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Primary Sources

Agatha Christie’s Detective Fiction

Citations from these books are taken from The Agatha Christie Mystery Collection, published by Bantam in the 1980s and 1990s.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles. 1920.
The Secret Adversary. 1922.
Murder on the Links. 1923.
The Man in the Brown Suit. 1924.
Poirot Investigates. 1924.
The Secret of Chimneys. 1925.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. 1926.
The Big Four. 1927.
The Mystery of the Blue Train. 1928.
The Seven Dials Mystery. 1929.
Partners in Crime. 1929.
The Mysterious Mr. Quin. 1930.
The Murder at the Vicarage. 1930.
The Sittaford Mystery / Murder at Hazelmoor. 1931.
Peril at End House. 1932.
The Thirteen Problems / The Tuesday Club Murders. 1932.
Lord Edgware Dies / Thirteen at Dinner. 1933.
The Hound of Death. 1933.
Murder on the Orient Express / Murder in the Calais Coach. 1934.
The Listerdale Mystery. 1934.
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? / The Boomerang Clue. 1934.
Parker Pyne Investigates / Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective. 1934.
Three Act Tragedy / Murder in Three Acts. 1934.
Death in the Clouds / Death in the Air. 1935.
The ABC Murders / The Alphabet Murders. 1936.
Murder in Mesopotamia. 1936.
Cards on the Table. 1936.
Dumb Witness / Poirot Loses a Client. 1937.
Page 130 →Death on the Nile. 1937.
Murder in the Mews / Dead Man’s Mirror. 1937.
Appointment with Death. 1938.
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas / Murder for Christmas / A Holiday for Murder. 1938.
Easy to Kill. 1939.
And Then There Were None / Ten Little Indians / Ten Little N------. 1939.
The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories. 1939.
Sad Cypress. 1940.
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe / The Patriotic Murders. 1940
Evil under the Sun. 1941.
N or M? 1941.
The Body in the Library. 1942.
Five Little Pigs / Murder in Retrospect. 1942.
The Moving Finger / The Case of the Moving Finger. 1942.
Towards Zero. 1944.
Death Comes as the End. 1945.
Sparkling Cyanide / Remembered Death. 1945
The Hollow / Murder after Hours. 1946.
The Labors of Hercules. 1947.
Taken at the Flood / There Is a Tide … 1948.
Witness for the Prosecution. 1948.
Crooked House. 1949.
A Murder Is Announced. 1950.
Three Blind Mice / The Mousetrap. 1950.
They Came to Baghdad. 1951.
The Under Dog and Other Stories. 1951.
Mrs. McGinty’s Dead. 1952.
They Do It with Mirrors / Murder with Mirrors. 1952.
After the Funeral / Funerals Are Fatal. 1953.
A Pocket Full of Rye. 1953.
Destination Unknown / So Many Steps to Death. 1954.
Hickory Dickory Dock / Hickory Dickory Death. 1955.
Dead Man’s Folly. 1956.
4.50 from Paddington / What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw! 1957.
Ordeal by Innocence. 1958.
Cat among the Pigeons. 1959.
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding. 1960.
The Pale Horse. 1961.
Double Sin and Other Stories. 1961.
The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side / The Mirror Crack’d. 1962.
The Clocks. 1963.
A Caribbean Mystery. 1964.
At Bertram’s Hotel. 1965.
Third Girl. 1966.
Page 131 →Endless Night. 1967.
By the Pricking of My Thumbs. 1968.
Hallowe’en Party. 1969.
Passenger to Frankfurt. 1970.
Nemesis. 1971.
The Golden Ball and Other Stories. 1971.
Elephants Can Remember. 1972.
Postern of Fate. 1973.
Poirot’s Early Cases. 1974.
Curtain. 1975.
Sleeping Murder. 1976.

Works Published Under the Pseudonym Mary Westmacott

Giant’s Bread. 1930. Dell, 1964.
Unfinished Portrait. 1934. Dell, 1977.
Absent in the Spring. 1944. Bantam, 1992.
The Rose and the Yew Tree. 1948. Dell, 1964.
A Daughter’s a Daughter. 1952. Dell, 1967.
The Burden. 1956. Dell, 1967.

Produced and Published Plays

For a complete account of Christie’s unproduced and unpublished plays, see Julius Green, Curtain Up, 561–66. Several of the following plays are collected in the anthology The Mousetrap and Other Plays, Introduction by Ira Levin (Dodd, Mead, 1978), with page number citations prefaced by TMAOP.

Black Coffee. Performed 1930; published 1934. Samuel French, 1961.
And Then There Were None. (Also produced as Ten Little Indians / Ten Little N------. ) Performed 1943; published 1944. TMAOP, 1–72.
Hidden Horizon. (Also produced as Murder on the Nile.) Performed 1944; published 1948.
Appointment with Death. Performed 1945; published 1956. TMAOP, 73–158.
Towards Zero. Performed 1945; published 1978. TMAOP, 423–96.
The Hollow. (Also produced as The Suspects.) Performed 1951; published 1952. TMAOP, 159–260.
The Mousetrap. Performed 1952; published 1954. TMAOP, 261–336.
Witness for the Prosecution. Performed 1953; published 1954. TMAOP, 337–422.
Spider’s Web. Performed 1954; published Samuel French, 1954.
Verdict. Performed 1953; published 1958. TMAOP, 497–572.
The Unexpected Guest. Performed 1958; published Samuel French, 1958.
Go Back for Murder. Performed 1960; published 1960. TMAOP, 573–659.
Rule of Three: The Rats, Afternoon at the Seaside, The Patient. Performed 1961; published Samuel French, 1963.
Akhnaton. Performed 1980; published Dodd Mead, 1973.

Page 132 →Autobiographical and Miscellaneous Writings

“Agatha Christie on Mystery Fiction.” The Writer Aug. 1966: 27–28.
An Autobiography. 1977. Bantam, 1990.
Come, Tell Me How You Live. 1946. Bantam, 1985.
“Introduction.” The Mousetrap Man by Peter Saunders. Collins, 1972. 7–9.
The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery, edited by Mathew Prichard. HarperCollins, 2012.
Poems. Collins, 1973.
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