Order of Hercule Poirot Books

 

Hercule Poirot is a fictional character created by English author Agatha Christie. The Belgian detective is Christie’s most famous character. As a detective, he depends on logic and clues and prefers to solve mysteries conventionally.

Hercule Poirot has appeared in over 30 novels and over 50 short stories from the years 1920 until 1975. He has also appeared in several movies, stageplays and a TV series, portrayed by actors such as John Moffat, Albert Finney, Peter Ustinov, Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and David Suchet.

Below is a list of all of the novels in which the Hercule Poirot character appears in order of when they were published:

 

Publication Order of Hercule Poirot Books

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

(1920)

The Murder on the Links

(1923)

Poirot Investigates

(1924)

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

(1926)

The Big Four

(1927)

The Mystery of the Blue Train

(1928)

Black Coffee

(1930)

Peril at End House

(1932)

Lord Edgware Dies / Thirteen at Dinner

(1933)

Three Act Tragedy / Murder in Three Acts

(1934)

Murder on the Orient Express / Murder in the Calais Coach

(1934)

Death in the Clouds / Death in the Air

(1935)

The A.B.C. Murders

(1936)

Murder in Mesopotamia

(1936)

Cards on the Table

(1936)

Dumb Witness / Poirot Loses a Client

(1937)

Death on the Nile

(1937)

Murder in the Mews / Dead Man’s Mirror

(1937)

Appointment with Death

(1938)

Hercule Poirot’s Christmas / Holiday for Murder / Murder for Christmas

(1938)

Sad Cypress

(1940)

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe / Overdose of Death

(1940)

Evil Under the Sun

(1941)

Five Little Pigs / Murder in Retrospect

(1942)

The Hollow / Murder after Hours

(1946)

Taken at the Flood / There Is A Tide….

(1948)

Mrs. McGinty’s Dead / Blood Will Tell

(1952)

After the Funeral / Funerals are Fatal

(1953)

Hickory Dickory Dock

(1955)

Dead Man’s Folly

(1956)

Cat Among the Pigeons

(1959)

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

(1960)

The Clocks

(1963)

Third Girl

(1966)

Hallowe’en Party

(1969)

Elephants Can Remember

(1972)

Curtain

(1975)

Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly

(2013)

Publication Order of Hercule Poirot Short Stories/Novellas

The Adventure of the Cheap Flat

(1923)

The King of Clubs

(1923)

The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly

(1923)

The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman

(1923)

The Veiled Lady

(1923)

The Kidnapped Prime Minister

(1923)

The Plymouth Express

(1923)

The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan

(1923)

The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor

(1923)

The Affair at the Victory Ball

(1923)

The Adventure of the Western Star

(1923)

The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb

(1923)

The Submarine Plans

(1923)

The Adventure of the Clapham Cook

(1923)

The Lost Mine

(1923)

The Lemesurier Inheritance

(1923)

The Chocolate Box

(1925)

Double Sin

(1928)

Wasps’ Nest

(1929)

The Second Gong

(1932)

The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest

(1932)

How Does Your Garden Grow?

(1935)

Poirot and the Regatta Mystery

(1936)

Yellow Iris

(1937)

The Incredible Theft

(1937)

The Dream

(1937)

The Mystery of the Spanish Chest

(1960)

Afternoon at the Seaside

(1962)

The Patient

(1962)

The Witness for the Prosecution

(1983)

Four and Twenty Blackbirds

(1989)

The Million Dollar Bond Robbery

(1998)

The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim

(2012)

The Market Basing Mystery

(2013)

The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge

(2013)

The Cornish Mystery

(2013)

Problem at Sea

(2013)

The Under Dog

(2016)

The Double Clue

(2019)

The Case of the Missing Will

(2019)

Publication Order of Hercule Poirot Collections

The Labours of Hercules / The Labors of Hercules

(1947)

The Witness for the Prosecution

(1948)

The Under Dog and Other Stories

(1951)

Poirot’s Early Cases

(1974)

Hercule Poirot’s Casebook

(1984)

Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories

(1984)

The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories

(1997)

The Double Clue

(2016)

The Early Cases of Hercule Poirot

(2019)

The Grey Cells of Mr. Poirot

(2019)

Note: The Monogram Murders written by Sophie Hannah, based on the work of Agatha Christie.