Order of Hercule Poirot Books
Hercule Poirot is a fictional character created by English author Agatha Christie. The Belgian detective is Christie’s most famous character. As a detective, he depends on logic and clues and prefers to solve mysteries conventionally.
Hercule Poirot has appeared in over 30 novels and over 50 short stories from the years 1920 until 1975. He has also appeared in several movies, stageplays and a TV series, portrayed by actors such as John Moffat, Albert Finney, Peter Ustinov, Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and David Suchet.
Below is a list of all of the novels in which the Hercule Poirot character appears in order of when they were published:
Publication Order of Hercule Poirot Books
| The Mysterious Affair at Styles | (1920) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Murder on the Links | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Poirot Investigates | (1924) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | (1926) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Big Four | (1927) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mystery of the Blue Train | (1928) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Black Coffee | (1930) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Peril at End House | (1932) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lord Edgware Dies / Thirteen at Dinner | (1933) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Three Act Tragedy / Murder in Three Acts | (1934) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Murder on the Orient Express / Murder in the Calais Coach | (1934) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Death in the Clouds / Death in the Air | (1935) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The A.B.C. Murders | (1936) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Murder in Mesopotamia | (1936) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cards on the Table | (1936) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dumb Witness / Poirot Loses a Client | (1937) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Death on the Nile | (1937) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Murder in the Mews / Dead Man's Mirror | (1937) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Appointment with Death | (1938) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hercule Poirot's Christmas / Holiday for Murder / Murder for Christmas | (1938) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Girdle of Hyppolita | (1939) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Nemean Lion | (1939) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sad Cypress | (1940) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| One, Two, Buckle My Shoe / Overdose of Death | (1940) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Evil Under the Sun | (1941) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Five Little Pigs / Murder in Retrospect | (1942) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Hollow / Murder after Hours | (1946) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Taken at the Flood / There Is A Tide.... | (1948) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mrs. McGinty's Dead / Blood Will Tell | (1952) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| After the Funeral / Funerals are Fatal | (1953) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hickory Dickory Dock | (1955) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dead Man's Folly | (1956) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cat Among the Pigeons | (1959) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding | (1960) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Clocks | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Third Girl | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hallowe'en Party / A Haunting in Venice | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Elephants Can Remember | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Curtain | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Hercule Poirot Short Stories/Novellas
Publication Order of Hercule Poirot Collections
| The Labours of Hercules / The Labors of Hercules | (1947) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Witness for the Prosecution | (1948) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Under Dog and Other Stories | (1951) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Poirot's Early Cases | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hercule Poirot's Casebook | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Double Clue | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Early Cases of Hercule Poirot | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Grey Cells of Mr. Poirot | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Note: The Monogram Murders written by Sophie Hannah, based on the work of Agatha Christie.
If You Like Hercule Poirot Books, You’ll Love…
Hercule Poirot Synopses: The Mysterious Affair at Styles is the introduction of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot character. In this classic tale, Mrs. Iglethorp was murdered and Poirot must find out whether it was one of her stepsons or her new husband.
In Peril at End House (the sixth Hercule Poirot mystery), Hercule and Captain Hastings are on vacation on the Cornish coast when they suspect that Nick Buckley, who lives in the End House, is being targetted for murder.
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