Hercule Poirot

Fictional Belgian detective from a series of mysteries by Agatha Christie. Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels, one play, and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975. Novels: • The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) • The Murder on the Links (1923) • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) • The Big Four (1927) • The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928) • Peril at End House (1932) • Lord Edgware Dies (UK) / Thirteen at Dinner (USA) (1933) • Murder on the Orient Express (UK) / Murder in the Calais Coach (USA) (1934) • Three Act Tragedy (UK) / Murder in Three Acts (USA (1935) • Death in the Clouds (UK) / Death in the Air (USA) (1935) • The ABC Murders (1936) • Murder in Mesopotamia (1936) • Cards on the Table (1936) • Dumb Witness (UK) / Poirot Loses a Client (USA) (1937) • Death on the Nile (1937) • Appointment with Death (1938) • Hercule Poirot's Christmas (UK) / Murder for Christmas (USA, some later editions were titled A Holiday for Murder) (1938) • Sad Cypress (1940) • One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (UK) / Overdose of Death (USA, the paperback edition was titled The Patriotic Murders) (1940) • Evil Under the Sun (1941) • Five Little Pigs (UK) / Murder in Retrospect (USA) (1942) • The Hollow (UK) / Murder after Hours (USA) (1946) • Taken at the Flood (UK) / There Is a Tide (USA) (1948) • Mrs McGinty's Dead (UK) / Blood Will Tell (USA) (1952) • After the Funeral (UK) / Funerals are Fatal (USA) (1953) • Hickory Dickory Dock (UK) / Hickory Dickory Death (USA) (1955) • Dead Man's Folly (1956) • Cat Among the Pigeons (1959) • The Clocks (1963) • Third Girl (1966) • Hallowe'en Party (1969) • Elephants Can Remember (1972) • Curtain: Poirot's Last Case (written about 1940, published 1975) Play: • Black Coffee (1930 play - novel adapted by Charles Osborne from the play published in 1998) Short story collections: • Poirot Investigates (1924) • The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (1939) • Murder in the Mews (UK) / Dead Man's Mirror (USA) (1937) • The Labours of Hercules (1947) • The Under Dog and Other Stories (1951) • The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and a Selection of Entrées (1960) • Double Sin and Other Stories (1961) • Poirot's Early Cases (1974) • Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (1991) • The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories (1997) • While the Light Lasts (1997) Continuations not by Christie: • The Monogram Murders, written by Sophie Hannah (2014) • Closed Casket, written by Sophie Hannah (2016) • The Mystery of Three Quarters, written by Sophie Hannah (2018)