Agatha Christie's Complete Secret Notebooks by Curran, John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Foreword Introduction Preface: Shadows in Sunlight 1. The Beginning of a Career 2. The Evidence of the Notebooks 3. Agatha Christie at Work 4. Rule of Three 5. Crime Writers in the Notebooks Part I: The First Decade

The Mysterious Affair at Styles The Man in the Brown Suit The Secret of Chimneys/Chimneys The Mystery of the Blue Train My Favourite Stories and ‘The Man Who Knew’

Part II: The Second Decade

‘The Bird with the Broken Wing’ ‘Manx Gold’ The Murder at the Vicarage The Sittaford Mystery ‘The Mystery of the Baghdad/Spanish Chest’ Peril at End House ‘The Second Gong’ ‘Death on the Nile’ Lord Edgware Dies Three Act Tragedy Death in the Clouds ‘How Does Your Garden Grow?’ The ABC Murders ‘Problem at Sea’ ‘Triangle at Rhodes’ ‘The Regatta Mystery’ Murder in Mesopotamia ‘Murder in the Mews’ Dumb Witness ‘The Incident of the Dog’s Ball’ Death on the Nile ‘The Dream’ Appointment with Death ‘How I Created Hercule Poirot’ Hercule Poirot’s Christmas And Then There Were None

Part III: The Third Decade

Sad Cypress One,Two, Buckle my Shoe ‘Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds’ Evil under the Sun N or M? ‘The Case of the Caretaker’s Wife’ The Body in the Library Five Little Pigs The Moving Finger Towards Zero ‘Strange Jest’ Death Comes as the End Sparkling Cyanide The Hollow Three Blind Mice/The Mousetrap The Labours of Hercules ‘The Capture of Cerberus’ Butter in a Lordly Dish Taken at the Flood Crooked House

Part IV: The Fourth Decade

A Murder is Announced They Came to Baghdad Mrs McGinty’s Dead They Do It With Mirrors After the Funeral A Pocket Full of Rye Personal Call Destination Unknown Spider’s Web Hickory Dickory Dock Dead Man’s Folly ‘Greenshaw’s Folly’ 4.50 from Paddington The Unexpected Guest Ordeal by Innocence Cat among the Pigeons

Part V: The Fifth Decade

The Pale Horse The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side Rule of Three The Clocks A Caribbean Mystery At Bertram’s Hotel Third Girl Endless Night By the Pricking of my Thumbs Hallowe’en Party

Part VI: The Sixth Decade

Passenger to Frankfurt Nemesis Fiddler’s Three Elephants Can Remember Akhnaton Postern of Fate Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case Sleeping Murder

Postscript: Unused Ideas Appendix I: Chronology of Titles Appendix II: Alphabetical List of Titles Endnotes Index of Titles Acknowledgements About the Publisher