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12 free melhores by Agatha Christie

Um dos maiores nomes dos romances policiais, Agatha Christie (1890-1976), known as Rainha do Crime and Duchess of Death, from her life to famous Belgian detective Hercole Poirot.

But Poirot was not her only great breeding of her. A long year of her productive career as an author, Agatha Christie created dozens of police works and mystery that at this page aroused curiosity not a reader.

1. Assassinato no Expresso do Oriente (1934)

Assassinato no Expresso do Oriente (1934)

The most famous romance of Agatha Christie, who won a series of adaptations for the cinema and for the theater, everything happens within the famous trem responsible for going to rota Istambul-Paris.

For passing by in a trem, a dated place, in the case of luxury, wide-se or climate of tension and mystery, and the reader's curiosity to discover that me foi or assassin increases.

A work, focused on the death of a rich North American home, who had a life thrown together with facades during a trip, practically no tem secondary personagens e é muito centered not known detetive Hercule Poirot, who by chance was on a journey and draws conclusions about or crime.

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The author's inspiration arose when, in 1931, Agatha herself fell prey as a result of a flood not Expresso do Oriente during a passeio that she faced.

2. Morte no Nile (1937)

Morte no Nile (1937)

Hercole Poirot, or the most famous Belgian detective in literature, is not Egypt when a series of mysterious crimes begins to take place. O cruzeiro Karnack, where he was, who sailed through the calm waters of the Nile, sheltered a criminal who praticava assassinations in series.

The first body that arises in the story of Agatha Christie or Linnet Ridgeway, a pretty, rich girl, who She apparently has everything and traveled as a noivo (Simon Doyle), but feared life thrown num piscar de olhos, within her own cabine. Or a millionaire house that will pass to me no Egito had, then, the interrupted planes.

Poirot challenged him, from the clues that he was finding, discovering or assassinating, that he could be any two passengers on board.

At first, a major suspense was a former lover of Simon, but the logo more people are going in and not breaking heads and Poirot's miss is becoming more and more complicated. How to run the investigations, or detective I will see that there are two crew members of the tinham ship that are different and valid reasons for shooting Linnet Ridgeway's life.

A story told in Morte no Nile It was also twice adapted for the cinema, in 1979 and 2019.

The entanglement of the free was inspired by a stay that the author has not Egito, when she is hosted in another country or traveling to or next to her husband, or archaeologist Max Mallowan, who has excavated in the region.

3. Or assassination of Roger Ackroyd (1926)

O assassination of Roger Ackroyd (1926)

Poirot, who was on duty, was later summoned to assist in the investigation of the mysterious assassination of millionaire Roger Ackroyd, who feared life was severely interrupted in a brutal way. Or crime happens at home, with feitas punhaladas from a Tunisian adaga, a special object, a collector, that intrigues those who wanted to understand his death.

Roger Ackroyd is an unexplained third death in the region.

Quem conta essa historia é o doctor of the city, or Dr. Sheppard, intrigued by the stories of the feitos pela his irmã of him, a velha solteirona Caroline Sheppard. Caroline by chance is a vizinha of Poirot, the one who will go through a detetive succession to tempt a panhar or assassin after death in series in her pacata region of her.

To work Or assassination of Roger Ackroyd It was considered by Agatha Christie as her greatest literary creation of her, a confession that the author fez in some interviews.

A story was adapted for the first time for the theater (1928), for the cinema (1931) and, later, for a television (1999).

4. E não sobrou nenhum (1939)

E não sobrou nenhum (1939)

Dez people meet for a special weekend on Ilha do Negro, in England, through a feitous treat by a mysterious host that assina O.N.U.

Uma vez na ilha, or group fica sem comunicação com o exterior. Um a um, the guests are being mysteriously assassinated in orchestrated crimes.

Those who are going to survive, they despaired to, quickly, seek to burn the unknown assassin and try to save only their own lives like two colleagues.

Uma curiosity: E não sobrou nenhum Agatha Christie's work is the highest number of assassinations of all her works. A publication chegou to be the sixth book of fiction best sold in the world.

A historia, uma das mais popular da authora, was adapted for the cinema in 1945 (I have received the title of Or invisible vingador) and also for a television, in 2016, for the BBC, as a title And then there were none.

5. Home cake (1949)

Home Cake (1949)

I lose my life to em Home cake He is a millionaire Aristide Leonides, head of a large family, who is not known to have been poisoned by burning.

A family of the patriarch was known by the house where he lived, located not suburb of London. An exquisite, disproportionate construction, a room was famous in the region, being called a "cake house" - a name that gives me a free title.

Depois do crime, as principais suspeitas falls on a morto family - in first place on his wife, fifty years plus nova. Also, I am not sure about your own filhos, as well, every one of Aristide's net worth.

Many are the reasons that fariam the family members want to sign the patriarch, for that reason the plot intrigues the police and, especially, Sophia, a neta mais velha. A young man contacted the help of his lover to, all custodians, find or blame for the crime that he threw into life.

A historical motivation for the realization of the homonymous suspense film, released in 2017, by French director Gilles Paquet-Brenner.

6. The first cases of Poirot (1974)

The first cases of Poirot (1974)

A work published by Agatha Christie in 1974 brings together some brief histories of the protagonist who most marked his career: the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Quem narrates the stories of Captain Hastings, a longtime friend of detective.

A publication, which contains quite different entanglements, goes to England, and, despite telling different stories, maintains an atmosphere of mystery and suspense as a common trace.

In every few historical days, more common than usual, a crime happens, and it is up to Poirot, still not at the beginning of the career, to discover that the blamed fora. The cases are two more varied styles: from assaults passing through homicides, robberies and even kidnappings.

You see a gosta of suspense stories, but a short story or a reduced tempo, The first cases of Poirot It is an ideal indication. The publications of Agatha Christie, this is a work that allows the reader to more quickly discover Poirot and have a more panoramic view of his style.

7. Os crimes ABC (1936)

Os crimes ABC (1936)

A meticulous assassin: or criminal that Poirot pursues here, uses curious requisites that deixam or experienced detetive like a flea behind da orelha.

At first glance, the serial killer escorts victims and cities in alphabetical order. Depois de mata-las, he also leaves behind the corpo das vítimas um guia de trenns (or ABC da Grã-Bretanha). Or a detailed third party who or criminal sends a letter to Poirot defying, warning or day at time that it will be or new attack by him.

I hope, however, Poirot does not rest and follow his instinct to seek criminal hair to unmask it.

The book was adapted for a suspense miniseries made by the BBC. A long year of 4 episodes, we see Poirot (lived by John Malkovich) try to unveil burning me or not me after two assassinations in series.

8. A body in the library (1942)

A body in the library (1942)

Um belo dia, or Colonel Bantry and Dolly, to his wife, to wake me up and go into the library that tinham, At home, às sete da manhã, I found the corpse of a young woman, loura, strangled on o rug.

Or casal, which was important in the quiet community of Saint Mary Mead, was disoriented with dinner and a police officer.

Despite the official aid I have been summoned to clarify the mystery, nothing is true, Miss Jane Marple, uma velhinha solteirona vizinha do casal, famous for bisbilhotar a região, which is dedicated to investigating more afinco o case.

Motivated to discover burned or strangler, to victim and why the crime was committed, Miss Marple, a detective lover, does not rest while not finding the answers.

A story was adapted for television in 2004, a miniseries made by British director Andy Wilson.

9. Depois do funeral (1953)

Depois do funeral (1953)

Depois do funeral He tells the story of further investigation of the Belgian detective's succession, Hercule Poirot, who, on the other hand, resolves to prove that the victim was, of course, certain of his intuition.

O rich Richard dies unexpectedly, supposedly of causes naturais mas, to his irmã Cora, says logo depois do funeral, when will proceed to read the testament, that o irmão foi, na verdade, assassinated. Later, the own woman was assassinated in a violent way, increasing or mysterious.

Either advocate of the family, or Senhor Entwhistle, due to the size of mystery, resolves to summon a long-time friend of Poirot to unveil a tragedy that abetted the Abernethie family.

Or film Murder at the Gallop (1963), by George Pollock, was inspired by a work Depois do funeral.

10. Or mysterious case of Styles (1920)

Or Mysterious Case of Styles (1920)

A first published work starring famous hair detetive Poirot é Or mysterious case of Styles.

Na mansão Styles, Emily, a rich owner, loses to life not a quarter of her, supposedly victim of a heart attack. A morte com causes naturais it was oil for practically everyone - especially because a person has this locked hair on the inside - more or the family doctor is suspicious of poisoning.

Or detetive Poirot enters the scene to try to discover that rich woman was killed and for what reason. Or challenge is given because guests give mansão tinham all solid reasons to commit or assassinate, além de no terem alibis convincing.

11. Punishment for innocence (1958)

Punição para a innocence (1958)

A history of Punishment for innocence Começa as a millionaire Rachel Argyle, who decides to adore Jacko Argyle. Many years since adoção, a rich senhora and assassinated and or filho, Jacko, was condemned as guilty being punished with a penalty of perpetual imprisonment.

Já na cadeia, months after being incarcerated, or own supposed assassin morre, victim of a pneumonia.

Eis that arises then or Doutor Arthur Calgary and, two years after the crime, finds a prova that guarantor who or adotive filho was, na true, innocent, enquanto or true assassin, remained let go.

A story was adapted for a cinema in 1985 and, recently, in 2019, for a police series developed by the BBC. Both produções will choose to maintain the same title of livro.

12. Cai or pano (1975)

Cai o pano (1975)

In the last work of Poirot (the last publication feita en vida by Agatha Christie), or detetive, noting that he is not signed in the career and now imprisoned in a cadeira de rhodes, he moves to Styles. Foi na region that he resolved or his first case (registered in Or mysterious case of Styles).

To date as the key of our succession career, Poirot, now a velhinho, decides to solve the most difficult case of his entire life.

Motivated to turn on a serial killer, or detective goes in search of an assassin who has shot the life of five people and continues to produce new victims in the region.

List of all books with Poirot by order of launch

Or most famous personagem raised by Agatha Christie was Hercule Poirot. A Belgian detective starred in a large part of the 87 publications of the English author.

  1. Or mysterious case of Styles (1920)
  2. Assassinato no golf course (1923)
  3. Poirot investigates (1924)
  4. Or assassination of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
  5. You four greats (1927)
  6. O mistério do trem azul (1928)
  7. A casa do penhasco (1932)
  8. Treze à table (1933)
  9. Assassinato no Expresso do Oriente (1934)
  10. Tragédia em três atos (1935)
  11. Morte nas nuvens (1935)
  12. Os crimes ABC (1936)
  13. Morte na Mesopotâmia (1936)
  14. Letters at the table (1936)
  15. Poirot loses a client (1937)
  16. Morte no Nile (1937)
  17. Assassinato no Beco (1937)
  18. I found how to die (1938)
  19. Or Poirot's Natal (1938)
  20. Or case of two blacks (1939)
  21. An accident and other stories (1939)
  22. Sad cypress (1940)
  23. A deadly dose (1940)
  24. Morte na praia (1941)
  25. You five porquinhos (1943)
  26. To Mansão Hollow (1946)
  27. The works of Hercules (1947)
  28. Following correnteza (1948)
  29. Three times blind and other stories (1949)
  30. A morte da Mrs. Mcginty (1952)
  31. Depois do funeral (1953)
  32. Morte na Rua Hickory (1955)
  33. To extravagance do morto (1956)
  34. A cat between the pombos (1959)
  35. A Natal Pudim Adventure (1960)
  36. You relogios (1963)
  37. To third moça (1966)
  38. Noite das bruxas (1969)
  39. The elephants are not schemed (1972)
  40. The first cases of Poirot (1974)
  41. Cai or pano (1975)

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