My absolute favorite is “Death on the Nile” and I think it’s a great place to start because you get the Full Christie Experience: glamorous characters, an exotic setting, a closed circle of suspects, and one of Christie’s most famous detectives on the case, Hercule Poirot.
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Murder on the Orient Express, also a famous Hercule Poirot one
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You could read them in order, starting with one main character or the other.
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Mysterious affair at Styles (Poirot’s debut)
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_Evil Under the Sun_
_The Labors of Hercules_ (essentially a collection of linked short stories)
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
My absolute favorite is “Death on the Nile” and I think it’s a great place to start because you get the Full Christie Experience: glamorous characters, an exotic setting, a closed circle of suspects, and one of Christie’s most famous detectives on the case, Hercule Poirot.
Murder on the Orient Express, also a famous Hercule Poirot one
You could read them in order, starting with one main character or the other.
Mysterious affair at Styles (Poirot’s debut)
_Evil Under the Sun_
_The Labors of Hercules_ (essentially a collection of linked short stories)
_Murder on the Links_
_The ABC Murders_