BIBLIOGRAPHY

Numbers 1 and 2 of the lists below are arranged alphabetically. Numbers 3 to 6 are chronological lists.

1 Crime novels and short story collections

2 Short stories

3 Other titles by Agatha Christie

4 Novels published as by Mary Westmacott

5 Plays

(a) Plays written or adapted by Agatha Christie herself

(b) Plays adapted by others from works by Agatha Christie

(c) Novels adapted by others from plays by Agatha Christie

6 Films based on works by Agatha Christie


1. Crime novels and short story collections

(P indicates a novel or story collection in which Hercule Poirot appears;
M = Jane Marple; T = Tommy and Tuppence Beresford)

The ABC Murders (1936) P

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960) P, M

After the Funeral or Funerals Are Fatal (1953) P

And Then There Were None see Ten Little Niggers

Appointment with Death (1938) P

At Bertram’s Hotel (1965) M

The Big Four (1927) P

Blood Will Tell see Mrs McGinty’s Dead

The Body in the Library (1942) M

The Boomerang Clue see Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?

By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968) P

Cards on the Table (1936) M

A Caribbean Mystery (1964) M

Cat Among the Pigeons (1959) P

The Clocks (1963) P

Crooked House (1949)

Curtain (1975) P

Dead Man’s Folly (1956) P

Dead Man’s Mirror see Murder in the Mews

Death Comes as the End (1945)

Death in the Air see Death in the Clouds

Death in the Clouds or Death in the Air (1935) P

Death on the Nile (1937) P

Destination Unknown or So Many Steps to Death (1954) Double Sin (1961) P, M

Dumb Witness or Poirot Loses a Client (1937) P

Easy to Kill see Murder is Easy

Elephants Can Remember (1972) P

Endless Night (1967)

Evil Under the Sun (1941) P

Five Little Pigs or Murder in Retrospect (1943) P

The Floating Admiral (by Agatha Christie and others) (1931)

4.50 From Paddington or What Mrs McGillicuddy Saw (1957) M

Funerals Are Fatal see After the Funeral

The Golden Ball (1971)

Hallowe’en Party (1969) P

The Harlequin Tea Set (1997) P

Hercule Poirot’s Christmas or Murder for Christmas (1938) P

Hercule Poirot’s Early Cases see Poirot’s Early Cases

Hickory, Dickory Death see Hickory Dickory Dock

Hickory, Dickory Dock (1955) P

The Hollow or Murder After Hours (1946) P

The Hound of Death (1933)

The Labours of Hercules (1947) P

The Listerdale Mystery (1934)

Lord Edgware Dies or Thirteen at Dinner (1933) P

The Man in the Brown Suit (1924)

The Mirror Crack’d see The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side or The Mirror Crack’d

     (1962) M

Miss Marple’s Final Cases (1979) M

Mr Parker Pyne, Detective see Parker Pyne Investigates

Mrs McGinty’s Dead or Blood Will Tell (1952) P

The Mousetrap see Three Blind Mice

The Moving Finger (1942) M

Murder After Hours see The Hollow

Murder at Hazelmoor see The Sittaford Mystery

The Murder at the Vicarage (1930) M

Murder for Christmas see Hercule Poirot’s Christmas

Murder in Mesopotamia (1936) P

Murder in the Calais Coach see Murder on the Orient Express

Murder in Retrospect see Five Little Pigs

Murder in the Mews or Dead Man’s Mirror (1937) P

Murder in Three Acts see Three-Act Tragedy

A Murder is Announced (1950) M

Murder is Easy or Easy to Kill (1939)

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) P

Murder on the Links (1923) P

Murder on the Orient Express or Murder in the Calais Coach

     (1934) P

Murder with Mirrors see They Do It With Mirrors

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) P

The Mysterious Mr Quin (1930)

The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928) P

N or M (1941) T

Nemesis (1971) M

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe or The Patriotic Murders (1940) P

Ordeal by Innocence (1958) The Pale Horse (1961)

Parker Pyne Investigates or Mr Parker Pyne, Detective (1934)

Partners in Crime (1929) T

Passenger to Frankfurt (1970)

The Patriotic Murders see One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

Peril at End House (1932) P

A Pocket Full of Rye (1953) M

Poirot Investigates (1924) P

Poirot Loses a Client see Dumb Witness

Poirot’s Early Cases or Hercule Poirot’s Early Cases (1974) P

Postern of Fate (1973) T

Problem at Pollensa Bay (1991) P

The Regatta Mystery (1939) P, M

Remembered Death see Sparkling Cyanide

Sad Cypress (1940) P

The Secret Adversary (1922) T

The Secret of Chimneys (1925)

The Seven Dials Mystery (1929)

The Sittaford Mystery or Murder at Hazelmoor (1931)

Sleeping Murder (1976) M

So Many Steps to Death see Destination Unknown

Sparkling Cyanide or Remembered Death (1945)

Taken at the Flood or There is a Tide (1948) P

Ten Little Indians see Ten Little Niggers

Ten Little Niggers (Ten Little Indians) or And Then There Were

    None (1939)

There is a Tide see Taken at the Flood They Came to Baghdad (1951)

They Do It With Mirrors or Murder With Mirrors (1952) M

Third Girl (1966) P

Thirteen at Dinner see Lord Edgware Dies

The Thirteen Problems or The Tuesday Club Murders (1932) M

Three-Act Tragedy or Murder in Three Acts (1934) P

Three Blind Mice or The Mousetrap (1950) P, M

Towards Zero (1944)

The Tuesday Club Murders see The Thirteen Problems The Under Dog (1951) P

What Mrs McGillicuddy Saw see 4.50 From Paddington

While the Light Lasts (1997) P

Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? or The Boomerang Clue (1934)

Witness for the Prosecution (1948) P

2. Short Stories

(The letter after the title indicates the volume in which the story has

    been collected.)

A The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

B Double Sin

C The Golden Ball

D The Harlequin Tea Set

E The Hound of Death

F The Labours of Hercules

G The Listerdale Mystery

H Miss Marple’s Final Cases

I Murder in the Mews or Dead Man’s Mirror

J The Mysterious Mr Quin

K Parker Pyne Investigates or Mr Parker Pyne, Detective

L Partners in Crime

M Poirot Investigates

N Poirot’s Early Cases or Hercule Poirot’s Early Cases

O Problem at Pollensa Bay

P The Regatta Mystery

Q The Thirteen Problems or The Tuesday Club Murders

R Three Blind Mice or The Mousetrap

S The Under Dog

T While the Light Lasts

U Witness for the Prosecution

Accident (G, U) The Actress (D, T)

The Adventure of Johnnie Waverley (N, R)

The Adventure of the Cheap Flat (M)

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (A)

The Adventure of the Clapham Cook (N, S)

The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb (M)

The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman (M)

The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger (L)

The Adventure of ‘The Western Star’ (M)

The Affair at the Bungalow (Q)

The Affair at the Victory Ball (N, S)

The Affair of the Pink Pearl (L)

The Ambassador’s Boots (L)

The Apples of the Hesperides (F)

The Arcadian Deer (F)

At the ‘Bells and Motley’ (J)

The Augean Stables (F)

The Bird with the Broken Wing (J)

Blindman’s Buff (L)

The Blood-stained Pavement (Q)

The Blue Geranium (Q)

The Call of Wings (C, E)

The Capture of Cerberus (F)

The Case of the Caretaker (H, R)

The Case of the City Clerk (K)

The Case of the Discontented Husband (K)

The Case of the Discontented Soldier (K)

The Case of the Distressed Lady (K)

The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife (K)

The Case of the Missing Lady (L)

The Case of the Missing Will (M)

The Case of the Perfect Maid (H, R)

The Case of the Rich Woman (K)

The Chocolate Box (M [US EDITION], N)

Christmas Adventure (T)

A Christmas Tragedy (Q)

The Clergyman’s Daughter (L)

The Coming of Mr Quin (J)

The Companion (Q)

The Cornish Mystery (N, S)

The Crackler (L)

The Cretan Bull (F)

The Dead Harlequin (J)

Dead Man’s Mirror (Expanded version of ‘The Second Gong’)
   (I)

Death by Drowning (Q)

Death on the Nile (K)

The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim (M)

The Double Clue (B, N)

Double Sin (B, N)

The Dream (A, P)

The Dressmaker’s Doll (B, H)

The Edge (D, T)

The Erymanthian Boar (F)

The Face of Helen (J)

Finessing the King (L)

The Flock of Geryon (F)

Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds (A, R)

The Four Suspects (Q)

The Fourth Man (E, U)

A Fruitful Sunday (C, G)

The Gate of Baghdad (K)

The Gentleman Dressed in Newspaper (L)

The Gipsy (C, E)

The Girdle of Hyppolita (F)

The Girl in the Train (C, G)

The Golden Ball (C, G)

Greenshaw’s Folly (A, B)

The Harlequin Tea Set (D, O)

Harlequin’s Lane (J)

Have You Got Everything You Want? (K)

The Herb of Death (Q)

The Horses of Diomedes (F)

The Hound of Death (C, E)

The House at Shiraz (K)

The House of Dreams (D, T)

The House of Lurking Death (L)

How Does Your Garden Grow? (N, P)

The Idol House of Astarte (Q)

In a Glass Darkly (H, P)

The Incredible Theft (Expanded version of ‘The Submarine

  Plans’) (I – UK edition only)

Ingots of Gold (Q)

Jane in Search of a Job (C, G)

The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan (M)

The Kidnapped Prime Minister (M)

The King of Clubs (N, S)

The Lamp (C, E)

The Last Seance (B, E)

The Lemesurier Inheritance (N, S)

The Lernean Hydra (F)

The Listerdale Mystery (C, G)

The Lonely God (D, T)

The Lost Mine (M [US

edition], N)

The Love Detectives (O, R)

Magnolia Blossom (c, o) The Man from the Sea (J) The Man in the Mist (L)

The Man Who Was No. 16 (L)

The Manhood of Edward Robinson (C, G)

Manx Gold (D, T)

The Market Basing Mystery (N, S)

The Million Dollar Bond Robbery (M)

Miss Marple Tells a Story (H, P)

Mr Eastwood’s Adventure (G)

Motive vs. Opportunity (Q)

Murder in the Mews (I) The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge (M)

The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest (?, T) The Mystery of the Blue Jar (E, U)

The Mystery of the Spanish Chest (Slightly expanded version of

    ‘The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest’) (A, D)

The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl (Alternative title of ‘Mr

   Eastwood’s Adventure’) (U) The Nemean Lion (F)

Next to a Dog (C, O) The Oracle at Delphi (K) The Pearl of Price (K)

Philomel Cottage (G, U)

The Plymouth Express (N, S)

Problem at Pollensa Bay (O, P)

Problem at Sea (N, P)

The Rajah’s Emerald (C, G)

The Red House (L)

The Red Signal (E, U)

The Regatta Mystery (O, P)

Sanctuary (B, H)

The Second Gong (O, U)

The Shadow on the Glass (J)

The Sign in the Sky (J)

Sing a Song of Sixpence (G,U)

SOS (E, U)

The Soul of the Croupier (J)

The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael (C, E)

Strange Jest (H, R)

The Stymphalean Birds (F)

The Submarine Plans (N, S)

The Sunningdale Mystery (L)

Swan Song (C, G)

The Tape-Measure Murder (H, R)

The Theft of the Royal Ruby (Version of ‘The Adventure of the

   Christmas Pudding’) (B)

The Third Floor Flat (N, R)

Three Blind Mice (R)

The Thumb Mark of Saint Peter (Q)

The Tragetly of Marsdon Manor (M)

Triangle at Rhodes (I) The Tuesday Night Club (Q)

The Unbreakable Alibi (L)

The Under Dog (A,

s) The Veiled Latly (M

[us edition], n)

The Voice in the Dark (J) Wasps’ Nest (B, N)

While the Light Lasts (D, T)

Wireless (or Where There’s a Will) (E, U)

Within a Wall (D, T)

The Witness for the Prosecution (E, U)

The World’s End (J) Yellow Iris (O, P)


3. Other Titles by Agatha Christie (excluding plays)

The Road of Dreams (poems) (1924)

Come, Tell Me How You Live (1946)

Star Over Bethlehem (1965)

Poems (1973)

An Autobiography (1977)

4. Novels published as by Mary Westmacott

Giant’s Bread (1930)

Unfinished Portrait (1934)

Absent in the Spring (1944)

The Rose and the Yew Tree (1948)

A Daughter’s a Daughter (1952)

The Burden (1956)

5. Plays (The dates are those of the first productions)

(a) Plays written or adapted by Agatha Christie herself

Black Coffee (1930)

Akhnaton (written 1937; published 1973)

Ten Little Niggers or Ten Little Indians (1945)

Appointment with Death (1945)

Murder on the Nile (1945)

The Hollow (1951)

The Mousetrap (1952)

Witness for the Prosecution (1953)

Spider’s Web (1954)

Towards Zero (adapted by Agatha Christie and Gerald Verner)

   (1956)

Verdict (1958)

The Unexpected Guest (1958)

Go Back for Murder (1960)

Rule of Three (three one-act plays: ‘The Rats’, ‘Afternoon at the

   Seaside’ and ‘The Patient’) (1962) Fiddlers Three (1972)

(b) Plays adapted by others from works by Agatha Christie

(The names in brackets are those of the adaptors)

Alibi (Michacl Morton) (1928)

Love from a Stranger (Frank Vospcr) (1936)

Peril at End Home (Arnold Ridley) (1940)

Murder at the Vicarage (Moie Charles and Barbara Toy) (1949)

A Murder is Announced (Leslie Darbon) (1977)

Cards on the Table (Leslie Darbon) (1981)

(c) Novels adapted by others from plays by Agatha Christie

Black Coffee (Charles Osborne) (1998)

The Unexpected Guest (Charles Osborne) (1999)

Spider’s Web (Charles Osborne) (2000)

6. Films based on works by Agatha Christie

Die Abenteuer Gmbh (Adventures Ltd) (1928)

The Passing of Mr Quinti (1928)

Alibi (1931)

Black Coffee (1931)

Lord Edgware Dies (1934)

Love from a Stranger (1937)

Ten Little Niggers or And Then There Were None (1945)

A Stranger Walked In or Love from a Stranger (1947)

Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

The Spider’s Web (1960)

Murder, She Said (1962)

Murder at the Gallop (1963)

Murder Most Foul (1964)

Murder Ahoy! (based on Miss Marple and other Christie

   characters, but with an ‘Original’ screenplay) (1964)

Ten Little Indians (1965)

The Alphabet Murders (1965)

Endless Night (1972)

Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

And Then There Were None or Ten Little Indians (1975)

Death on the Nile (1978)

The Mirror Crack’d (1980)

Evil Under the Sun (1982)

Appointment with Death (1988)