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- Cain, James M., 47–48
- camp and camp humor, 106–16
- camp classics, 115–16
- Captain Arthur Hastings, 11, 24–25, 32, 33, 63, 84, 91–92
- Carr, John Dickson, 26, 27, 31, 33
- Chandler, Raymond, 2, 36, 38, 40, 55
- Chesterton, G. K., 23, 27, 28, 30
- Christie, Agatha
- and Ariadne Oliver as alter-ego, 20, 33, 58, 63, 85–86, 91–92, 100, 119
- biography of, 8–17
- characters of, 55–69
- and comic traditions, 69–76
- conservatism of, 81–83
- and the “cozy” versus “hardboiled” distinction, 36–48
- death of, 17
- disappearance of, 12–13
- Doyle, Arthur Conan, debts to, 23–25
- education of, 9
- “Englishness” of, 18–19
- and English insularity, depiction of, 83–87
- as fictional character, 105
- and film adaptations, her opinion of, 100–101
- and imperialism, depictions of, 86–87
- literary reputation of, 2–3
- as Mary Westmacott, 5, 12, 14–15, 64–67
- melodramatic elements in fiction of, 26
- memoir of: Come, Tell Me How You Live, 19, 60
- and modernism, 63–65
- musical interests of, 10
- and narrative structure, 61–63
- nursery rhyme allusions of, 42
- persona of, 17–19
- as playwright, 16
- Akhnaton, 50
- And Then There Were None, 15, 32, 69, 100, 109
- Appointment with Death, 15, 62, 69, 100, 103
- Black Coffee, 14, 102; Go Back for
- Murder, 26, 32, 100
- Hidden Horizon (also produced as Murder on the Nile), 15, 69, 100
- Hollow, The (also produced as The Suspects), 16, 71–72, 100
- Page 140 →Mousetrap, The, 16
- Spider’s Web, 16, 72, 85, 98, 102
- Towards Zero, 3, 15, 32, 47, 59, 69, 100
- Unexpected Guest, The, 16, 26, 85, 98
- Verdict, 16, 41
- Witness for the Prosecution, 16, 100
- poetry of, 10–11, 50–42
- possible Alzheimer’s diagnosis of, 17
- and psychology, interest in, 45–46
- and queer depictions in the fiction of, 91–97
- and racist depictions in the fiction of, 87–89
- and the “rules” of detection fiction, 29–35
- and settings, 60–61
- and tragic traditions, 76–80
- and true crime, engagements with, 42–45
- novels and short-story collections of,
- 4.50 from Paddington / What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!, 16, 71–72, 82, 86, 102
- ABC Murders, The / The Alphabet Murders, 1, 3, 42, 91–92, 103
- After the Funeral / Funerals Are Fatal, 44, 46, 85, 88, 102
- And Then There Were None / Ten
- Little Indians / Ten Little N-----, 1, 14–15, 41, 42, 88, 95, 102, 103, 116, 122n7
- Appointment with Death, 1–2, 3, 14, 15, 41, 68, 82, 84
- At Bertram’s Hotel, 32, 38, 54, 57, 60, 72, 74, 85, 95–96
- Big Four, The, 2
- Body in the Library, The, 21, 43, 72–73, 80
- By the Pricking of My Thumbs, 41, 47
- Cards on the Table, 20, 24, 56, 63, 85, 87, 89
- Caribbean Mystery, A, 16, 17, 45, 57, 102
- Cat among the Pigeons, 16, 27–28, 42–43, 46, 57, 73, 80, 84, 89, 95
- Clocks, The, 6, 24–26, 39, 41, 44, 66, 86, 119
- Crooked House, 2, 15, 24, 42–44, 82, 85
- Curtain, 15, 17, 33, 47, 63, 77, 92
- Dead Man’s Folly, 20, 56, 79, 84, 86, 90, 104
- Death Comes as the End, 41, 54, 60, 66
- Death in the Clouds / Death in the
- Air, 24, 33, 38, 53, 61, 84, 87
- Death on the Nile, 1, 3, 14, 38, 53, 56, 68, 72–73, 77–78, 80, 84
- Destination Unknown / So Many
- Steps to Death, 21, 58–59
- Double Sin, 41, 64, 76, 92, 95
- Dumb Witness / Poirot Loses a
- Client, 25, 32, 33, 84, 88, 118, 124n13
- Easy to Kill, 46, 54, 73, 94–95
- Elephants Can Remember, 17, 32, 43, 78, 96, 124n14
- Endless Night, 2, 3, 5, 16, 32, 79, 80, 82
- Evil under the Sun, 21, 53–54, 109–10, 102
- Five Little Pigs / Murder in Retrospect, 15, 26, 34, 42–43, 76, 78, 100
- Hallowe’en Party, 41, 57, 74, 79, 92
- Hercule Poirot’s Christmas / Murder for Christmas / A Holiday for Murder, 32, 33–34, 41, 53, 79, 89
- Hickory Dickory Dock / Hickory Dickory Death, 42, 57, 60, 74, 88–89, 91
- Hollow, The / Murder after Hours, 2, 15, 64, 68–71, 80, 83, 94
- Labors of Hercules, The, 43, 54, 69, 91, 98
- Listerdale Mystery, The, 14
- Page 141 →Lord Edgware Dies / Thirteen at Dinner, 33, 40, 47, 53, 104
- Man in the Brown Suit, The, 11, 12, 56, 66, 97–98
- Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side, The / The Mirror Crack’d, 102, 108
- Moving Finger, The / The Case of the
- Moving Finger, 2, 15, 35, 43, 54–55, 56, 74–75, 95
- Mrs. McGinty’s Dead, 24, 33, 39, 42, 44, 45, 54, 69, 92, 100, 102
- Murder at the Vicarage, The, 14, 25, 32–33, 71, 80, 93
- Murder in Mesopotamia, 14, 20, 24, 33, 60, 87, 91, 109
- Murder in the Mews / Dead Man’s Mirror, 33, 53, 91, 94
- Murder Is Announced, A, 5, 32, 40, 93, 95
- Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The, 1, 5, 12, 31–32, 101
- Murder on the Links, 32, 45, 54, 92
- Murder on the Orient Express /
- Murder in the Calais Coach, 1, 14, 45, 47, 57, 83, 87, 91
- Mysterious Affair at Styles, The, 1, 5, 11, 22, 38, 45, 91
- Mysterious Mr. Quin, The, 5, 32, 97
- Mystery of the Blue Train, The, 2, 37–38, 98
- N or M?, 84
- Nemesis, 17, 57, 74, 85, 93, 94. 96
- One, Two, Buckle My Shoe / The Patriotic Murders, 42, 43, 84, 85, 91
- Ordeal by Innocence, 16, 32, 43, 76–77, 80, 86, 89, 103, 124n14
- Pale Horse, The, 2, 16, 32, 41, 43, 58, 86, 100, 103, 118
- Parke Pyne Investigates / Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective, 14, 37, 47, 53, 87–88
- Partners in Crime, 98
- Passenger to Frankfurt, 2, 86–87, 88, 97
- Peril at End House, 10, 53
- Pocket Full of Rye, A, 42
- Poirot Investigates, 12
- Poirot’s Early Cases, 17
- Postern of Fate, 2, 17
- Regatta Mystery and Other Stories, The, 24, 56, 57, 64, 74, 91, 124n13
- Sad Cypress, 56, 57, 85
- Secret Adversary, The, 11, 53, 66, 101
- Secret of Chimneys, The, 12
- Seven Dials Mystery, The, 12, 53
- Sleeping Murder, 15, 17, 43, 46–47, 64, 80, 85
- Snow upon the Desert (unpublished), 10, 70
- Sparkling Cyanide / Remembered Death, 56, 75, 80, 83
- Star over Bethlehem and Other Stories, A, 50, 82, 95–96
- Taken at the Flood / There Is a Tide… , 54, 77, 82, 98
- They Came to Baghdad, 15–16, 21, 61, 78
- They Do It with Mirrors / Murder with Mirrors, 28, 56, 69, 86, 88, 96, 99
- Third Girl, 16, 25, 38, 56
- Three Act Tragedy / Murder in Three Acts, 14, 42, 47, 53, 92, 97, 104
- Three Blind Mice / The Mousetrap, 16, 42, 43, 47, 57, 75, 84, 95, 97
- Towards Zero, 59, 90
- Under Dog, The, 28
- Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? / The Boomerang Clue, 14, 54, 87
- Witness for the Prosecution, 1, 15, 46, 69–70, 126n16
- Christie, Archibald, 4, 10–14, 20, 105
- Christie, Rosalind Margaret Clarissa, 11, 12, 14
- Collins, Wilkie, 23, 25
- cozy mysteries, 5, 36–48
- Cream, Thomas Neill, 43
- Crippen, Hawley Harvey, 42–43, 45, 47
- Jack the Ripper, 42
- James, P. D., 2, 90
- Jane Marple, Miss on coincidences, 33
- and the death penalty, 82
- film and television portrayals of, 102–4
- first appearance of, 14, 25
- on gender and sexuality, 94–95
- on hard-boiled fiction, 40
- inspiration for, 23–24
- respect for decorum, 71
- on misdirection, 28
- on the modern world and modern art, 64–65, 85–86
- narrative function of, 56–57
- as queer foil of English insularity, 90–94
- respect for decorum, 71, 73–74
- as spinster, 32
- on solutions of mysteries, 32–33
- Mallowan, Max, 4, 14–17, 20, 118
- Marsh, Ngaio, 27, 90
- McEwan, Geraldine, 103–4
- McKenzie, Julia, 103–4
- Miller, Clara Margaret Boehmer, 8–9, 12
- Miller, Frederick Alvah, 8–9
- Miller, Louis Montant (“Monty”), 8–10 Miller,
- Margaret Frary (“Madge”), 8–9, 11–12
- Mirror Crack’d, The (1980 film), 7, 102, 105–16
- Mosley, Walter, 38
- Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film), 7, 102–4, 106, 117
- Page 143 →Orwell, George, 120