Where to Start with Agatha Christie
- Best entry point → And Then There Were None
- Start the Hercule Poirot #0.1-0.51 series → Hercule Poirot
- Short listen, big payoff → Murder on the Orient Express
- What fans keep coming back to → The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- Highest rated by listeners → The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie - HINDI Book 1) (Hindi Edition) (Hercule Poirot #4)
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And Then There Were None
Narrated by Dan Stevens
★ 4.69 ABR Score (1.7M ratings)★ 4.27 Goodreads (1.6M) ★ 4.63 Audible (20.5K)6h 1m listening time • Released 2013Christie's masterpiece — ten strangers on an island, one by one eliminated, with no possible solution. The best-selling mystery novel of all time, and it earns every copy.
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Murder on the Orient Express
A Hercule Poirot Mystery • Book 10
Narrated by Dan Stevens
★ 4.67 ABR Score (755.1K ratings)★ 4.2 Goodreads (741.3K) ★ 4.68 Audible (13.8K)6h 37m listening time • Released 2013Christie's most celebrated Poirot case — a murder on a snowbound train, a cast of suspects with no apparent motive, and a solution so audacious it shouldn't work but does.
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie - HINDI Book 1) (Hindi Edition)
Hercule Poirot • Book 4
Narrated by Hugh Fraser
★ 4.64 ABR Score (359.7K ratings)★ 4.26 Goodreads (354.0K) ★ 4.69 Audible (5.6K)6h 54m listening time • Released 2012 - 4
Hercule Poirot
Hercule Poirot #0.1-0.51
Narrated by David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Nigel Hawthorne, Isla Blair, Simon Vance
★ 4.62 ABR Score (12.7K ratings)★ 4.36 Goodreads (10.9K) ★ 4.81 Audible (1.7K)35h 5m listening time • Released 2021David Suchet's definitive performance as Poirot anchors this collection of 51 short stories, each a perfectly compact puzzle that rewards listening in one sitting.
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Five Little Pigs
Hercule Poirot • Book 24
Narrated by Hugh Fraser
★ 4.43 ABR Score (96.2K ratings)★ 4.03 Goodreads (94.4K) ★ 4.71 Audible (1.8K)6h 40m listening time • Released 2012 - 6
The A.B.C. Murders
Hercule Poirot • Book 13
Narrated by Hugh Fraser
★ 4.43 ABR Score (207.4K ratings)★ 4.03 Goodreads (205.2K) ★ 4.67 Audible (2.2K) - 7
Peril at End House
Hercule Poirot • Book 8
Narrated by Hugh Fraser
★ 4.41 ABR Score (86.0K ratings)★ 4.02 Goodreads (84.6K) ★ 4.71 Audible (1.5K)5h 46m listening time • Released 2012 - 8
Cards on the Table
Hercule Poirot • Book 15
Narrated by Hugh Fraser
★ 4.39 ABR Score (75.5K ratings)★ 3.96 Goodreads (73.8K) ★ 4.72 Audible (1.6K) - 9
Dumb Witness. The Agatha Christie Collection.
Hercule Poirot • Book 17
Narrated by Hugh Fraser
★ 4.37 ABR Score (50.8K ratings)★ 3.92 Goodreads (49.4K) ★ 4.75 Audible (1.4K)7h 19m listening time • Released 2012 - 10
Poirot Investigates (Agatha Christie)
Hercule Poirot • Book 3
Narrated by Richard Armitage
★ 4.36 ABR Score (79.1K ratings)★ 3.88 Goodreads (76.0K) ★ 4.68 Audible (3.1K)7h 13m listening time • Released 2021 - 11
The Murder on the Links
Hercule Poirot • Book 2
Narrated by Richard Armitage
★ 4.36 ABR Score (126.2K ratings)★ 3.87 Goodreads (121.5K) ★ 4.64 Audible (4.7K)7h 27m listening time • Released 2020 - 12
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[The Murder at the Vicarage] [by: Agatha Christie]
Miss Marple • Book 1
Narrated by Richard E. Grant
★ 4.35 ABR Score (219.0K ratings)★ 4.04 Goodreads (216.7K) ★ 4.58 Audible (2.3K)8h 11m listening time • Released 2013 - 13
Evil Under the Sun (G. K. Hall's Agatha Christie Series)
Hercule Poirot • Book 23
Narrated by David Suchet
★ 4.34 ABR Score (90.9K ratings)★ 3.98 Goodreads (89.7K) ★ 4.67 Audible (1.2K)6h 25m listening time • Released 2012 - 14
A Pocket Full of Rye
Miss Marple • Book 6
Narrated by Richard E. Grant
★ 4.32 ABR Score (55.7K ratings)★ 3.93 Goodreads (54.4K) ★ 4.68 Audible (1.3K)6h 51m listening time • Released 2013 - 15
After the Funeral (The Agatha Christie Mystery Collection; Imitation Leather)
Hercule Poirot • Book 30
Narrated by Hugh Fraser
★ 4.30 ABR Score (51.5K ratings)★ 3.92 Goodreads (50.4K) ★ 4.69 Audible (1.1K)6h 55m listening time • Released 2012 - 16
Sleeping Murder
Miss Marple • Book 12
Narrated by Stephanie Cole
★ 4.30 ABR Score (54.4K ratings)★ 4 Goodreads (53.5K) ★ 4.67 Audible (819)6h 17m listening time • Released 2012 - 17
4.50 from Paddington (Agatha Christie)
Miss Marple • Book 7
Narrated by Emilia Fox
★ 4.29 ABR Score (78.4K ratings)★ 3.97 Goodreads (77.6K) ★ 4.66 Audible (871)8h 8m listening time • Released 2013 - 18
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
A Hercule Poirot Mystery • Book 1
Narrated by Hugh Fraser
★ 4.29 ABR Score (515.5K ratings)★ 4 Goodreads (514.2K) ★ 4.55 Audible (1.3K)5h 57m listening time • Released 2012Christie's first Poirot novel — written during WWI, still one of her best-plotted — introducing the fastidious Belgian detective who would define the golden age of mystery.
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Death in the Clouds
Hercule Poirot • Book 12
Narrated by Hugh Fraser
★ 4.29 ABR Score (68.1K ratings)★ 3.86 Goodreads (67.0K) ★ 4.7 Audible (1.1K)6h 18m listening time • Released 2012 - 20
A Murder Is Announced: B2 (Collins Agatha Christie ELT Readers)
Miss Marple • Book 4
Narrated by Emilia Fox
★ 4.27 ABR Score (88.3K ratings)★ 4.01 Goodreads (87.3K) ★ 4.6 Audible (924)8h 56m listening time • Released 2013 - 21
Cat Among the Pigeons (Agatha Christie Collection)
Hercule Poirot • Book 33
Narrated by Hugh Fraser
★ 4.26 ABR Score (52.4K ratings)★ 3.87 Goodreads (51.6K) ★ 4.71 Audible (746)6h 45m listening time • Released 2012 - 22
The Man in the Brown Suit
Colonel Race • Book 1
Narrated by Nicola Barber, Graeme Malcolm
★ 4.25 ABR Score (129.6K ratings)★ 3.95 Goodreads (126.6K) ★ 4.51 Audible (3.1K)7h 44m listening time • Released 2020 - 23
Sad Cypress
Hercule Poirot • Book 21
Narrated by David Suchet
★ 4.24 ABR Score (48.8K ratings)★ 3.94 Goodreads (48.0K) ★ 4.63 Audible (803)6h 1m listening time • Released 2012 - 24
Appointment with Death (Poirot)
Hercule Poirot • Book 19
Narrated by Hugh Fraser
★ 4.23 ABR Score (71.4K ratings)★ 3.87 Goodreads (70.3K) ★ 4.63 Audible (1.1K)5h 57m listening time • Released 2012 - 25
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[The Moving Finger] [by: Agatha Christie]
Miss Marple • Book 3
Narrated by Richard E. Grant
★ 4.23 ABR Score (60.4K ratings)★ 3.85 Goodreads (59.1K) ★ 4.63 Audible (1.3K)6h 23m listening time • Released 2013
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