Christie Plots and Titles

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1. A family get together is in progress, when the master of the house is killed. Featuring a Spanish beauty, a bag of diamonds and a false moustache! Which is this Poirot mystery? The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding Hercule Poirot’s Christmas After the Funeral The Hollow

2. A serial killer is on the loose and he has the gall to challenge Poirot. The killer is found and he confesses, but Poirot is not so sure. Which is this novel? The Mysterious Affair at Styles Murder in the Mews The ABC Murders Murder is Easy

3. A group of people assemble in a house in response to an advertisement and there is a murder. Two of the suspects are Pip and Emma! It takes all of Miss Marple’s ingenuity to crack the case. Name the novel. The Moving Finger A Murder is Announced Murder in the Vicarage The Body in the Library

4. This story is set during World War II and features a Nazi plot to infiltrate an English coastal town. The central characters go about trying to unmask the spies. Which novel is this? Passenger to Frankfurt By the Pricking of My Thumbs N or M? The Secret Adversary

5. Featured is a strange family, under the thumb of an autocratic mother. When the mother is murdered, each of the members of the family comes under suspicion. An injection syringe is the clue and the poison is digitoxin. Which is this novel? Murder in Mesopotamia Appointment with Death One, Two, Buckle my Shoe Death on the Nile

6. A man plans with his wife to fake his death to escape the clutches of a blackmailer, but the plan turns awry and he really dies. A French detective arrests the son, but Poirot is not convinced. Which novel features this plot? Murder on the Links Death in the Clouds Curtain The Clocks

7. Three witches in a village perform black magic and people mysteriously die. The hero plans to find the truth, but his plan goes dangerously wrong and the heroine is on her death bed. Identify this novel which also features Ariadne Oliver. The Pale Horse Elephants Can Remember Cards on the Table Halloween Party

8. A Christie classic - a dead man is found and the suspect is the man’s nephew. Poirot, who has retired to grow vegetable marrows, takes up the case. The novel features one of the most innovative endings by Christie. Which is this novel? Murder on the Orient Express The Murder of Roger Ackroyd And Then There Were None Endless Night

9. A woman is murdered in a train and there is only one eyewitness, who saw the murder from a passing train. The body is found and the novel centers on a family, whose members are poisoned one by one. Can you guess the title of this novel? Ordeal by Innocence Mystery of the Blue Train 4.50 from Paddington Murder on the Orient Express

10. This novel features an Egyptian family in the year 2000, not AD but BC! Members of the family die one by one and no one knows who the murderer is. Which is this novel? Death Comes as the End Dumb Witness Remembered Death Death on the Nile