If the concept of a big family house full of unlikeable misfits, a wealthy patriarch suddenly dying, and a series of interviews and investigations sounds familiar, then you’re probably a fan of Knives Out. The Body in the Library opens with a lot of questions: Who is the woman? Who killed her and why? And why was her body left in someone else’s home? Murder mystery novels like Christie’s often make for great cosy winter reads, curled up by a fire in a dimly-lit room. This one, however, has a delightfully summer vibe.

Knives Out happens to be this writer’s favourite film, and that has probably coloured my love for this novel. But it remains, in my eyes, perfect; especially the incredible twist ending.The premise, as with all of the best Agatha Christie novels, is tight and simple: at a dinner party, a woman drops dead from poisoning.

When Mike ends up in a quaint English village, he takes a liking to a big, beautiful house that the locals believe to be cursed. Death is attracted to this house. This is a Christie novel with a really great title (though it was originally published in the US under the name Remembered Death). This is the fourth Tommy and Tuppence novel (a pair of protagonists who feature in five Agatha Christie novels). The structure, plotting, build-up, and unravelling of this story makes it one of the most finely-constructed mystery stories the queen of crime ever wrote, and one of the best Agatha Christie books, full stop. Her death is ruled as suicide, but her husband soon receives an anonymous note telling him that it was murder, and so he recreates that same dinner party with those same guests.And so, Poirot reaches out to those five little pigs to interview them and discover who really killed Carla’s father, and why exactly her mother confessed to the murder. When we meet Charles, he’s working in Cairo. There, he meets Sophia: a fellow Brit who comes from a big suburban family in London: the Leonides Family. N ⋅ m = 1 kg ⋅ m 2 s 2 , 1 J = 1 k g ⋅ m 2 s 2 {\displaystyle 1\,{\text{N}}{\cdot }\mathrm {m} =1\,{\frac {{\text{kg}}{\cdot }{\text{m}}

Peril at End Houseis one of those Christie novels that is more famous than most but not quite as celebrated as it should be (especially for so high on this list of Agatha Christie books ranked). Ten mostly unrelated people have been lured to an island off the coast of Devon — Soldier Island — by letters or telegrams. That’s exactly how Three Act Tragedybegins, which is enough to earn it a spot on this list of Agatha Christie books ranked.The claustrophobia of this novel adds an exciting tonal element as well, as Poirot interviews suspect after suspect while they’re all trapped on a train. Most fans are going to agree that, when you make a list of the best Agatha Christie books ranked, And Then There Were None is going to be number one. What makes Endless Night so unique is that it’s not really a murder mystery novel. It’s a piece of gothic fiction. This is Agatha Christie going full gothic, and it’s incredible. The murder was that of Carla’s father, and it happened on a day when several people were gathered at his home. We learn early on that the butler never called — in fact, the call didn’t even come from the house — so where did it come from, and why?

Blending her mystery chops and the gothic genre is a recipe for one of the best Agatha Christie books ever. However, while it has a wonderful setup and opening, the novel is weighed down by a series of awkward coincidences and a heavily expository info dump of a conclusion. To say any more would be to spoil it but Endless Night is a fantastic gothic novel. It’s still Christie, which means it remains mysterious and trusting people is a bad idea. The titular library is not a public one, but rather the personal library of Colonel and Mrs Bantry, who awake to find a dead woman on the hearth rug.

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It’s not a household name like Murder on the Orient Express or And Then There Were None, and yet it is easily one of the best books she ever wrote. Like the other best Christie novels, Crooked House is not a Poirot or Marple novel. It is a standalone story about a young British man named Charles. On the same day, Mike meets a young American girl; the rich heiress to a great American business and fortune. We begin with Tommy and Tuppence visiting Tommy’s aunt Ada in a retirement home. There, Tuppence meets a strange woman named Mrs Lancaster.