Agatha Christie Books In Order
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles | (1920) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Murder on the Links | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Poirot Investigates | (1924) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | (1926) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Big Four | (1927) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Mystery of the Blue Train | (1928) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Black Coffee | (1930) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Peril at End House | (1932) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Lord Edgware Dies / Thirteen at Dinner | (1933) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Three Act Tragedy / Murder in Three Acts | (1934) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Murder on the Orient Express / Murder in the Calais Coach | (1934) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Death in the Clouds / Death in the Air | (1935) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The A.B.C. Murders | (1936) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Murder in Mesopotamia | (1936) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Cards on the Table | (1936) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Dumb Witness / Poirot Loses a Client | (1937) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Death on the Nile | (1937) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Murder in the Mews / Dead Man's Mirror | (1937) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Appointment with Death | (1938) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Hercule Poirot's Christmas / Holiday for Murder / Murder for Christmas | (1938) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Girdle of Hyppolita | (1939) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Nemean Lion | (1939) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Sad Cypress | (1940) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe / Overdose of Death | (1940) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Evil Under the Sun | (1941) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Five Little Pigs / Murder in Retrospect | (1942) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Hollow / Murder after Hours | (1946) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Taken at the Flood / There Is A Tide.... | (1948) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Mrs. McGinty's Dead / Blood Will Tell | (1952) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
After the Funeral / Funerals are Fatal | (1953) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Hickory Dickory Dock | (1955) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Dead Man's Folly | (1956) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Cat Among the Pigeons | (1959) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding | (1960) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Clocks | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Third Girl | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Hallowe'en Party / A Haunting in Venice | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Elephants Can Remember | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Curtain | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Publication Order of Hercule Poirot Short Stories/Novellas
The Adventure of the Cheap Flat | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The King of Clubs | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Veiled Lady | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Kidnapped Prime Minister | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Plymouth Express | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Affair at the Victory Ball | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Adventure of the Western Star | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Submarine Plans | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Adventure of the Clapham Cook | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Lost Mine | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Lemesurier Inheritance | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Chocolate Box | (1925) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Double Sin | (1928) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Wasps' Nest | (1929) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Second Gong | (1932) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest | (1932) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
How Does Your Garden Grow? | (1935) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Triangle at Rhodes | (1936) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Poirot and the Regatta Mystery | (1936) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Yellow Iris | (1937) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Incredible Theft | (1937) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Dream | (1937) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mystery of the Spanish Chest | (1960) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Afternoon at the Seaside | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Patient | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Witness for the Prosecution | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Four and Twenty Blackbirds | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Million Dollar Bond Robbery | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Market Basing Mystery | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Cornish Mystery | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Problem at Sea | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Under Dog | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Double Clue | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Case of the Missing Will | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Hercule Poirot Collections
The Labours of Hercules / The Labors of Hercules | (1947) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Witness for the Prosecution | (1948) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Under Dog and Other Stories | (1951) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Poirot's Early Cases | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Hercule Poirot's Casebook | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Double Clue | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Early Cases of Hercule Poirot | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Grey Cells of Mr. Poirot | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Publication Order of Miss Marple Books
The Four Suspects | (1930) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Companion | (1930) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Affair at the Bungalow | (1930) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Murder at the Vicarage | (1930) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Body in the Library | (1942) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Moving Finger | (1942) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Murder is Announced | (1950) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
They Do It With Mirrors / Murder With Mirrors | (1952) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Pocket Full of Rye | (1953) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
4:50 From Paddington / What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw! | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Caribbean Mystery | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
At Bertram's Hotel | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Nemesis | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Sleeping Murder | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Miss Marple Short Stories/Novellas
The Idol House of Astarte | (1928) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Ingots of Gold | (1928) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Motive v. Opportunity | (1928) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Thumb Mark of St. Peter | (1928) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Blue Geranium | (1929) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Herb of Death | (1930) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Miss Marple Tells a Story | (1934) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Case of the Caretaker | (1941) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Strange Jest | (1941) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Tape-Measure Murder | (1941) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Case of the Perfect Maid | (1942) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Sanctuary | (1954) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Greenshaw's Folly | (1956) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Christmas Tragedy | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Miss Marple Collections
The Thirteen Problems | (1932) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
13 Clues for Miss Marple | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Miss Marple's Final Cases | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Miss Marple Short Stories | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Tommy and Tuppence Books
The Secret Adversary | (1922) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Partners in Crime | (1929) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
N or M? | (1941) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
By the Pricking of My Thumbs | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Postern of Fate | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Tommy & Tuppence Short Stories/Novellas
A Fairy in the Flat | (1929) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Affair of the Pink Pearl | (1929) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Man in the Mist | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The House of Lurking Death | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Finessing the King | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Blindman's Buff | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Gentleman Dressed in Newspaper | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Pot of Tea | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Crackler | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Clergyman's Daughter/The Red House | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Ambassador's Boots | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Superintendent Battle Books
The Secret of Chimneys | (1925) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Seven Dials Mystery | (1929) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Cards on the Table | (1936) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Murder is Easy / Easy To Kill | (1939) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Towards Zero | (1944) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Colonel Race Books
The Man in the Brown Suit | (1924) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Cards on the Table | (1936) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Death on the Nile | (1937) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Sparkling Cyanide / Remembered Death | (1944) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Harley Quin Books
The Mysterious Mr. Quin | (1930) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Harley Quin Short Stories/Novellas
The Coming of Mr. Quin | (1924) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Shadow on the Glass | (1924) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Sign in the Sky | (1925) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
At the 'Bells and Motley' | (1926) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Soul of the Croupier | (1927) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The World's End | (1927) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Voice in the Dark | (1927) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Face of Helen | (1927) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Harlequin's Lane | (1927) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Dead Harlequin | (1929) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Man from the Sea | (1929) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Bird with the Broken Wing | (1930) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Love Detectives | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Parker Pyne Short Stories/Novellas
The Case of the Discontented Soldier | (1932) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Case of the City Clerk | (1932) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Case of the Distressed Lady | (1932) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Case of the Discontented Husband | (1932) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife | (1932) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The House at Shiraz | (1933) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Have You Got Everything You Want? | (1933) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Gate of Baghdad | (1933) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Oracle at Delphi | (1933) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Pearl of Price | (1933) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Case of the Rich Woman | (1934) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Giant Bread | (1930) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Sittaford Mystery / The Murder at Hazelmoor | (1931) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Unfinished Portrait | (1934) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? / The Boomerang Clue | (1934) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
And Then There Were None / Ten Little Indians | (1939) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Absent in the Spring | (1944) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Death Comes as the End | (1944) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Rose And The Yew Tree | (1947) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Crooked House | (1949) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
They Came to Baghdad | (1951) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Daughter's a Daughter | (1952) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Destination Unknown / So Many Steps to Death | (1954) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Burden | (1956) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Ordeal by Innocence | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Pale Horse | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Endless Night | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
13 at Dinner | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Passenger to Frankfurt | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Unexpected Guest | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories | (1932) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Hound of Death | (1933) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Listerdale Mystery and Eleven Other Stories | (1934) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Parker Pyne Investigates | (1934) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories | (1948) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Three Blind Mice and Other Stories | (1952) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Double Sin and Other Stories | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Surprise! Surprise! | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Star Over Bethlehem and Other Stories | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Golden Ball and Other Stories | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Mousetrap and Other Plays | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Agatha Christie Hour | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Problem at Pollensa Bay | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Tuesday Club Murders | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
While the Light Lasts | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Bloodstained Pavement and Other Stories | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Death by Drowning | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Murder In Three Stages | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Seven Deadly Sins | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Masterpieces in Miniature | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Detectives - Short Stories | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Tuesday Night Club and Other Stories | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Red Signal and Other Stories | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Listerdale Mystery | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Masterpieces of Mystery and the Unknown | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Actress and Other Short Stories | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
A Fruitful Sunday and Other Short Stories | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Miss Marple and Mystery | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Last Seance: Tales of the Supernatural | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Midwinter Murder | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Midsummer Mysteries: Tales from the Queen of Mystery | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
A Deadly Affair | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Sinister Spring | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Autumn Chills: Tales of Intrigue from the Queen of Crime | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Publication Order of Plays
The Mousetrap | (1952) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Spider's Web | (1954) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Verdict | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Rats | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Come, Tell Me How You Live | (1946) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Agatha Christie: An Autobiography | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Publication Order of Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries Books
The Unbreakable Alibi | (1929) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Anthologies
About Agatha Christie:
Agatha Christie was born in Ashfield. Agatha grew up in the town of Torquay in southwest England. She taught herself how to read at five years old even though her mother didn’t want her to do so until she was eight. She was home-schooled, which was a lot more uncommon at the turn of the 20th century than it is now. Her father was her primary teacher, but her mother was a storyteller—and gave strong encouragement for Agatha to write.
Although she became a prolific writer, she claimed she really did not have much in the way of lessons other than arithmetic. Although she did not have the social experience of public school, she studied dance and piano as a teenager. She was too shy to perform. Her first published writing happened when she was 11. It was a poem about electric trams. She was very clever at inventing ways to keep occupied.
She has been quoted as saying, “There is nothing like boredom to inspire you to write.” She had written a number of short stories by the time she was 17. In 1910, at 20, Christie spent winter months in Egypt with her mother. Her time there influenced the rest of her life.
In 1914, she married Archibald Christie, who was a Lt. Colnel. Archibald returned to military service right after their marriage, and Agatha was later to say that she felt her married life really began in 1918—when her husband was stationed in London. She began writing detective fiction while working as a nurse during World War 1. The confusion and sadness of the patients she tended affected her deeply, and her knowledge of poison and drugs is seen again and again in her novels.
During quiet periods at the hospital, she started writing in response to her sister’s statement of long past that she could not write a detective story. The author’s mother died in 1926, not long before Archibald left Agatha for another woman. He was in Spain when her mother died and seemed completely indifferent to her feelings and grief. He told her of his affair and love for Nancy Neel (an acquaintance) immediately upon returning from Spain.
The couple seemed to overcome this and try to stay together. They moved to Styles. But after a few months, she left her house and disappeared after a huge fight. There was an extensive search, with some thinking she was dead and others speculating she was alive. When it was discovered she was indeed alive, there was speculation that she did it to either spite her husband or gain publicity for her latest novel. This episode of Agatha’s life is perhaps the most talked about and less known.
She later married Max Mallowan, an archeologist. They spent over a decade in Assyria, at an archeological dig. They travelled back to England at least once a year. Mallowan and Christie bought several homes and lived in several flats over the years. Their final home was a large Georgian house near Torquay, not far from Agatha’s childhood home. In 1936, Mallowan was part of an expedition which dug up seventy cuneiform tablets.
The couple traveled back and forth between England and the Middle East quite extensively. Agatha returned to serving as a nurse during World War II. Her one child, Rosalind, was named after a female hero from a Shakespeare play. Rosalind had a significant share in Agatha’s company that controlled the rights to her works. In 1954, Christie had three plays she had written running at the same time. Her novels and her plays did so well that she had to form a company to avoid excessive taxation. Her most famous play was The Mousetrap. She said she had more fun writing plays than writing books. Christie wrote so many novels some say she lost count.
She was named a Dame of the British Empire in 1971. There is speculation that Agatha suffered from dementia in her later years even though she kept writing. Changes in the vocabulary and dialog of her later novels have been said by some to support this theory.
There is an increasing preoccupation with older people in her writing, especially the novels Elephants Can Remember, and Postern of Fate. She died in 1976. She spend much of her life avoiding the public, according to some because of the way the press found her and wrote about her when she was “hiding” after leaving her first husband—an incident she never spoke of or wrote about. She had her way and wrote her life story herself. She began writing her life story in 1950 and finished it in 1965. Her autobiography was published in 1977.
Writings
Her first novel was published in 1920, but it wasn’t until 1926 when her novel, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, gained recognition that her novels hit the best-selling lists. After this novel, 75 subsequent novels hit the best-seller lists in England and the United States. It featured perhaps her best-known character, Hercule Poirot.
He was a Belgian detective in many of her books. Poirot was described by the author as “a small man, muffled up to the ears of whom nothing was visible but a pink-tipped nose and the two points of an upward-curled mustache.” His detection methods spring from his ability to get people to talk and inventing fictitious backgrounds for himself in order to make this happen. This character was so popular, and some say so well written, that he is mentioned in textbooks that teach crime scene analysis.
Another character Christie used in novels was Miss Jane Marple. Like Poirot, this character has had significant impact. She is considered the source of what is termed, “The Spinster Detective.” The nice little old lady who is cunning and intelligent—who makes sense of crimes by comparing them to events in normal life. Of her novels that were made into films, two stand out: Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile.
The latter was even made into a video game. Murder on the Orient Express is perhaps her most famous piece. It has been a novel, a play, a movie, a TV movie, and a radio show. In addition to her detective stories, Christie is the author of many poems, and some romances. Absent in the Spring, for example, was published in 1944 under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.
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I think it’s so hilarious that Agatha Christie didn’t like Hercule Poirot. She didn’t like his pompous attitude and other mannerisms. Did anyone tell her she could change all that? To quote from Evil Under the Sun “There was a very important person (in his own estimation at least) staying at the Jolly Roger.” Many examples in all her books.
Agatha Christie also wrote a few novels under the name Mary Westmacotte. Several of these may still be available through your library
I am working on re-reading everything she wrote by date –
I never tire of the amazing ability she had to write these treasures!
^ A chapter each was completed by: Canon Victor Whitechurch, George and Margaret Cole, Henry Wade, Agatha Christie, John Rhode, Milward Kennedy, Sayers, Ronald Knox, Freeman Wills Crofts, Edgar Jepson, Clemence Dane and Anthony Berkeley. G. K. Chesterton contributed the prologue.
I have seen two TV program versions of “The Pale Horse” They are vastly different. Did Agatha Christie rewrite the story? Are there such extensive rewrites of her work by others for television programs? Thank you
I’m looking to read a ton of agatha christie books. I’m trying to figure out what makes the most sense for an order in which to read them. Would you read them by their groupings listed above or would you read them in a different order?
Is reading with this order important?
not really. she sometimes references other mysteries, but nothing is given away. some books have recurring characters that showed up in other books, but again, not important.
Was just going to say the same thing
I have one called Thirteen for Luck which isn’t on the list…
Should that be “Thirteen for Lunch”? 🙂
I know The Lord Edgeware book had an American version “Thirteen at Dinner”
Maybe this from from WiKi will help.
“Lord Edgware Dies is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in September 1933 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year under the title of Thirteen at Dinner. Before its book publication, the novel was serialised in six issues (March–August 1933) of The American Magazine as 13 For Dinner.”
Thriteen At Dinner was also the name of the Movie based on the book “Lord Edgware Dies”
I too have 13 for Luck and it’s def not 13 at Finner as I have that one too. 13 for luck is a collection of Poirot Maroke Harley Quinn Parker Pune, Tommy and Tupoence and Inspector Evans. I’m sticking it with Gokden Ball and Other Stories.
Just curious to find out why “Cards on the Table” is listed under different series?
This book is a Poirot mystery in which Supt. Battle also helps with the investigation.
CROSS”FRICKING”OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL
This is very helpful, but I was looking for a list not divided by main characters. Is that somewhere on the site? Thank you.
Probably because it was finished by another writer.
Anyone read the Sherlock Holmes series? I may want to start reading on those
I recently read the first Sherlock Holmes book, A Study in Scarlet, and was really surprised at how different it was than any of the TV shows that are supposed to be based on it. Some of the ideas were the same, but executed in much different ways. I enjoyed both the book and the Cumberbatch version of it quite a bit, but I think I liked the book much better. Of course, that could be because it’s the book actually written by Arthur Conan Doyle so that may play into my preference. I really enjoyed the history of it, and was surprised by the motivation behind the killing ( I won’t give it away but nothing at all like the TV version). I am getting ready to start the second book, The Sign of Four, and am very excited about it.
I realised it too, maybe they forgot to put it in?
I am sorting out all our Agatha Christie books and i have used your list to go by. At the end i have one book left which i cannot find listed on your site. It is Ten Little ——-. Can you tell me why it isn’t listed please?
It was retitled And Then There Were None. It’s listed under Standalone Novels. It was published in 1939.
Thank you
Because the title was changed to “Ten Little Indians”, which I believe was the US title for the obvious reason. “And Then There Were None” is the last, and probably final, title change.