“It is always a delight to meet Hercule Poirot again. He is one of the few detectives with real charm.”
—Dorothy L. Sayers

Hercule Poirot finds himself embroiled in a world of international intrigue and espionage as he investigates a series of mysteries involving the shadowy organization known as the Big Four. These powerful international villains with worldwide reach are engaged in a variety of illicit activities including assassination, kidnapping, theft, and sabotage in their quest for global domination. As Poirot travels from London to Paris, Belgium to Italy, he must summon all his wit and cunning—and the help of his twin brother Achille—to outmaneuver the Big Four and put an end to their nefarious ambitions.

This Warbler Classics edition includes a biographical note.

Agatha Christie (1890–1976) is the world’s bestselling mystery writer. Her much-beloved Hercule Poirot features in more than forty short stories and twenty-two novels. Over the course of more than half a century “The Queen of Mystery” wrote eighty crime novels and short story collections, nineteen plays, and several poetry collections. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in the English language and another billion in a hundred other languages.

Published
January 27, 1927
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#1 · 1920The Mysterious Affair at Styles #2 · 1923The Murder on the Links #3 · 1924Poirot Investigates #4 · 1926The Murder of Roger Ackroyd #5 · 1927The Big Four #6 · 1928The Mystery of the Blue Train #7 · 1930Black Coffee #8 · 1932Peril at End House #9 · 1933Lord Edgware Dies #10 · 1934Murder on the Orient Express #11 · 1935Three Act Tragedy #12 · 1935Death in the Clouds #13 · 1936The A.B.C. Murders #14 · 1936Murder in Mesopotamia #15 · 1936Cards on the Table #16 · 1937Murder in the Mews #17 · 1937Dumb Witness #18 · 1937Death on the Nile #19 · 1938Appointment with Death #20 · 1938Hercule Poirot's Christmas #21 · 1939The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories #22 · 1940Sad Cypress #23 · 1940One, Two, Buckle My Shoe #24 · 1941Evil Under the Sun #25 · 1942Five Little Pigs #26 · 1946The Hollow #27 · 1947The Labors of Hercules #28 · 1932The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories #29 · 1948Taken at the Flood #30 · 1950Three Blind Mice and Other Stories #31 · 1951The Under Dog and Other Stories #32 · 1952Mrs. McGinty’s Dead #33 · 1953After the Funeral #34 · 1955Hickory Dickory Dock #35 · 1956Dead Man's Folly #36 · 1959Cat Among the Pigeons #37 · 1960The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding #38 · 1961Double Sin and Other Stories #39 · 1963The Clocks #40 · 1966Third Girl #41 · 1969Hallowe'en Party #42 · 1972Elephants Can Remember #43 · 1974Poirot's Early Cases #44 · 1975Curtain #45 · 1991Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories #46 · 1997The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories
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