13 New Ways to Get Free Agatha Christie Books Now

If you want to dive deep into Agatha Christie’s catalog but don’t want to pay to do so, this post shares the best places online to read, print, listen to, and/or download free Agatha Christie books in the form of ebooks, audiobooks, PDFs, and more.

I also share with you summaries of five of her most popular novels, to help you decide what to read first or next.

Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist in world history. First published in 1920, her published books are only outsold by The Bible and William Shakespeare. Throughout her life, she wrote 66 detective fiction novels and 14 collections of short stories, along with the world’s longest-running play – The Mousetrap. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English and a billion copies in translation.

(For more about Agatha Christie’s life, including her mysterious disappearance, check out my review of The Mystery of Mrs. Christie.)

Free Agatha Christie Books

Let’s explore more details about all these great places to get free Agatha Christie books now.

If you just want the best options now, the ones I most recommend for ease of access and selection are your local library and Amazon / Audible, which all have numerous reading options.

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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is an online library of over 60,000 free ebooks. You can download them on your Kindle and/or read them online. This library contains the world’s great literature with a focus on older books in the public domain for which the U.S. copyright has expired.

Project Gutenberg offers seven free Agatha Christie books:

• The Mysterious Affair at Styles
• Poirot Investigates
• The Plymouth Express Affair
• The Murder on the Links
• The Secret Adversary
• The Man in the Brown Suit
• The Secret of Chimneys

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Bonus tip: You can also try to enter book giveaways to win free Agatha Christie books!

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5 Most Popular Agatha Christie Books to Read

If you are unsure where to start or what to read next when obtaining your free Agatha Christie books, below are five of her best works to try. Of course, reasonable minds may differ when choosing the best of anything. However, the following books are generally considered to be five of the most popular Agatha Christie books.

Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express is the most widely read mystery novel of all time.

By night, the famous Orient Express train is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett is found dead in his cabin, having been stabbed a dozen times with his door locked from the inside. One thing is clear — one of his fellow passengers is the murderer.

Isolated by the storm with only each other, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a group of Ratchett’s enemies, before the murderer strikes again in this wildly classic “whodunnit.”

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And Then There Were None

And Then There Were None is one of the best selling books of all time and has been named a Great American Read by PBS.

Ten people, each of whom has something to hide and something to fear, are invited to an isolated mansion on Indian Island by a host who, to their surprise, never arrives. On the island, they are cut off from the world and only have each other as companions. But, one by one, as the guests share their dark secrets, one by one, they die.

Who among them is the killer and will anyone survive in this locked room mystery book? This is a MUST read.

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Death on the Nile

In Death on the Nile, the tranquility of a luxury cruise along the Nile River is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot and killed. She was young and beautiful, and she seemingly had it all.

Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: “I’d like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.” Yet under the harsh rays of the Egyptian sun, nothing is what it seems. There’s love, jealousy, and betrayal in this timeless book. It’s a great story with lots of intrigue.

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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was voted by the British Crime Writers’ Association as the “Best Crime Novel of all Time.”

Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the love of his life poisoned her terrible first husband. He also suspected that someone was blackmailing her. Then came the tragic news that she took her life by way of an apparent drug overdose.

The evening post brought Roger one more bit of information, but before he could finish reading the letter, he was killed.

Roger’s friend Hercule Poirot must come to town and take over the investigation in this brilliant mystery.

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The ABC Murders

In The ABC Murders, a serial killer is on the loose, and he’s working his way through the alphabet, leaving the entire country is in a state of sheer panic.

A is for Mrs. Ascher in Andover, B is for Betty Barnard in Bexhill, C is for Sir Carmichael Clarke in Churston. And with each murder, the killer becomes more confident.

There’s a trail of deliberate clues taunting the proud detective Hercule Poirot to make a fatal mistake.

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Conclusion

Those are the best places to get Agatha Christie books for free, as well as her most popular books to help you decide what to read first or next. To recap, the ones I most recommend for ease of access and selection are your local library and Amazon / Audible, which all have numerous reading options.