My wife keeps asking me to buy more Agatha Christie books for her. So I found myself assembling a complete list and noting down which ones we've got. Since I've had to do this, I might as well make the results public. So, here we are:
Books written under the name "Agatha Christie" (mystery/suspense) | ||
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4.50 from Paddington aka What Mrs. Gillicuddy Saw | NJ | Yes |
A Caribbean Mystery | NJ | Yes |
A Murder is Announced | NJ | Yes |
A Pocket Full of Rye | NJ | Yes |
After the Funeral aka Funerals are Fatal (filmed as Murder at the Gallop) | NH | Yes |
Appointment With Death | NH | Yes |
At Bertram's Hotel | NJ | Yes |
Black Coffee | OH | Yes |
By the Pricking of My Thumbs | NT | Yes |
Cards on the Table | NH | Yes |
Cat Among the Pigeons | NH | Yes |
Crooked House | NX | Yes |
Curtain aka Poirot's Last Case | NH | Yes |
Dead Man's Folly | NH | Yes |
Death Comes as the End | NX | Yes |
Death in the Clouds aka Death in the Air | NH | Yes |
Death on the Nile | NH | Yes |
Destination Unknown aka So Many Steps to Death | NX | Yes |
Double Sin and Other Stories | CHJX | Yes |
Dumb Witness aka Poirot Loses a Client | NH | Yes |
Elephants Can Remember | NH | Yes |
Endless Night | NX | Yes |
Evil Under the Sun | NH | Yes |
Five Little Pigs aka Murder in Retrospect | NH | Yes |
Hallowe'en Party | NH | Yes |
Hercule Poirot's Christmas aka A Holiday for Murder aka Murder for Christmas | NH | Yes |
Hickory Dickory Dock aka Hickory Dickory Death | NH | Yes |
Lord Edgware Dies aka Thirteen at Dinner | NH | Yes |
Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories | CJX | Yes |
Mrs. McGinty's Dead | NH | Yes |
Murder in Mesopotamia | NH | Yes |
Murder in the Mews aka Dead Man's Mirror | CH | Yes |
Murder is Easy aka Easy to Kill | NX | Yes |
Murder on the Links | NH | Yes |
Murder on the Orient Express | NH | Yes |
N or M? | NT | Yes |
Nemesis | NJ | Yes |
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe aka An Overdose of Death aka Patriotic Murders | NH | Yes |
Ordeal by Innocence | NX | Yes |
Parker Pyne Investigates aka Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective | CX | Yes |
Partners in Crime | CT | Yes |
Passenger to Frankfurt: An Extravaganza | NX | Yes |
Peril at End House | NH | Yes |
Poirot Investigates | CH | Yes |
Poirot's Early Cases aka Hercule Poirot's Early Cases | CH | Yes |
Postern of Fate | NT | Yes |
Problem at Pollensa Bay | CHX | Yes |
Sad Cypress | NH | Yes |
Sleeping Murder | NJ | Yes |
Sparkling Cyanide aka Remembered Death | NX | Yes |
Surprise! Surprise! | CHJX | No |
Taken at the Flood aka There is a Tide | NH | Yes |
Ten Little Niggers aka Ten Little Indians aka And Then There Were None | NX | Yes |
The A.B.C. Murders | NH | Yes |
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and a Selection of Entrées | CHJ | Yes |
The Big Four | NH | Yes |
The Body in the Library | NJ | Yes |
The Clocks | NH | Yes |
The Golden Ball and Other Stories | CX | Yes |
The Harlequin Tea Set | CHX | Yes |
The Hollow aka Murder After Hours | NH | Yes |
The Hound of Death and Other Stories | CX | Yes |
The Labours of Hercules | CH | Yes |
The Listerdale Mystery | CX | Yes |
The Man in the Brown Suit | NX | Yes |
The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side | NJ | Yes |
The Moving Finger | NJ | Yes |
The Murder at the Vicarage | NJ | Yes |
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | NH | Yes |
The Mysterious Affair at Styles | NH | Yes |
The Mysterious Mr. Quin | CX | Yes |
The Mystery of the Blue Train | NH | Yes |
The Pale Horse | NX | Yes |
The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories | CHJX | Yes |
The Secret Adversary | NT | Yes |
The Secret of Chimneys | NX | Yes |
The Seven Dials Mystery | NX | Yes |
The Sittaford Mystery aka The Murder at Hazelmoor | NX | Yes |
The Spider's Web | OX | Yes |
The Thirteen Problems aka The Tuesday Club Murders | CJ | Yes |
The Under Dog and Other Stories | CH | No |
The Unexpected Guest | OX | Yes |
They Came to Baghdad | NX | Yes |
They Do It With Mirrors aka Murder With Mirrors | NJ | Yes |
Third Girl | NH | Yes |
Three Act Tragedy aka Murder in Three Acts | NH | Yes |
Three Blind Mice and Other Stories aka The Mousetrap and Other Stories | CHJX | No |
Towards Zero | NX | Yes |
While the Light Lasts | CHX | Yes |
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? aka The Boomerang Clue | NX | Yes |
Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories | CHX | Yes |
Books written under the name "Agatha Christie" (other) | ||
An Autobiography | No | |
Poems | No | |
The Road of Dreams (poems) | No | |
Books written under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott (romances) | ||
Absent in the Spring | Yes | |
A Daughter's a Daughter | Yes | |
Giant's Bread | Yes | |
The Burden | No | |
The Rose and the Yew Tree | No | |
Unfinished Portrait | No | |
Books written under the name "Agatha Christie Mallowan" | ||
Come, Tell Me How You Live (memoirs) | No | |
Star Over Bethlehem and Other Stories (for children) | No | |
Agatha Christie's contributions to the Detective Club | ||
Behind the Screen | Yes | |
The Floating Admiral | Yes | |
The Scoop | Yes |
In the list of mystery novels the second column has the following meaning:
C | Collection of short stories |
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N | Novel |
O | Novelization of a Christie play done by Charles Osborne |
| |
H | Hercule Poirot story |
J | Jane Marple story |
T | Tuppence & Thomas Beresford story |
X | None of the above lead characters |
The Detective Club books are novels in which a different person wrote each chapter.
For some reason, publishers retitled several of her books. These are the ones I've found so far:
A Holiday for Murder | see | Hercule Poirot's Christmas |
An Overdose of Death | see | One, Two, Buckle My Shoe |
And Then There Were None | see | Ten Little Niggers |
Dead Man's Mirror | see | Murder in the Mews |
Death in the Air | see | Death in the Clouds |
Easy to Kill | see | Murder is Easy |
Funerals are Fatal | see | After the Funeral |
Hercule Poirot's Early Cases | see | Poirot's Early Cases |
Hickory Dickory Death | see | Hickory Dickory Dock |
Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective | see | Parker Pyne Investigates |
Murder After Hours | see | The Hollow |
Murder at the Gallop | see | After the Funeral |
Murder for Christmas | see | Hercule Poirot's Christmas |
Murder in Retrospect | see | Five Little Pigs |
Murder in Three Acts | see | Three Act Tragedy |
Murder With Mirrors | see | They Do It With Mirrors |
Patriotic Murders | see | One, Two, Buckle My Shoe |
Poirot's Last Case | see | Curtain |
Poirot Loses a Client | see | Dumb Witness |
Remembered Death | see | Sparkling Cyanide |
So Many Steps to Death | see | Destination Unknown |
Ten Little Indians | see | Ten Little Niggers |
The Boomerang Clue | see | Why Didn't They Ask Evans? |
The Mousetrap and Other Stories | see | Three Blind Mice and Other Stories |
The Murder at Hazelmoor | see | The Sittaford Mystery |
The Tuesday Club Murders | see | The Thirteen Problems |
There is a Tide | see | Taken at the Flood |
Thirteen at Dinner | see | Lord Edgware Dies |
What Mrs. Gillicuddy Saw | see | 4.50 from Paddington |