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The ABC Murders 12, 125, 131–5, 139, 370
ABC Rail Guide 133
Die Abenteuer Gmbh 23
Abney Hall, Cheadle 58
Absent in the Spring (Westmacott-Christie) 196, 203–5, 282
‘Accident’ 117, 234, 398n
‘The Actress’ 381, 382
Adam 334
‘The Adventure of Johnny Waverly’ 239, 365, 367
‘The Adventure of the Cheap Flat’ 37
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (collection) 116, 176, 178, 238, 246, 299–301, 302, 349–50, 382
‘The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding’ (story) 300, 302, 381
‘The Adventure of the Clapham Cook’ 248, 365, 367
‘The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb’ 35
‘The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman’ 35
‘The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger’ 69
The Adventures of Arsene Lupin (Leblanc) 313
“The Adventures of The Western Star’ 37
“The Affair at the Victory Ball’ 247, 366, 367
‘The Affair of the Pink Pearl’ 69
After the Funeral 251, 264–6
Afternoon at the Seaside 309, 310
Agate, James 127
The Agatha Christie Hour (Thames TV) 108, 121, 179, 345
Agatha Christie Literary Estate 31, 269
Agatha Christie Ltd 367
Akhnaton 148, 152–5, 208, 256, 355
Aldini, Carlo 23
‘The Algebra of Agatha Christie’ (Wyndham) 323
Alibi 50–1, 81, 82, 83, 84, 150, 172, 219, 269
Allan, Elizabeth 50
Allen, Adrienne 84
Allingham, Margery 230, 243
The Alphabet Murders 134–5, 251
‘The Ambassador’s Boots’ 105, 277
Ambassadors Theatre 66, 221, 248, 257, 287, 364
Amin, Dr Mahnud el 234
And Then There Were None, see Ten Little Niggers
Anderson, James Grant 350, 351, 352
Anderson, Judith 174
Andrews, Anthony 211
Andrews, Harry 67
Anglia TV 306
‘Anna the Adventuress’ 31
Annis, Francesca 111
‘The Apples of the Hesperides’ 229
Appointment with Death 150, 160–3, 207, 284, 316, 397?
‘The Arcadian Deer’ 228
Arlen, Michael 41
Army and Navy Stores 319
Arpachiya 100–3, 111, 112
Asherson, Renee 292
Ashfield, Torquay 1, 2–3, 4, 9, 18, 65, 88, 166, 314
Astor, Lady 162
Aswan 147
At Bertram’s Hotel 298, 317–20, 340, 375
At the Villa Rose (Mason) 28
Attenborough, Richard 175, 257
Attlee, Clement 242
Auden, W. H. vii Auer, Mischa 174
‘The Augean Stables’ 185, 228
Austral Trust Ltd 29
An Autobiography 57, 67, 122–3, 138, 292, 305, 363, 379–80; on book jackets 26; on literary works 5, 10, 44, 65, 74, 85, 104, 194, 205, 208, 236, 256, 267, 288, 293, 396n; poetry in 38; on relationship with Mallowan 237; on stage performances 267–8, 273–4; on travels 231; writing of 231, 244, 281, 317
Australia 25, 96
Avco-Embassy 175
Aylmer, Felix 273
Aznavour, Charles 175
Bacali, Lauren 114, 163
Baghdad 72–3, 88, 102, 222
Bailey, H. C. 35, 71
Baillieu, Clive 29
Baker, George 202
Baku 89
Balikh Valley 160
‘Ballad of the Maytime’ 38
Balsam, Martin 115
Bamberg 115
Baraker, Gabor 352, 355
Barber, John 257
Barnard, Robert 120, 156, 204, 302, 327, 397n Barnett, Richard 123
Barton, Margaret 273
Barzun, Jacques, and Taylor, W. H. 105, 120, 128, 168, 238, 253, 328, 400n
Bates, Mr 25
BBC 77, 193, 195, 223, 244, 253, 264, 287, 309, 317, 320, 347, 378
‘Beatrice Passes’ 356
Beckett, Samuel 295
Behre, Frank 328
Beirut 109, 110
Belcher, Major 23–6, 29–30, 32
Bell, Gertrude 138
Belloc Lowndes, Mrs 14–15
Bennett, Hywell 331
Beochmer, Clarissa, see Miller, C.
Bergman, Ingrid 115
Berkeley, Anthony 71, 92–3, 94
Best, Edna 144
Best, George 51
The Big Four 28, 59–61, 63, 69, 185, 301, 302
‘The Bird with the Broken Wing’ 398n
Birkin, Jane 151, 188
Birmingham Post 350
Bisset, Jacqueline 115
Bixby, Bill 168
Black Coffee vii, 81, 82–4, 105, 150, 154, 181, 218, 256, 396n, 399n
‘Blackman’s Wood’ (Oppenheim) 247
Blake, William 330
Blakely, Colin 115, 188
Bland, Joyce 83
Bleak House (Dickens) 322
Bles, Geoffrey 37
‘Blindman’s Buff’ 69
Blomfield, Derek 268
‘The Blood-stained Pavement’ 100, 160, 186
Blood Will Tell, see Mrs McGinty’s Dead
Bloody Murder (Symons) 396n
‘The Blue Geranium’ 398n
The Bodley Head 9–10, 18, 19, 26, 30, 34, 40–1
The Body in the Library 76, 178, 188, 191–3, 238, 307, 315, 398n
Bolton, Barbara 398n
Bond, Derek 77
Booker McConnell 367
The Bookman 264
The Bookseller 56
The Boomerang Clue, see Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?
Booth, Connie 111
Bovington 305
Bowen, Elizabeth 233
Bowers, Raymond 311
Boxer, John 83
Brabourne, John 114, 150, 151, 343, 364
Brak 109, 136, 146, 160
Bramah, Ernest 35
Breasted, James Henry 207
British Museum 100, 103, 195
Brophy, Brigid 320
Brown’s Hotel 318
The Burden (Westmacott-Christie) 279, 281–3
Burnell, Janet 163
By the Pricking of My Thumbs 19, 69, 305, 332–4, 349, 359, 377, 400n
Calder, Ritchie 54, 55
‘The Call of Wings’ 107, 108, 344
Campbell, Cheryl 67
Canada 26
Canary Islands 62, 122
Cannon Group 163
‘The Capture of Cerberus’ 61, 230, 302
Cards on the Table 67, 113, 120, 140–3, 148, 191, 250, 280, 304, 397n
Cargill, Patrick 396n
A Caribbean Mystery 315–17, 345, 346
Carr, Jane 105
Carr, John Dickson 48, 164, 166
Carroll, Belinda 143
Carroll, Lewis 164, 213
Carter, Howard 154
Cary, Joyce 197
‘The Case of the Caretaker’ 239, 331, 380
‘The Case of the City Clerk’ 121
‘The Case of the Discontented Soldier’ 120, 121
‘The Case of the Distressed Lady’ 119
‘The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife’ 119, 121
‘The Case of the Missing Will’ 35
‘The Case of the Perfect Maid’ 239, 380
‘The Case of the Rich Woman’ 120
Cassel, Jean Pierre 115
Cat Among the Pigeons 297–9, 319, 340, 360
Cat of Many Tails (Queen) 134
A Catalogue of Crime (Barzun &
Taylor) 168, 253, 400n
Cavenaugh, James 266
Celli, Adolfo 175
Chagar Bazar 109–10, 123–4, 135–6
Chandler, Raymond 113
Chaplin, Geraldine 309
Charles, Moie 77, 235
Cherrell, Gwen 202
‘A Chess Problem’ 60
Chesterton, G. K 34, 69, 71, 93, 94
Chetwyn, Robert 244
Chicago Tribune 378
Chiles, Lois 151
“The Chocolate Box’ 34, 365, 366
Chorion pic 367
Christie, Agatha May (née Miller)
BIOGRAPHY AND
PERSONALITY: appearance 2, 287, 337–8; archaeological interests 35, 72–3, 100–1, 108, 123–4, 135–9, 146, 154, 160, 212, 231, 234–5, 237, 262, 283, 334; artistic interests 40; attitude to justice 98–9, 107, 113, 182, 268–9, 291, 295, 336–7; 286, awards and honours 264, 268, 271, 278, 301, 343, 374; birth and childhood 287, 1–3; death 372–4; 288, disappearance of 51–7, 61, 65, 122, 197; as dispenser 5, 39, 180–1, 186, 206; divorce 289, 58, 62, 65; education 2, 40; 290, family background 1–2; 291, financial situation 10, 18, 19, 26, 31, 58, 65, 332, 367, 368; homes 2, 9, 18, 39–40, 58, 88, 166, 180, 195–6, 211, 233, 236, 263, 275, 279, 314, 343; interviews 292, 323, 338; knowledge of 293, poisons 5, 11, 39, 180, 183, 400n; love of dogs 337, 344, 363, 365; marriages 1, 4, 51, 57, 58, 74, 77, 197, 207, 282, 338; musical interests 294, 40, 49, 85, 88, 92, 116–17, 178, 231; personality 2, 3, 56, 58, 123, 202, 267–8, 379; political views 21, 23, 36, 43–4, 153, 185, 225, 252–3, 271–2; portrait of 343; racial attitudes 16–17, 42–3, 49, 79, 81, 87, 96, 103, 104–5, 116, 126, 131, 190, 194, 218, 277, 397n, 398n; religious views 106, 321; sexual attitudes 167, 242, 336–7, 347; and supernatural 91, 106–7; travels 3, 24–6, 29, 51, 62, 72–4, 88–90, 110, 119, 146, 222, 231, 315, 322; in wartime 180–1, 206
LITERARY LIFE: appeal of works 16, 47–8; book jackets 10, 26–7, 188; characterization 6, 17, 29–30, 41, 86, 121, 126, 187, 198, 217, 236, 254–5, 282; chronology 15–16, 61, 137, 189, 192–3, 334, 368–9, 375; copy-cat murders 17, 115, 305–6, 377–8, 398n, 400n; depiction of murderers 285; depiction of police 76, 90; depiction of victims 148–9; depiction of working class 43, 76; early writing 3–4; editing 159, 246, 266, 349, 377; foreign editions 23, 34, 84, 120, 296, 299; influences 3, 28, 38, 41; musical adaptations 174, 278; nursery rhymes in 116, 164, 168–71, 177, 184, 190, 196–7, 235, 238, 262–3, 276, 327; plagiarized 133–4; pseudonyms vii, 3, 63, 85, 283; publication dates 151–2; publishers’ contracts 9–10, 30, 40, 62; quotations 164; relations with publisher 27, 212–13, 329; romantic fiction 85; and science fiction 106; self-portraiture 92, 120, 121–3, 138, 142, 191, 205, 280, 304, 319, 327, 335, 348, 379; serializations 10, 19, 31, 34, 133; short-story writing 34–5, 65, 78, 248; social observation 16, 21, 33, 35, 42, 182, 232, 240–1, 295, 326, 341–2, 364; style 44, 87, 198, 360; thrillers 245, 271; view of screen adaptations 115, 135, 175, 266, 286–7, 315; working methods 7, 324, 379–80; see also Westmacott, Mary
Christie, Archie: death 63, 306; and disappearance of AC 52–3, 55–6; divorce 62; employment 9, 24, 29; golfing interests 40, 51; love affair 51; marriages 1, 4–5, 51, 58, 62–3, 197, 282; portrayal of 122; publishing contacts 8–9
Christie, Campbell 58–9
Christie, Rosalind 206, 279; and AC’s marriages 58, 74; and AC’s writing 218; and Agatha Christie Ltd 367; birth 9;
childhood 24, 51, 62; deeds of gift to 190, 283, 368; marriages 186, 235; schooldays 72, 88, 298; widowhood 199
‘Christmas Adventure’ 300, 381
Chukovsky, Kornel 296
Churchill, Winston 162
Clair, René 174
Clare, Mary 163
Clark, Ernest 221
Clark, Trilby 81
Clay, Nicholas 188
The Clocks 312–13, 325
Cochran, C. B. 172
Coke, Roger Sacheverell 87
Cole, G. D. H. and M. 94
Collins 40–1, 51, 62, 155, 212, 332, 339
Collins, Sir Godfrey 56
Collins, Sir William 368
Collinson, Peter 175
Come and Be Hanged 201
Come, Tell Me How You Live 120, 124, 146, 160, 212–15
‘The Coming of Mr Quin’ 79, 81–2
‘The Companion’ 100, 242
Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur 5, 14, 28, 34, 37, 60, 71, 91, 198
Connery, Sean 115
Cooper, Melville 84, 105
Cooper, Richard 84, 105
Co-ordinating Committee Against Racial Discrimination 173
Cork, Edmund 31, 40, 382
‘The Cornish Mystery’ 248, 365, 367
Corsica 51
Cotes, Peter 257
‘Count Fersen to the Queen’ 357
Courtenay, Margaret 143
Courtneidge, Cicely 275
Coward, Noël 107, 217, 270, 309
Cowley, Eric 173
‘The Cretan Bull ‘ 229
‘Crime in Cabin 66’, see ‘Problem at Sea’
Crispin, Edmund 331
Crofts, Freeman Wills 69, 71, 94
Crooked House 235–7, 284, 293
Culver, Roland 83
Curran, Paul 292
Curtain 134, 157, 191, 348, 368–71, 373
Curtis, Tony 309
Daily Express 127, 133, 257, 296
Daily Express Fiction Library 247
Daily Graphic 230
Daily Herald 144, 171
Daily Mail 53, 54, 61, 114, 144, 199, 236, 248, 287, 305, 337
Daily Mirror 268
Daily News 52, 53, 54
Daily Sketch 45
Daily Telegraph 83, 144, 173, 187, 271, 279, 289, 293, 299, 373, 400n
Damascus 72
Dane, Clemence 94
Danieli, Henry 50, 269
Dankworth, Johnny 278
Danziger Brothers 275
Darbon, Leslie 142–3, 243
Darlington, W. A. 144, 173, 289
Dartmoor 7–8, 90, 280
‘Dartmoor’ 356–7
Daubeny, Peter 278
A Daughter’s a Daughter (Westmacott-Christie) 254–5
Davies, John 111
Daviot, Gordon 126
Davis, Allan 352, 355, 400n
Davis, Bette 151, 253
Davis, Stringer 135, 251, 266, 286, 315
The Dawn of Conscience (Breasted) 207
Dead Man’s Folly 279–81
Dead Man’s Mirror (collection), see Murder in the Mews
‘Dead Man’s Mirror’ (story) 81, 158, 159, 234
Deadlier Than the Male (Mann) 205
Death Beat 278
‘Death by Drowning’ 98
Death Comes as the End 196, 198, 207–9
Death in the Clouds (Death in the Air) 125, 128–31, 147, 157
Death on the Nik (novel) 119, 147–51, 152, 162, 186, 188, 331, 397n
‘Death on the Nile’ (story)
De Casalis, Jeanne 221
De Courville, Albert 173
De Havilland, Olivia 168
Dehn, Paul 115
Dekobra, Maurice 114
Delfont, Bernard 278
De Marney, Terence 163, 173
Denham, Maurice 134
Dennis, Nigel 106, 139
Destination Unknown 271–3
Detection Club 93, 166, 284
Devon and Exeter Steeplechases and Hurdle Races 322
Dews, Peter 143
Dexter, Aubrey 257
Dickens, Charles 322
Dietrich, Marlene 269, 270
‘The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim’ 37
Dodd, Mead & Co 34, 51
‘The Double Clue’ 61, 302, 303, 365
Double Sin (collection) 108, 240, 300, 301–3, 350, 365, 380
‘Double Sin’ (story) 301–2, 303, 365
Douglas, Colin 221
Douglas, Wallace 268, 273
‘Down in the Wood’ 38
Downing, John 351
Draper, Ruth 104
‘The Dream’ 178, 179, 183, 300, 327
‘The Dressmaker’s Doll’ 302, 380
The Duchess of Malfi (Webster) 375–6
Du Maurier, Daphne 148
Du Maurier, Gerald 49, 126
Dumb Witness 155–60, 177, 368
Dyall, Franklin 50
Eagle Lion 145
Earl’s Court 9, 88
Eason, Myles 273
Easy to Kill, see Murder is Easy
‘The Edge’ 381, 382
Edinburgh 74
Edwards, Henry 105
Edwards, Olga 97
Egypt 3, 110, 146, 151, 154–5, 207–8
Ekberg, Anita 134
Ekland, Britt 331
Elephants Can Remember 242, 265, 327, 347–50, 369
Elizabeth, Queen Mother 223
Elizabeth II, Queen 31, 201–2, 223, 275, 278, 364
‘Elizabeth of England’ 38
Ellery Queen’s Murdercade 382
Elliot, T. S. 224
Elsom, Isobel 145
EMI 114, 151, 188, 308
Endless Night 239, 329–32
ENSA 206
Ervine, St John 370
‘The Erymanthian Boar’ 228
Evans, Tenniel 293
Evening News 31, 34
Evening Standard 54, 166, 257
Evil Under the Sun 100, 159, 186–8, 236
Exeter University 301
Fabian 174
‘The Face of Helen’ 398n
Famous Trials 267
Farebrother, Violet 292
Farrow, Mia 151
The Fatal Alibi 51
Feinman, Jeffrey 226, 396n
Fiddlers Three (Fiddlers Five) 343, 347, 350–5
Financial Times 243, 358
Finch, Jon 151
Finney, Albert 114
Firbank, Ann 199
Fisher, Carrie 163
Fitzgerald, Barry 174
Five Little Pigs 171, 196–9, 201, 211, 230, 299, 349
Flecker, James Elroy 359
Fleming, Ian (actor) 97
Fleming, Ian (author) 23, 116, 245
The Floating Admiral (AC 8c others) 93–4
“The Flock of Geryon’ 229
‘Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds’ 116, 239, 263, 300
4.50 From Paddington 192, 240, 251, 284–7
Four Quartets (Elliot) 224
‘The Four Suspects’ 398n
‘The Fourth Man’ 107, 108, 234
Fox, Edward 309
France, C. V. 84
Francis, Raymond 352, 354
Freeman, Richard Austin 34, 69, 70
Freud, Sigmund 335, 400n
Frobe, Gert 175
‘A Fruitful Sunday’ 344
Funerals Are Fatal, see After the Funeral
Furse, Judith 273
Galvani, Dino 83, 84
‘Gates of Damascus’ (Flecker) 359
Genn, Leo 174–5
Giant’s Bread (Westmacott-Christie) 85–8, 117, 121, 283, 382, 399n
Gielgud, Sir John 67, 111, 115, 126, 153, 163, 375–6
Gilbert, Michael 38, 395n
Gilbert, W. S. 67
Gilliat, Sidney 331
‘The Girdle of Hippolyta’ 229, 398n
‘The Girl in the Train’ 344, 345
Glanville, Stephen 154, 195, 198, 207–9
Go Back for Murder 198, 299, 311
‘Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh’ 321
Golden, Michael 293
The Golden Ball (collection) 108, 118, 310, 344–5, 381
‘The Golden Ball’ (story) 344
Goodwin, Richard 114, 151
Graham, Genine 77
Granada TV 108
Graves, Robert 199
Gray, Dulcie 244
Gray, Eve 23
Gray, Willoughby 398n
Grayson, Godfrey 275
Green, Anna Katharine 313
Green, Nigel 199
The Green Hat (Arlen) 41
Greene, Graham 114, 206
Greenmask! (Linington) 133–4
‘Greenshaw’s Folly’ 300, 302, 349
Greenway House 166, 180, 195, 198, 211, 279, 343, 399n
Greet, Clare 50
‘A Greeting’ 321
Gregg, Hubert 199, 219, 221, 251, 293, 311
Grout, James 244
Guardian 261, 293, 331
Guillermin, John 151
Gutteridge, Lucy 67
‘The Gypsy’ 107, 108, 344
Habur Valley, Syria 109, 136
Hagen, Julius 50, 81, 105
Hales, Jonathan 308
Hallowe’en Party 335–7
Hamilton, Guy 308
Hamilton, Robert 234
Hamlet (Shakespeare) 257
Hammett, Dashiell 190
Hampstead 180, 188, 206–7, 211
Harding, Ann 145
Hardy, Lawrence 199
Hare, Doris 352, 354
‘Harlequin’s Lane’ 81
The Harlequin Tea Set (collection) 382
‘The Harlequin Tea Set’ (story) 80, 344, 381, 382
Harrogate 53–6
‘Have You Got Everything You Want?’ 119, 396n
Hay Fever (Coward) 217
Haydn, Richard 174
Hayes, Helen 253, 317
Haystead, Mercy 311
Hayward, Louis 174
Heinz, Gerard 290
Henanakhte Papers 208
Hentschel, Irene 173
Herald Tribune 251
“The Herb of Death’ 100, 364
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas 160, 163–6, 209, 238, 284
Hercule Poirot’s Early Cases, see Poirot’s Early Cases
Herrman, Bernard 331
Hickman, Charles 290
Hickory Dickory Dock (Hickory Dickory Death) 171, 276
Hicks, Anthony 235, 257
Hicks, Rosalind, see Christie, R
Hickson, Joan 77, 193, 195, 244, 253, 317, 320, 347, 378
Hidden Horizon 151
Highsmith, Patricia 92
Hiller, Wendy 114
Hiscott, Leslie 50, 81, 84
Hobbes, Halliwell 151, 173
Hodiak, John 145
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von 254
A Holiday for Murder 163
Holland, Anthony 355
The Hollow 212, 216–22, 244, 251, 256, 311
Holloway, Stanlcy 174
Hope, Anthony 41, 44
Home, David 268
The Horse’s Mouth (Cary) 197
The Hound of Death (collection) 106–8, 117, 178, 233–4, 301, 302, 344, 345, 399n ‘The Hound of Death’ (story) 106, 108, 344
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Conan Doyle) 91
“The House at Shiraz’ 89, 119
The House of Dreams’ 381, 382
‘How Does Your Garden Grow?’ 157, 177, 365, 367
Howard, Arthur 352, 355
Howard, John 145
Howard, Ronald 275, 286
Hudson, Rock 309
Hughes, Dorothy B. 204, 226
Hughes Massie Ltd 30–1, 352
Hulbert, Jack 275
Hussey, Olivia 151
Huston, Walter 174
Hyde White, Wilfrid 174, 273
I Have Been Here Before (Priestley) 165
Iles, Francis 277, 331
Imaginary Conversations (Landor) 289
‘In a Dispensary’ 39, 356
‘In a Glass Darkly’ 178, 380
‘In the Cool of the Evening’ 321
‘The Incredible Theft’ 158, 159, 247–8, 365
Ingram, Bruce 33
The Inimitable Jeeves (Wodehouse) 41
Institute of Archaeology, University of London 222
Iolanthe (Gilbert) 67
Iraq 100, 214, 215, 223, 379
Isfahan 89
‘The Island’ 321
‘Isolt of Brittany’ 356
Jackson, Gordon 143
James, Henry 107, 331
James, M. R. 106
Jameson, Pauline 143
‘Jane in Search of a Job’ 344, 345
Jeans, Ursula 81
Jeayes, Allan 173
Jeffries, Lionel 315
Jenkins, Megs 251
‘Jenny by the Sky’ 321, 357
Jepson, Edgar 94
Jeritza, Maria 116
Jessel, Patricia 268, 271, 290
‘The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan’ 37
Johan, I. S. 151
John, Augustus 197
John Ferguson (Ervine) 370
John Lane and Co 51
Johns, Glynis 275
Jordan, Dr Julius 102–3
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare) 231
Justice, James Robertson 286
Justin, John 275
Keats, Viola 290
Keith, Penelope 264
Kendall, William 202
Kennedy, Arthur 286
Kennedy, George 151
Kennedy, Milward 94
Kenny, Sean 278
Kermode, Frank 338
‘The Kidnapped Prime Minister’ 35–6
‘The Kidnapping of Johnny Waverly’ 239
Kildonan Castle (ship) 24
‘The King of Clubs’ 247, 365, 367
Klemperer, Otto 335
Knox, Ronald A. 94
Kurnitz, Harry 269
‘A Labour of Hercules’ (Belloc Lowndes) 15
The Labours of Hercules 15, 61, 185, 223, 226–30, 233, 276, 302, 336
Lacey, George 355
‘The Lady of Shalott’ (Tennyson) 159, 306–7
Lambert, Jack 77
‘The Lament of the Tortured Lover’ 357
“The Lamp’ 107, 108, 344
Lanchester, Elsa 269
Landis, Jessie Royce 145
Landor, Walter Savage 288, 289
Lane, John 9, 19
Langton, David 311
Lansbury, Angela 151, 287, 308, 309
‘The Last Seance’ 107, 108, 302
Laughton, Charles 50, 51, 83, 84, 269, 270
Law, Mary 202
Lawson, Leigh 111
The Leavenworth Case (Green) 313
Leblanc, Maurice 313
Lee, Rowland V. 145
Lehmann, Carla 163
‘The Lemesurier Inheritance’ 248, 365
Lenver Theatre Productions 352
‘The Lernean Hydra’ 227
Leroux, Gaston 28, 313, 395n
Levin, Bernard 260
Lewis, Robert 268
Lind, Gillian 50
Lindbergh, Charles 112
Linington, Elizabeth 134 133–4
The Listener 165
Lister, Laurier 354
The Listerdale Mystery (collection) 108, 116–18, 143, 233–4, 262–3, 311, 344
‘The Listerdale Mystery’ (story) 116, 344
Lockwood, Margaret 273
Loder, Basil 50
Lom, Herbert 175
London Weekend TV 18, 23, 28, 37, 68, 70, 97, 111, 131, 135, 158, 160, 166, 179, 185, 239, 278, 301, 303, 367
‘The Lonely God’ 381, 382
Longdon, Robert 111
Lord Edgware Dies 90, 103–6
‘The Lost Mine’ 34, 365, 367
‘The Love Detectives’ 80, 239, 381
Love from a Stranger 117, 143–6
Lubbock, Ian 163
Lucy, Reggie 4
Lumet, Sidney 114
Macartney, Robin (Mac) 109–10, 123–4, 136
Macbeth (Shakespeare) 163–4, 305, 332, 346, 400n
McClelland, Allan 257
McCorkindale, Simon 151
MacDonald, Murray 144, 201
Macdonald, Philip 145
McDowall, Betty 311
McDowall, Roddy 188
Machin, Beryl 163
Mackenzie, Compton 114
Mackintosh, Cameron 352
MacKintosh, Elizabeth 126
McRae, G. Roy 82
Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum 347
The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars (Dekobra) 114
The Magistrate 268
‘Magnolia Blossom’ 344, 345, 381
Mallowan, Sir Max 1, 35, 39, 254; on AC’s writing 80, 122–3, 138, 142, 172, 200, 208–9, 215, 226, 283, 320, 348, 363; at Air Ministry 180–1, 211; as archaeologist 73, 74, 88, 89–90, 100–3, 108–10, 123–4, 135, 146, 154, 222, 231, 234, 237, 301, 322; book dedicated to 111; death 374; on death of AC 373; deed of gift to 190–1, 368, 374; on Katharine Woolley 137–8; knighthood 332, 343; literary suggestions 112; marriage 74; meeting with AC 73, 138; Memoirs 50, 124, 142, 146, 305, 364; Ode pastiche by 337; personality of 103; portrayed in AC’s fiction 129–30, 138; on screen and stage adaptations 221, 331–2; in wartime 180–1, 206
‘The Man from the Sea’ 79
The Man in the Brown Suit 29–33, 34, 35, 48, 59, 90, 110, 141, 148, 210
‘The Man Who Was Number 16’ 69
Manchester Guardian 127
‘The Manhood of Edward Robinson’ 344, 345
Mann, Jessica 205
Manners, David 151
‘Manx Gold’ 381–2
Marchand, Nancy 211
Margaret, Princess 223
Marion, Frances 145
‘The Market Basing Mystery’ 159, 248, 365, 366, 398n
Marlowe, Anthony 199
Marsh, Ngaio 48, 332
Mary, Queen 223, 238, 338
Mason, A. E. W. 28, 69, 71
Mason, James 188
Massie, Hughes 4, 31
‘Maud’ (Tennyson) 216
Medawar, Tony 382
Methuen’s 8
Meyer, Bertram 172, 219
MGM 134–5, 286, 315
Miles, Bernard 111
Miles, Sylvia 188
Mill House, Dorney 29
Miller, Agatha May, see Christie, Agatha Miller, Clarissa (née Beochmer) 1–3, 4, 18, 51, 58, 122
Miller, Frederick Alvah 1–2
Miller, Louis (Monty) 2, 3, 292
Miller, Marjorie, see Watts, Madge Miller, Martin 257
‘The Million Dollar Bond Robbery’ 37
Mills, Hayley 163, 331
Mills, John 253
Milne, A. A. 242
The Mirror Crack’d (from Side to Side) 188, 240, 241, 284, 287, 306–9, 316
‘Miss Marple Tells a Story, 178, 380
Miss Marple’s Final Cases 178, 179, 237, 240, 301, 302, 345, 375, 380–1
Miss Pym Disposes (Tey) 298
Modern Masters (Collins) 338
Monteux, Pierre 395n
Moody, Ron 251
Moran, Lord 327
Moreau, Jeanne 108
Morgan, Charles 144
Morley, Robert 134, 266
Morley, Sheridan 395n
Morton, Michael 49, 82, 150
Mostel, Zero 135
Mosul 90, 101–2, 135
Mountbatten, Lord Louis 44, 45, 364
The Mousetrap (collection) 80, 239
The Mousetrap (play) 66, 92, 223, 238, 248, 256–61, 287–8, 296, 299, 306, 322, 338, 347, 351, 355, 364, 373
The Mousetrap Man (Saunders) 347
The Moving Finger 191, 193–5, 304
‘Mr Eastwood’s Adventure’ 117, 118
Mr Parker Pyne, Detective, see Parker Pyne Investigates Mrs McGinty’s Dead 249–51, 277, 280, 299, 335
Muir, Edwin 165
Mullen, Barbara 77
Murder After Hours, see The Hollow
Murder Ahoy! 314–15
Murder at Hazelmoor, see The Sittaford Mystery
Murder at Littlegreen House 156
Murder at the Gallop 251, 266, 308, 314
Murder at the Vicarage 47, 74–7, 191, 219, 235, 241, 373, 395n
Murder for Christmas, see Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
Murder in Mesopotamia 136–9, 149
Murder in Retrospect, see Five Little Pigs
Murder in the Calais Coach, see Murder on the Orient Express
Murder in the Mews (collection) 81, 100, 117, 158–60, 234, 247, 365
‘Murder in the Mews’ (story) 158
Murder in Three Acts, see Three-Act Tragedy A Murder is Announced 100, 142, 237, 240–4, 284, 286, 302–3
Murder is Easy 166–8, 199, 241, 397n
Murder Most Foul 251, 314
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 33, 44–51, 59, 61, 64, 82, 150, 157, 241, 285
Murder on the Links 15, 23–8, 46, 59, 61, 129, 301
Murder on the Nile 150, 207, 279
Murder on the Orient Express 101, 111–15, 137, 142, 147, 151, 188, 343, 364, 368
Murder, She Said 251, 286–7, 314
Murder with Mirrors, see They Do It With Mirrors
Myldeck, Martin 221
The Mysterious Affair at Styles 1, 5–18, 27, 40, 59, 157, 284, 346, 366, 369
The Mysterious Mr Quin 78–82
The Mysterious World of Agatha Christie (Feinman) 396n
Mystery at Littlegreen House 156
The Mystery of Agatha Christie (Robyns) 396n, 397n
‘The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge’ 37
‘The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest’ 117, 176, 211, 300, 310, 382
‘The Mystery of the Blue Jar’ 108, 234
The Mystery of the Blue Train 1, 51, 61, 62–5, 90, 149, 157, 247, 265, 301, 327, 349
‘The Mystery of the Crime in Cabin 66’, see ‘Problem at Sea’
‘The Mystery of the Spanish Chest’ 117, 176, 299, 300, 310, 382
‘The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl’ 117
The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Leroux) 6, 28, 313, 395n
Mystery Writers of America 271
N or M? 19, 69, 186, 189–90, 245, 332
Nairn, Gerry and Norman 72
Nash, Cyril 50
‘The Naughty Donkey’ 321
Nazism 102–3
Neele, Nancy 51, 62–3
‘The Nemean Lion’ 227, 229, 398n
Nemesis 192, 317, 318, 344, 345–7, 375, 400n
New Crime Stories 2 (AC & others) 247, 300
New Guinea 188
New English Weekly 127
New Statesman 127, 171, 320
New York 2–4
New York Drama Critics Circle 268
New York Times 175, 204, 246, 400n
New York Times Book Review 94, 243
New Zealand 25
Newman, Philip 293
News Chronicle 45
News of the World 115
‘Next to a Dog’ 344, 381
Ney, Marie 144
Nichols, Gwyn 173
Nimrud 234–5, 237, 244, 262, 283
Nimrud and its Remains (Mallowan) 322
Ninevah 89–90, 101, 103
Niven, David 151
Noel, Iris 50
Novak, Kim 309
Novel 381, 382
The Nursery Rhyme Murders 397n
O’Brien, Hugh 175
The Observer 171, 264, 277, 350, 400n
O’Connor, Una 269
O’Doherty, Mignon 257
Oldham, Derek 290
O’Malley, J. Pat 173
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe 171, 181, 184–5
Oppenheim, E. Phillips 247, 300
Orczy, Baroness 34, 71
Ordeal by Innocence 236, 293–5
Orient Express 72, 74, 89, 111–12, 114, 115, 231, 396n
Orient Express (Greene) 114
Osborne, Charles 84, 293
Oscarsson, Per 331
O’Shea, Tessie 174
Ostrander, Isabel 70
Othello (Shakespeare) 370
Oughton, Winifred 293
Oulton, Brian 97
An Overdose of Death 184
The Pale Horse 142, 303–6, 333, 346, 377
‘A Palm Tree in Egypt’ (‘A Palm Tree in the Desert’) 356
Parker, Barbara 262, 283
Parker Pyne Investigates 89, 118–21, 175, 276, 304, 397n
Partners in Crime 19, 68–72, 105, 189, 277
Partridge, Ralph 127
Passenger to Frankfurt vii, 271, 298, 319, 338–43, 360
The Passing of Mr Quinn (film) 81–2
The Patient 309, 310–11
The Patriotic Murders, see One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
Paul, John 257
Pavlow, Muriel 286
‘The Pearl of Price’ 119
Pearson’s 381
Peril at End House 95–7, 150, 181, 187, 224, 371, 396n
Perkins, Anthony 115
Peter the White Cat of Trenarren (Rowse) 365
Petra 119
Pharmaceutical Journal 11
Philipotts, Eden 4, 95
‘Philomel Cottage’ 117, 143, 234
‘Picnic 1960’ 357–8
‘Pierrot Grown Old’ 39, 356
Playhouse Theatre 77, 235
‘The Plymouth Express’ 62, 63, 247, 365, 367
A Pocketful of Rye 116, 171, 262–4, 327
Poems 39, 321, 356–8
The Poetry Review 3
Poetry Society 3
Poirot Investigates 33–7, 46, 365, 366
Poirot Knows the Murderer 211
Poirot Lends a Hand 34, 176, 212, 366
Poirot Loses a Client, see Dumb Witness Poirot’s Early Cases 34, 63, 157, 177, 179, 212, 233, 237, 246, 301, 365–7, 397n
Poland 299
Pollock, George 174, 251, 266, 286, 315
Porter, Eric 111
Post, Melville Davisson 35
Postern of Fate 19, 69, 100, 298, 319, 333, 349, 356, 359–64
Power, Tyrone 269, 270
Prichard, Hubert 186, 199
Prichard, Mathew 196, 261, 367
Prichard, Rosalind, see Christie, R.
Price, Dennis 174
Priestley, J. B. 165
The Prisoner of Zenda (Hope) 41, 44, 360
Problem at Pollensa Bay (collection) 80, 120, 176, 177, 234, 238, 381, 382
‘Problem at Pollensa Bay’ (story) 120, 177, 211–12, 381, 398n
‘Problem at Sea’ 179, 212, 365, 367
‘Promotion in the Highest’ 321
Purcell, Roy 293
Pursall, David 135, 251, 286, 315
Quarks, Francis 204
Queen 320
Queen, Ellery 134
Quilley, Dennis 115, 188
‘Racial Musings’ 358
Raffin, Deborah 211
‘The Rajah’s Emerald’ 116, 310, 344
Randall, Tony 33, 134
Rasumny, Michael (Mikhail) 23
Rathbone, Basil 145
The Rats 309–10
Raymond, Cyril 202
Raymond, Gary 143
Read Art Films 105
Rebecca (du Maurier) 148
‘The Red Signal’ 106, 107, 234
Redgrave, Vanessa 115
Redmond, Moira 290
Reed, Oliver 175
The Regatta Mystery (collection) 120, 175–9, 210, 211–12, 276, 300, 310, 365, 380, 381
‘The Regatta Mystery’ (story) 120, 176, 212, 381, 398n
Remembered Death, see Sparkling Cyanide
‘Remembrance’ 358
Reynolds, Owen 163
Rhode, John 94
Richards, Ann 145
Richardson, Maurice 264, 350, 400n
Ridley, Arnold 96, 150, 181
Rigg, Diana 188
The Road of Dreams 37–9, 78, 356
Roberts, J. H. 50
Roberts, Rachel 115
Robertson, Henry Forbes 50
Robson, Flora 266
Robyns, Gwen 39, 396n, 397n
Rome, Steward 81
Romulus Films 261
Rose, John 100
The Rose and the Yew Tree (Westmacott-Christie) 187, 223–6
Der Rosenkavalier (Strauss) 254
Rosmer, Milton 50
Rowse, A. L. 281, 322, 365
Royal 381, 382
Royal Society of Literature 237
Rule of Three 309–11, 343, 351
Russia 89
Rutherford, Margaret 135, 251, 266, 286–7, 308, 315
Sad Cypress 181–3
Saddington, Michael 355
St James’s Theatre 173
St Martin’s Theatre 66, 83, 259, 364, 373
“The Saints of God’ 321
Salcombe 200
‘Sanctuary’ 240, 302, 380
Sanders, George 331
Sandford, Christopher 292
Sandler, Barry 308
Sands, Leslie 67
Sandys, Pat 67
Sarrazin, Michael 163
Sauer, Fred 23
Saunders, Peter 142, 201, 219, 243, 251, 256–61, 266–7, 273, 287, 288, 290, 296, 311, 347, 350, 355
Savoy Theatre 273, 373
Sayers, Dorothy L. 45, 48, 93, 94, 114, 183, 283, 335
Scott, Harold 273
Scott, Michael 202
Scotswood, Sunningdale 39–40, 236
Scouler, Christopher 67
‘The Second Gong’ 117, 159, 234, 381
The Second Shot (Berkeley) 92
The Secret Adversary 10, 18–23, 26, 40, 59, 66, 68, 81, 111, 189, 333
The Secret of Chimneys 40–4, 59, 65, 66, 80, 83, 110, 141, 229, 336, 397n, 399n
Seddon, Jack 135, 251, 286, 315
Sekers, Sir Nicholas (‘Micky’) 278
Sellers, Peter 278
Seven Arts Films 174
The Seven Dials Mystery 42, 65–8, 80, 83, 110, 141, 185, 397n, 399n
Seyler, Athene 237
Shaffer, Anthony 151, 163
Shakespeare, William 164, 181, 204, 231, 257, 296, 332, 370
Sheridan, Dinah 244
Shiraz 88–9, 119
Sidney, Sylvia 145
Sim, Sheila 257
Simenon, Georges 92, 334
‘Sing a Song of Sixpence’ 116, 117–18, 234, 262
The Sittaford Mystery 90–3, 238
The Sketch 33–4, 50, 58
The Sleeping Car Murders 134
Sleeping Murder 191, 305, 333, 345, 368, 374–8
Smart, Elizabeth 320
Smith, C. Aubrey 174
Smith, Madeline 111
Smith, Maggie 151, 188
Smith, Mary 195
Smith, Sidney 195, 212
Smuts, Jan 342
Snowdon, Lord 383
So Many Steps to Death, see Destination Unknown
Society of Authors 30
Solon, Ewen 398n
Something’s Afoot 174
Sommer, Elke 175
‘SOS’ 108, 234
South Africa 25
Sovereign 381
Soviet Writers’ Congress 296
Sparkling Cyanide 177–8, 207, 210–11, 397n
The Spectator 242
Spencer, Jessica 221, 257
Spider’s Web 273–5, 292
Spring, Howard 166
Stagg, Clinton H. 71
Stamboul Train (Greene) 114
Star Over Bethlehem (collection) 320–1, 357
‘Star Over Bethlehem’ (story) 321
Stock, Nigel 292
Strand Films 81
Strange, Philip 84
‘The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael’ 108, 344
‘Strange Jest’ 238, 380
A Stranger Walked In 145
Strong Poison (Sayers) 183
Studies in Agatha Christie’s Writings (Behre) 328
Styles 40, 58
‘The Stymphalean Birds’ 228
‘The Submarine Plans’ 159, 247–8, 365, 397n
Suchet, David 18, 28, 37, 97, 131, 135, 158, 160, 166, 179, 185, 239, 278, 300, 303, 367
Suez 279, 399n
Sullivan, Francis L. 51, 83, 84, 96, 181, 188, 216, 268, 271
Summerfield, Eleanor 244
Sun 331
Sunday Chronicle 187
Sunday Express 350
Sunday Telegraph 350–1
Sunday Times 114, 187, 235, 248, 277, 301, 323, 331
Sunningdale 38, 39–40, 233, 236, 263
The Sunningdale Mystery 70
Surprise! Surprise! 117, 118, 317
Surrey Advertiser 353
‘Swan Song’ 116–17, 344, 345
Sydney, Basil 144
Symons, Julian 301, 396n
Syria 108–9, 120, 123–4, 146, 214, 215
Taken at the Flood 231–3, 241, 249
Tamm, Mary 143
‘Tape Measure Murder’ 238, 380, 398n
Tashlin, Frank 134, 135
Tasmania 25
Tate, Reginald 77
The Tatler 233
Taylor, Elizabeth 309
Taylor, Richard Shaw 221
Ten Little Niggers (Ten Little Indians) 168–75, 195, 199, 251, 285, 397n
Tennyson, Lord Alfred 159, 216, 232, 306–7
Tey, Josephine 126, 298
Thames TV 108, 121, 179, 345
Thatcher, Torin 269
Theatre Royal, Windsor 275
‘The Theft of the Royal Ruby’ 300, 301, 303
There is a Tide, see Taken at the Flood They Came to Baghdad 244–6, 271
They Do It With Mirrors 192, 252–3
‘The Third-Floor Flat’ 239, 365, 367
Third Girl 183, 263, 265, 325–8, 336
Thirteen at Dinner, see Lord Edgware Dies Thirteen Clues for Miss Marples 322
Thirteen for Luck 176, 177, 212, 301, 366, 380, 398n
The Thirteen Problems 98–100, 160, 178, 191, 242, 364
Thompson, Dr Campbell 89–90, 103
Thorndike, Dame Sybil 260
Thorpe, George 221
Three-Act Tragedy 81, 111, 125–8, 159, 165, 198
Three Blind Mice (collection) 80, 116, 171, 223, 237, 263, 300, 331, 365, 380, 381
‘Three Blind Mice’ (radio play) 223, 238, 256, 258
“Three Blind Mice’ (story) 92, 223, 238, 242, 256, 258; see also The Mousetrap Time Magazine 114, 171
The Times 45, 55, 67, 115, 144, 374, 377, 380
Times Literary Supplement 127, 187, 246
Tingwell, Charles 251, 266, 286, 315
‘To M.E.L.M. in Absence’ 357
Tonight at 8.30 (Coward) 309
Torbay Hospital 4–5, 11, 180
Torquay 1, 2, 3–4, 6, 88, 95, 108, 166, 180, 200, 314
Towards Zero 199–202, 278, 285, 316, 397n
Toy, Barbara 77, 235
‘The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor’ 37
Travers, Linden 173
Tree, Lady 50
Trevor, Austin 50, 84, 105, 134
‘Triangle at Rhodes’ 100, 158, 159, 186
The Tuesday Club Murders, see ‘The Thirteen Problems
‘The Tuesday Night Club’ 97
The Turn of the Screw (James) 107
Turin, Dorothy 253
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare) 181
Twentieth Century-Fox 174
Twickenham Studios 84
‘The Unbreakable Alibi’ 398n
The Under Dog (collection) 63, 232, 244, 246–8, 300, 365, 397n
‘The Under Dog’ (story) 247, 300–1
UNESCO 296, 306
The Unexpected Guest 113, 288, 290–3, 311
Unfinished Portrait (Westmacott-Christie) 57, 121–3, 203, 255, 283
United Artists 145, 269–70, 275, 331
United States 34, 322
University College Hospital 181, 186, 196, 206
Ur 72–3, 88, 138
Urquhart, Robert 199
Ustinov, Peter 106, 151, 163, 188, 281
Valentine, Douglas 70
Vaudeville Theatre 143, 243
‘The Veiled Lady’ 34, 212, 365, 366, 398n
Verdict 288–90, 293, 295
Verner, Gerald 201, 279
Vile Bodies (Waugh) 110
Vosper, Frank 117, 143–5, 397n
Wade, Henry 94
Waiting for Godot (Beckett) 295
Wallingford 343, 372
Walsh, Percy 163, 173
Walton, Tony 115
Warbeck, David 398n
Warden, Jack 151
Waring, Derek 143
Warner Brothers 31, 106, 168, 211, 253, 317
Warwick, James 67, 111
‘Wasps’ Nest’ 302, 303, 365, 367
‘The Water Bus’ 321
Watson, Henrietta 173
Watts, James 44, 58, 163
Watts, Madge (née Miller) 1, 2–3, 5, 24, 51, 58
Waugh, Evelyn 110, 277, 305
Waxman, Harry 331
Weaver, William 358
Webster, John 375–6
Wedgwood, C. V. 264
Weekly Sporting Review 258
The Weekly Times 10, 19
Weinberg, Jacob 396n
Weissenberg, Alexis 278
Welles, Orson 175
Welsh, Jane 50
Wells, John 278
Wentworth, Patricia 48
West Indies 315
Westmacott, Mary (pseudonym of AC) vii, 85, 88, 121, 205, 212, 226, 235, 248–9, 344; see also under individual titles
Westminster Abbey Appeal Fund 303
Wharmby, Tony 67, 111
What Mrs McGillicuddy Saw, see 4.50 From Paddington
‘Where There’s a Will’, see
‘Wireless’
While the Light Lasts (collection) 300, 381–2
‘While the Light Lasts’ (story) 382
Whitechurch, Canon Victor L. 94
Whorf, Richard 145
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? 110–11
Widmark, Richard 114
Wilder, Billy 269–70
*IH0*Willett, Basil 10, 26
Williams, John 269
Williams, Valentine, see Valentine, D.
Wilson, Edmund vii, 397n
Wing-Davey, Mark 355
Wings of the Dove (James) 331
Winn, Godfrey 236, 337
Winner, Michael 163
Winter Garden Theatre 267, 268, 399n
Winterbrook House 343, 372
Winter’s Crimes 3 80, 344, 382
Winwood, Estelle 173
‘Wireless’ 107, 108, 234
‘Within a Wall’ 382
Witness for the Prosecution (collection) 108, 117, 231, 233–4, 397n, 399n
Witness for the Prosecution (play) 233, 262, 266–70, 271, 275, 283, 288, 351, 374, 381
‘Witness for the Prosecution’ (story) 107–8, 117, 233–4, 266, 268
Wodehouse, P. G. 41, 335
Wolfe, Ian 269
Wolfit, Donald 83
Woolley, Katharine 73, 98, 137–9
Woolley, Leonard 73, 89, 98, 137–8
Woolrich, Cornell 128
World War I 4, 9, 11, 19, 305
World War II 148, 166, 180, 190, 206–7, 212
Wormwood Scrubs 260, 296
Wyndham, Francis 45, 183, 193, 323, 334
Wynn, John 163
Wynne, Nancy Blue 302
‘Yellow Iris’ 177–8, 179, 210, 381
York, Michael 115
Young, Roland 174
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre 352, 353