Happy to recommend specific Poirot books, if you like. There are...a lot.

I would like that, Dana. So many! And I vaguely remember a lot of them but not clearly enough to decide whether I want to read them again or not. I have actually read all the early ones through [checks spreadsheet] Lord Edgeware Dies because quite a few of those I don't think I read before, somehow, and the ones I did remember I wanted to read again. And I'm going to read Murder on the Orient Express because while I know I've read it when I watched the Branagh movie I couldn't remember a lot of the details. But after that, it's kind of overwhelming.

After a quick look at Wikipedia, I like:

• The ABC Murders
• Cards on the Table
• Dumb Witness
• Death on the Nile
• Hercule Poirot's Christmas
• Sad Cypress
• Evil Under the Sun
• The Hollow
• After the Funeral
• The Clocks
• The Third Girl
• Halloween Party
• Curtain

And the short stories are generally fun.

I have actually read all the early ones through [checks spreadsheet] Lord Edgeware Dies because quite a few of those I don't think I read before, somehow, and the ones I did remember I wanted to read again. And I'm going to read Murder on the Orient Express because while I know I've read it when I watched the Branagh movie I couldn't remember a lot of the details. But after that, it's kind of overwhelming.

-t, I'm in the middle of a long-term project to reread Christie (I have the entire Bantam set), but I've only gotten through the 1930s so far. Of those past Edgeware (a dozen or so), my favorite Poirots are Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, and Hercule Poirot's Christmas. The latter being essentially the basic plot of Knives Out. I'd rank Cards on the Table and Death in the Clouds just below those. I also really liked Why Didn't They Ask Evans? but that is a stand-alone, not Poirot. Sadly, I didn't like The ABC Murders as much as I remembered liking it as a teen.

Thanks to you both! I will highlight those to not be skipped. I actually read Death on the Nile out of order recently because of the movie coming out (and also probably it was on sale, that's usually why I get books earlier than planned) and Hercule Poirot's Christmas because I was in a Holiday Murder Mystery zone there for a while. That's kind of a weird subgenre if I stop to think about it, but I like it.

I'm definitely planning on reading Why Didn't They Ask Evans because I remember one key thing from it and nothing else except that I liked it when I read it the first time. The Marple adaptation of that, btw, did not please me, even remembering so little about it.

I read a lot of Christie back in my teens ... enough that I found I was picking the villain in the first chapter. That probably indicates I read too much, but I enjoyed it at the time. I like the PBS versions with David Suchet as Poirot (haven't seen the Kenneth Branagh versions). I find I can remember a number of plots. And PBS did some Christie versions with episodes from her own life - in one of them she goes to Egypt and meets her second husband, the archaeologist. (She once commented that the great thing about marrying an archaeologist was that the older she got the more interesting he found her.)

I've watched some of Poirot with Suchet. There's an awful lot of that, too! 13 seasons or something?Putting off deciding if and how I want to approach all that.

There is indeed a lot of Poirot.

One of the Marple series, maybe the most recent one, had her reminisce in the first episode about her lover, a married pilot who died in the war. That is entirely not Miss Marple.

It was in Murder at the Vicarage with Geraldine McEwan, which was not the first episode for some reason. Neither series that I've seen started with Murder at the Vicarage, and both had Nemesis before A Caribbean Mystery and I just don't understand why. But that whole flashback/memory/whatever, that was very wrong. When Jane reminisced about the unsuitable man her mother put a stop to she went on to mention that she ran into him later in life and was super grateful because her mother was clearly in the right. Bah.

I bookmarked the recommended list because it has been more than enough years since I read these that it will be all brand new now. Some nice pleasant mysteries will be a nice change since I am nearing the end of The Expanse series. Granted I am loving the space settings and action of this series, but will need a drastic change of subject when I finish.