrannical patriarch Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. When Hercule Poirot offers to assist,… Read more about this item

Third Girl (Hercule Poirot Series, Book #35) by Agatha Christie Three young women share a London flat. The first is a coolly efficient secretary. The second is an artist. The third interrupts Hercule Poirot's breakfast confessing that she is a murderer, and promptly disappears. Slowly, Poirot learns of the rumors surrounding the mysterious third girl, her family, and her disappearance. Yet hard… Read more about this item

Sad Cyprus (Hercule Poirot Series, Book #21) by Agatha Christie 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 inside the hostile courtroom, only one man still presumed Elinor was innocent… Read more about this item

Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot Series, Book #15) by Agatha Christie Mr. Shaitana is famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he is a man of whom everybody is a little afraid. So when he boasts to Hercule Poirot that he considers murder an art form, the detective has some reservations about accepting a party invitation to view Shaitan's "private… Read more about this item

Murder in the Mews (Hercule Poirot Series, Book #18) by Agatha Christie 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-secret military plans? How did the bullet that killed Sir Gervase shatter a mirror in another part of… Read more about this item

The Labors of Hercules (Hercule Poirot Series, Book #25) by Agatha Christie 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 makes up his mind to accept just twelve… Read more about this item

Elephants can Remember (Hercule Poirot Series, Book #37) by Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot stood on the clifftop. Here, many years earlier, there had been a fatal accident. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two bodies -- a husband and wife who had been shot dead. But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or… Read more about this item

Mrs. McGinty's Dead (Hercule Poirot Series, Book #28) by Agatha Christie Mrs. McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion falls immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes reveal traces of the victim's blood and hear. Yet something is amiss: Bentley just doesn't seem like a murderer. Could the answer lie in an article clipped… Read more about this item

Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot Series, Book #10) by Agatha Christie Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer. Isolated by the… Read more about this item

The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot Series, Book #6) by Agatha Christie When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake the serene Ruth Kettering from her slumber. 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… Read more about this item

Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot Series, Book #11) by Agatha Christie Sir Charles Cartwright should have known better than to allow thirteen guests to sit down for dinner. For at the end of the evening, one of them is dead -- choked by a cocktail that contained no trace of poison. Predictable, says Hercule Poirot, the great detective. But entirely unpredictable is… Read more about this item

Dead Man's Folly (Hercule Poirot Series, Book #31) by Agatha Christie Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fete, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well-known crime writer, agrees to organize their murder hunt. Despite weeks of meticulous planning, at the last minute, Ariadne calls her friend Hercule… Read more about this item

Dumb Witness (Hercule Poirot Series, Book #16) by Agatha Christie Everyone blamed Emily Arundell's accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more Emily thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her. On April 17th, she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule… Read more about this item