Series: Hercule Poirot
by Author Agatha Christie
Las Manzanas (2005)
The Murder on the Links (1984)
In this second Hercule Poirot story, Poirot is moaning that crime isn't what it used to be, criminals are no longer worthy of this investigative prowess. Luckily, that very same day a letter arrives requesting his help in France. Paul Renauld is in fear of his life and wishes to engage Poirot. It...
Elephants Can Remember (1984)
This is one of Dame Agatha's weakest mysteries. At least I think so now (I don't have a record of how I rated it the first time I read it). And I say that because Christie is one of the few mystery writers who can fool me almost every time. It doesn't matter how many times I've read her storie...
Sad Cypress (2001)
Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it! My part of death, no one so true Did share it.(Act II, Scene IV of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night)Di...
Three Act Tragedy (2005)
When Reverend Stephen Babbington dies after consuming a cocktail, the final analysis is that he died of a fit, ruling out murder. That is until a second death takes place in a manner almost identical. Three amateur detectives take the stage: Sir Charles Cartwright, a former actor, his friend Mr. ...
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (2006)
Up until the ending, I really did not understand why this book is widely considered to be the best (or at least the top five) of Christie’s books. Then it happened, and I was like WHAT!?Actually it was more like a double what, because not only was it a really daring ending, especially for being p...
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (2002)
Rating: 3.5/5This review can also be found on my blog Musings of a BibliophileA short story collection concocted by one of my favourite childhood authors Dame Agatha Christie seemed like the perfect book to curl up in bed with this Christmas holiday.Christie refers herself as 'the chef' of this ...
The Labours of Hercules (2005)
A fun collection of twelve mini-mysteries with one common theme. Poirot considers him a modern Hercules, in the sense that he and his namesake both dedicate their lives to the removal of certain pests. So Poirot decided that these, the last cases before his retirement, should have some metaphoric...
Five Little Pigs (1985)
Today’s post is on “Five Little Pigs” by Agatha Christie also called Murder in Retrospect. It is the 24th Hercule Poirot novel, it is 240 pages long, and is published by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. The cover has a hand with a paint brush in it and fades into a bright orange. The intended re...
The Clocks (2004)
I was pleasantly surprised by this one.Let's get the bad stuff out of the way first. It's not very plausible at all. Somehow we have two spies and three murderers in the same block of apartment buildings. Somehow all these people co-exist independently not knowing of each other's existence. A...
Murder in the Mews (2002)
The Incredible Theft (Der unglaubliche Diebstahl der Bomberpläne) [April] 43 SeitenWho stole the plans of a new bomber from the home of a Cabinet minister?Inhalt und Meinung:Puh, wenn man sowas nicht immer gleich macht... Und dann auch noch von Englisch auf Deutsch übersetzten...Aus dem Büro eine...
Curtain (2000)
I started reading Agatha Christie novels when I was in middle school. My first book was, surprisingly, “Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?“, which didn’t have Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple or even Tommy and Tuppence. It was a great mystery and pulled me into reading more Christie. After reading a bunch o...
Poirot's Early Cases: 18 Hercule Poirot Mysteries (2005)
"Ninho de Vespas": Neste conto descobrimos que Hercule Poirot não é só bom a desvendar crimes mas também a antecipá-los e a impedir que aconteçam. Muito bom."O Caso do Baile-Vitória": Um conto típico de Hercule Poirot onde as deduções estão sempre corretas e o crime é resolvido num abrir e fechar...
Peril at End House (2015)
Pusseldeckare är inget jag skulle säga att jag är välbekant med sedan tidigare, vilket var vad som sporrade mig att vilja läsa något av Agatha Christie för vad kan vara bättre än att börja med en av författarna som var med och grundade genren.Bookmark förlag har för en tid sedan börjat ge ut någr...
Poirot Investigates (2015)
My first anthology of the year, and my first Christie or Poirot anthology. It also marks the start of a run of four anthologies in my reading list. Anthologies are a difficult thing to get right. Apart from the need to manage the theme of the anthology, there's nearly always a couple of weaker st...
Mrs. McGinty's Dead (2007)
Alas, Mrs. McGinty; we hardly knew you.Really. I mean that. She was a widow, a woman who cleaned houses and took in lodgers to make ends meet; had a niece whom she saw at holidays, and was perhaps a bit of a nosy parker; nothing extraordinary to fill the obituary. When Inspector Spence visits the...
Death on the Nile (1978)
A few of my reviews are a bit later than I would like because my foot is suffering from a bad case of mummy rot [are their any good cases of mummy rot? -ed]. Why is my personal health relevant to this review? Because I was stricken with plague while within spitting distance of the Nile. And whi...
Appointment with Death (2015)
Well this one was not as well done as Death on the Nile. I think it was because it was pretty obvious after one character's utterance who did the crime in this one.Unlike with some other Poirot novels, Hercule really doesn't step up to the plate until about half way through the book. The first ha...
Murder in Mesopotamia (2001)
http://njkinny.blogspot.in/2014/07/bo...When Nurse Leatheran is called on to look after Loiuse, the wife of Dr. Leidner who is busy in the excavation activities going on at the Hassanieh dig in Iraq, she finds the atmosphere there to be filled with tension and one of impending doom. "...I dont ...
Black Coffee (1999)
"‘George,’ he called, ‘please take my heavy tweed suit and my dinner jacket and trousers to the cleaners. I must have them back by Friday, as I am going to the Country for the Weekend.’ He made it sound like the Steppes of Central Asia and for a lifetime."Tweed? No, I cannot....no to Poirot in tw...
Dumb Witness (2015)
Well I now have a Hercule Poirot book I liked less than The Big Four and Mystery of the Blue Train. The beginning of the book was actually very good. Agatha Christie sets the stage by allowing readers into the home of Emily Arundell. Miss Arundell has never married. She has three relations left i...
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (2002)
My First Affair with Hercule Poirot(A Book Review of Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious Affairs at Styles)Written as an outcome of a bet in which “the reader would not be able to spot the criminal”, Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious Affair of Styles, published in 1921, is the first published work by...
Cat Among the Pigeons (2005)
I finished reading this book two days ago. I read it in a little more than a day, ignoring any and all chores that I could, just so I could keep reading...I love it when a book grips me that much.I have read this book before, but the last time I read it, I was 16...that was 21 years ago. I rememb...
The Mystery of the Blue Train (2007)
لغز القطار الأزرق كالكثيرين، لأجاثا كريستي في مخيلتي مذاق المراهقة، عندما كنت أقرؤها في عصريات صيف بعيد، محاولاً بدأب معرفة القاتل، قبل أن يتوصل إليه هرقل بوارو، وهو مالم أفلح به أبداً، لأن أجاثا لم تكن عادلة، كانت تبقي أهم الخيوط بين يديها، لهذا لم تكن أجاثا كريستي مفضلة لدي في تلكم المرحلة، ب...
Third Girl (2015)
There is something just extra awesome about still finding joy in reading an author who passed away before I was born and wrote over sixty detective novels –it is amazing how I can always count on her to give me a quick, engrossing and complex read no matter which characters or twist she uses and ...
Dead Man's Folly (2006)
Dead Man’s Folly I think I have read twice before – and have seen a TV adaptation too – so maybe it was no real surprise that I began to remember things after about 60 pages. It all remained very muddled in my head though and so I had to read on to see what I had remembered correctly. In Dead Man...
Lord Edgware Dies (1977)
You might find this difficult to believe, but until this weekend I'd never knowingly read an Agatha Christie novel.I was in a youth hostel, had finished the books I'd taken and had to pick from their shelves.Having chosen and then decided against several of the more likely options, I came across ...
Death in the Clouds (2015)
Death in the Air (aka Death in the Clouds) is another fine Agatha Christie outing. In this one, the murder takes place right under Hercule Poirot's airsick nose. Yes, fortunately for the killer, Poirot's famous little grey cells were sleeping their way across the Channel in order that he might no...
The A.B.C. Murders (2006)
What: paperbackWhat else: First person narrativeWherefore: it was on Mount TBR, and my Kindle was acting up Hastings: "I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up."Poirot has semi-retired, but has discovered he is no better suited to the state than Holmes is said to h...
Hickory Dickory Dock (2006)
Hickory Dickory Dock was first published in the UK in 1955 and was the first full length story to feature Hercule Poirot's ultra-efficient secretary Miss Felicity Lemon, although she had previously appeared in some of short stories featuring the Belgium detective.When Miss Lemon makes an uncharac...
Taken at the Flood (2015)
أفضل ما يمكن قوله أنها رواية لم تنل ما تستحقّ من الشهرة.. فقد تكون جميع أعمال أغاثا كريستي معروفةً على ناطقٍ واسعٍ بطبيعة الحال، إلا أن ركوب التيار تحديداً لم تلقى تقديراً خاصاً من النقاد. ربما يكون ذوقي في الروايات غير اعتياديٍّ إلى حد ما، لكن بالنسبة لي... فإن هذه الرواية هي أفضل أعمال أغاثا كر...
Hallowe'en Party (2001)
It is Autumn, this week there have been storm clouds in the sky and wind pulling leaves off branches. I am preparing for Halloween and hopefully a horde of trick or treaters who will be knocking on doors in the near future. In my preparation, I was also listening to Christie’s ‘Hallowe’en Party.’...
Murder on the Orient Express (2004)
I do not like to write reviews of whodunits: you can't do justice to the analysis without explaining what happened in detail, but then it spoils the story for whoever has not read it. So, for those mystery lovers who have not read The Murder on the Orient Express so far, I will post a single lin...
The Big Four (2015)
This is a weird one. Apparently (I looked this up, because the book was so weird) Christie wrote a series of short stories about Poirot for some magazine and these stories were mashed together into this book. You can sort of tell that something like this is up, because the mashing didn't work all...