Ahead of "A Haunting in Venice," Check Out All of Agatha Christie's Mystery Books

One of Christie's two most famous detectives (more on the second in a moment), Hercule Poirot is a Belgian detective who first appears in Christie's first detective novel, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles." He has a very distinctive physical description: a short, pristinely dressed man with a distinguished mustache. In his backstory, he was once a police detective in Brussels but now works as a private detective all over the world. Each story places him in a different setting, where he meets a colorful list of suspects and uses his exceptional skills to solve a crime — although some outcomes are more morally murky than others.

Hercule Poirot Books in Order

1. "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" (1921)
2. "The Murder on the Links" (1923)
3. "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" (1926)
4. "The Big Four" (1927)
5. "The Mystery of the Blue Train" (1928)
6. "Peril at End House" (1932)
7. "Lord Edgware Dies" (1933)
8. "Murder on the Orient Express" (1934)
9. "Three Act Tragedy" (1935)
10. "Death in the Clouds" (1935)
11. "The A.B.C. Murders" (1936)
12. "Murder in Mesopotamia" (1936)
13. "Cards on the Table" (1936)
14. "Dumb Witness" (1937)
15. "Death on the Nile" (1937)
16. "Appointment With Death" (1938)
17. "Hercule Poirot's Christmas" (1938)
18. "Sad Cypress" (1940)
19. "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" (1940)
20. "Evil Under the Sun" (1941)
21. "Five Little Pigs" (1942)
22. "The Hollow" (1946)
23. "Taken at the Flood" (1948)
24. "Mrs McGinty's Dead" (1952)
25. "After the Funeral" (1953)
26. "Hickory Dickory Dock" (1955)
27. "Dead Man's Folly" (1956)
28. "Cat Among the Pigeons" (1959)
29. "The Clocks" (1963)
30. "Third Girl" (1966)
31. "Hallowe'en Party" (1969)
32. "Elephants Can Remember" (1972)
33. "Curtain" (1975)