Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.
A luxurious train journey through the snow-laden European landscape turns deadly when a ruthless American business magnate is found stabbed to death, leaving Hercule Poirot to untangle a web of twelve suspects, each with a hidden connection to the victim's dark past and a shared secret.
A recuperating war veteran's peaceful country retreat turns deadly when a poisoning at Styles Priory forces him to partner with an eccentric Belgian refugee detective to unmask a cunning killer.
When a universally despised colonel is murdered in a vicar's study, Miss Marple must navigate a village teeming with suspects who all secretly wished him dead.
A luxurious Nile cruise turns deadly when the glamorous Linnet Ridgeway is murdered, leaving Hercule Poirot to untangle jealousy and hidden motives under the Egyptian sun.
An English girl named Anne is caught in a web of stolen diamonds, international plots, and a hunt for a killer called 'The Colonel,' after a deadly fall in a London tube station, a strangled ballerina, and a dangerous trip to Africa.
When a glamorous, unknown corpse appears in their library, the respectable Bantry couple must rely on Miss Marple's sharp wit to unravel a web of deceit and prevent village gossip from unraveling their lives.
Hercule Poirot uncovers a web of lies, secret identities, and a double murder on a French golf course after a millionaire's urgent plea for help ends in his mysterious death.
On a sun-drenched Devon beach, Hercule Poirot's holiday is interrupted by the murder of the notoriously provocative Arlena Stuart, forcing him to unravel a complex web of passion, jealousy, and meticulously planned evil beneath the idyllic surface.
When a wealthy man is poisoned in his sprawling, eccentric mansion, a criminologist must navigate family secrets, illicit affairs, and simmering resentments to unmask the killer hiding within the seemingly 'crooked' Leonides household.
Sixteen years after a woman is convicted of poisoning her artist husband, Hercule Poirot must examine the memories and desires of five witnesses to find the truth behind the seemingly clear case.
Penniless and seeking adventure, Tommy and Tuppence enter a dangerous world of international espionage when their first 'Young Adventurers Ltd.' assignment to impersonate a missing woman forces them into a race to find her and a secret treaty before England's post-war recovery collapses.
Hercule Poirot's Cornish seaside holiday turns deadly when he uncovers a sinister plot of 'accidents' targeting the reckless mistress of a clifftop mansion, forcing him to unmask a killer before Nick Buckley's luck, and life, run out.
At a Mesopotamian archaeological dig, a nurse becomes involved in a series of murders, leading Hercule Poirot to find the killer before more people die.
In the ancient, sun-baked city of Petra, Hercule Poirot must unravel a venomous family's secrets to expose the killer who silenced the monstrous matriarch, Mrs. Boynton, with a single, sinister puncture.
On a luxurious night train to the French Riviera, a legendary cursed jewel vanishes and its mysterious owner is murdered, leaving Hercule Poirot to untangle a web of passion, greed, and deceit among the elite.
Four bridge players, each with a secret past, become the prime suspects when their eccentric host, who boasted of murder as an art, is found dead in plain sight during a seemingly innocent game.
When a mysterious, dust-covered man collapses in his doorway, repeating the number four, Hercule Poirot is thrust into a dangerous global conspiracy to unmask a quartet of masterminds threatening world peace.
A poisoned dart mid-flight turns a seemingly ordinary passenger plane into a high-altitude death trap, leaving Hercule Poirot to unravel a sky-high mystery among a cabin full of suspects.
When a woman claims to have killed her husband, only for him to turn up dead with her having an ironclad alibi, Hercule Poirot must untangle a web of lies where nothing is as it seems.
A dying Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings reunite at Styles to catch a murderer, 'X,' before they kill again, in a final case that costs the detective his life.
A newlywed's unsettling visions in her new home lead Miss Marple to unearth a decades-old 'perfect' murder, proving some ghosts are all too real and deadly.
A quiet English village, perfect for recovery, turns into a place of suspicion and suicide when anonymous, mean letters expose its secrets, all observed by Miss Marple.
When a seemingly accidental death is followed by a hatchet murder and a cryptic funeral remark, Hercule Poirot must untangle a web of Victorian secrets to expose the truth behind a family's deadly inheritance.
In a courtroom filled with suspicion, Elinor Carlisle faces execution for a poisoning she might not have committed. Hercule Poirot must untangle the deadly threads of love and jealousy before it is too late.
When a seemingly errant shot at a reform home administrator coincidentally kills a mysterious visitor in another room, Miss Marple must unravel a deadly design hidden within the sprawling Victorian mansion.
When a seemingly natural death at a dinner party is revealed to be a meticulously orchestrated murder without a trace of poison, Hercule Poirot must unravel a web of deception where the most obvious victim might not be the true target.
Hercule Poirot investigates strange thefts at a student hostel, where a diamond ring in soup and cut rucksacks point to a complex plot beyond simple kleptomania, and a widespread fear suggests a killer lives among the eccentric residents.
When a prank involving eight alarm clocks ends in the discovery of a dead body and a missing timepiece, a seemingly innocent game at Chimneys transforms into a perilous quest to unravel a fatal mystery.
Before he can retire, Hercule Poirot takes on twelve final cases, each a mystery mirroring the ancient Greek myths, from tracking a lost poet to unmasking a deadly cult leader.
A dying confession, a murdered priest, and a cryptic list of names plunge Mark Easterbrook into a sinister world where an ancient evil may be orchestrating modern-day murders.
When a seemingly eccentric old woman on a train warns of a serial killer in her quaint village before dying herself, ex-policeman Luke Fitzwilliam is drawn into a web of 'accidental' deaths, only to discover that in Wychwood, murder is terrifyingly easy to disguise.
A drifter's simple delivery of scandalous memoirs unravels a web of international conspiracy, blackmail, and multiple murders at a historic English estate, forcing him to clear his name and uncover the truth behind a missing jewel and a threatened monarchy.
A meticulously orchestrated series of seemingly unrelated past events converges at a tense seaside house party, culminating in a precisely planned murder that leaves no one above suspicion.
Tommy and Tuppence, a daring duo, trade domesticity for danger, diving headfirst into a whirlwind of perplexing cases from stolen pearls to poisoned chocolates, all while masquerading as the masterminds of Blunt's International Detective Agency.
In a fog-shrouded Welsh manor, an unexpected guest stumbles upon a murder and a dazed wife, only to uncover a web of past loves, hates, and a dead man's lingering shadow.
A young man's dream of building a perfect life on a beautiful, cursed plot of land unravels into a chilling nightmare orchestrated by a soul inherently drawn to evil.
In a courtroom thick with anticipation, Romaine Heilger takes the stand, her testimony poised to either condemn her charming lover, Leonard Vole, to the gallows or unravel a deceitful game that will shock all who bear witness.
A luxurious snowbound train becomes a locked-room tomb for a murdered tycoon, forcing Hercule Poirot to untangle a dozen motives among a car full of strangers before the killer strikes again.
