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home page.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) | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| N | Novel |
| O | Novelization of a Christie play done by Charles Osborne |
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| 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 |