Agatha Christie bibliography

Agatha Christie bibliography

A bibliography of the detective or mystery novels and other works of Agatha Christie.

Novels
Agatha Christie wrote 66 detective or mystery novels.
Year
published

Title

Detectives

1920

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Hercule Poirot
Arthur Hastings, Inspector Japp

1922

The Secret Adversary

Tommy and Tuppence

1923

The Murder on the Links

Hercule Poirot
Arthur Hastings, Monsieur Giraud

1924

The Man in the Brown Suit

Colonel Race
Anne Beddingfeld

1925

The Secret of Chimneys

Superintendent Battle
Anthony Cade

1926

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Hercule Poirot
Inspector Raglan

1927

The Big Four

Hercule Poirot
Arthur Hastings, Inspector Japp

1928

The Mystery of the Blue Train

Hercule Poirot

1929

The Seven Dials Mystery

Superintendent Battle
Eileen "Bundle" Brent

1930

The Murder at the Vicarage

Miss Marple
Inspector Slack

1931

The Sittaford Mystery

also Murder at Hazelmoor

Emily Trefusis
Inspector Narracott

1932

Peril at End House

Hercule Poirot
Arthur Hastings, Inspector Japp

1933

Lord Edgware Dies

also Thirteen at Dinner

Hercule Poirot
Arthur Hastings, Inspector Japp

1934

Murder on the Orient Express

also Murder in the Calais Coach

Hercule Poirot

1934

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

also The Boomerang Clue

Bobby Jones
Frankie Derwent

1935

Three Act Tragedy

also Murder in Three Acts

Hercule Poirot
Mr. Satterthwaite

1935

Death in the Clouds

also Death in the Air

Hercule Poirot
Inspector Japp

1936

The A.B.C. Murders

also The Alphabet Murders

Hercule Poirot
Arthur Hastings, Chief Inspector Japp

1936

Murder in Mesopotamia

Hercule Poirot
Captain Maitland, Dr. Reilly

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1936

Cards on the Table

Hercule Poirot
Colonel Race, Superintendent Battle, Ariadne Oliver

1937

Dumb Witness
Hercule Poirot
also Poirot Loses a Client/Mystery at Littlegreen House Arthur Hastings

1937

Death on the Nile

Hercule Poirot
Colonel Race

1938

Appointment with Death

Hercule Poirot

1938

Hercule Poirot's Christmas

also Murder for Christmas/A Holiday for Murder

Hercule Poirot

1939

Murder is Easy
also Easy to Kill

Superintendent Battle
Luke Fitzwilliam

1939

Ten Little Niggers

also And Then There Were None/Ten Little Indians

Sir Thomas Legge

Inspector Maine

1940

Sad Cypress

Hercule Poirot

1940

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

also An Overdose of Death/The Patriotic Murders

Hercule Poirot
Chief Inspector Japp

1941

Evil Under the Sun

Hercule Poirot
Colonel Weston, Inspector Colgate

1941

N or M?

Tommy and Tuppence

1942

The Body in the Library

Miss Marple
Inspector Slack

1942

Five Little Pigs

also Murder in Retrospect

Hercule Poirot

1942

The Moving Finger

also The Case of the Moving Finger

Miss Marple

1944

Towards Zero
also Come and Be Hanged

Superintendent Battle
Inspector James Leach

1944

Death Comes as the End

Hori

1945

Sparkling Cyanide
also Remembered Death

Colonel Race
Chief Inspector Kemp

1946

The Hollow
also Murder After Hours

Hercule Poirot
Inspector Grange

1948

Taken at the Flood

also There is a Tide...

Hercule Poirot
Superintendent Spence

1949

Crooked House

Charles Hayward
Chief Inspector Taverner

1950

A Murder is Announced

Miss Marple
Chief Inspector Craddock

1951

They Came to Baghdad

Victoria Jones

1952

Mrs McGinty's Dead

also Blood Will Tell

Hercule Poirot
Ariadne Oliver, Superintendent Spence

1952

They Do It with Mirrors

also Murder with Mirrors

Miss Marple
Inspector Curry

1953

After the Funeral

also Funerals are Fatal

Hercule Poirot
Inspector Morton, Mr. Goby

1953

A Pocket Full of Rye

Miss Marple

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1954

Destination Unknown
also So Many Steps to Death

Mr. Jessop, Captain Leblanc

1955

Hickory Dickory Dock

also Hickory Dickory Death

Hercule Poirot
Inspector Sharpe

1956

Dead Man's Folly

Hercule Poirot
Ariadne Oliver

1957

4.50 from Paddington

also What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!/Murder She Said

Miss Marple
Chief Inspector Craddock, Lucy Eyelesbarrow

1958

Ordeal by Innocence

Arthur Calgary
Superintendent Huish

1959

Cat Among the Pigeons

Hercule Poirot
Inspector Kelsey, Adam Goodman

1961

The Pale Horse

Inspector Lejeune
Ariadne Oliver, Mark Easterbrook

1962

The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

also The Mirror Crack'd

Miss Marple
Chief Inspector Craddock

1963

The Clocks

Hercule Poirot
Det. Inspector Hardcastle, Colin Lamb

1964

A Caribbean Mystery

Miss Marple

1965

At Bertram's Hotel

Miss Marple
Chief Inspector Fred "Father" Davy

1966

Third Girl

Hercule Poirot
Ariadne Oliver, Chief Inspector Neele, Mr. Goby

1967

Endless Night

Sergeant Keene

1968

By the Pricking of My Thumbs

Tommy and Tuppence

1969

Hallowe'en Party

Hercule Poirot
Ariadne Oliver, Superintendent Spence

1970

Passenger to Frankfurt

Stafford Nye

1971

Nemesis

Miss Marple

1972

Elephants Can Remember

Hercule Poirot
Ariadne Oliver

1973

Postern of Fate
Last novel Christie wrote

Tommy and Tuppence

1975

Curtain
Poirot's last case, written 36 years earlier.

Hercule Poirot
Arthur Hastings

1976

Sleeping Murder
Miss Marple's last case, written 36 years earlier

Miss Marple

Collections of short stories

Main article: List of short stories by Agatha Christie
In addition to her 66 mystery novels, Christie published 153 short stories in her career. Almost all of these were
written for publication in fiction magazines with over half of them first appearing in the 1920s. They were then
published in book form in various collections, some of which were identical in the UK and US (e.g. The Labours of
Hercules) and others where publication took place in one market but not the other.

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Twelve of the stories which were published in The Sketch magazine in 1924 under the sub-heading of The Man who
was No. 4 were joined in one continuous narrative in the novel The Big Four in 1927. Four other stories, "The
Submarine Plans" (1923), "Christmas Adventure" (1923), "The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest" (1932) and "The
Second Gong" (1932), were expanded into longer narratives by Christie (respectively The Incredible Theft, The
Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, The Mystery of the Spanish Chest and Dead Man's Mirror, although the shorter
versions of all four have also been published in the UK).
Only one short story remains unpublished in the UK in book form: "Three Blind Mice" (1948), on which Christie
placed a moratorium whilst the stage play based on the story, The Mousetrap, was still running in the West End.
Prior to this the story was published in four instalments in the weekly magazine Woman's Own in the issues dated 31
December 1948 to 21 January 1949 with illustrations by K. J. Petts.
In the US, "Christmas Adventure" is the only story unpublished. The longer version "Adventure of the Christmas
Pudding", which is based on "Christmas Adventure", can be found in Double Sin and Other Stories under the name
"The Theft of the Royal Ruby".
The main collections in both markets are:
1924 Poirot Investigates (Eleven short stories in the UK, fourteen in the US)
1929 Partners in Crime (Fifteen short stories; featuring Tommy and Tuppence)
1930 The Mysterious Mr. Quin (Twelve short stories; introducing Mr. Harley Quin)
1932 The Thirteen Problems (Thirteen short stories; featuring Miss Marple. Published as The Tuesday Club
Murders in the US.)
1933 The Hound of Death (Twelve short storiesUK only)
1934 The Listerdale Mystery (Twelve short storiesUK version, US version published in 2010 in eBook format
only)
1934 Parker Pyne Investigates (Twelve short stories; introducing Parker Pyne and Ariadne Oliver. Published as
Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective in the US.)
1937 Murder in the Mews (Four novella-length stories; featuring Hercule Poirot. Published as Dead Man's Mirror
in the US, but without The Incredible Theft.)
1939 The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (Nine short storiesUS only)
1947 The Labours of Hercules (Twelve short stories; featuring Hercule Poirot)
1948 The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (Eleven short storiesUS only)
1950 Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (Nine short storiesUS only)
1951 The Under Dog and Other Stories (Nine short storiesUS only)
1960 The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (Six short storiesUK version, US version published in 2004)
1961 Double Sin and Other Stories (Eight short storiesUS only)
1971 The Golden Ball and Other Stories (Fifteen short storiesUS only)
1974 Poirot's Early Cases (Eighteen short stories. Published as Hercule Poirot's Early Cases in the US.)
1979 Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories (Eight short storiesUK and Commonwealth Countries
only)
1984 Hercule Poirot's Casebook (Fifty short stories: fourteen from Poirot Investigates, all twelve from The
Labours of Hercules, eight from The Under Dog and Other Stories, five from The Regatta Mystery and Other
Stories, all four from Murder in the Mews, four from Double Sin and Other Stories, and three from Three Blind
Mice and Other Stories)
1991 Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (Eight short storiesUK and Commonwealth Countries only)
1997 The Harlequin Tea Set (Nine short storiesUS only)
1997 While the Light Lasts and Other Stories (Nine short storiesUK and Commonwealth Countries only)
2013 Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly (Novella; Expanded into the novel Dead Man's Folly)

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In addition, various collections have been published over the years which re-print short stories which have
previously appeared in other collections e.g. Surprise, Surprise! (1965 in the US). On occasion, besides the
reprinted material these collections have sometimes contained the first book printing of an individual story e.g. The
Market Basing Mystery in the UK version of Thirteen for Luck! (1966) which later appeared in the same market in
Poirot's Early Cases.

Romance novels written under the pen name Mary Westmacott

1930 Giant's Bread

1934 Unfinished Portrait
1944 Absent in the Spring
1948 The Rose and the Yew Tree
1952 A Daughter's a Daughter
1956 The Burden

Plays
1930 Black Coffee (Novelised by Charles Osborne in 1998 as Black Coffee)

1943 And Then There Were None (Based on the 1939 novel Ten Little Indians)
1944 Murder on the Nile/Hidden Horizon (Based on the 1937 novel Death on the Nile)
1945 Appointment with Death (Based on the 1938 novel Appointment with Death)
1951 The Hollow (Based on the 1946 novel The Hollow)
1952 The Mousetrap (Based on the 1948 short story Three Blind Mice)
1953 Witness for the Prosecution (Based on the short story The Witness for the Prosecution)
1954 Spider's Web (Novelised by Charles Osborne in 2000 as Spider's Web)
1956 A Daughter's a Daughter (Written as a play in the late 1930s. Performed professionally once. Unpublished
but turned into the 1952 Mary Westmacott novel A Daughter's a Daughter)
1956 Towards Zero (Based on the 1944 novel Towards Zero)
1958 Verdict
1958 The Unexpected Guest (Novelised by Charles Osborne in 1999 as The Unexpected Guest)
1960 Go Back for Murder (Based on the 1942 novel Five Little Pigs)
1962 Rule of Three (Comprising Afternoon at the Seaside, The Rats and The Patient)
1972 Fiddler's Three (Originally written as Fiddler's Five. Unpublished.)
1973 Akhnaton (Written in 1937)
2003 Chimneys (Written in 1931, but unperformed for 72 years. Based on the 1925 novel The Secret of Chimneys.
Unpublished.)

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Radio plays

1937 The Yellow Iris (Based on the short story of the same name)
1947 Three Blind Mice (Christie's celebrated stage play The Mousetrap was based on this radio play)
1948 Butter in a Lordly Dish
1954 Personal Call

Television plays
1937 Wasp's Nest (Based on the short story of the same name)

Nonfiction
1946 Come, Tell Me How You Live
1977 Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
2012 The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery

Other published works

1925 The Road of Dreams (Poetry)
1965 Star Over Bethlehem and other stories (Christian stories and poems)
1973 Poems

Co-authored works
1930 Behind The Screen. A radio serial written together with Hugh Walpole, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony
Berkeley, E. C. Bentley and Ronald Knox of the Detection Club. Published in book form in 1983 in The Scoop
and Behind The Screen.
1931 The Scoop. A radio serial written together with Dorothy L. Sayers, E. C. Bentley, Anthony Berkeley,
Freeman Wills Crofts and Clemence Dane of the Detection Club. Published in book form in 1983 in The Scoop
and Behind The Screen.
1931 The Floating Admiral. A book written together with G. K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers and certain other
members of the Detection Club.
1956 Towards Zero (A West End theatre dramatisation of her 1944 novel co-written with Gerard Verner)

Unpublished material
Personal Call (supernatural radio play, featuring Inspector Narracott who also appeared in The Sittaford Mystery;
a recording is in the British Library Sound Archive)
The Woman and the Kenite (horror; a translation, from an Italian magazine of the 1920s): La Moglie del Kenita
[1]
, retrieved 19 June 2013
Butter In a Lordly Dish (horror/detective radio play, adapted from The Woman and the Kenite)
Being So Very Wilful (romantic)
Snow Upon the Desert (romantic novel)
Stronger than Death (supernatural)
The Green Gate (supernatural)
The Greenshore Folly (novella featuring Hercule Poirot; the basis for Dead Man's Folly) [Published in Kindle
format as "Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly" on Nov. 12, 2013.]
The War Bride (supernatural)
Eugenia and Eugenics (stage play)

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Witchhazel (supernatural short story)
Someone at the Window (play adapted from short story The Dead Harlequin)
Miss Perry (stage play)

Works by other authors based on Christie's works

Plays adapted into novels
Charles Osborne novelised three of Christie's plays:
1998 Black Coffee (featuring Hercule Poirot, based on the 1930 play Black Coffee)
1999 The Unexpected Guest (based on the 1958 play The Unexpected Guest)
2000 Spider's Web (based on the 1954 play Spider's Web)
These three novels are now available in the collection Murder In Three Stages.

Works adapted into plays

1928 Alibi (dramatised by Michael Morton from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd)
1932 Roads of Memory (dramatised by W E Fuller; it is unclear what work this "sophisticated mystery" was based
on)
1936 Love from a Stranger (dramatised by Frank Vosper from the short story Philomel Cottage)
1939 Tea for Three (dramatised by Margery Vosper from the short story Accident)
1940 Peril at End House (dramatised by Arnold Ridley)
1949 Murder at the Vicarage (dramatised by Moie Charles and Barbara Toy)
1956 Towards Zero (dramatised by Gerald Verner)
1977 A Murder is Announced (dramatised by Leslie Darbon)
1981 Cards on the Table (dramatised by Leslie Darbon)
1993 Murder Is Easy (dramatised by Clive Exton)
2005 And Then There Were None (dramatised by Kevin Elyot from the novel And Then There Were None)
2012 The Mysterious Affair at Styles (dramatised by David Hansen from the novel The Mysterious Affair at
Styles)
2014 Tommy & Tuppence in The Shepherd's Warning The first time Agatha Christie Limited has granted the
licence for her works to be adapted into a live Interactive Murder Mystery Production (dramatised by Ben Muir
from the novel Partners in Crime)

References
[1] http:/ / agatha. hu/ Dokumentumok/ kenita. pdf

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