Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, DBE (September 15, 1890 – January 12, 1976), was a British crime fiction writer. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott.

Works

• 1920 The Mysterious Affair at Styles (her first book, which introduced Hercule Poirot, Chief Inspector Japp and Captain Hastings)
• 1922 The Secret Adversary (introduced Tommy and Tuppence)
• 1923 Murder on the Links
• 1924 The Man in the Brown Suit
• 1924 Poirot Investigates (eleven short stories)
• 1925 The Secret of Chimneys
• 1926 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
• 1927 The Big Four
• 1928 The Mystery of the Blue Train
• 1929 Partners in Crime (fifteen short stories)
• 1929 The Seven Dials Mystery
• 1930 The Murder at the Vicarage (introduced Jane Marple)
• 1930 The Mysterious Mr. Quin (introduced Mr. Harley Quin, short stories)
• 1931 The Sittaford Mystery
• 1932 Peril at End House
• 1933 The Hound of Death (twelve short mysteries)
• 1933 Lord Edgware Dies
• 1933 The Thirteen Problems (thirteen short mysteries)
• 1934 Murder on the Orient Express
• 1934 Parker Pyne Investigates (twelve short mysteries) (introduced Parker Pyne and Ariadne Oliver)
• 1934 The Listerdale mystery (twelve short mysteries)
• 1935 Three Act Tragedy
• 1935 Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
• 1935 Death in the Clouds (first published as Death in the Air)
• 1936 The A.B.C. Murders
• 1936 Murder in Mesopotamia
• 1936 Cards on the Table
• 1937 Death on the Nile
• 1937 Dumb Witness
• 1937 Murder in the Mews (Four short stories: Murder in the Mews, The Incredible Theft, Dead Man's Mirror, Triangle at Rhodes.)
• 1938 Appointment with Death
• 1939 And Then There Were None (first published as Ten Little Niggers, also known as Ten Little Indians)
• 1939 Murder is Easy
• 1939 Hercule Poirot's Christmas
• 1939 Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (Nine short stories)
• 1940 Sad Cypress
• 1941 Evil Under the Sun
• 1941 N or M?
• 1941 One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
• 1942 The Body in the Library
• 1942 Five Little Pigs (also known as Murder in Retrospect)
• 1942 The Moving Finger
• 1944 Towards Zero
• 1944 Sparkling Cyanide
• 1945 Death Comes as the End
• 1946 The Hollow
• 1947 The Labours of Hercules (twelve short mysteries featuring Hercule Poirot)
• 1948 There is a Tide (also known as Taken at the Flood)
• 1948 Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories
• 1949 Crooked House
• 1950 A Murder is Announced
• 1950 Three Blind Mice and Other Stories
• 1951 They Came to Baghdad
• 1951 The Under Dog and Other Stories (Nine short stories)
• 1952 Mrs McGinty's Dead
• 1952 They Do It with Mirrors
• 1953 A Pocket Full of Rye
• 1953 After the Funeral (also known as Funerals are Fatal)
• 1955 Hickory Dickory Dock (also known as Hickory Dickory Death)
• 1955 Destination Unknown
• 1956 Dead Man's Folly
• 1957 4.50 from Paddington (also known as What Mrs. McGillycuddy Saw!)
• 1957 Ordeal by Innocence
• 1959 Cat Among the Pigeons
• 1960 The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (Six short stories)
• 1961 The Pale Horse
• 1962 The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
• 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
• 1971 The Golden Ball and Other Stories (Fifteen short stories)
• 1972 Elephants Can Remember
• 1973 Akhnaton - A play in three acts
• 1973 Postern of Fate (final Tommy and Tuppence, last novel Christie wrote)
• 1974 Poirot's Early Cases (eighteen short mysteries)
• 1975 Curtain (Poirot's last case, written four decades earlier)
• 1976 Sleeping Murder (Miss Marple's last case, written four decades earlier)
• 1979 Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories
• 1997 While the Lights Last and Other Stories

Co-authored works:

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• 1931 The Floating Admiral written together with G. K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers and certain other members of the Detection Club.

Writting with Charles Osborne:

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• 1998 Black Coffee
• 2001 The Unexpected Guest
• 2003 The Spider's Web

Works written as Mary Westmacott:

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• 1930 Giant's Bread
• 1934 Unfinished Portrait
• 1944 Absent in the Spring
• 1948 The Rose and the Yew Tree
• 1952 A Daughter's a Daughter
• 1956 The Burden

Plays:

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• 1928 Alibi
• 1930 Black Coffee
• 1936 Love from a Stranger
• 1937 or 1939 A Daughter's a Daughter (Never Performed)
• 1940 Peril at End House
• 1943 Ten Little Indians
• 1945 Appointment With Death
• 1946 Murder on the Nile/Hiddon Horizon
• 1949 Murder at the Vicarage
• 1951 The Hollow
• 1952 The Mousetrap
• 1953 Witness for the Prosecution
• 1954 The Spider's Web
• 1956 Towards Zero
• 1958 Verdict
• 1958 The Unexpected Guest
• 1960 Go Back for Murder
• 1962 Rule of Three
• 1972 Fiddler's Three (Originaly written as Fiddler's Five. Never Published. Final play she wrote.)
• 1973 Aknaton (Written in 1937)
• 1977 Murder is Announced
• 1981 Cards on the Table
• 1993 Murder is Easy
• 2000? And Then There Were None

Radio Plays:

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• 1937 The Yellow Iris
• 1947 Three Blind Mice
• 1948 Butter In a Lordly Dish
• 1960 Personal Call

Television Plays:

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• 1937 Wasp's Nest