Friday, February 2, 2007

Description of My Agatha Christie Collection

Click on Title to read a description of each novel

Novels:
1925 The Secret of Chimneys

1926 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

1928 The Mystery of the Blue Train

1934 Murder on the Orient Express

1934 Three Act Tragedy (also known as Murder in Three Acts)

1935 The A.B.C. Murders (also known as The Alphabet Murders)

1939 And Then There Were None (also known as Ten Little Indians and originally as Ten Little Niggers)

1939 Murder is Easy (also known as Easy to Kill)

1940 Sad Cypress

1941 N or M?

1942 The Body in the Library

The Hollow (also known as Murder After Hours)

1951 They Came to Baghdad

1952 Mrs McGinty's Dead (also known as Blood Will Tell)

Dead Man's Folly

1957 Ordeal by Innocence

1961 The Pale Horse

1962 The Clocks

1965 At Bertram's Hotel

1966 Third Girl

1970 Passenger to Frankfurt

1973 Postern of Fate (final Tommy and Tuppence, last novel Christie wrote)

1976 Sleeping Murder (Miss Marple's last case, written four decades earlier)


Short Stories:
1934 Parker Pyne Investigates (twelve short mysteries; introducing Parker Pyne and Ariadne Oliver, also known as Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective)

1937 Murder in the Mews (four short stories; featuring Hercule Poirot, also known as Dead Man's Mirror)

1950 Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (nine short stories)

1951 The Under Dog and Other Stories (nine short stories)


Memoirs:
1946 Come, Tell Me How You Live: An Archaeological Memoir

Chronological List of Agatha Christie Books

Click on Title to read a description of each novel:

1920 The Mysterious Affair at Styles (introducing Hercule Poirot, Chief Inspector Japp and Captain Hastings)
1922
The Secret Adversary (introducing Tommy and Tuppence)
1923
Murder on the Links
1924
The Man in the Brown Suit
1925
The Secret of Chimneys
1926
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
1927 The Big Four
1928 The Mystery of the Blue Train
1929
The Seven Dials Mystery
1930
The Murder at the Vicarage (introducing Jane Marple)
1931
The Sittaford Mystery (also known as Murder at Hazelmore)
1932
Peril at End House
1933
Lord Edgware Dies (also known as Thirteen at Dinner)
1934 Murder on the Orient Express
1934
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (also known as The Boomerang Clue)
1935
Three Act Tragedy (also known as Murder in Three Acts)
1935
Death in the Clouds (also known as Death in the Air)
1936
The A.B.C. Murders (also known as The Alphabet Murders)
1936
Murder in Mesopotamia
1936
Cards on the Table
1937
Death on the Nile
1937
Dumb Witness (also known as Poirot Loses a Client and Mystery at Littlegreen House and Murder at Littlegreen House)
1938
Appointment with Death
1938 Hercule Poirot's Christmas (also known as Murder for Christmas and A Holiday for Murder)
1939 And Then There Were None (also known as Ten Little Indians and originally as Ten Little Niggers)
1939 Murder is Easy (also known as Easy to Kill)
1940
Sad Cypress
1940
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (also known as An Overdose of Death and The Patriotic Murders)
1941
Evil Under the Sun
1941
N or M?
1942
The Body in the Library
1942
Five Little Pigs (also known as Murder in Retrospect)
1942
The Moving Finger (also known as The Case of the Moving Finger)
1944
Towards Zero (also known as Come and Be Hanged)
1944
Death Comes as the End
1945
Sparkling Cyanide (also known as Remembered Death)
1946
The Hollow (also known as Murder After Hours)
1948
Taken at the Flood (also known as There is a Tide)
1949
Crooked House
1950
A Murder is Announced
1951
They Came to Baghdad
1952
Mrs McGinty's Dead (also known as Blood Will Tell)
1952
They Do It with Mirrors (also known as Murder with Mirrors)
1953
A Pocket Full of Rye
1953
After the Funeral (also known as Funerals are Fatal and Murder at the Gallop)
1954
Destination Unknown (also known as So Many Steps to Death)
1955
Hickory Dickory Dock (also known as Hickory Dickory Death)
1956
Dead Man's Folly
1957
4.50 From Paddington (also known as What Mrs. McGillycuddy Saw and Murder She Said)
1958
Ordeal by Innocence
1959
Cat Among the Pigeons
1961
The Pale Horse
1962
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (also known as The Mirror Crack'd)
1963
The Clocks
1964
A Caribbean Mystery
1965
At Bertram's Hotel
1966
Third Girl
1967
Endless Night
1968
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
1969
Hallowe'en Party
1970
Passenger to Frankfurt
1971
Nemesis
1972
Elephants Can Remember
1973
Postern of Fate (final Tommy and Tuppence, last novel Christie wrote)
1975
Curtain (Poirot's last case, written four decades earlier)
1976
Sleeping Murder (Miss Marple's last case, written four decades earlier)