Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No

Agatha Christie’s debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, features the first appearance of the eccentric Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. Poirot must use his unusual methods and his singular charm to solve the murder of the rich, elderly Emily Inglethorpe. Fortunately, Poirot’s old friend Arthur Hastings happens to be staying at Styles... Read more »

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No

Hercule Poirot solves his first case in the Agatha Christie novel that started it all, now in a fully restored edition that features a “missing chapter” along with commentary from Christie expert John Curran.

Who poisoned the wealthy Emily Inglethorp and how did the murderer penetrate and escape from her locked bedroom? Suspects abound in the... Read more »

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No

A literary icon of the highest order, Dame Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Her debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introduces Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot. Here, his deductive skills are put to the ultimate test when the wealthy Emily Inglethorpe is poisoned.... Read more »

Murder on the Links

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s class mystery Murder on the Links, Hercule Poirot attempts to unravel the grisly conundrum of not one, but two dead bodies discovered on a French golf course.

An urgent cry for help brings Hercule Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face down in a shallow grave... Read more »

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No

Voted by the British Crime Writers’ Association as the "Best Crime Novel of all Time"

Hercule Poirot comes out of retirement in one of Agatha Christie’s ten favorite novels, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been... Read more »

Black Coffee

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: John Moffatt
Length: 4 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No

Sir Claud Amory's formula for a powerful new explosive has been stolen, presumably by a member of his large household. Sir Claud assembles his suspects in the library and locks the door, instructing them that the when the lights go out, the formula must be replaced on the table -- and no questions will be asked. But when the lights come on, Sir... Read more »

Peril at End House

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No

In the Agatha Christie classic Peril at End House, a young woman who has recently survived a series of very close calls appears to be the target of a dedicated killer—and it’s up to Hercule Poirot to save her life.

On holiday on the Cornish Riviera, Hercule Poirot is alarmed to hear pretty Nick Buckley describe her recent “accidental brushes with... Read more »

Lord Edgware Dies

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No

When Lord Edgware Dies a most unnatural death, detective Hercule Poirot must solve a most confounding conundrum: if the obvious killer, the slain peer’s spiteful wife, didn’t do it, who did? A classic from the queen of mystery, Agatha Christie.

When Lord Edgware is found murdered the police are baffled. His estranged actress wife was seen... Read more »

Three Act Tragedy

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s classic, Three Act Tragedy, the normally unflappable Hercule Poirot faces his most baffling investigation: the seemingly motiveless murder of the thirteenth guest at dinner party, who choked to death on a cocktail containing not a trace of poison.

Sir Charles Cartwright should have known better than to allow thirteen guests... Read more »

Death in the Clouds

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No

Hercule Poirot must solve a perplexing case of midair murder in Death in the Clouds when he discovers that the woman in seat two of the airborne aeroplane he’s traveling on is quite unexpectedly—and unnaturally—deceased.

From seat No. 9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers on the short flight from Paris to... Read more »

The ABC Murders

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: No

Now an Amazon Prime original limited series!

Agatha Christie’s beloved classic The A.B.C. Murders sets Hercule Poirot on the trail of a serial killer.

There’s a serial killer on the loose, working his way through the alphabet and the whole country is in a state of panic.

A is for Mrs. Ascher in Andover, B is for Betty Barnard in Bexhill, C is for... Read more »

Murder in Mesopotamia

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Anna Massey
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No

Suspicious events at a Middle Eastern archaeological excavation site intrigue the great Hercule Poirot as he investigates Murder in Mesopotamia, a classic murder mystery from Agatha Christie.

Amy Leatheram has never felt the lure of the mysterious East, but when she travels to an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert to nurse the wife of a... Read more »

Cards on the Table

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s classic mystery, Cards on the Table, the wily Hercule Poirot is on the case when a bridge night turns deadly

Mr. Shaitana is famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he is a man of whom everybody is a little afraid. So when he boasts to Hercule Poirot that he considers murder an art form, the detective has some... Read more »

Dumb Witness

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s Dumb Witness, Hercule Poirot investigates the very suspicious death of an elderly spinster who, fearing the very worst, had written to the great detective prior to her demise.

Everyone blamed Emily Arundell’s accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more... Read more »

Death on the Nile

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: David Suchet
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No

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Beloved detective Hercule Poirot embarks on a journey to Egypt in one of Agatha Christie’s most famous mysteries, Death on the Nile.

The tranquility of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot... Read more »

Death on the Nile

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Kenneth Branagh
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No

Soon to be a major motion picture sequel to Murder on the Orient Express with a screenplay by Michael Green, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh alongside Gal Gadot and Armie Hammer—coming September 17, 2021!

Beloved detective Hercule Poirot embarks on a journey to Egypt in one of Agatha Christie’s most famous mysteries.

The tranquility of a... Read more »

Murder in the Mews

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: NIgel Hawthorne
Length: 6 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No

Agatha Christie’s classic Murder in the Mews presents four mystifying criminal conundrums that will seriously test the superior detecting skills of the unflappable Hercule Poirot.

How did a woman holding a pistol in her right hand manage to shoot herself in the left temple? What was the link between a ghost sighting and the disappearance of top... Read more »

Appointment with Death

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No

The unstoppable Hercule Poirot finds himself in the Middle East with only one day to solve a murder in the classic Agatha Christie mystery, Appointment with Death.

Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sits the corpse of Mrs. Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist is the only sign of the fatal injection... Read more »

Hercule Poirot's Christmas

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No

In Hercule Poirot’s Christmas, the holidays are anything but merry when a family reunion is marred by murder—and the notoriously fastidious investigator is quickly on the case.

Christmas Eve, and the Lee family’s reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead... Read more »

Sad Cypress

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: David Suchet
Length: 6 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery Sad Cypress, a woman damned by overwhelming evidence stands accused of murdering her romantic rival, and only Hercule Poirot stands between her and the gallows.

Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning:... Read more »

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No

The meticulous detective Hercule Poirot suspects the worst of the death of a dentist in this classic mystery by Queen of Whodunits, Agatha Christie.

Even the great detective Hercule Poirot harbored a deep and abiding fear of the dentist, so it was with some trepidation that he arrived at the celebrated Dr. Morley’s surgery for a dental... Read more »

Evil Under the Sun

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: David Suchet
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No

The classic Evil Under the Sun, one of the most famous of Agatha Christie’s Poirot investigations, has the fastidious sleuth on the trail of the killer of a sun-bronzed beauty whose death brings some rather shocking secrets into the light.

The beautiful bronzed body of Arlena Stuart lay face down on the beach. But strangely, there was no sun and... Read more »

Five Little Pigs

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s classic, Five Little Pigs, beloved detective Hercule Poirot races to solve a case from out of the past.

Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, but just like the nursery rhyme, there were five other “little pigs” who could have done it: Philip Blake (the stockbroker), who went to market; Meredith... Read more »

The Hollow

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No

Agatha Christie’s classic, The Hollow, finds Poirot entangled in a nasty web of family secrets when he comes across a fresh murder at an English country manor.

A far-from-warm welcome greets Hercule Poirot as he arrives for lunch at Lucy Angkatell’s country house. A man lies dying by the swimming pool, his blood dripping into the water. His wife... Read more »

The Labors of Hercules

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No

Like The Labors of Hercules, the twelve cases Poirot must solve in this captivating collection of short crime fiction stories are dangerous, demanding, and positively ingenious.

In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet—reasoned the detective—like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its... Read more »

Taken at the Flood

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s classic puzzler Taken at the Flood, the indefatigable Hercule Poiroit investigates the troubling case of a twice-widowed woman.

A few weeks after marrying an attractive widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs. Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the... Read more »

Mrs. McGinty's Dead

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No

In Mrs. McGinty’s Dead, one of Agatha Christie’s most ingenious mysteries, the intrepid Hercule Poirot must look into the case of a brutally murdered landlady.

Mrs. McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion falls immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes reveal traces of the victim’s blood and hair.... Read more »

After the Funeral

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No

Hercule Poirot is called on to investigate the murder of a brother and sister, in this classic Agatha Christie mystery now available in an updated edition with a foreword Sophie Hannah.

 “He was murdered, wasn’t he?”

When Cora Lansquenet is savagely murdered, the extraordinary remark she had made the previous day at her brother Richard’s funeral... Read more »

Dead Man's Folly

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: David Suchet
Length: 6 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: No

When a mock murder game staged for charity threatens to turn into the real thing, the intrepid Hercule Poirot is called in to take part in this Dead Man’s Folly, a classic from the queen of suspense, Agatha Christie.

Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fete, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith,... Read more »

Cat Among the Pigeons

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No

Murder is part of the curriculum at an exclusive school for girls in Agatha Christie’s Cat Among the Pigeons, as the intrepid Poirot sets out to bring a stealthy killer to justice.

Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion while the rest of the school sleeps. There, among the lacrosse sticks, they... Read more »

The Clocks

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No

Time is ticking away for a murderer in Agatha Christie’s classic, The Clocks, as Hercule Poirot investigates the strange case of a corpse surrounded by numerous timepieces in a blind woman’s house.

Sheila Webb expected to find a respectable blind lady waiting for her at 19 Wilbraham Crescent—not the body of a middle-aged man sprawled across the... Read more »

Third Girl

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 6 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No

In this breathtaking Agatha Christie mystery, the Third Girl sharing a London flat with two others announces to Hercule Poirot that she’s a murderer and then disappears. The masterful investigator must figure out whether the missing girl is a criminal, a victim, or merely insane.

Three young women share a London flat. The first is a coolly... Read more »

Hallowe'en Party

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No

When a Halloween Party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirots to unmask a murderer in Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery, Hallowe’en Party.

At a Halloween party, Joyce—a hostile thirteen-year-old—boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house,... Read more »

Elephants Can Remember

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No

A classic Hercule Poirot investigation, Agatha Christie’s Elephants Can Remember has the expert detective delving into an unsolved crime from the past involving the strange death of a husband and wife.

Hercule Poirot stood on the clifftop. Here, many years earlier, there had been a fatal accident followed by the grisly discovery of two bodies—a... Read more »

Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No

The legendary detective saves his best for last as he races to apprehend a five-time killer before the final curtain descends in Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case, the last book Agatha Christie published before her death.

The crime-fighting careers of Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings have come full circle—they are back once again in the rambling... Read more »

The Monogram Murders

By: Sophie Hannah & Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
Length: 11 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No

Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified—but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done.

Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at a fashionable London Hotel... Read more »

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: David Thorn
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No

Agatha Christie, the Queen of Mystery, introduces us for the first time to Hercule Poirot, as he solves the mysterious demise of Mrs. Alfred Inglethorpe at her country estate, Styles Court. Many suspects come under his scrutiny, so it is his genius to unravel all the intricacies of the case that allow him to ultimately solve the crime-and the... Read more »

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No

There were not less than seven people at the fashionable estate in Essex, England, who might have abided Emily Inglethorp if she were more dead than alive. There were not less than seven motives and no fewer than seven apparently fool-proof alibis when the wealthy lady of Styles lay dead in her own bed. Had the perfect crime been committed?

Here... Read more »

The Murder on the Links

By: Agatha Christie
Length: 8 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No

Not one, but two dead bodies are discovered on a French golf course, leaving Hercule Poirot to unravel a grisly conundrum.

Hercule Poirot receives an urgent cry for help from a client summoning him to France. But he is too late, and arrives to find his client facedown in a shallow grave on a golf course, brutally stabbed to death, and dressed in... Read more »

Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: David Suchet & Hugh Fraser
Length: TBA
Abridged: No

At last, a single volume that gathers together all of the short stories featuring Agatha Christie's most famous creation, Hercule Poirot. The dapper, mustache-twirling little Belgian with the egg-shaped head and curious mannerisms has solved some of the most puzzling crimes of the century—and, in his own humble opinion, is "probably the greatest... Read more »

The Under Dog

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 2 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No

Pretty Lily Margrave is not convinced that Hercule Poirot is needed in the matter of Sir Atwell’s murder. At the request of her employer, Lady Atwell, she has already recounted what happened ten days ago in the Tower Room, and the victim’s nephew has been charged with the murder. Nevertheless, Lady Atwell brings Poirot up to the great house, Mon... Read more »

The Killings at Kingfisher Hill

By: Sophie Hannah
Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No

Named a New York Times Best Book to Give!

“I was thrilled to see Poirot in such very, very good hands.”— Gillian Flynn, New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl

"[A] masterful and multi-layered puzzle . . . adding a new dimension to a much-loved series." — NPR

The world’s greatest detective, Hercule Poirot—legendary star of Agatha... Read more »

The Murder on the Links & Murder on the Orient Express

By: Agatha Christie
Length: 12 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No

Two Bestselling Agatha Christie Novels in One Great Audiobook

In Agatha Christie’s class mystery Murder on the Links, Hercule Poirot attempts to unravel the grisly conundrum of not one, but two dead bodies discovered on a French golf course.

An urgent cry for help brings Hercule Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose... Read more »

The Big Four

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 5 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No

Famed private eye Hercule Poirot tackles international intrigue and espionage in this classic Agatha Christie mystery.

Framed in the doorway of Hercule Poirot's bedroom stands an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man stares for a moment, then he sways and falls. Who is he? Is he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above... Read more »

The Under Dog and Other Stories

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: David Suchet & Hugh Fraser
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No

A dead heiress on a train, a murdered recluse, a wealthy playboy slain at a costume ball are but a few of the unfortunate victims of confounding crimes committed in the pages of Agatha Christie’s The Under Dog and Other Stories, a superior collection of short mystery fiction all featuring Hercule Poirot as the investigator. 

A beautiful heiress... Read more »

Triangle at Rhodes

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: NIgel Hawthorne
Length: 50 minutes
Abridged: No

October on the island of Rhodes is a veritable paradise of privacy, beauty, and calm—or so Hercule Poirot has imagined. The reality is quite different, as the arrival of famed Chanel beauty Valentine Chantry causes a ripple of malice to be felt across the island. She captivates at least one married man with her wiles and good looks, as her... Read more »