The new Hercule Poirot novel - another brilliant murder mystery that can only be solved by the eponymous Belgian detective and his 'little grey cells'.

In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some unpleasant monsters. So Poirot, leading up to his retirement, decided to accept just 12 more cases.

Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected that she was being blackmailed. Then came the news that she had taken her own life. But, before he found all the clues, he was murdered.

An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies in a shallow grave on a golf course. Then another body is found, and Poirot has an intriguing case to solve.

Poirot stood on the cliff-top. Here, a tragic accident had been followed by the discovery of two bodies, a husband and wife shot dead. Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold blooded murder? Poirot delves back into the past.

Shortly after marrying a young widow, Gordon Cloade is killed in the London blitz and the former Mrs Underhay inherits the Cloade family fortune. Then the dead man's sister-in-law tells Poirot that she believes the widow's first husband is still alive.

Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to 'get rid of' her estranged husband. Now the monstrous man was dead, and yet the great Belgian detective couldn't help feeling that he was being taken for a ride. After all, how could Jane have stabbed Lord Edgware to death in his library at exactly the same time she was seen dining with friends? And what could be her motive now that the aristocrat had finally granted her a divorce?

Poirot, a Belgian refugee of the Great War, is settling in England near the home of Emily Inglethorp, who helped him to his new life. His friend Hastings arrives as a guest at her home. When the woman is killed, Poirot uses his detective skills to solve the mystery. The first book of the "Hercule Poirot" series, The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a masterpiece of mystery and a must-have for all who love a great story!.

A dentist is found dead with a pistol by his side. Later one of his patients is also found dead from a lethal dose of anaesthetic. At first, it seems a clear case of murder and suicide - but Hercule Poirot has other ideas.

According to the courts, Jacko Argyle bludgeoned his mother to death with a poker. Dr Arthur Calgary arrives too late with the proof that could have confirmed Jacko's innocence - and another family member's guilt.