Editing Hercule Poirot (section)

== Major novels ==
{{Main|Hercule Poirot in literature}}
The Poirot books take readers through the whole of his life in England, from the first book (''The Mysterious Affair at Styles''), where he is a refugee staying at Styles, to the last Poirot book (''Curtain''), where he visits Styles before his death. In between, Poirot solves cases outside England as well, including his most famous case, ''Murder on the Orient Express'' (1934).

Hercule Poirot became famous in 1926 with the publication of ''[[The Murder of Roger Ackroyd]]'', whose surprising solution proved controversial. The novel is still among the most famous of all detective novels: [[Edmund Wilson]] alludes to it in the title of his well-known attack on detective fiction, "Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?" Other critically acclaimed Poirot novels include ''[[Murder on the Orient Express]]'' (1934); ''[[The A.B.C. Murders|The ABC Murders]]'' (1935)''; [[Cards on the Table]]'' (1936); and ''[[Death on the Nile]]'' (1937), a tale of multiple murders upon a Nile steamer. ''Death on the Nile'' was judged by the famed detective novelist [[John Dickson Carr]] to be among the ten greatest mystery novels of all time.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4dY0hHqQ4lgC|title=Omnibus IV: The Ancient World|last1=Veith|first1=Gene Edward|last2=Wilson|first2=Douglas|last3=Fischer|first3=G. Tyler|publisher=Veritas Press|year=2009|isbn=9781932168860|pages=460}}</ref> The 1942 novel ''[[Five Little Pigs]]'' (a.k.a. ''Murder in Retrospect''), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, has been called "the best Christie of all"<ref>Barnard (1980), p. 85</ref> by critic and mystery novelist [[Robert Barnard]].

In 2014, the Poirot canon was added to by [[Sophie Hannah]], the first author to be commissioned by the Christie estate to write an original story. The novel was called ''[[The Monogram Murders]]'', and was set in the late 1920s, placing it chronologically between ''[[The Mystery of the Blue Train]]'' and ''[[Peril at End House]]''. A second Hannah-penned Poirot came out in 2016, called ''[[Closed Casket (novel)|Closed Casket]]'', and a third, ''[[The Mystery of Three Quarters]]'', in 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A461530204/ITOF?u=mlin_c_worpoly&sid=ITOF&xid=42ac4a2a.|title=Hannah, Sophie. Closed Casket: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery|website=link.galegroup.com|language=en|access-date=24 May 2018}}</ref>