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 Christie, Agatha
Affair at Styles. From 1920 - this novel introduces Hercule Poirot.
Links. From 1923 - with Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings.
Adversary. From 1922 - introducing Tommy Beresford and Prudence Cowley who appeared as Tommy and Tuppence in later books.
Chimneys. From 1925 - Introducing Superintendent Battle.
Four. From 1927 - with Hercule, Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp.
The Blue Train. From 1928 - with Hercule Poirot.
End House. From 1932 - featuring Poirot, Hastings and Japp.
Death. From 1938 - Featuring Hercule Poirot.
Finger. From 1943 - Featuring Miss Jane Marple.
Zero. From 1944 - featuring Superintendent Battle.
Announced. From 1950 - featuring Miss Marple and Inspector Craddock.
Folly. From 1956 - featuring Hercule Poirot, Felicity Lemon and Ariadne Oliver.
Horse. From 1961 - Featuring Ariadne Oliver.
Girl. From 1966 - Featuring Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver.
Can Remember. From 1972 - With Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver.
Poirot covers the real murderer(s). One of the most famous novels. Poirot solves the mystery, but he doesn't make the solution public - he pretends not to know the murderer. It's a great reflection on what justice means...
Swan Song. The singer has done something to the Prima Donna which is similar to what Scarpia does to Tosca in the opera. The diva uses the opera for her vengeance, identifying with Tosca. An 'unusual' story, but very interesting.
Death Comes As The End. 'Death On The Nile', one of Poirot's most famous cases, also takes place in Egypt, but not in ANCIENT Egypt. 'Death Comes As The End' deals with several deaths in the family of Imhotep, a priest, who married a young woman none of his children likes. As she gets murdered, it is clear that it was a member of the family who did it...
Franklin Clarke . Franklin invented the 'ABC murderer' to cover the one murder he wanted to commit, so everyone thought, Carmichael Clarke was just another victim picked by his initials CC.
the I-narrator was in both novels the murderer. I'd never have thought that Agatha would use the same trick twice, that's why I always suspect the I-narrator when I read a new novel (unless it's Hastings). 'Endless Night' isn't a Poirot novel, the narrator is Mike Rogers who marries Ellie, a rich girl from America. A very interesting novel about a gypsy curse. 'Roger Ackroyd' is another very famous Poirot novel.
The Secret Adversary. Great novel. Rather a spy story than a crime story.
| 'The Tuesday Night Club' is collection of stories, all told by one of Miss Marple's friends and relatives. Who tells the story of 'The Blood-Stained Pavement'? | Agatha Christie's Novels and Stories
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Joyce Lempriere . It is hinted that Joyce and Raymond, Miss Marple's nephew, are getting married. Yet the name of Raymond's wife in the later novels is Joan, not Joyce, but she's an artist, too. Maybe a mistake - or Raymond favors artists. Joyce's story is about a marriage impostor who marries from time to time a rich woman and then kills her - with help from his real wife.
Miss Chadwick. Ann Shapland was the 'cat', but she didn't kill Miss Vansittart. Miss Chadwick did it without really thinking about it, because she thought then she would become Miss Bulstrode's successor. It is hinted in the book by the way the scene is written...
Three Act Tragedy. Three victims, all killed by pure nicotine. In the movie, Tony Curtis played Charles Cartwright.
Yes. Agatha's first novel. Inglethorp was the only suspect at first, but then, an alibi was revealed. Only Poirot saw what this led to, and he could prevent Inglethorp from being accused before the alibi came up. But Inglethorp WAS the murderer - he just wanted to be arrested, because in England, he couldn't have been accused twice for the same crime. So if he had been arrested and then cleared, they couldn't have charged him of the same crime again. Clever...
| Amyas Crale was obviously killed by his wife Caroline. Caroline died in jail, but before, she swore to her daughter Carla that she was innocent. Sixteen years after the crime, Carla wants Poirot to reconsider the case. Which novel is it? | Agatha Christie's Novels and Stories
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Five Little Pigs. One of my favorites. Poirot really solves the case with no basis but five reports of what had happened back then.
No. Agatha didn't want them to meet. She thought they wouldn't get along very well. Their worlds were too different...
Dr. Kennedy. Another one of my favorites. A young couple, Giles and Gwenda, moves to a house in Dillmouth, and Gwenda starts to realize that she lived there for a short time when she was a toddler. Slowly, the memories come back - and she understands that she had witnessed a murder there. Though there is no body to be found and no report about a sudden death, Giles and Gwenda start to investigate, together with Miss Marple...
f. 'Easy to Kill' takes place in Wychwood, a village in England. Luke Fitzwilliam hears from an old lady on a train that there are strange things going on, and that she is going to tell Scotland Yard about a special person with the 'evil eye'. When Luke learns that this lady had an accident, he becomes curious and goes to Wychwood to find out about what had happened there.
3 . Rudi Schwarz, Dora 'Bunny' Bunner, and Amy Murgatroyd.
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