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10 best Agatha Christie murder mysteries

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10 best muder mysteries by Agatha Christie

The world’s most renowned murder mystery writer Agatha Christie has many as 66 detective novels to her credit. She is one of the largest selling authors till date and has also written 150 short stories, plays, and created two of the world’s most admired sleuths, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. If you haven’t picked all these following books already, now might be a good chance to read them all.

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The ABC Murders

Despite prior warnings, Poirot fails to save Alice, Betty, and Carmichael (A, B, C) from being killed. Poirot must stop this serial killer before he gets his hands on the next victim, the D.
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A Murder is Announced

In an English village, a sudden notice appears on a small pub, announcing a murder. While everyone takes the note to be a jest, a going off of the lights out following a gunshot later revealing the gunman himself to be dead, people seem concerned. That is when Miss Jane Marple is summoned to solve the mystery.
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And There Were None

A weekend island getaway turns fatally sinister as a group of vacationers begin to die one by one till the diminishing group realises that one among them must be the killer. This is a thriller and a detective story combined together to form one of Christie’s best books ever.
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Crooked House

The patriarch of the affluent Leonides family is poisoned by his own eye medicine to death. His young and beautiful second wife is one of the suspects who is having an affair with the grandchildren’s tutor and might be after the family inheritance. The granddaughter’s fiancé Charles Hayward takes it upon him to investigate the death.
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Peril At End House

The destitute owner of End House hosts a party with fireworks which camouflage the sound of the gunshot that kills her cousin. One of the guests must be the murderer. Or, is there someone else?
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Five Little Pigs

Caroline Crale died in prison 16 years ago serving a life sentence for poisoning her husband. Poirot is approached by Caroline’s daughter to investigate any possible miscarriage of justice and he he comes op with five other suspects.
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Death on the Nile

Broke aristocrat Jackie de Bellefort seems desperately in love with Simon Doyle, her fiancée. She hopes her friend Linnet ridgeway can arrange a job for her, whereas Ridgeway herself elopes with Doyle, leaving a vengeful Bellefort chasing after them. And hence enters Poirot in the scene.
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One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

Poirot is not convinced as his dentist dies from a self-inflicted gunshot. But Poirot soon finds out one of Morley’s patients also die from an overdose of anaesthesia. The plot takes exciting twists and leads to the heart of the English diplomatic establishment.
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

When the wealthy Roger Ackroyd is found dead in his study Poirot takes time off from his retirement and agrees to investigate his death. A gripping murder mystery, the book is a fast-paced, controversial detective stories to have ever been written.
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Murder on the Orient Express

On a wintry night, the Orient Express stops all of a sudden, blocked by snowdrifts. But the following morning a passenger is found dead in his compartment. Agatha Christie’s most celebrated detective Hercule Poirot is also aboard the train and embarks on a mission to catch the killer who may also be a passenger.
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Rakhi Bhattacharyya

2090 days ago

too good. rushing memories of golden period in school

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