The best Agatha Christie novels
The top 3 according to 15 votes from people: Death on the Nile · The A.B.C. Murders · Crooked House. (Updated Jun 24, 2025.)
The Queen of Crime's mysteries that readers and critics rank highest, led by the winner of her estate's worldwide fan poll.
Top 17
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1
Death on the Nile
1937. Jealousy and murder on a Nile cruise.
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2
The A.B.C. Murders
1936. A serial killer taunts Poirot by alphabet.
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3
Crooked House
1949. Christie's own favourite, with a chilling ending.
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4
Five Little Pigs
1942. Poirot solves a sixteen-year-old murder from five testimonies.
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5
The Murder at the Vicarage
1930. Miss Marple's first novel.
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6
Endless Night
1967. A late, dark standalone that fans rate very highly.
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7
Peril at End House
1932. Poirot protects a young woman with nine lives.
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8
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
1920. Her debut and Poirot's first appearance.
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9
Appointment with Death
1938. A tyrannical matriarch dies at Petra.
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10
Sleeping Murder
1976. Miss Marple's last case, also written during the war.
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11
And Then There Were None
1939. Ten strangers on an island; winner of the official fans' poll.
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12
The Body in the Library
1942. A stranger's corpse in a respectable home.
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13
Evil Under the Sun
1941. A holiday island hotel and a sunbather found dead.
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14
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
1926. The twist that changed detective fiction.
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15
Murder on the Orient Express
1934. Poirot, a snowbound train and too many suspects.
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16
A Murder Is Announced
1950. The murder is advertised in the village paper.
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17
Curtain
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.
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