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Best Agatha Christie Books

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Lyannaa · 26/03/2025 20:15

I’ve just read And Then There Were None and really loved it. It’s the first book I’ve read of hers.

But AC has written so many books - which ones are the best in your opinions?

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thepariscrimefiles · 31/03/2025 11:51

The Pale Horse
Five Little Pigs
Sleeping Murder
Sad Cypress
A Murder is Announced

QueenOfThorns · 27/03/2025 08:34

I may have just ordered a bundle of old Agatha Christie paperbacks on eBay! Thanks for this thread, OP.

cloudjumper · 27/03/2025 07:43

So many…

Cat among the pigeons
The Pale Horse
N or M
Death on the Nile
Murder on the Orient Express
The Hollow
A murder is announced

ThisCraftySeal · 27/03/2025 07:31

Also The Seven Dials mystery, its utterly bonkers but in a good way, I love Bundle in this

autisticbookworm · 27/03/2025 06:45

The Miss Marples are the best imo. Love the mirror cracked, Sleeping murder, Nemisis.

Iamalltheyhavenow · 27/03/2025 00:18

Another vote for Endless Night here. Also a huge thank you to the OP for starting this thread and reminding me how brilliant Agatha Christie's writing is. I read them all in my late teens/early twenties, inspired by a few I found on my grandfather's bookshelves. I am off on a solo cruise in April, and will download a few to my ebook and indulge myself in some nostalgic and wonderful reading!

tobee · 27/03/2025 00:13

ABC Murders is my favourite to read. Some of the others get a bit bogged down but ABC Murders is fast moving.

MissRoseDurward · 26/03/2025 23:53

She was a genius at her genre, so many great reads.

Yes. When you read some of her contemporaries, who were really successful in their day, you realise just how good she was.

It's interesting to read her autobiography, too, and see how many of her own experiences she used in her novels. Her house, Greenway in Devon, features in two books.

Carrotsandgrapes · 26/03/2025 23:17

Towards Zero is good (ignore the recent adaptation)

The Mysterious Mr Quinn

Crooked House

Her short story collections are good.

Any Poirot/Marple ones are good. The Poirot ones with Mrs Oliver in are the most fun. Death or the Nile, Murder on the Orient Express are classics for a reason.

WellFilledLeggings · 26/03/2025 23:03

The pale horse.

At Bertram's hotel.

ABC murders.

She was a genius at her genre, so many great reads. My DF has a huge collections of her paperbacks, I might go and choose a few to re-read next time I visit. Great thread OP.

Fagli · 26/03/2025 23:01

Endless Night

Sunnydays25 · 26/03/2025 22:59

I'd avoid the Tommy and Tuppence ones - I've read and reread all the Poirots and Miss Marples, and they are so much better!

Hollyhocksandlarkspur · 26/03/2025 22:35

Death on the Nile - brilliant setting and plot.
The Hollow - I just like the characters and typical country house setting
The 4.50pm from Paddington
Murder on the Orient Express

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Lyannaa · 26/03/2025 22:21

Thank you all so much Smile

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Alllll · 26/03/2025 22:18

Cynic17 · 26/03/2025 20:16

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Absolutely this.

Augustusjoop · 26/03/2025 22:16

Endless Night and Crooked House - neither are Marple or Poirot stories.

I’m currently reading Towards Zero, which is good (so much better than that shite tv adaptation).

ABC Murders also good - actually there’s so many to chose from. The Marple/Poirot short stories are well worth reading too.

Just read them all!

MissRoseDurward · 26/03/2025 22:04

The Tommy and Tuppence ones are the least good, IMO.

I like Secret Adversary and N or M. Partners in Crime is a collection of short stories. It's the later ones, when T&T are getting old and Agatha was past her peak, that are not so good, imo.

I like Mrs Oliver. Shows Agatha was well aware of her own foibles and didn't take herself too seriously.

lavenderlou · 26/03/2025 21:55

Most of the Poirot and Miss Marple ones are good. I like ABC murders and Sleeping Murder. The Tommy and Tuppence ones are the least good, IMO.

QueenOfThorns · 26/03/2025 21:45

DaisyDukesAuntie · 26/03/2025 21:42

Sounds like Mrs McGintys Dead

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Yes! That’s it, thank you so much. I need to read that one again.

DaisyDukesAuntie · 26/03/2025 21:42

QueenOfThorns · 26/03/2025 21:40

I love Crooked House. Also Death on the Nile.

Does anyone know which book is about someone who gets murdered because they’ve recognised someone living incognito locally from a newspaper article about historical murders? I think they work out the motive quite early on, but the article talks about quite a few people, so they don’t know which one of them it was, or even what age or sex of person they’re looking for.

Sounds like Mrs McGintys Dead

BlueRaincoat1 · 26/03/2025 21:41

The Moving Finger was my long time favourite.

The classics, of Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile are both amazing.

I have recently been re- reading loads. Appointment With Death was really good.

QueenOfThorns · 26/03/2025 21:40

I love Crooked House. Also Death on the Nile.

Does anyone know which book is about someone who gets murdered because they’ve recognised someone living incognito locally from a newspaper article about historical murders? I think they work out the motive quite early on, but the article talks about quite a few people, so they don’t know which one of them it was, or even what age or sex of person they’re looking for.

Iknowaboutpopular · 26/03/2025 21:33

Evil under the sun is one of my faves.

DaisyDukesAuntie · 26/03/2025 21:33

This is also a good thread. I’ve just finished the Big Four - very very good!

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