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Hercule Poirot in Order
The Hercule Poirot books follow Agatha Christie’s Belgian detective from his arrival in wartime England through the country houses, hotels, trains, archaeological expeditions and changing cities of the interwar and post-war decades. Captain Hastings, Inspector Japp, Ariadne Oliver and Miss Lemon recur, but each case is built around…
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
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The Murder on the Links
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Poirot Investigates
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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The Big Four
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The Mystery of the Blue Train
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Black Coffee
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Peril at End House
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Lord Edgware Dies
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Murder on the Orient Express
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Three Act Tragedy
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Death in the Clouds
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The ABC Murders
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Murder in Mesopotamia
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Cards on the Table
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Murder in the Mews
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Dumb Witness
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Death on the Nile
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Appointment with Death
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Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
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Sad Cypress
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One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
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Evil Under the Sun
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Five Little Pigs
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The Hollow
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The Labours of Hercules
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Taken at the Flood
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Mrs McGinty’s Dead
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After the Funeral
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Hickory Dickory Dock
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Dead Man’s Folly
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Cat Among the Pigeons
33
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
34
The Clocks
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Third Girl
36
Hallowe’en Party
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Elephants Can Remember
38
Poirot’s Early Cases
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Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case
The Clara Fitzgerald Mysteries in Order
The Clara Fitzgerald Mysteries follow Brighton’s first female private detective from 1920 into the middle of the decade. Clara works beside her brother Tommy, Annie Fitzgerald and Captain O’Harris, later her husband, investigating murders, disappearances, frauds and conspiracies in a society still marked by the First World War…
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Memories of the Dead
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Flight of Fancy
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Murder in Mink
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Carnival of Criminals
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Mistletoe and Murder
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The Poison Pen
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Grave Suspicions of Murder
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The Woman Died Thrice
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Murder and Mascara
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The Green Jade Dragon
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The Monster at the Window
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Murder on the Mary Jane
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The Missing Wife
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The Traitor’s Bones
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The Fossil Murder
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Mr Lynch’s Prophecy
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Death at the Pantomime
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The Cowboy’s Crime
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The Trouble with Tortoises
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The Valentine Murder
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A Body Out of Time
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The Dog Show Affair
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The Unlucky Wedding Guest
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Worse Things Happen at Sea
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A Diet of Death
26
Brilliant Chang Returns
27
Storm in a Teacup
28
The Dog Theft Mystery
29
The Day the Zeppelin Came
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The Mystery of Mallory
31
Death at the Sun Club
32
The Disappearance of Emily Potter
33
Bright Young Dead Things
34
The Price of Honour
35
Murder on the Silver Screen
36
For King and Country
37
The Mahjong Mystery
38
A Rose by Any Other Name
Sister Fidelma Mysteries in Order
The Sister Fidelma mysteries follow Fidelma of Cashel, a seventh-century Irish religieuse and qualified dálaigh, or advocate of the Brehon courts. Working most often with the Saxon scholar Brother Eadulf, she investigates murders, disappearances and political conspiracies across the Five Kingdoms of Ireland and in Northumbria, Rome, Wales,…
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Absolution by Murder
2
Shroud for the Archbishop
3
Suffer Little Children
4
The Subtle Serpent
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The Spider’s Web
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Valley of the Shadow
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The Monk Who Vanished
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Act of Mercy
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Hemlock at Vespers
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Our Lady of Darkness
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Smoke in the Wind
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The Haunted Abbot
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Badger’s Moon
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The Leper’s Bell
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Whispers of the Dead
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Master of Souls
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A Prayer for the Damned
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Dancing with Demons
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The Council of the Cursed
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The Dove of Death
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The Chalice of Blood
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Behold a Pale Horse
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The Seventh Trumpet
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Atonement of Blood
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The Devil’s Seal
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The Second Death
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Penance of the Damned
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Night of the Lightbringer
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Bloodmoon
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Blood in Eden
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Shapeshifters Lair
31
The Shapeshifter’s Lair
32
The House of Death
33
Death of a Heretic
34
Revenge of the Stormbringer
35
Prophet of Blood
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