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Agatha's Ten Classic Mystery Novels
Agatha's top ten classic suspense movies are: Beer Murder, Murder on the Orient Express, Murder Notice, Prosecution Witness, Evil in the Sun, Mystery of Xuyangling, Nile Massacre, Great Achievements of Hercules, no one lives and Death of Sir Edgewell.

1, beer murder

In order to find the truth, the beautiful girl in the beer murder case found Poirot. 16 years ago, her father was poisoned and her mother was sentenced for murdering her husband. A year later, Caroline died in prison. I left a letter to my daughter saying that I didn't kill anyone, which was very grievance. Facing all kinds of complicated feelings, Kara must know the truth and investigate thoroughly.

2. Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express is a novel by agatha christie, a British mystery writer. This is one of hercule poirot's series of works, and it is also the most famous one. This work was first published in 1 93465438+1October1year by Collins Crime Club in England, and later in the same year it was published in the United States by Dade Meade Company in the United States with the title "The murder of Calais carriage".

3. Notice of murder

The reasoning story of "Killing Notice" is even regarded as a classic textbook of criminal psychology. Compared with the bearded Poirot detective series, the old maid Miss Ma Puer series is much closer. Miss Ma Puer, like Agatha, hides in the active rural life. Although the people here are simple, there is no lack of complex human nature. This may also be the source of inspiration for Agatha, and also the source of strength for her to push mystery novels to the peak.

4. "Prosecution witness"

It tells that Wall is a famous criminal defense lawyer, and it can be seen whether the suspect is lying through the lens test. He pretended to be poor and told the barrister that he was poor, but he proved that he was not at the scene of the murder. His wife betrayed him and kept everyone away from him. In court, Wall's various performances made the whole world feel that he had been wronged.

5. Evil Under the Sun

Evil Under the Sun, also translated as Murder in the Sun, is a long detective novel by British woman writer agatha christie. The work reveals the theme of "Evil is everywhere in the sun" with the tragedy of a beautiful and rich woman murdered in a picturesque, quiet and famous Gulf resort.

This novel inherits the characteristics of ingenious conception, rigorous layout, confusing case and unexpected ending of previous detective novels, and at the same time has its own unique artistic charm in creation.

6. Xu Yangling's doubts

This is a British drama, directed by Peter Medak and starring Geraldine Mcewan, anthony andrews and greta scacchi. The film was released on February 5, 2006, with a length of 93 minutes.

7. Tragedy on the Nile

The Nile Massacre is a feature film directed by John Guillermin and starring Peter Ustinov and jane birkin. The film was released in the United States on September 29th, 1978. The film is adapted from agatha christie's novel of the same name and tells the story of three murders on a cruise ship on the Nile. A Belgian detective Poirot finally finds the real murderer through investigation.

8. "The Great Achievements of Hercules"

According to the adaptation of Christie's works, the original work is a collection of short stories with Poirot as the protagonist and composed of 12 cases. The screenwriter Guy Andrews extracted some elements of the cases and recreated them. The story tells the tragedy of killing and robbing treasure in Anthony Hotel. Miss Lucinda was killed and priceless jewels were taken from her neck. It is rumored that this was done by the thief Malache. Although Poirot was present, he was helpless, so he deeply blamed himself.

9. No one is alive

No one lives is Agatha's subversive work with the highest score and the highest sales volume among all mystery novels. The unparalleled murder setting and creepy atmosphere in the story make people want to stop. At the beginning of the story, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers invited eight strangers to the island villa. However, while eating, the phonograph in the restaurant suddenly sounded, accusing 10 people, including the Rogers, of murder.

Before everyone could recover, a guest died suddenly. In the next few days, these ten people died one by one according to a strange children's song. At that time, everyone was in danger, and everyone couldn't wait to find out who did it. The reversal of the plot one after another exposes the extreme darkness in human nature to the fullest. In the end, the truth came out, but no one lives.

10 Sir Edgewell's death

It is a book published by People's Literature Publishing House in May 2006 by agatha christie. This book illustrates human nature through a story, which is also a way of recording.