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 ABC 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 / The Theft of the Royal Ruby | (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 |
Publication Order of Hercule Poirot Short Stories/Novellas
| The Adventure of the Cheap Flat | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The King of Clubs | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Veiled Lady | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Kidnapped Prime Minister | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Plymouth Express | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Christmas Adventure | (1923) | Info. |
| The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Affair at the Victory Ball | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Adventure of the Western Star | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Submarine Plans | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Adventure of the Clapham Cook | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Lost Mine | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Lemesurier Inheritance | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Chocolate Box | (1925) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Chess Problem | (1927) | Info. |
| Double Sin | (1928) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Third-Floor Flat | (1929) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Wasps' Nest | (1929) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Second Gong | (1932) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest | (1932) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| How Does Your Garden Grow? | (1935) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Triangle at Rhodes | (1936) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Poirot and the Regatta Mystery | (1936) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Yellow Iris | (1937) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Incredible Theft | (1937) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Dream | (1937) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Cretan Bull | (1939) | Info. |
| The Stymphalean Birds | (1939) | Info. |
| The Lernean Hydra | (1939) | Info. |
| The Apples of Hesperides | (1940) | Info. |
| The Flock of Geryon | (1940) | Info. |
| The Horses of Diomedes | (1940) | Info. |
| The Augean Stables | (1940) | Info. |
| The Erymanthian Boar | (1940) | Info. |
| The Arcadian Deer | (1940) | Info. |
| The Capture of Cerberus | (1947) | Info. |
| The Mystery of the Spanish Chest | (1960) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Afternoon at the Seaside | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Patient | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Witness for the Prosecution | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Four and Twenty Blackbirds | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Million Dollar Bond Robbery | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Market Basing Mystery | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Cornish Mystery | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Problem at Sea | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Under Dog | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Double Clue | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Case of the Missing Will | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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 |
| Poirot's Finest Cases | (2014) | 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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