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Hercule Poirot

edited 2026-06-19

A complete reading and viewing order for Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot — all 33 novels (1920–1975) and the canonical short-story collections, plus the major screen continuities: David Suchet's ITV series, Kenneth Branagh's theatrical trilogy, Peter Ustinov's films, and notable standalone adaptations. Includes Sophie Hannah's estate-sanctioned continuation novels. Tagged by continuity so you can follow just the Christie canon or any single adaptation line.

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01NOVEL
1920Agatha Christie's 1920 debut novel and the first appearance of Hercule Poirot, narrated by Captain Arthur Hastings. Convalescing at the Styl…
296 pp
02NOVEL
1923Christie's 1923 second Poirot novel, narrated by Hastings and set in northern France. Poirot is summoned by a wealthy expatriate, Paul Renau…
298 pp
03NOVEL
1926Christie's 1926 fourth Poirot novel, set in the village of King's Abbot and narrated by the local doctor, James Sheppard. Poirot, supposedly…
312 pp
04NOVEL
1927Christie's 1927 fifth Poirot novel, narrated by Hastings and assembled from a sequence of linked Strand magazine stories into a thriller. Po…
224 pp
05NOVEL
1928Christie's 1928 sixth Poirot novel, set aboard Le Train Bleu travelling from London to the French Riviera. American heiress Ruth Kettering i…
296 pp
06NOVEL
1932Christie's 1932 Poirot novel, narrated by Hastings and set at a Cornish seaside resort. Poirot becomes convinced that Magdala 'Nick' Buckley…
270 pp
07NOVEL
1933Christie's 1933 Poirot novel, narrated by Hastings. The American actress Jane Wilkinson asks Poirot to persuade her estranged husband, Lord…
284 pp
08NOVEL
1934Christie's 1934 Poirot novel, set aboard the snowbound Orient Express. Travelling back to London, Poirot is asked by the businessman Samuel…
256 pp
09NOVEL
1935Christie's 1935 Poirot novel, set aboard a passenger flight from Paris to London. A French moneylender, Madame Giselle, is found dead in her…
256 pp
10NOVEL
1935Christie's 1935 Poirot novel, structured as a play in three acts. A clergyman drops dead of apparent nicotine poisoning at a cocktail party…
256 pp
11NOVEL
1936Christie's 1936 Poirot novel. The flamboyant Mr Shaitana hosts a bridge party for four people he believes are undetected murderers and four…
256 pp
12NOVEL
1936Christie's 1936 Poirot novel, narrated by nurse Amy Leatheran and set at an archaeological dig in Iraq — drawing on Christie's own travels w…
288 pp
13NOVEL
1936Christie's 1936 Poirot novel, narrated partly by Hastings. A taunting killer signing as 'ABC' announces each murder to Poirot in advance, st…
256 pp
14NOVEL
1937Christie's 1937 Poirot novel, set aboard a steamer cruising the Nile. The wealthy newlywed Linnet Doyle is shot dead during the voyage, watc…
288 pp
15NOVEL
1937Christie's 1937 Poirot novel, narrated by Hastings. An elderly spinster, Emily Arundell, writes to Poirot about a near-fatal fall she blames…
320 pp
16NOVEL
1938Christie's 1938 Poirot novel, set among an English family touring Petra and the Holy Land. The tyrannical, sadistic matriarch Mrs Boynton, w…
256 pp
17NOVEL
1938Christie's 1938 Poirot novel, set over Christmas at Gorston Hall. The wealthy, malicious patriarch Simeon Lee gathers his estranged family f…
256 pp
18NOVEL
1940Christie's 1940 Poirot novel, its chapters titled after the nursery rhyme. Poirot's own dentist, Mr Morley, is found shot dead in his Harley…
256 pp
19NOVEL
1940Christie's 1940 Poirot novel, framed around a murder trial. Elinor Carlisle stands accused of poisoning Mary Gerrard, a young woman who came…
256 pp
20NOVEL
1941Christie's 1941 Poirot novel, set at an island holiday hotel off the Devon coast. The glamorous former actress Arlena Marshall is found stra…
256 pp
21NOVEL
1942Christie's 1942 Poirot novel, a cold case reconstructed from memory. Carla Lemarchant asks Poirot to clear her late mother, Caroline Crale,…
256 pp
22NOVEL
1946Christie's 1946 Poirot novel, set at a country estate weekend hosted by Lady Angkatell. The philandering Dr John Christow is shot beside the…
288 pp
23NOVEL
1948Christie's 1948 Poirot novel, set in the aftermath of the Second World War. The Cloade family, cut off from an expected inheritance when the…
256 pp
24NOVEL
1952Christie's 1952 Poirot novel. Superintendent Spence, unconvinced of the guilt of the lodger condemned to hang for charwoman Mrs McGinty's mu…
256 pp
25NOVEL
1953Christie's 1953 Poirot novel. After wealthy Richard Abernethie's funeral, his scatterbrained sister Cora blurts out that he was murdered; wh…
256 pp
26NOVEL
1955Christie's 1955 Poirot novel, set at a London student hostel managed by the sister of Poirot's efficient secretary, Miss Lemon. A baffling s…
256 pp
27NOVEL
1956Christie's 1956 Poirot novel. Mystery writer Ariadne Oliver, hired to stage a 'Murder Hunt' game at a Devon estate fête, senses something ge…
256 pp
28NOVEL
1959Christie's 1959 Poirot novel, set largely at Meadowbank, an exclusive girls' school, with an opening in a revolution-torn Middle Eastern sta…
256 pp
29NOVEL
1963Christie's 1963 Poirot novel, set in the seaside town of Crowdean. A typist summoned to a blind woman's house finds a stranger stabbed dead…
256 pp
30NOVEL
1966Christie's 1966 Poirot novel, set in 1960s London. A troubled young woman calls on Poirot saying she may have committed a murder, then flees…
256 pp
31NOVEL
1969Christie's 1969 Poirot novel. At a children's Hallowe'en party, a boastful girl who claims to have once witnessed a murder is found drowned…
256 pp
32NOVEL
1972Christie's 1972 Poirot novel, the last she wrote featuring the detective. Ariadne Oliver is asked by a girl's prospective mother-in-law to s…
256 pp
33NOVEL
1975Christie's final Poirot novel, written during the Second World War and locked away for publication only in 1975. An elderly, ailing Poirot r…
256 pp