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Poirot Reading Order

This document provides a suggested reading order for Agatha Christie's Poirot novels and short stories. It notes that the novel Curtain should be read last. It also lists several novels that are best read in a specific order relative to other works, such as Lord Edgware Dies before After the Funeral. The document then lists all of Christie's Poirot novels and some short stories in chronological order of their publication dates. It states that otherwise the books can be read in any order.

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Poirot Reading Order

This document provides a suggested reading order for Agatha Christie's Poirot novels and short stories. It notes that the novel Curtain should be read last. It also lists several novels that are best read in a specific order relative to other works, such as Lord Edgware Dies before After the Funeral. The document then lists all of Christie's Poirot novels and some short stories in chronological order of their publication dates. It states that otherwise the books can be read in any order.

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Suggested Reading order for Christie’s Poirot novels and short story

collections
The most important point to note is – make sure you read Curtain last. Other
points to note are:
1. Lord Edgware Dies should be read before After the
Funeral
2. Five Little Pigs should be read before Elephants Can
Remember
3. Cat Among the Pigeons should be read before Hallowe’en
Party
4. Mrs McGinty’s Dead should be read before Hallowe’en Party and
Elephants Can Remember
5. Murder on the Orient Express should be read before Murder in
Mesopotamia
The Clocks 1963
Third Girl 1966
Hallowe'en Party 1969
Elephants Can Remember 1972
Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case 1975

Four Poirot short stories appear in non-Poirot short story collections: Second Gong
(1932) and Yellow Iris (1937) appear in Problem at Pollensa Bay and other stories
(1991) in the UK and in Witness for the Prosecution and other stories (1948) and The
Regatta Mystery and other stories (1939) respectively in the US. Christmas
Adventure (1923) and The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest (1932) appear in While the
Light Lasts and other stories (1997) in the UK and in the US The Mystery of the
Spanish Chest replaced The Mystery of the Spanish Chest in The Harlequin Tea Set
and other stories (1997). Christmas Adventure has not been published in this
version in the USA.

Otherwise, it’s possible to read the Poirot books in any order – but we suggest the
following:
The Mysterious Affair at Styles 1920
Murder on the Links 1923
Christmas Adventure (short story) 1923
Poirot Investigates (short stories) 1924
Poirot's Early Cases (short stories) 1974
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 1926
The Big Four 1927
The Mystery of the Blue Train 1928
Black Coffee (play novelisation by Charles Osborne) 1997
Peril at End House 1932
The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest (short story) 1932
Second Gong (short story) 1932
Lord Edgware Dies 1933
Murder on the Orient Express 1934
Three Act Tragedy 1935
Death in the Clouds 1935
The ABC Murders 1936
Murder in Mesopotamia 1936
Cards on the Table 1936
Yellow Iris (short story) 1937
Murder in the Mews (four novellas) 1937
Dumb Witness 1937
Death on the Nile 1937
Appointment with Death 1938
Hercule Poirot's Christmas 1938
Sad Cypress 1940
One, Two Buckle my Shoe 1940
Evil Under the Sun 1941
Five Little Pigs 1943
The Hollow 1946
The Labours of Hercules (short stories) 1947
Taken at the Flood 1948
Mrs McGinty's Dead 1952
After the Funeral 1953
Hickory Dickory Dock 1955
Dead Man's Folly 1956
Cat Among the Pigeons 1959
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (short stories) 1960 not published in the USA

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