Friday, February 2, 2007

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)

9 comments:

Ernie the Earthworm Composter said...

This is wonderful to have available.
I am a big fan of Agatha Christie and recently watched a PBS program on her life with David Suchet.
I want to read whatever I have not yet read.

Thanks for this effort.
R Boxberger
Eagle, ID

Unknown said...

This is great. I have read most of these and now can track down the missing. Thanks so much.

Caroline Magsaysay

beadedjewelrybysusan said...

Looking for the title of one that involves a young girl from England going to visit cousins in Australia and ending up on a sinister sheep ranch. Do you know of this one?

Unknown said...

AWESOMe.............VERY USEFUL

Sarah Vine said...

I love the list! Thanks! I've rescued many novels of hers from second hand shops, over the years, but never organized them to see which ones I'm missing. I'm surprised you don't have Come,Tell Me How You Live published in 1946, it's one of my favorites. (Even though it's not a mystery novel.)

Unknown said...

I am trying to collect all her books and this is unbelievable useful.
Thank you so much!

Unknown said...

After first encountering Agatha Christie 45 years ago, when I was loaned a copy Of Mrs McGinty's Dead, I'm now re-reading the books in order, and filling in the gaps. Your list is a tremendous help.

Unknown said...

You are missing 13 for luck, 1966

kkindt said...

I just am about finished reading all of these books - 4 more to go - this list has been very helpful and reading them in chronological order helped me see the books in the context of what was going on the world. I have also been watching the tv/movie versions of each book to see how story line is changed, characters missing or changed. The most dramatic change is in the book Nemesis. In the book, the murderer is a lesbian who kills the young girl she loved because this girl was going to marry a man. In the TV version this whole aspect of the plot is removed and a nun is the killer for religious reasons as in the TV version the young girl is a nun who decides to leave the order. A very different plot that tries to stay 'politically correct' and ruined the whole mystery. TV / Movie folks - stick with the original plots even if they are not popular with some elements of the society. Historical accuracy is so important.