# The best Agatha Christie novels

The Queen of Crime's mysteries that readers and critics rank highest, led by the winner of her estate's worldwide fan poll.

- 15 votes · 17 items
- Jun 24, 2025 · vinylhead_grumpy
- https://even.best/en/l/2215/the-best-agatha-christie-novels

## Top 17

1. **Death on the Nile** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1937. Jealousy and murder on a Nile cruise.
2. **The A.B.C. Murders** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1936. A serial killer taunts Poirot by alphabet.
3. **Crooked House** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1949. Christie's own favourite, with a chilling ending.
4. **Five Little Pigs** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1942. Poirot solves a sixteen-year-old murder from five testimonies.
5. **The Murder at the Vicarage** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1930. Miss Marple's first novel.
6. **Endless Night** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1967. A late, dark standalone that fans rate very highly.
7. **Peril at End House** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1932. Poirot protects a young woman with nine lives.
8. **The Mysterious Affair at Styles** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1920. Her debut and Poirot's first appearance.
9. **Appointment with Death** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1938. A tyrannical matriarch dies at Petra.
10. **Sleeping Murder** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1976. Miss Marple's last case, also written during the war.
11. **And Then There Were None** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1939. Ten strangers on an island; winner of the official fans' poll.
12. **The Body in the Library** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1942. A stranger's corpse in a respectable home.
13. **Evil Under the Sun** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1941. A holiday island hotel and a sunbather found dead.
14. **The Murder of Roger Ackroyd** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 1926. The twist that changed detective fiction.
15. **Murder on the Orient Express** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 1934. Poirot, a snowbound train and too many suspects.
16. **A Murder Is Announced** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 1950. The murder is advertised in the village paper.
17. **Curtain** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 1975. Poirot's last case, written decades earlier.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.