poirot, hercule (fictitious character)

When a man is sentenced to death for the brutal murder of his landlord, Superintendent Spence, convinced of the man's innocence, seeks the help of former-police officer Hercule Poirot in solving the mystery.

Presents twelve stories in which the ingenious Hercule Poirot uses his wits and detective skills to unravel the mysterious.

Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot is called upon to solve an archaeologist's wife's murder while she was on a dig in Iraq.

One of the very respectable guests at the festive Hallowe'en party must have committed murder--someone who had a nasty shock from Joyce's revelation.

Belgian detective Hercule Poirot tries to learn the identity of the person who is trying to murder Miss Nick Buckley.

Agatha Christie's classic novel featuring Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, who is called upon to investigate the murder of Mrs. Boynton, the cruel and tyrannizing matriarch of the Boynton family.

Poirot vacations at the picturesque Jolly Roger Hotel, situated on an island, and finds that at least one of the guests is a cunning murderer.

In Agatha Christie's first book, Hercule Poirot solves a baffling murder at an English country home.

Belgian detective Hercule Poirot sets out to investigate a baffling case when he arrives at Lady Angkatell's estate for a weekend house party to find a doctor lying dead in a puddle of blood and his timid wife standing over the corpse with a gun.

Detective Hercule Poirot arrives at Gorston Hall for the Christmas holidays only to discover his host, aging millionaire Simeon Lee, has been murdered, apparently by one of his guests.