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

Unlike some of her other detectives, like Marple and Poirot, Superintendent Battle is not a private detective during the time we follow his cases. Instead, he's an active police detective, and a remarkably good one. Battle is a clever and thorough detective who often gets ahead of his adversaries by allowing them to make assumptions about the ineptitude of the "typical" police detective. His personal life, including his wife and five children, plays a minor role in a couple of his mysteries.

Superintendent Battle Books in Order

1. "The Secret of Chimneys" (1925)
2. "The Seven Dials Mystery" (1929)
3. "Cards on the Table" (1936)
4. "Murder Is Easy" (1939)
5. "Towards Zero" (1944)