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Ariadne Oliver Series

8 primary works • 9 total works
After a very brief appearance in Parker Pyne Investigates, mystery novelist Ariadne Oliver appeared in a total of six novels with Hercule Poirot (books 2-4 and 6-8), and one stand-alone novel The Pale Horse.
Note: Greenshore Folly was an earlier shorter version of Dead Man's Folly(#4) that was published posthumously.

Book 1

Parker Pyne Investigates
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3.76 · 21302 Ratings · 1333 Reviews · published 1934 · 9 editions
Agatha Christie's name is synonymous with brillian…

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    Book 2

    Cards on the Table
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    3.96     · 71616 Ratings · 5001 Reviews · published 1936 · 444 editions
    A flamboyant party host is murdered in full view o…

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    Book 3

    Mrs. McGinty's Dead
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    3.86     · 39044 Ratings · 2381 Reviews · published 1952 · 49 editions
    In Mrs. McGinty’s Dead, one of Agatha Christie’s m…

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    Book 4

    Dead Man's Folly
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    3.82     · 37104 Ratings · 2381 Reviews · published 1956 · 18 editions

    Whilst organising a mock murder hunt for the villa…

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    Book 4.5

    Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly
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    3.79     · 6229 Ratings · 474 Reviews · published 2013 · 4 editions

    Never before published—the lost classic, unseen fo…

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    Book 5

    The Pale Horse
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    3.84     · 32274 Ratings · 2625 Reviews · published 1961 · 283 editions
    "Wickedness...such wickedness...."
    The dying woman …

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    Book 6

    Third Girl
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    3.69     · 37549 Ratings · 2412 Reviews · published 1966 · 335 editions
    Three young women share a London flat. The first i…

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    Book 7

    Hallowe'en Party
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    3.56     · 104077 Ratings · 10206 Reviews · published 1969 · 12 editions
    A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of ap…

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    Book 8

    Elephants Can Remember
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    3.65     · 48633 Ratings · 3401 Reviews · published 1972 · 352 editions
    Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. For here, m…

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