Poirot’s Early Cases cover art

Poirot’s Early Cases

 Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Poirot’s Early Cases

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

LIMITED TIME OFFER | £0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Premium Plus auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Terms apply.

About this listen

Still in the formative years of his career, Hercule Poirot faces a most taxing case: who killed Lord Cronshaw? Was Coco Courtenay’s death on the same night a mere coincidence? And did she deliberately take an overdose of cocaine?

No sooner has Poirot revealed his astonishing powers of deduction than he is faced with seventeen other mysteries to test his soon-to-be-famous ‘little grey cells’.

As a matter of courtesy to a group of young people, he endeavours to solve the gruesome murder of a woman whose body they have stumbled upon whilst locked out of their flat, and with his usual precision and elan he discovers exactly how ‘Mary, Mary quite contrary’ makes her garden grow…

©1974 Agatha Christie Limited, a Chorion Company. All rights reserved; (P)1998 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, London UK Anthologies & Short Stories Cosy Crime Fiction Detective Historical Mystery Short Stories Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Fiction

Listeners also enjoyed...

 The Mysterious Affair at Styles cover art
More from Marple's Casebook cover art
More of Poirot's Finest Cases cover art
Miss Marple's Final Cases cover art
Poirot's Finest Cases cover art
The Murder at the Vicarage cover art
Agatha Christie: The Lost Plays cover art
Wicked Spirits: Mysteries, Spine Chillers and Lost Tales of the Supernatural cover art
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (Unabridged) cover art
The Secret House cover art
The Legendary Women Detectives: 6 Classic Novelets cover art
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes cover art
The Ultimate Sherlock Holmes Collection cover art
Footsteps in the Dark cover art
The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes cover art
The Crime at Black Dudley cover art
All stars
Most relevant
David sachet and Hugh fraser are brilliant telling story's. angrther christenings hercute aaprior .

brilliant and fantastic David sachet

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Would you listen to Poirot's Early Cases again? Why?

I have read,watched and listened to these stories many times and although dated they are charming and timeless all at the same time

What was one of the most memorable moments of Poirot's Early Cases?

I like the moments when he explains how he reached the conclussion to the cases

What does Hugh Fraser and David Suchet bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

They are totally believable

Any additional comments?

Try it and see!

Dated but lovely

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This book is very dear to me, as most of the stories have been turned into TV episodes where the brilliant David Suchet plays Poirot, a favourite series of mine. To hear the actor's voice narrating the stories, and to hear him speak as Poirot is pure delight. Each story is brief, but it is easy to slip into the world of Agatha Christie in each episode.
The wonderful Hugh Frasier also narrates some of the stories, and he does quite a good job, but alas, he is not Poirot - he does the accent, but his tone of voice doesn't change much when changing characters, making it a little hard sometimes to realise that the words spoken are now another character's than before.
Apart from this minor detail, I enjoyed this book very much and will certainly look for others where these actors are narrating.

David Suchet delivers beautifully

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Ms Christy is not the greatest of authors but in Poirot she did produce a very intriguing character.
I knew all the stories here but nevertheless it was still very enjoyable.

Poirot, you know what to expect

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I read all the Poirot books as a teenager some years before I read Sherlock Holmes.
When this book was the book of the day I bought it. I don't regret it because the narration is excellent. However on listening I suddenly realised how many plots and plot devices Ms Christie " borrowed" from Arthur Conan Doyle.
I've watched David Suchet on TV and it is his incredible interpretation of M. Poirot's foibles that come through so well, and Captain Hastings naivety to make the narration so excellent.

Read Sherlock Holmes first

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews