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Christie died on January 12, 1976 in Wallingford, Oxforshire. With over one hundred novels and 103 translations into foreign languages, Christie was by the time of her death the best-selling English novelist of all time. Famous quotations by Agatha Christie: Curious. Jakarta - 'Pembunuhan di Malam Natal' atau 'Hercule Poirot's Christmas' menjadi karya fiksi terbaik yang bisa kamu baca di malam Natalmu. Bagaimana tidak, Agatha Christie menulis cerita. Agatha Christie (Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, DBE) lahir 15 September 1890 dan meninggal pada 12 Januari 1976). Ia yaitu seorang penulis fiksi kriminal dari Inggris yang melegenda. Ia juga menulis kisah-kisah roman dengan nama Mary Westmacott.

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If you're a big fan of mystery novels, you’ll already be familiar with Agatha Christie, the Grand Dame of crime fiction. But if you aren’t, then this article just might change your life.

With more than seventy novels, plays, and short stories to her name, Christie remains one of history’s most prolific and influential writers. As the queen of red herrings and misdirections, she can always be counted on to provide unexpected twists and unforeseen conclusions. Whether you join Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, the elderly but still sharp Miss Marple, or any one of her sundry characters on their journey, you’ll find enthralling yarns that will keep you guessing until the very last page.

With so many books in her oeuvre, where’s a new reader to start? Well, how about here: with our list of the ten best Agatha Christie novelsthat everyone should read at least once.

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Recently settled in the quaint village of Styles St. Mary, Belgian refugee (and brilliant detective) Hercule Poirot tackles the case of Emily Inglethorpe, a wealthy heiress found poisoned in her locked bedroom. With few clues to go by, everybody in the family is considered a suspect... and Poirot must get to the true killer, before they get to him.

Published almost exactly 100 years ago, The Mysterious Affair at Styles marked Agatha Christie’s literary debut — which makes it a great starting point if you want to read her works in order. This is also the first time we meet Poirot, Christie's best-known character and a major part of her legacy.

Best Agatha Christie Novels

The World's Bestselling Mystery
'Ten . . .'
Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious 'U.N. Owen.'
'Nine . . .'
At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret, and by the end of the night one of the guests is dead.
'Eight . . .'
Stranded by a violent storm, and haunted by a nursery rhyme counting down one by one . . . one by one they begin to die.
'Seven . . .'
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On a private island off the coast of Devon, ten strangers convene at the request of the mysterious U.N. Owen. Strangely, upon their arrival, they discover their host is nowhere to be found. And to make things worse, when one of them is found dead, the group realizes that there’s a murderer in their midst, and he — or she — is bound to kill again.

In And Then There Were None, Christie uses the “Ten Little Soldiers” rhyme, first introduced in the book as an epigraph, as a way to provide clues about their eventual murders. But with the guests dropping one by one, the question remains: who among them could possibly be responsible?

Murder on the Orient Express is the most famous of Christie’s detective stories featuring Monsieur Poirot and his formidable 'grey cells.' Since publication in 1937, it has been adapted many times for radio, film, television, and even as a computer game.

After receiving an urgent telegram in Istanbul prompting him to go back to London, Poirot secures a berth on the luxurious Orient Express. On the second night of the journey, the train is stopped by a heavy snowfall, and Poirot (along his fellow travellers) are stuck without any way through. It is during this time that Samuel Ratchett, one the passengers, is murdered.

But everyone aboard the train has an alibi — at least at first. As Poirot begins his investigation, he finds evidence connecting all the passengers in the train (the deceased included) to a kidnapping and murder that occurred years before. It is now up to the detective to piece together all the information, uncover hidden identities, and reveal the guilty party — all while trapped on a train with a murderer.

As a wealthy socialite, Linnet Ridgeway has it all: money, looks, and the husband of her dreams. But while on a Nile cruise, the newlyweds' honeymoon takes a turn for the worse when Linnet is found dead from a shot to the head. Forced to cut his own vacation short, Poirot investigates those onboard the steamer, searching for clues regarding Linnet’s murder — with pressure mounting as more deaths occur on the ship.

Drawing inspiration from her own trips to Egypt, Christie expertly weaves together a story of jealousy, love, and betrayal that has become one of her most beloved works. It has been adapted to radio, television, a graphic novel, and will soon return to the big screen as a follow-up to Kenneth Branagh’s 2018 film of Orient Express.

“Let us see, Mr. Clever Poirot, just how clever you can be.”
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 Sir Carmichael Clarke in Churston. With each murder, the killer is getting more confident—but leaving a trail of deliberate clues to taunt the proud Hercule Poirot might just prove to be the first, and fatal, mistake.
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Alice Ascher was killed in Andover...

Elizabeth “Betty” Barnard was killed in Bexhill...

Sir Carmichael Clarke was killed in Churston...

A killer is on the loose — and looking for a “D” victim.

After being challenged directly by the murderer, our favorite detective Hercule Poirot receives a letter that details the time and place of the next murder. As everything else in the letter begins to come true, the detective must solve the case and trap the killer before the alphabetical death toll grows.

While her previous novels were all written from a third person point of view, Christie uses this story to experiment with changes in perspective, switching between first and third person POV.

Fun fact:The A.B.C. Murders offers us one of the earliest examples of a “serial killer” in literature. In fact, before this book, the term “serial killer” didn’t even exist! You can thank Agatha Christie for that one.

Roger Ackroyd is a a wealthy widower whose fiancée has recently committed suicide after being blackmailed. Then, after receiving a mysterious letter revealing the blackmailer, Ackroyd too is murdered in his locked study.

Enter Poirot. Though he’s now retired in the small village of King's Abbot, he must now investigate a list of suspects that seems ever-increasing. While The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a classic detective story, the absolute jaw-dropper of an ending has led to it being widely regarded as one of Christie's finest.

Now, sixteen years later, in a posthumous letter, Mrs. Crale has assured her grown daughter that she was innocent. But instead of setting the young woman's mind at ease, the letter only raises disquieting questions. Did Caroline indeed write the truth? And if she didn't kill her husband, who did?
To find out, the Crale’s daughter asks Hercule Poirot to reopen the case. His investigation takes him deep into the conflicting memories and motivations of the five other people who were with the Crales on the fatal day. With his keen understanding of human psychology, he manages to discover the surprising truth behind the artist's death.','url':'https://www.amazon.com/dp/0425093255?tag=reedwebs-20','covers':{'large':'https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1429422068l/121648.jpg'},'provider':'amazon','authors':['Agatha Christie']}' contenteditable='false'>

Sixteen years after being convicted for the murder of her husband, Caroline Crale writes a letter to her daughter, Carla, pleading her innocence. After her mother’s death, Carla reaches out to none other than Hercule Poirot — in a desperate attempt to discover what really happened the day her father was killed.

Unlike other mysteries where Poirot has access to the body, the scene of the crime, and fresh witness testimonies, he must now solve the case based on what he can learn from the five witnesses (the titular Five Little Pigs) at the Crales’ house on the day of the murder. Sifting through old memories and piecing together scraps of information, Poirot uncovers decades of old secrets and, as we knew he would, the shocking truth behind the murder.

Aristide, the wealthy patriarch of the Leonides family, has been found poisoned with his own eye medicine. And with three generations of his family living in his sprawling mansion, there’s a multitude of suspects with ample motives and opportunities to commit the crime.

Meanwhile, Charles Hayward is a criminologist recently returned from Cairo at the end of the second World War — and his fiancée is Aristide’s granddaughter. Invested in the case through his connection to the family, he sets off to find the true culprit.

Similar to And Then There Were None and Five Little Pigs, the title of the novel makes reference to the nursery rhyme “There Was a Crooked Man,” which is used as an inspiration for the Crooked House. Christie herself also said that this is one of her favorite books she's written.

Published toward the end of her career, Endless Night sees Christie moving in a different direction. While retaining her characteristic accessible language and well-placed red herrings, this standalone novel doesn’t reveal a crime until well into the story. That, and it has an even darker and more mysterious twist to it.

Narrator Michael Rogers is a working-class dabbler who marries wealthy heiress Ellie Guteman. Warned by an elderly fortune-teller that she should leave the village or be cursed, Ellie begins to obsess over the dangers that surround her. Eventually, Ellie’s body is found in the woods… and as a series of deaths unravels, the one responsible for the murders must be discovered in order to avenge her.

While on vacation in Cornwall, Poirot comes across Magdala “Nick” Buckley. After a series of misfortunes and accidents, the detective becomes convinced that Nick’s in great danger and that someone is out to get her. Together they go to End House, her country estate, where a death does occur — but not the one Poirot expects. Unexpectedly forced into action, he begins his investigation.

Peril at End House gets more complex as the deaths pile up and motives come to light, all leading a satisfactory and twisting denouement that involves a lost will, drugs, and colossal amounts of money. Really, what could be better than that?

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One hundred and twenty-five years ago the most popular mystery writer ever, with well over two billion copies of her work sold, was born. Over a career that spanned over a half century, Agatha Christie (1890-1976) published more than 150 short stories (including the linked collection The Labors of Hercules), wildly successful plays like Witness for the Prosecution and The Mousetrap, still playing at London’s West End, and of course, more than 60 novels, featuring beloved detectives like Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot and a dizzying array of mystery plots. Here are five that stand out:

1. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)

Even with the benefit of 90 years of hindsight and countless imitators, Christie’s culminating twist in this early Hercule Poirot novel pulls the rug out with a level of audacity that leaves new readers breathless and repeat customers eager to see how she did, indeed, play fair throughout. Other notable Poirots: Murder on the Orient Express (1934) and Evil Under the Sun (1941).

1. The Murder at the Vicarage (1930)

The first and utterly pleasurable introduction of Miss Jane Marple, the doyenne of St. Mary Mead and an amateur sleuth of deadpan demeanor and formidable skills. Other notable Marple selections: The Body in the Library (1942) and The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side (1962).

1. And Then There Were None (1939)

There’s a good reason this novel was voted as Christie fans’ all-time favorite in a recent poll: it’s ruthlessly plotted, masterful in tick-tock suspense, and claustrophobic in feel as victims are murdered, one by one.

1. Death Comes As The End (1944)

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This, the only historical mystery Christie ever published (and a precedent-setter for this subgenre), is set in Thebes in 2000 BC, drawn from the extensive digs Christie and her second husband, the archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, conducted over several trips to Egypt and other Middle Eastern spots.

1. Endless Night (1967)

This late-career Christie gem is a real favorite of mine—and, apparently, hers—because it’s more psychological in feel. Think of a cross between Frances Iles’ Malice Aforethought and James M. Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice. Yes, it’s that doom-laden.

Sarah Weinman is the editor of Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s(Library of America).

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