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4:50 From Paddington (What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!) Elspeth McGillicuddy had just witnessed a murder on the train passing hers. A woman was being strangled! But no one believed her except her friend Jan... A Caribbean Mystery Miss Jane Marple is vacationing in luxurious St. Honoré in the Caribbean Islands. Just as she begins to get used to the slow and monotonous island lif... A Murder Is Announced A newspaper ad in the small town of Chipping Cleghorn announces that a murder will take place that very evening at the home of Letitia Blacklock. Thi... Agatha Christie: An Autobiography Agatha Christy had an amazing life and was an amazing women. She lived life happily and in return is known as a best selling author, who has traveled... And Then There Were None The story opens up by introducing 10 characters. These characters do not know each other and are invited to Indian Island off the coast of Devon. Th... Christie booklist Black Coffee Black Coffee was Agatha Christie's first ever stage play written in 1930's. The play was recently adopted as a novel by Charles Osborne (author of 'Li... Cards On the Table The novel starts with Hercule Poirot being invited by a rich man with a promising note that he will display murderers whose murders could not be prove... Crooked House Agatha Christie often resorted to nursery rhyme titles. This one is just too perfect so I defer to Mother Goose herself: "There was a crooked man,... Curtain Captain Hastings, recently widowed, has recived a letter from his friend Hercule Poirot. Oddly enough, the postmark is from Styles! (The place where ... Dead Man's Folly When bestselling author Ariadne Oliver begs Hercule Poirot to help her, he gallantly comes to the rescue. Mrs. Oliver is organizing a Murder Hunt for ... Death Comes as the End In Ancient Egypt, newly-widowed Renisenb returns to her family home after several years away. Complications arise almost immediately as her father br... Agatha Christie list of books Death On the Nile When about 16 people go on a Nile excursion, no one is prepared for 3 grisly murders. It is up to Hercule Poirot to discover the criminal...or crimin... Endless Night This story is unlike other Agatha Christie Mysteries. The main character is a man, which is saying the story of his life. Mr. Rogers is a man who ha... Evil Under the Sun Hercule Poirot's vacation on a peaceful seaside hotel is cut short when the glamorous actress Arlena Stuart is strangled to death on the beach. ... Five Little Pigs AKA Murder in Retrospect (US) When Beautiful Carla Lemarchant is ushered into Hercule Poirot's room and asks for his assistance in solving the murder of her father, Poirot certai... Hallowe'en Party When teenager Joyce Reynolds is drowned in a bucket of bobbing apples on a Halloween party arranged by the famous crime author Ariadne Oliver, she cal... Mrs. McGinty's Dead Hercule Poirot is contacted by Superintendent Spence (we also met in "Taken at the Flood" and "Hallowe'en Party"). He believes James Bentley, a man co... Agatha Christie novels Murder At the Vicarage It should have been easy to find Colonel Protheroe's murderer. After all, half the village wanted him dead, and the other half certainly wouldn't mind... Murder for Christmas It is Christmas Eve, and elderly Simeon Lee has invited his family home for a good old-fashioned holiday celebration. At least, that's what he told t... Murder on the Orient Express Hercule Poirot is a private detective. He is summoned to London to solve a case and boards the Orient Express, securing a first class compartment, thr... Murder with Mirrors Carrie Louise Serracold is not in touch with reality. She doesn't realize her life is endangered by arsenic in her tonic, poisoned chocolates, and a m... N or M? Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are trying to find a nazi spy during World War 2. When Tommy is called to a secret government meeting, Tuppence tracks hi... Nemesis Sort of a sequel but VERY standalone. Miss Marple once described herself as 'Nemesis'. Now she is called upon to play that role. Given no informati... Agatha Christie information Ordeal By Innocence The Argyles have an adopted child who has been convicted of murdering their adoptive mother. Jacko Argyle's alibi for the night of Rachel Argyle's... Peril at End House Hercule Poirot's Cornish vacation is interrupted by the troubled young woman Nick Buckley. She has narrowly escaped death three times in as many days ... Poirot Loses a Client When Hercule Poirot receives a letter requesting his investigative assistance, he quickly responds. However, the woman no longer needs his services, h... Sparkling Cyanide Not to long ago, George Barton's wife Rosemary Barton had a birthday party where she committed suicide by drinking cyanide in front of some of her... Taken at the Flood The Cloade family has always financially depended upon Gordon Cloade, the sole member of the family who was really wealthy. His brother Lionel, a doct... The A.B.C. Murders Hercule Poirot, the renowed Belgian detective, and his friend/sidekick Hastings, receive a letter informing them of a murder on a certain day in a cer... The Big Four This is a novel featuring Agatha Christie's master sleuth Hercule Poirot. Poirot takes on a mysterious group of 4 supervillians bent on world d... The Body in the Library The body of a young woman is found in the library of Colonel and Mrs. Bantry. Mrs. Bantry immediately calls in her old friend, Miss Marple, to investi... The Clocks This book is a Poirot mystery even thought the detective appears only episodically. The main character Colin Lamp is a spy and was searching for a hou... The Hollow Hercule Poirot is disgusted by the crude humor his hostess displays by arranging a "murder" scene to unfold as he arrives. Too bad it was real... When... The Man in the Brown Suit The Man in the Brown Suit was first serialised in The Evening News under the title "Anna the Adventuress". Shortly thereafter, Christie released the... The Moving Finger Jerry Burton and his sister Joanna relocate to the village of Lymstock so he can convalesce after a flying accident. His doctor feels that a quiet res... The Murder of Roger Ackroyd When the widow Mrs. Ferrars commits suicide and the businessman Roger Ackroyd is murdered in the space of just a few days, the small English village K... The Murder on the Links This mystery begins when the great Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is called to France by an urgent letter from Monsieur Renauld. Poirot decides to g... The Mysterious Affair At Styles Captain Arthur Hastings is wounded and sent home from WW1. He meets his friend John Cavendish, who offers him a stay at his (or rather his step-mothe... The Pale Horse Father Gorman is called to a woman's deathbed. She tells him a story that he can hardly believe, in fact a story that will kill him. A short time late... The Secret Adversary In the beginning, the ship Lusitana has been torpedoed and a stranger has given a young girl a packet contaning an important document. The stranger d... The Secret of Chimneys Anthony Cade (or GENTLEMAN JOE) is not a man who stays too much in a place or on a job. So when his friend asks him deliver the memories of a former p... The Under Dog The famous detective M. Hercule Poirot is involved in a baffling case of a quarrel that led to the murder of Sir Reuben. According to the witness Pars... They Do It With Mirrors A friend of Miss Marple is worried about their old friend Carrie-Louise Serrocold. Altough the reason is unclear, Miss Marple takes it seriously and v... Towards Zero When tennis player invites ex-wife and current wife to visit his aunt's, little does anyone know someone will be killed. The only real clue is the mu... Why Didn't They Ask Evans? When Bobby Jones finds a man who has fallen over the side of the cliff in Marchbolt, Wales, he sends his friend Dr. Thomas to go get help. The man is...	View these reviews in full mode Agatha Christie Message Board 4/8/2005 1:42:05 PM Talk about the novels, new and used books that Christie has written!