Poirot is asked to find a cook called Eliza, missing from Mrs Todd's house in Clapham. He is reluctant to get involved, as he looks on the case as too trivial for him, but when he has visited the house and seen some of the missing Eliza's possessions, Poirot takes the case.
Poirot launches a murder hunt when a young lady is found shot dead in Hastings's garage. It appears that she was engaged to marry a pompous politician - and Poirot refuses to believe that she killed herself.
Poirot is called in by landowner Marcus Waverly when anonymous letters threaten to kidnap his son, Johnnie.
Poirot notices something very curious in a London restaurant, then he sees a possible connexion with the deaths of two elderly twin brothers. It's all to do with a blackberry pie.
During the night Poirot is disturbed by the shooting of a resident of his own apartment building. At first sight, the case seems to be about bigamy, but Poirot has his doubts.
Poirot investigates the poisoning of the beautiful and flirtatious Mrs Valentine Chantry at the Palace Hotel on the Aegean island of Rhodes.
Poirot and Hastings are on hand when the rich and overbearing Mrs Clapperton is murdered on board a steam-ship bound for Alexandria, in Egypt.
The British aircraft manufacturer Lord Mayfield tries to trap Lady Vanderlyn, a suspected German spy, with Poirot in the offing. But his plan goes wrong, so Poirot has to save the day.
Did the English actress Valerie St Clair murder Henry Reedburn, a shady film producer? Her boyfriend Prince Paul of Maurania hires Poirot to save her from the rope, but Poirot is dismayed to find that Valerie is not telling the truth.
Eccentric tycoon Benedict Farley takes Poirot's advice about his bad dreams, and then he is found dead. The police believe Farley killed himself, but Poirot suspects a fiendishly clever murder - by hypnotic suggestion.
While they are holiday in Cornwall, Poirot and Hastings meet Miss Nick Buckley of End House. She has nearly died from three accidents in a few weeks, but Poirot suspects foul play when he finds a bullet hole in Miss Buckley's hat.
Poirot finds himself disguised as a Swedish locksmith as he helps Lady Millicent Castle-Vaughn to recover an old love letter from a blackmailer.
The banker Lord Pearson hires Poirot to find a missing customer called Ling who was going to sell him a map of a lost silver mine. When Ling turns up dead, Poirot finds he has a big case to crack.
Mrs Pengelley, the wife of a Cornish dentist, thinks her husband is having an affair with his nurse and is trying to poison her, so she sends for Poirot.
When Poirot arrives in Cornwall, he finds Mrs Pengelley is dead. Did the amorous dentist do it, or is there more to the case than meets the eye?
Wealthy banker Matthew Davenheim leaves his country house to walk to the post office - and disappears. He was expected to meet his colleague Lowen from the train but Lowen meets nobody on his walk to the house from the station.
Poirot plans to retire and takes a holiday in the Lake District, with Hastings for company. But on the way there they fall in with a mystery which includes a stolen art collection, a famous writer and a woman in a sports car. Poirot decides not to retire, after all.
FBI G-man Burt is in London in pursuit of a woman spy who has stolen U.S. plans for a new submarine. Poirot meets Burt and does not think much of him. Then it appears that Mussolini's Fascists are also after the plans, and Poirot starts to take an interest. He sees a connection between the stolen plans and an amazingly cheap London apartment.
The British Prime Minister is kidnapped in France, and Poirot is given less than two days to find him.
A Belgian film star who is a friend of Poirot's owns a famous diamond called the Western Star. When she gets letters from a chinaman she visits her friend and asks for his help.
While Hastings is staying in the country with his friends the Inglethornes, the lady of the house is murdered. Unimpressed by the local police, Hastings sends for Poirot.
When a Russian is murdered in London, the Communists are suspected.
Meanwhile, Poirot has a rose named after him.
Poirot guards a shipment of Liberty Bonds sent to New York on the liner Queen Mary.
While Poirot attends a fancy dress ball as himself, he is asked to investigate the killing of Lord Cronshaw.
A wasps' nest causes trouble while Poirot visits a garden fete, then he has to solve a crime involving both cyanide and the brakes of a car.
Poirot is called in to solve a murder which turns out to be fictional. Then there is a real murder - but the prime suspect appears to be a ghost.
Japp comes to Poirot in a state of anxiety. He has been asked to solve a spate of audacious high society jewel robberies and will be made the scapegoat if he fails. The set in wait together but when the next robbery happens, Poirot appears as if he may have met his match.
Lady Chatterton asks for Poirot's assistance - she fears for the safety of her friend, Marguerite Clayton and is convinced that marguerite's husband Edward, known for his violent temper, will kill his wife.Poirot is invited to a party to meet Clayton but he does not appear, and subsequently Poirot finds himself interviewed by Japp when Clayton's body is found in an elaborate Spanish chest.
Three people are killed, and the murderer leaves a copy of the ABC Railway Guide next to each dead body, apparently to taunt the police. Then he (or she) challenges Hercule Poirot to solve the crimes.
While Poirot sleeps on a flight across the English Channel, another passenger is killed by a poison dart. It appears that the victim, Madame Giselle, was a money-lender.
Shortly after opening an ancient Egyptian tomb, members of an English-American museum expedition start dropping off like flies. Can it truly be the Pharaoh's curse? Poirot travels to Egypt to unravel the mystery.
Poirot investigates when Mrs Opalsen's pearls are stolen while she is staying at the Grand Metropolitan Hotel. But everywhere he goes he is mistaken for a tabloid newspaper's 'Lucky Len' character.
A mouse is the only witness to a string of crimes at a student hostel run by Miss Lemon's sister. A series of thefts at the hostel ends in death, and Poirot has a complex plot to untangle in the world smuggling meets political intrigue. The mouse also takes part in the scene where the crime is solved.
Poirot and Japp stay with each other, but they find they have rather different ideas about food.
When elderly spinster Emily Arundell meets with a number of accidents Hercule Poirot advises her to change her will so that the motive for her murder no longer exists.
However, it is not long before Miss Arundell dies - and the only witness to her murder is her wire haired fox terrier Bob.
Poirot has taken a cottage in the village of King's Abbot, with the intention of retiring. Then a widow seems to kill herself, and local gossip claims she had murdered her husband, was having an affair with the rich Roger Ackroyd and was being blackmailed.
Poirot tries to not to be drawn out of his garden, but when Roger Ackroyd is killed, he is unimpressed by the way the police are working and reluctantly decides it's up to him to crack the case. In the end, he realizes that village life and retirement are not for him, after all.
Lady Edgeware is also the actress Jane Wilkinson, and she is anxious to get a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgeware, so that she can marry another man. So when Lord Edgeware is killed, his wife is the prime suspect. Oddly enough, though, the dead man had just agreed to a divorce - and Poirot was acting for his wife.
Poirot is of course asked to investigate the murder on behalf of Lady Edgeware, who says she been framed. He soon finds other suspects.
On his doctor's orders, Poirot is visiting a health resort in Devon, and Hastings is with him to keep him company. Soon after they arrive, another guest, Arlena Stuart, is found strangled, and Poirot finds the case baffling. Then he begins to wonder if the murder might be connected with the killing of another rich woman a few years before.
Poirot travels to the Middle East, where Hastings is interested in an archaeological dig.
Of course, Poirot arrives in the nick of time to tackle a series of mysteries which culminate in murder.
A young woman called Lucy Crale is living overseas and receives an old letter her mother Caroline wrote her from prison, shortly before she died while serving a life sentence for the murder of Lucy's father, the artist Amyas Crale.
Amyas was killed sixteen years before, and at the time it seemed like an open and shut case, but in her letter Caroline tells Lucy she didn't do it, so Lucy travels to London and hires Poirot to solve the case.
Poirot finds that Amyas was a notorious womanizer and begins by investigating his love life.
Roddy Winter is about to marry Elinor Carlisle, but what is his relationship with his old flame, Mary Gerrard? Then Mary dies suddenly - she was poisoned. All the evidence points overwhelmingly to Elinor being the killer, but she insists she has been framed.
Poirot is called in to look into the killing on Elinor's behalf, and he quickly decides there is more to the case than meets the eye.
Simon and Linnet Doyle have just got married, but in order to marry the rich and beautiful Linnet Simon had to break off his engagement to her old school friend, Jacqueline de Bellefort.
Simon and Linnet are now on their honeymoon, on board a steamer cruising the Nile in Egypt, but they are being stalked by Jacqueline, who is still furious about the way she has been treated.
Poirot is also on board, which is just as well when murder breaks out.
Poirot is staying in the country with the Angkatells, and his fellow-guests include Dr John Christow, his wife Gerda, and Henrietta Savernake, an artist.
Christow is suspected of having an affair with Henrietta, and when he is shot dead his wife is found with the gun in her hand. Did she kill her husband in a jealous rage, or was she framed?
Poirot is dining alone in a London restaurant and strikes up a friendship with Katherine Grey. She has just inherited a lot of money and is about to travel to visit relations in the South of France, but is nervous. Poirot offers to go with her on the Blue Train.
Apart from Poirot and Katherine, others on the train include the Tamplin family (Katherine's cousins), millionaire Rufus van Aldin and his daughter Ruth Kettering, Ruth's penniliess husband Derek, and her boyfriend - and Ruth has a very valuable ruby with her called 'The Heart of Fire'. And then Ruth gets killed on the train in a gruesome and disfiguring attack, and at the same time her ruby is stolen. And after the arrival of Katherine and Poirot at the Tamplins' villa, Katherine is also attacked. Poirot finds himself dealing with several crimes at once.
A millionaire called Shaitana invites Poirot and three others who are interested in the detection of murder (the writer Ariadne Oliver, Inspector Wheeler of Scotland Yard, and Colonel Hughes of the secret service) to dinner. Shaitana has offered to show them four murderers who did not get caught, but his game ends when he is drugged, stabbed and killed during a hand of bridge. No one has come into the house or gone out of it - so who can identify the killer?
Richard Abernethie dies, and his sister Cora claims he was murdered, but the family won't have it, and Richard's body has been cremated. Then Cora is chopped up with an axe, and Poirot takes the case.
In 1940, the rich Gordon Cloade marries a young widow, but he is soon killed by a bomb falling on London - and it seems his fortune will go to his widow, as he left no will. Then Poirot is called in by a member of the Cloade family who believes Mrs Cloade's first husband is still alive, so that she was never properly married to Cloade and should inherit nothing. The great detective is asked to find the mysterious first husband - with help from the spirit world.
Poirot travels to North Africa to attend an archaeological dig where he soon finds himself having to investigate the death of a aristocrat's wife.
James Bentley is arrested and convicted for the murder of Mrs McGinty after he lodges at her her house and she is discovered dead. Superintendent Spence is not convinced though that he is guilty and he asks Poirot for help in discovering the real killer.
Prince Ali Yusuf is killed in a coup but before his death his friend manages to hide the family jewels in the tennis racquet of a British schoolgirl. Princess Shaista starts school in the United Kingdom and is the rightful heir to the jewels but nobody knows where they are.
When Poirot becomes involved he discovers that not everything is as it seems.
A young heiress tells Poirot that she is worried that she might have killed someone. When her childhood nanny is found murdered it looks like she might have been telling the truth. Poirot investigates the case and finds out more sinister things about the case.
As Colin Race is looking into the death of two Navy personnel, an upset Sheila Webb runs out of 19 Wilbraham Crescent and right into him. Has she murdered the middle-aged man that has been discovered stabbed on the sitting room floor. Four clocks which have frozen at the time of 4:13, are found in the room with the body and Miss Pebmarsh who owns the house insists that she never asked for Shelia’s secretarial services. Race contacts Poirot for help with the case and he soon observes that there are mounting complications involved with case.
One of the guests chokes to death on a cocktail when Poirot a dinner party at Sir Charles Cartwright's house. Poirot is left baffled when there seems no motive for the murder and there are no traces of poison. When another guest dies at a similar party a few weeks later which the same guests are attending there seems to be more evidence this time.
Hercule Poirot boards the famous Orient Express train in Istanbul as it makes it's way towards London along with many glamorous international passengers. A ruthless American businessman on board asks Poirot to watch his back but he refuses. When Poirot wakes up the following morning he learns that the train stuck in a snowdrift and the businessman dead. With the train completely cut off Poirot finds himself investigating the murder.