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While it’s not one of the best Agatha Christie books, it remains a worthwhile read, especially for its ingeniously simple and engaging initial setup. Sheppard, his gossiping sister, and the rest of the cast make for a frantically engaging story, and the journey to the end feels like a race that, of course, Poirot will win. When they reunite in London, Charles wishes to be married to Sophia, but her family’s patriarch has just suddenly and mysteriously died, and she refuses to be married until his death is solved. Its summery charm and brilliant character writing make Peril at End House one of the best Agatha Christie books ever. Despite not being written to be likeable, this is Poirot at his most compelling and admirable as a protagonist. He gets tested and stretched here, which is very fun to read.

The Body in the Library opens with a lot of questions: Who is the woman? Who killed her and why? And why was her body left in someone else’s home? That’s exactly how Three Act Tragedybegins, which is enough to earn it a spot on this list of Agatha Christie books ranked.

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However, while it has a wonderful setup and opening, the novel is weighed down by a series of awkward coincidences and a heavily expository info dump of a conclusion.

Knives Out happens to be this writer’s favourite film, and that has probably coloured my love for this novel. But it remains, in my eyes, perfect; especially the incredible twist ending. Fortunately, the retired Belgian sleuth, Hercule Poirot, has just moved in next door and takes an interest in this murder mystery. The Cornish setting certainly helps with that, as Peril at End Housetakes place while Poirot is staying at a summer resort in Cornwall. This is one of the few Christie novels that doesn’t feature iconic characters Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple. It is a standalone Christie novel set in her coolest isolated location.One thing that’s missing from this one, however, is the expected wit and humour. This is a slightly blander Marple novel, in that sense. Like the other best Christie novels, Crooked House is not a Poirot or Marple novel. It is a standalone story about a young British man named Charles. Peril at End Houseis one of those Christie novels that is more famous than most but not quite as celebrated as it should be (especially for so high on this list of Agatha Christie books ranked). At the party, someone drops dead of (presumed) poisoning, but with no proof. Later, someone else who was at the party also dies from being poisoned. This is the fourth Tommy and Tuppence novel (a pair of protagonists who feature in five Agatha Christie novels).

What happens instead is that the lights go out, a gunshot rings out, and someone drops dead. A fantastic setup for a murder mystery, even by Christie standards. These are all complex people, bad in their own way, and they are all vulnerable victims, trapped together on an island.

This is why Endless Night was unanimously placed at number two on the list of Agatha Christie books ranked by everyone who helped put this list together. Five Little Pigs is a Hercule Poirot novel with a unique structure: a young woman calls up the now aging sleuth and asks him to dig up the sixteen-year-old murder case for which her mother went away. It also relies on a few jumps of logic and “intuition” that come across as a little contrived. But this isn’t the first or only Christie novel to be guilty of that. Before Ada died, Mrs Lancaster gifted her a painting of a house that feels oddly familiar to Tuppence.