The Monogram Murders (50 page)

Ordeal by Innocence

The Pale Horse

Endless Night

Passenger to Frankfurt

Problem at Pollensa Bay

While the Light Lasts

Poirot

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

The Murder on the Links

Poirot Investigates

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

The Big Four

The Mystery of the Blue Train

Black Coffee
*

Peril at End House

Lord Edgware Dies

Murder on the Orient Express

Three Act Tragedy

Death in the Clouds

The ABC Murders

Murder in Mesopotamia

Cards on the Table

Murder in the Mews

Dumb Witness

Death on the Nile

Appointment with Death

Hercule Poirot’s Christmas

Sad Cypress

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

Evil under the Sun

Five Little Pigs

The Hollow

The Labours of Hercules

Taken at the Flood

Mrs. McGinty’s Dead

After the Funeral

Hickory Dickory Dock

Dead Man’s Folly

Cat Among the Pigeons

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

The Clocks

Third Girl

Hallowe’en Party

Elephants Can Remember

Poirot’s Early Cases

Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case

Marple

The Murder at the Vicarage

The Thirteen Problems

The Body in the Library

The Moving Finger

A Murder Is Announced

They Do It with Mirrors

A Pocket Full of Rye

4:50 from Paddington

The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side

A Caribbean Mystery

At Bertram’s Hotel

Nemesis

Sleeping Murder

Miss Marple’s Final Cases

Tommy & Tuppence

The Secret Adversary

Partners in Crime

N or M?

By the Pricking of My Thumbs

Postern of Fate

Published as Mary Westmacott

Giant’s Bread

Unfinished Portrait

Absent in the Spring

The Rose and the Yew Tree

A Daughter’s a Daughter

The Burden

Memoirs

An Autobiography

Come, Tell Me How You Live

The Grand Tour

Plays and Stories

Akhnaton

The Mousetrap and Other Plays

The Floating Admiral
†

Star Over Bethlehem

Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly

* novelized by Charles Osborne

† contributor

Credits

Cover design by Mary Schuck

Author photograph by Philippa Gedge

Copyright

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• Dedication
  
• Acknowledgments
  
• Contents
  
• 1. Runaway Jennie
  
• 2. Murder in Three Rooms
  
• 3. At the Bloxham Hotel
  
• 4. The Frame Widens
  
• 5. Ask a Hundred People
  
• 6. The Sherry Conundrum
  
• 7. Two Keys
  
• 8. Assembling Our Thoughts
  
• 9. A Visit to Great Holling
  
• 10. Slander’s Mark
  
• 11. Two Recollections
  
• 12. A Grievous Wound
  
• 13. Nancy Ducane
  
• 14. The Mind in the Mirror
  
• 15. The Fourth Cufflink
  
• 16. A Lie for a Lie
  
• 17. The Older Woman and the Younger Man
  
• 18. Knock and See Who Comes to the Door
  
• 19. The Truth at Last
  
• 20. How It All Went Wrong
  
• 21. All the Devils Are Here
  
• 22. The Monogram Murders
  
• 23. The Real Ida Gransbury
  
• 24. The Blue Jug and Bowl
  
• 25. If Murder Began with a D
  
• Epilogue
  
• About the Author
  
• Also by Sophie Hannah
  
• Also by Agatha Christie
  
• Credits
  
• Copyright
  
• About the Publisher