Agatha Christie was born in England in 1890 and died in 1976. Over half a century of work she gave detective fiction two of its most recognisable sleuths: Hercule Poirot, the vain and methodical Belgian, and Miss Marple, a village lady who understands crime because she understands people.
Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, came out in 1920, and six years later The Murder of Roger Ackroyd showed how far she was willing to push the game with the reader. Then came Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile and And Then There Were None, which still read like clockwork: hardly a spare page, clues in plain sight and a solution that sends you back to the start.
Reading Christie means accepting a fair challenge. Everything you need is on the page; the fun lies in seeing it before Poirot does.
Their books in our catalogue
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And Then There Were NoneAgatha Christie
And Then There Were NoneAgatha Christie
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
Ten strangers arrive on a remote island off the Devon coast, summoned by a host who never shows his face. Each of them stands accused of an old, unpunished crime, and a nursery rhyme begins to dictate what happens next. Tight, chilling and brilliantly constructed, it is the kind of mystery that has you doubting every guest until the very end.
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Murder on the Orient ExpressAgatha Christie
Murder on the Orient ExpressAgatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
A snowdrift halts the glamorous Orient Express somewhere in Yugoslavia, and by morning a wealthy American lies dead in his locked compartment. Hercule Poirot, aboard almost by chance, must question a carriage full of strangers while the train stays stranded. A closed-circle mystery built with clockwork precision, perfect for readers who love racing the detective to the answer.
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The Murder of Roger AckroydAgatha Christie
The Murder of Roger AckroydAgatha Christie
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie
In the quiet English village of King's Abbot, a wealthy industrialist is found dead in his study, hard on the heels of another death that has the neighbours whispering. Hercule Poirot, supposedly retired, is drawn back to work amid rumours, debts and family secrets. Sharp, playful and often called Christie's masterpiece, it toys with the reader right to the very end.
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The Mysterious Affair at StylesAgatha Christie
The Mysterious Affair at StylesAgatha Christie
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie
Summer 1917: Captain Hastings, wounded in the war, comes to stay at an Essex manor simmering with family resentments. When its wealthy mistress is poisoned behind a locked door, a fastidious Belgian refugee named Hercule Poirot begins sorting clues from lies. Christie's debut is a brisk, playful puzzle, the country-house mystery in its first bloom.
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Death on the NileAgatha Christie
Death on the NileAgatha Christie
Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie
A luxury steamer gliding down the Nile carries a glamorous young heiress, her new husband, several people with reasons to resent her, and a Hercule Poirot hoping for a holiday. When violence breaks the calm, the voyage becomes a closed circle of suspects under the Egyptian sun. Jealousy, romance and impeccably laid clues make this one of Christie's most absorbing puzzles.
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The Murder at the VicarageAgatha Christie
The Murder at the VicarageAgatha Christie
The Murder at the Vicarage
Agatha Christie
In St Mary Mead, an English village fuelled by tea and gossip, the widely disliked Colonel Protheroe is found shot in the vicar's study. As the police wade through tangled confessions and rumours, an elderly neighbour with a sharp eye for human nature quietly starts piecing things together. Miss Marple's first novel is a clever, wry puzzle with a delicious portrait of village life.
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Death in the CloudsAgatha Christie
Death in the CloudsAgatha Christie
Death in the Clouds
Agatha Christie
On a short flight from Paris to London, a passenger is found dead in her seat, and the killer can only be someone on board. Hercule Poirot, seated just rows away, finds himself both detective and suspect. A clever closed-circle puzzle full of small clues, perfect for readers who like to play along.
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Cards on the TableAgatha Christie
Cards on the TableAgatha Christie
Cards on the Table
Agatha Christie
A flamboyant host invites four sleuths and four guests rumoured to have got away with murder to an evening of bridge, and by the last hand he is dead. Poirot, Ariadne Oliver, Battle and Race must read the players rather than the clues. A witty, tightly built puzzle where every card played reveals something about the person holding it.
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Crooked HouseAgatha Christie
Crooked HouseAgatha Christie
Crooked House
Agatha Christie
Three generations of the Leonides family share a rambling, oddly angled house near London, until the wealthy patriarch is found murdered. Charles Hayward, engaged to one of the granddaughters, steps into a household where everyone seems devoted and anyone could be guilty. Christie counted it among her favourites: a tight, unsettling family puzzle full of quiet menace.
