Hercule Poirot Novels

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 70. Chapters: Murder on the Orient Express, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Death on the Nile, The Murder on the Links, Peril at End House, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Big Four, Curtain, Appointment with Death, Cards on the Table, Lord Edgware Dies, Five Little Pigs, Dumb Witness, Evil Under the Sun, Sad Cypress, The A.B.C. Murders, The Mystery of the Blue Train, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, Murder in Mesopotamia, Cat Among the Pigeons, Hickory Dickory Dock, Hallowe'en Party, Mrs McGinty's Dead, Hercule Poirot's Christmas, Death in the Clouds, Third Girl, After the Funeral, The Hollow, Taken at the Flood, Dead Man's Folly, Elephants Can Remember, The Clocks, Three Act Tragedy, Black Coffee. Excerpt: Murder on the Orient Express is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on January 1, 1934 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year under the title of Murder in the Calais Coach. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. The US title of Murder on the Calais Coach was used to avoid confusion with the 1932 Graham Greene novel Stamboul Train which had been published in the US as Orient Express. Returning from an important case in Palestine, Hercule Poirot boards the Orient Express in Constantinople. The train is unusually crowded for the time of year. Poirot secures a berth only with the help of his friend M. Bouc, a director of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. When a Mr. Harris fails to show up, Poirot takes his place. On the second night, Poirot gets a compartment to himself. That night, near Belgrade, at about twenty-three minutes before 1:00 am, Poirot wakes to the sound of a loud noise....