Agatha Christie bibliography
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| Caption = Agatha Christie
| Author =Agatha Christie
| Novel = 74
| NovelLink = Novels
| Collection = 28
| CollectionLink = Short-story collections
| Play = 16
| PlayLink = Stage works
| Option = 7
| OptionName = Broadcast works
| OptionLink = Broadcast works
| 1Option = 1
| 1OptionName = As editor
| 1OptionLink = Miscellany
| 2Option = 2
| 2OptionName =Autobiography
| 2OptionLink =Miscellany
| Poem = 3
| PoemLink = Miscellany
}}
Agatha Christie (1890–1976) was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. Her reputation rests on 66 detective novels and 15 short-story collections that have sold over two billion copies, an amount surpassed only by the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare. She is also the most translated individual author in the world with her books having been translated into more than 100 languages.{{cite web|title=Most translated author|url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/67389-most-translated-author|website=Guinness World Records|access-date=19 October 2022|archive-date=31 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331231357/https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/67389-most-translated-author|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last1=Mcdermid|first1=Val|title=The 50 Greatest Crime Writers, No 3: Agatha Christie|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3767264.ece|date=April 17, 2008|access-date=23 February 2024|archive-date=18 July 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080718204207/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3767264.ece|url-status=deviated}} Her works contain several regular characters with whom the public became familiar, including Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, Parker Pyne and Harley Quin.{{sfn|Morgan|2015}} Christie wrote more Poirot stories than any of the others, even though she thought the character to be "rather insufferable".{{sfn|Morgan|2015}} Following the publication of the 1975 novel Curtain, Poirot's obituary appeared on the front page of The New York Times.
She married Archibald Christie in December 1914, but the couple divorced in 1928.{{sfn|Morgan|2015}} After he was sent to the Western Front in the First World War, she worked with the Voluntary Aid Detachment and in the chemist dispensary, giving her a working background knowledge of medicines and poisons.{{sfn|Morgan|2015}} Christie's writing career began during the war, after she was challenged by her sister to write a detective story; she produced The Mysterious Affair at Styles, which was turned down by two publishers before being published in 1920.{{sfn|Morgan|2015}}{{sfn|Engelhardt|2011|p=83}} Following the limited success of the novel, she continued to write and steadily built up a fan base. She went on to write over a hundred works, including further novels, short stories, plays, poetry, and two autobiographies. She also wrote six romantic novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.{{sfn|Hall|1984|p=6}}
One of Christie's plays, The Mousetrap, opened in West End theatre in 1952, and ran continuously until 16 March 2020, when the stage performances had to be temporarily discontinued during the COVID-19 pandemic. It then re-opened on 17 May 2021. In 2009, the London run exceeded 25,000 performances.
In September 2015, a public vote identified And Then There Were None as the public's favourite Christie novel; the book was the writer's favourite, and the one she found most difficult to write.
In September 1930, Christie married the archaeologist Max Mallowan. The pair travelled frequently on archaeological expeditions, and she utilized the experiences she had while on her many adventures as a basis for some plots, including Murder on the Orient Express (1934), Murder in Mesopotamia (1936), Death on the Nile (1937) and Appointment with Death (1938). She also wrote the autobiographical travel book Come, Tell Me How You Live (1946), which described their life in Syria. Her biographer, Janet Morgan, reports that "archaeologists have celebrated ... [Christie's] contribution to Near Eastern exploration".{{sfn|Morgan|2015}} Christie died in 1976, her reputation as a crime novelist high.{{sfn|Hall|1984|p=5}}
Novels
File:American cover of «The Mysterious Affair at Styles».png, published in 1920]]
Initially in chronological order by UK publication date, even when the book was published first in the US or serialised in a magazine in advance of publication in book form.
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|+ Christie's novels |
scope="col" style="width: 13em;"| UK title{{sfn|Dalby|2004|pp=32–38}}{{sfn|Keating|1988|pp=68–71}}
! scope="col"| Year of UK ! scope="col"| UK publisher ! scope="col"| Year of US ! scope="col"| US title ! scope="col"| US publisher ! scope="col"| Series ! scope="col" class="unsortable"| Notes |
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scope="row"| {{sort|Mysterious Affair at Styles|The Mysterious Affair at Styles}}
| {{sort|1921|1921}} | {{sort|Bodley Head|The Bodley Head}} | {{sort|1920|1920}} | {{sort|Mysterious Affair at Styles|The Mysterious Affair at Styles}} | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | – |
scope="row"| {{sort|Secret Adversary|The Secret Adversary}}
| {{sort|1922|1922}} | {{sort|Bodley Head|The Bodley Head}} | {{sort|1922|1922}} | {{sort|Secret Adversary|The Secret Adversary}} | – |
scope="row"| {{sort|Murder on the Links|The Murder on the Links}}
| {{sort|1923|1923}} | {{sort|Bodley Head|The Bodley Head}} | {{sort|1923|1923}} | {{sort|Murder on the Links|The Murder on the Links}} | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | – |
scope="row"| {{sort|Man in the Brown Suit|The Man in the Brown Suit}}
| {{sort|1924|1924}} | {{sort|Bodley Head|The Bodley Head}} | {{sort|1924|1924}} | {{sort|Man in the Brown Suit|The Man in the Brown Suit}} | {{sort|Race|Colonel Race}} | – |
scope="row"| {{sort|Secret of Chimneys|The Secret of Chimneys}}
| {{sort|1925|1925}} | {{sort|Bodley Head|The Bodley Head}} | {{sort|1925|1925}} | {{sort|Secret of Chimneys|The Secret of Chimneys}} | {{sort|Battle|Superintendent Battle}} | – |
scope="row"| {{sort|Murder of Roger Ackroyd|The Murder of Roger Ackroyd}}
| {{sort|1926|1926}} | {{sort|1926|1926}} | {{sort|Murder of Roger Ackroyd|The Murder of Roger Ackroyd}} | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | – |
scope="row"| {{sort|Big Four|The Big Four}}
| {{sort|1927|1927}} | {{sort|1927|1927}} | {{sort|Big Four|The Big Four}} | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | – |
scope="row"| {{sort|Mystery of the Blue Train|The Mystery of the Blue Train}}
| {{sort|1928|1928}} | {{sort|1928|1928}} | {{sort|Mystery of the Blue Train|The Mystery of the Blue Train}} | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | – |
scope="row"| {{sort|Seven Dials Mystery|The Seven Dials Mystery}}
| {{sort|1929|1929}} | {{sort|1929|1929}} | {{sort|Seven Dials Mystery|The Seven Dials Mystery}} | {{sort|Battle|Superintendent Battle}} | – |
scope="row"| {{sort|Murder at the Vicarage|The Murder at the Vicarage}}
| {{sort|1930.1|1930}} | {{sort|1930.1|1930}} | {{sort|Murder at the Vicarage|The Murder at the Vicarage}} | {{sort|Marple|Miss Marple}} | – |
scope="row"| Giant's Bread
| {{sort|1930.2|1930}} | {{sort|1930.2|1930}} | Giant's Bread | Other | As Mary Westmacott |
scope="row"| {{sort|Floating Admiral|The Floating Admiral}}
| {{sort|1931.1|1931}} | {{sort|1932.1|1932}} | {{sort|Floating Admiral|The Floating Admiral}} | Mystery novel | With members of The Detection Club.{{efn|A chapter each was completed by: Canon Victor Whitechurch, George and Margaret Cole, Henry Wade, Agatha Christie, John Rhode, Milward Kennedy, Sayers, Ronald Knox, Freeman Wills Crofts, Edgar Jepson, Clemence Dane and Anthony Berkeley. G. K. Chesterton contributed the prologue.}} |
scope="row"| {{sort|Sittaford Mystery|The Sittaford Mystery}}
| {{sort|1931.2|1931}} | {{sort|1931|1931}} | {{sort|Murder at Hazelmoor|The Murder at Hazelmoor}} | Mystery novel | – |
scope="row"| Peril at End House
| {{sort|1932|1932}} | {{sort|1932.2|1932}} | Peril at End House | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | – |
scope="row"| Lord Edgware Dies
| {{sort|1933|1933}} | {{sort|1933|1933}} | Thirteen at Dinner | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | – |
scope="row"| Murder on the Orient Express
| {{sort|1934.1|1934}} | {{sort|1934.2|1934}} | Murder in the Calais Coach | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | – |
scope="row"| Unfinished Portrait
| {{sort|1934.2|1934}} | {{sort|1934.3|1934}} | Unfinished Portrait | Other | As Mary Westmacott |
scope="row"| Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
| {{sort|1934.3|1934}} | {{sort|1935.1|1935}} | {{sort|Boomerang Clue|The Boomerang Clue}} | Mystery novel | – |
scope="row"| Three Act Tragedy
| {{sort|1935.1|1935}} | {{sort|1934.1|1934}} | Murder in Three Acts | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | – |
scope="row"| Death in the Clouds
| {{sort|1935.2|1935}} | {{sort|1935.2|1935}} | Death in the Air | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | – |
scope="row"| {{sort|A.B.C. Murders|The A.B.C. Murders}}
| {{sort|1936.1|1936}} | {{sort|1936.1|1936}} | {{sort|A.B.C. Murders|The A.B.C. Murders}} | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | – |
scope="row"| Murder in Mesopotamia
| {{sort|1936.2|1936}} | {{sort|1936.2|1936}} | Murder in Mesopotamia | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | – |
scope="row"| Cards on the Table
| {{sort|1936.3|1936}} | {{sort|1937.1|1937}} | Cards on the Table | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | – |
scope="row"| Dumb Witness
| {{sort|1937.1|1937}} | {{sort|1937.2|1937}} | Poirot Loses a Client | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | – |
scope="row"| Death on the Nile
| {{sort|1937.2|1937}} | {{sort|1938.2|1938}} | Death on the Nile | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | – |
scope="row"| Appointment with Death
| {{sort|1938.1|1938}} | {{sort|1938.1|1938}} | Appointment with Death | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | – |
scope="row"| Hercule Poirot's Christmas
| {{sort|1938.2|1938}} | {{sort|1939.2|1939}} | Murder for Christmas | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | Later US editions also published under the title A Holiday for Murder |
scope="row"| Murder Is Easy
| {{sort|1939|1939}} | {{sort|1939.1|1939}} | Easy to Kill | {{sort|Battle|Superintendent Battle}} | – |
scope="row"| And Then There Were None
| {{sort|1939.2|1939}} | {{sort|1941.4|1941}} | {{sort|Then There Were None|And Then There Were None}} | Mystery novel | Also published in the U.S. as Ten Little Indians |
scope="row"| Sad Cypress
| {{sort|1940.1|1940}} | {{sort|1940|1940}} | Sad Cypress | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | – |
scope="row"| One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
| {{sort|1940.2|1940}} | {{sort|1941.3|1941}} | {{sort|Patriotic Murders|The Patriotic Murders}} | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | Published in paperback in the US under the title An Overdose of Death |
scope="row"| Evil Under the Sun
| {{sort|1941.1|1941}} | {{sort|1941.1|1941}} | Evil Under the Sun | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | – |
scope="row"| N or M?
| {{sort|1941.2|1941}} | {{sort|1941.2|1941}} | N or M? | – |
scope="row"| {{sort|Body in the Library|The Body in the Library}}
| {{sort|1942.1|1942}} | {{sort|1942.1|1942}} | {{sort|Body in the Library|The Body in the Library}} | {{sort|Marple|Miss Marple}} | – |
scope="row"| Five Little Pigs
| {{sort|1942.2|1942}} | {{sort|1942.2|1942}} | Murder in Retrospect | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | – |
scope="row"| {{sort|Moving Finger|The Moving Finger}}
| {{sort|1943.3|1943}} | {{sort|1942|1942}} | {{sort|Moving Finger|The Moving Finger}} | {{sort|Marple|Miss Marple}} | – |
scope="row"| Towards Zero
| {{sort|1944.1|1944}} | {{sort|1944.3|1944}} | Towards Zero | {{sort|Battle|Superintendent Battle}} | – |
scope="row"| Absent in the Spring
| {{sort|1944.2|1944}} | {{sort|1944.1|1944}} | Absent in the Spring | Other | As Mary Westmacott |
scope="row"| Death Comes as the End
| {{sort|1945.1|1945}} | {{sort|1944.2|1944}} | Death Comes as the End | Mystery novel | – |
scope="row"| Sparkling Cyanide
| {{sort|1945.2|1945}} | {{sort|1945|1945}} | Remembered Death | {{sort|Race|Colonel Race}} | – |
scope="row"| {{sort|Hollow|The Hollow}}
| {{sort|1946|1946}} | {{sort|1946|1946}} | {{sort|Hollow|The Hollow}} | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | – |
scope="row"| Taken at the Flood
| {{sort|1948.1|1948}} | {{sort|1948.1|1948}} | There is a Tide . . . | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | – |
scope="row"| {{sort|Rose and the Yew Tree|The Rose and the Yew Tree}}
| {{sort|1948.2|1948}} | {{sort|1948.2|1948}} | {{sort|Rose and the Yew Tree|The Rose and the Yew Tree}} | Other | As Mary Westmacott |
scope="row"| Crooked House
| {{sort|1949|1949}} | {{sort|1949|1949}} | Crooked House | Mystery novel | – |
scope="row"| {{sort|Murder is Announced|A Murder Is Announced}}
| {{sort|1950|1950}} | {{sort|1950|1950}} | {{sort|Murder is Announced|A Murder Is Announced}} | {{sort|Marple|Miss Marple}} | – |
scope="row"| They Came to Baghdad
| {{sort|1951|1951}} | {{sort|1951|1951}} | They Came to Baghdad | Mystery novel | – |
scope="row"| Mrs McGinty's Dead
| {{sort|1952.1|1952}} | {{sort|1952.1|1952}} | Mrs McGinty's Dead | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | – |
scope="row"| They Do It with Mirrors
| {{sort|1952.2|1952}} | {{sort|1952.2|1952}} | Murder with Mirrors | {{sort|Marple|Miss Marple}} | – |
scope="row"| {{sort|Daughter's a Daughter|A Daughter's a Daughter}}
| {{sort|1952.3|1952}} | {{sort|1963.2|1963}} | {{sort|Daughter's a Daughter|A Daughter's a Daughter}} | Other | As Mary Westmacott |
scope="row"| After the Funeral
| {{sort|1953.1|1953}} | {{sort|1953|1953}} | Funerals are Fatal | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | – |
scope="row"| {{sort|Pocket Full of Rye|A Pocket Full of Rye}}
| {{sort|1953.2|1953}} | {{sort|1954|1954}} | {{sort|Pocket Full of Rye|A Pocket Full of Rye}} | {{sort|Marple|Miss Marple}} | – |
scope="row"| Destination Unknown
| {{sort|1954|1954}} | {{sort|1955.2|1955}} | So Many Steps to Death | Dodd, Mead & Co. Syndicated in US Newspapers as Destination X. | Mystery novel | – |
scope="row"| Hickory Dickory Dock
| {{sort|1955|1955}} | {{sort|1955.1|1955}} | Hickory Dickory Death | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | – |
scope="row"| Dead Man's Folly
| {{sort|1956.1|1956}} | {{sort|1956|1956}} | Dead Man's Folly | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | – |
scope="row"| {{sort|Burden|The Burden}}
| {{sort|1956.2|1956}} | {{sort|1963.1|1963}} | {{sort|Burden|The Burden}} | Other | As Mary Westmacott |
scope="row"| 4.50 from Paddington
| {{sort|1957|1957}} | {{sort|1957|1957}} | What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw! | {{sort|Marple|Miss Marple}} | – |
scope="row"| Ordeal by Innocence
| {{sort|1958|1958}} | {{sort|1959|1959}} | Ordeal by Innocence | Mystery novel | – |
scope="row"| Cat Among the Pigeons
| {{sort|1959|1959}} | {{sort|1960|1960}} | Cat Among the Pigeons | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | – |
scope="row"| {{sort|Pale Horse|The Pale Horse}}
| {{sort|1961|1961}} | {{sort|1962|1962}} | {{sort|Pale Horse|The Pale Horse}} | Mystery novel | – |
scope="row"| {{sort|Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side|The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side}}
| {{sort|1962|1962}} | {{sort|1963.3|1963}} | {{sort|Mirror Crack'd|The Mirror Crack'd}} | {{sort|Marple|Miss Marple}} | – |
scope="row"| {{sort|Clocks|The Clocks}}
| {{sort|1963|1963}} | {{sort|1964|1964}} | {{sort|Clocks|The Clocks}} | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | – |
scope="row"| {{sort|Caribbean Mystery|A Caribbean Mystery}}
| {{sort|1964|1964}} | {{sort|1965.2|1965}} | {{sort|Caribbean Mystery|A Caribbean Mystery}} | {{sort|Marple|Miss Marple}} | – |
scope="row"| {{sort|Bertram's Hotel|At Bertram's Hotel}}
| {{sort|1965|1965}} | {{sort|1965.1|1965}} | {{sort|Bertram's Hotel|At Bertram's Hotel}} | {{sort|Marple|Miss Marple}} | – |
scope="row"| Third Girl
| {{sort|1966|1966}} | {{sort|1967|1967}} | Third Girl | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | – |
scope="row"| Endless Night
| {{sort|1967|1967}} | {{sort|1968.1|1968}} | Endless Night | Mystery novel | – |
scope="row"| By the Pricking of My Thumbs
| {{sort|1968|1968}} | {{sort|1968.2|1968}} | By the Pricking of My Thumbs | – |
scope="row"| Hallowe'en Party
| {{sort|1969|1969}} | {{sort|1969|1969}} | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | Also published as A Haunting in Venice, as a tie-in with the movie of the same name{{Cite web|url=https://www.harpercollins.com/products/a-haunting-in-venice-movie-tie-in-agatha-christie?variant=41025880883234|title=A Haunting in Venice [Movie Tie-in] – HarperCollins|access-date=5 November 2023|archive-date=5 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231105212434/https://www.harpercollins.com/products/a-haunting-in-venice-movie-tie-in-agatha-christie?variant=41025880883234|url-status=live}} |
scope="row"| Passenger to Frankfurt
| {{sort|1970|1970}} | {{sort|1970|1970}} | Mystery novel | – |
scope="row"| Nemesis
| {{sort|1971|1971}} | {{sort|1971|1971}} | Nemesis | {{sort|Marple|Miss Marple}} | – |
scope="row"| Elephants Can Remember
| {{sort|1972|1972}} | {{sort|1972|1972}} | Elephants Can Remember | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | – |
scope="row"| Postern of Fate
| {{sort|1973|1973}} | {{sort|1973|1973}} | Postern of Fate | – |
scope="row"| Curtain
| {{sort|1975|1975}} | {{sort|1975|1975}} | Curtain | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | Poirot's last case, written in the 1940s.{{sfn|Fitzgibbon|1980|p=45}} |
scope="row"| Sleeping Murder
| {{sort|1976|1976}} | {{sort|1976|1976}} | Sleeping Murder | {{sort|Marple|Miss Marple}} | Miss Marple's last case, written in the 1940s.{{sfn|Zemboy|2008|p=144}} |
scope="row"| Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly
| {{sort|2014|2014}} | | | | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} | Written in 1954 to raise money for a church.{{Cite web | url=http://www.agathachristie.com/stories/hercule-poirot-and-the-greenshore-folly | title=Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly | access-date=22 February 2017 | archive-date=22 September 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922114841/https://www.agathachristie.com/stories/hercule-poirot-and-the-greenshore-folly | url-status=live }} Later reworked into Dead Man's Folly (see above). |
Short fiction collections
File:Agatha Christie as a child No 1.jpg
Many of Christie's stories first appeared in journals, newspapers and magazines.{{sfn|Fitzgibbon|1980|p=83}} This list consists of the published collections of stories, in chronological order by UK publication date, even when the book was published first in the US or serialised in a magazine in advance of publication in book form.
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|+ Christie's short-story collections |
scope="col" style="width: 13em;"| UK title{{sfn|Dalby|2004|pp=32–38}}{{sfn|Keating|1988|pp=68–71}}
! scope="col"| Year of UK ! scope="col"| UK publisher ! scope="col"| US title ! scope="col"| Year of US ! scope="col"| US publisher ! scope="col"| Series |
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scope="row" | Poirot Investigates
| {{sort|1924|1924}} | Poirot Investigates | {{sort|1925|1925}} | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} |
scope="row" | Partners in Crime
| {{sort|1929.1|1929}} | Partners in Crime | {{sort|1929|1929}} |
scope="row" | {{sort|Mysterious Mr Quin|The Mysterious Mr Quin}}
| {{sort|1930|1930}} | {{sort|Mysterious Mr Quin|The Mysterious Mr Quin}} | {{sort|1930|1930}} | {{sort|Quin|Harley Quin}} |
scope="row" | {{sort|Thirteen Problems|The Thirteen Problems}}{{efn|An abridged edition was published as The Mystery of the Blue Geraniums, and Other Tuesday Club Murders by Bantam Books in 1940.{{sfn|Dalby|2004|pp=32–38}}}}
| {{sort|1932|1932}} | {{sort|Tuesday Club Murders|The Tuesday Club Murders}} | {{sort|1933|1933}} | {{sort|Marple|Miss Marple}} |
scope="row" | {{sort|Hound of Death|The Hound of Death}}
| {{sort|1933|1933}} | – | – | – | – |
scope="row" | {{sort|Listerdale Mystery|The Listerdale Mystery}}
| {{sort|1934.1|1934}} | – | – | – | – |
scope="row" | Parker Pyne Investigates
| {{sort|1934.2|1934}} | Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective | {{sort|1934|1934}} | {{sort|Pyne|Parker Pyne}} |
scope="row" | Murder in the Mews
| {{sort|1937|1937}} | Dead Man's Mirror | {{sort|1937|1937}} | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} |
scope="row" | –
| – | – | {{sort|Regatta Mystery|The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories}} | {{sort|1939|1939}} | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}}, Parker Pyne & Miss Marple |
scope="row" | {{sort|Crime in Cabin 66|The Crime in Cabin 66}}
| {{sort|1943.1|1943}} | Vallencey | {{sort|Mystery of the Crime in Cabin 66|The Mystery of the Crime in Cabin 66}} | {{sort|1943.1|1943}} | Also called Problem at Sea |
scope="row" | {{sort|Mystery of the Baghdad Chest|The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest}}
| {{sort|1943.2|1943}} | {{sort|Mystery of the Baghdad Chest|The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest}} | {{sort|1943.2|1943}} | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} |
scope="row" | Poirot and the Regatta Mystery
| {{sort|1943.3|1943}} | Poirot and the Regatta Mystery | {{sort|1943.3|1943}} | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} |
scope="row" | Poirot on Holiday
| {{sort|1943.4|1943}} | Todd | – | – | – | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} |
scope="row" | Problem at Pollensa Bay and The Christmas Adventure
| {{sort|1943.5|1943}} | Todd | – | – | – | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} |
scope="row" | {{sort|Veiled Lady|The Veiled Lady and The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest}}
| {{sort|1944|1944}} | Todd | – | – | – | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} |
scope="row" | Poirot Knows the Murderer
| {{sort|1946|1946}} | Todd | – | – | – | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} |
scope="row" | {{sort|Labours of Hercules|The Labours of Hercules}}
| {{sort|1947|1947}} | {{sort|Labors of Hercules|The Labors of Hercules: New Adventures in Crime by Hercule Poirot}} | {{sort|1947|1947}} | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} |
scope="row" | –
| – | – | {{sort|Witness for the Prosecution|The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories}} | {{sort|1948|1948}} | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} and others |
–
| – | – | {{sort|Under Dog and Other Stories|The Under Dog and Other Stories}} | {{sort|1951|1951}} | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} |
scope="row" | –
| – | – | {{sort|Mousetrap and Other|Three Blind Mice and Other Stories}}{{efn|Republished in 1960 as The Mousetrap and Other Stories.{{sfn|Dalby|2004|pp=32–38}}}} | {{sort|1950|1950}} | – |
scope="row" | {{sort|Adventure of the Christmas Pudding|The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding}}
| {{sort|1960|1960}} | – | – | – | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}}, Miss Marple and others |
scope="row" | –
| – | – | Double Sin and Other Stories | {{sort|1961.1|1961}} | – |
scope="row" | 13 for Luck! A Selection of Mystery Stories for Young Readers
| {{sort|1966|1966}} | 13 for Luck! A Selection of Mystery Stories for Young Readers | {{sort|1961.2|1961}} | – |
scope="row" | –
| – | – | {{sort|1965|1965}} | – |
scope="row" | –
| – | – | 13 Clues for Miss Marple | {{sort|1966|1966}} | {{sort|Marple|Miss Marple}} |
scope="row" | –
| – | – | {{sort|Golden Ball and Other Stories|The Golden Ball and Other Stories}} | {{sort|1971|1971}} | – |
scope="row" | Poirot's Early Cases
| {{sort|1974.1|1974}} | Hercule Poirot's Early Cases | {{sort|1974|1974}} | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} |
scope="row" | Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories
| {{sort|1979|1979}} | – | – | – | {{sort|Marple|Miss Marple}} and others |
scope="row" | Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories
| {{sort|1991|1991}} | – | – | – | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}}, Parker Pyne & Harley Quin and others |
scope="row" | While the Light Lasts and Other Stories
| {{sort|1997|1997}} | – | – | – | – |
scope="row" | Miss Marple Complete Short Stories
| 1997 | HarperCollins | - | {{sort|1997|1997}} | - | – |
scope="row" | The Big Four (short-story version){{Cite web|url=https://www.harpercollins.com.au/9780008165000/the-big-four|title=The Big Four|website=HarperCollins Australia|access-date=16 February 2024|archive-date=16 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240216030401/https://www.harpercollins.com.au/9780008165000/the-big-four/|url-status=live}}
| {{sort|2017|2017}} | – | – | – | {{sort|Poirot|Hercule Poirot}} |
=List of short stories=
A total of 166 stories have been written and published in 15 collections in the US and the UK.{{cite web| title=Agatha Christie reading order with dates| url=http://uk.agathachristie.com/attachments/assets/Reading_order_with_dates.pdf| publisher=Agatha Christie Official UK Site| access-date=23 September 2013| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110919221400/http://uk.agathachristie.com/attachments/assets/Reading_order_with_dates.pdf| archive-date=19 September 2011| df=dmy-all}} 165 stories were published in the UK, with the omission of "Three Blind Mice." The 12 original short stories that were used for The Big Four were published in the UK in 2017. 154 other stories were published in the US. Some stories were published under different names in the US collections.
Four short stories, including "The Submarine Plans," "Christmas Adventure," "The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest," and "The Second Gong," were expanded into longer stories by Christie (respectively "The Incredible Theft," "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding," "The Mystery of the Spanish Chest," and "Dead Man's Mirror").
==UK collections==
This is a list of 166 stories sorted by the 15 UK collections in chronological order.
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|+ UK collections !style="width:20%" scope=col|UK collection !style="width:40%" scope=col|UK title !style="width:40%" scope=col|US collection | |
rowspan="11" style="text-align:center" scope="row"|Poirot Investigates (11){{sfn|Fitzgibbon|1980|p=83}}
||"The Adventure of 'The Western Star'"||rowspan="11"|Poirot Investigates (14)—also includes "The Veiled Lady", "The Lost Mine", and "The Chocolate Box"{{sfn|Fitzgibbon|1980|p=83}} | |
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"The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor" | |
"The Adventure of the Cheap Flat" | |
"The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge" | |
"The Million Dollar Bond Robbery" | |
"The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb" | |
"The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan" | |
"The Kidnapped Prime Minister" | |
"The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim" | |
"The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman" | |
"The Case of the Missing Will" | |
rowspan="15" style="text-align:center" scope=row|Partners in Crime (15){{sfn|Fitzgibbon|1980|pp=91–92}}
||"A Fairy in the Flat"||rowspan="15"|Partners in Crime{{sfn|Fitzgibbon|1980|pp=91–92}} | |
"A Pot of Tea" | |
"The Affair of the Pink Pearl" | |
"The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger" | |
"Finessing the King/The Gentleman Dressed in Newspaper" | |
"The Case of the Missing Lady" | |
"Blindman's Buff" | |
"The Man in the Mist" | |
"The Crackler" | |
"The Sunningdale Mystery" | |
"The House of Lurking Death" | |
"The Unbreakable Alibi" | |
"The Clergyman's Daughter/The Red House" | |
"The Ambassador's Boots" | |
"The Man Who Was No. 16" | |
rowspan="12" style="text-align:center" scope="row"|The Mysterious Mr Quin (12){{sfn|Fitzgibbon|1980|p=93}}
||"The Coming of Mr. Quin"||rowspan="12"|The Mysterious Mr Quin{{sfn|Fitzgibbon|1980|p=93}} | |
"The Shadow on the Glass" | |
"At the 'Bells and Motley'" | |
"The Sign in the Sky" | |
"The Soul of the Croupier" | |
"The Man from the Sea" | |
"The Voice in the Dark" | |
"The Face of Helen" | |
"The Dead Harlequin" | |
"The Bird with the Broken Wing" | |
"The World's End" | |
"Harlequin's Lane" | |
rowspan="13" style="text-align:center" scope="row"|The Thirteen Problems (13){{sfn|Fitzgibbon|1980|pp=89–90}}
||"The Tuesday Night Club"||rowspan="13"|The Tuesday Club Murders{{sfn|Fitzgibbon|1980|pp=89–90}} | |
"The Idol House of Astarte" | |
"Ingots of Gold" | |
"The Blood-Stained Pavement" | |
"Motive v. Opportunity" | |
"The Thumb Mark of St. Peter" | |
"The Blue Geranium" | |
"The Companion" | |
"The Four Suspects" | |
"A Christmas Tragedy" | |
"The Herb of Death" | |
"The Affair at the Bungalow" | |
"Death by Drowning" | |
rowspan="12" style="text-align:center" scope="row"|The Hound of Death (12){{sfn|Fitzgibbon|1980|p=94}}
||"The Hound of Death"||The Golden Ball and Other Stories{{sfn|Fitzgibbon|1980|p=85}} | |
"The Red Signal" | rowspan="2"|The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories{{sfn|Fitzgibbon|1980|pp=86–87}} |
"The Fourth Man" | |
"The Gypsy" | rowspan="2"|The Golden Ball and Other Stories |
"The Lamp" | |
"Wireless" | The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories under the name "Where There's a Will" |
"The Witness for the Prosecution" | rowspan="2"|The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories |
"The Mystery of the Blue Jar" | |
"The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael" | The Golden Ball and Other Stories under the name "The Strange Case of Sir Andrew Carmichael" |
"The Call of Wings" | The Golden Ball and Other Stories |
"The Last Seance" | Double Sin and Other Stories{{sfn|Fitzgibbon|1980|p=88}} |
"S.O.S." | The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories |
rowspan="12" style="text-align:center" scope="row"|The Listerdale Mystery (12){{sfn|Fitzgibbon|1980|p=94}}
||"The Listerdale Mystery"||The Golden Ball and Other Stories | |
"Philomel Cottage" | The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories |
"The Girl in the Train" | The Golden Ball and Other Stories |
"Sing a Song of Sixpence" | The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories |
"The Manhood of Edward Robinson" | The Golden Ball and Other Stories |
"Accident" | The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories |
"Jane in Search of a Job" | rowspan="2"|The Golden Ball and Other Stories |
"A Fruitful Sunday" | |
"Mr. Eastwood's Adventure" | The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories |
"The Golden Ball" | rowspan="3"|The Golden Ball and Other Stories |
"The Rajah's Emerald" | |
"Swan Song" | |
rowspan="12" style="text-align:center" scope="row"|Parker Pyne Investigates (12){{sfn|Fitzgibbon|1980|p=92}}
||"The Case of the Middle-aged Wife"||rowspan="12"|Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective{{sfn|Fitzgibbon|1980|p=92}} | |
"The Case of the Discontented Soldier" | |
"The Case of the Distressed Lady" | |
"The Case of the Discontented Husband" | |
"The Case of the City Clerk" | |
"The Case of the Rich Woman" | |
"Have You Got Everything You Want?" | |
"The Gate of Baghdad" | |
"The House at Shiraz" | |
"The Pearl of Price" | |
"Death on the Nile" | |
"The Oracle at Delphi" | |
rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" scope="row"|Murder in the Mews (4){{sfn|Fitzgibbon|1980|p=87}}
||"Murder in the Mews"||rowspan="4"|Dead Man's Mirror{{sfn|Fitzgibbon|1980|p=85}} | |
"The Incredible Theft" | |
"Dead Man's Mirror" | |
"Triangle at Rhodes" | |
rowspan="12" style="text-align:center" scope="row"|The Labours of Hercules (12){{sfn|Fitzgibbon|1980|p=86}}
||"The Nemean Lion"||rowspan="12"|The Labors of Hercules{{sfn|Fitzgibbon|1980|p=86}} | |
"The Lernaean Hydra" | |
"The Arcadian Deer" | |
"The Erymanthian Boar" | |
"The Augean Stables" | |
"The Stymphalean Birds" | |
"The Cretan Bull" | |
"The Horse of Diomedes" | |
"The Girdle of Hippolyta" | |
"The Flock of Geryon" | |
"The Apples of the Hesperides" | |
"The Capture of Cerberus" | |
rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" scope="row"|The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (6){{sfn|Fitzgibbon|1980|p=88}}
||"The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding"||Double Sin and Other Stories under the name "The Theft of the Royal Ruby" | |
"The Mystery of the Spanish Chest" | The Harlequin Tea Set |
"The Under Dog" | The Under Dog and Other Stories |
"Four and Twenty Blackbirds" | Three Blind Mice and Other Stories{{sfn|Fitzgibbon|1980|p=87}} |
"The Dream" | The Regatta Mystery{{sfn|Fitzgibbon|1980|p=85}} |
"Greenshaw's Folly" | Double Sin and Other Stories |
rowspan="18" style="text-align:center" scope="row"|Poirot's Early Cases (18){{sfn|Fitzgibbon|1980|p=89}}
||"The Affair at the Victory Ball"||rowspan="3"|The Under Dog and Other Stories | |
"The Adventure of the Clapham Cook" | |
"The Cornish Mystery" | |
"The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly" | Three Blind Mice and Other Stories |
"The Double Clue" | Double Sin and Other Stories |
"The King of Clubs" | rowspan="2"|The Under Dog and Other Stories |
"The Lemesurier Inheritance" | |
"The Lost Mine" | Poirot Investigates (US edition only) |
"The Plymouth Express" | The Under Dog and Other Stories |
"The Chocolate Box" | Poirot Investigates (US edition only) |
"The Submarine Plans" | The Under Dog and Other Stories |
"The Third-Floor Flat" | Three Blind Mice and Other Stories |
"Double Sin" | Double Sin and Other Stories |
"The Market Basing Mystery" | The Under Dog and Other Stories |
"Wasps’ Nest" | Double Sin and Other Stories |
"The Veiled Lady" | Poirot Investigates (US edition only) |
"Problem at Sea" | rowspan="2"|The Regatta Mystery |
"How Does Your Garden Grow?" | |
rowspan="8" style="text-align:center" scope="row"|Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories (8)
||"Sanctuary"||Double Sin and Other Stories | |
"Strange Jest" | rowspan="4"|Three Blind Mice and Other Stories |
"Tape-Measure Murder" | |
"The Case of the Caretaker" | |
"The Case of the Perfect Maid" | |
"Miss Marple Tells a Story" | The Regatta Mystery |
"The Dressmaker's Doll" | Double Sin and Other Stories |
"In a Glass Darkly" | The Regatta Mystery |
rowspan="8" style="text-align:center" scope="row"|Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (8)
||"Problem at Pollensa Bay"||The Regatta Mystery | |
"The Second Gong" | The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories |
"Yellow Iris" | The Regatta Mystery |
"The Harlequin Tea Set" | The Harlequin Tea Set |
"The Regatta Mystery" | The Regatta Mystery |
"The Love Detectives" | Three Blind Mice and Other Stories |
"Next to a Dog" | rowspan="2"|The Golden Ball and Other Stories |
"Magnolia Blossom" | |
rowspan="9" style="text-align:center" scope="row"|While the Light Lasts and Other Stories (9)
||"The House of Dreams"||rowspan="3"|The Harlequin Tea Set | |
"The Actress" | |
"The Edge" | |
"Christmas Adventure" | Midwinter Murder{{cite web |title=MIDWINTER MURDER: FIRESIDE MYSTERIES FROM THE QUEEN OF CRIME |url=https://www.agathachristie.com/en/stories/midwinter-murder |website=Agatha Christie |access-date=12 December 2023 |archive-date=12 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231212045758/https://www.agathachristie.com/en/stories/midwinter-murder |url-status=live }} |
"The Lonely God" | rowspan="3"|The Harlequin Tea Set |
"Manx Gold" | |
"Within A Wall" | |
"The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest" | The Regatta Mystery |
"While the Light Lasts" | The Harlequin Tea Set |
rowspan="12" style="text-align:center" scope="row"|The Big Four – The Detective Club (short story version) (12)
||"The Unexpected Guest"||rowspan="12"|As yet unpublished in the US | |
"The Adventure of the Dartmoor Bungalow" | |
"The Lady on the Stairs" | |
"The Radium Thieves" | |
"In the House of the Enemy" | |
"The Yellow Jasmine Mystery" | |
"The Chess Problem" | |
"The Baited Trap" | |
"The Adventure of the Peroxide Blonde" | |
"The Terrible Catastrophe" | |
"The Dying Chinaman" | |
"The Crag in the Dolomites" | |
scope="row"|Never published in a UK collection
||"Three Blind Mice"||Three Blind Mice and Other Stories | |
scope="row"|The Last Séance: Tales of the Supernatural
||"The Wife of the Kenite"||The Last Séance: Tales of the Supernatural |
==US collections==
There are 14 US collections, excluding Poirot's Early Cases, since all of its eighteen stories appeared in earlier collections, and The Last Séance: Tales of the Supernatural and Midwinter Murder, which each include only one previously unavailable Christie story.
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|+ US collections !scope=col|Year !scope=col|US collection !scope=col|Number of stories | ||
1925 | Poirot Investigates | 14 |
1929 | Partners in Crime | 15 |
1930 | The Mysterious Mr Quin | 12 |
1932 | The Tuesday Club Murders | 13 |
1934 | Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective | 12 |
1937 | Dead Man's Mirror | 4 |
1939 | The Regatta Mystery | 9 |
1947 | The Labors of Hercules | 12 |
1948 | The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories | 11 |
1950 | Three Blind Mice and Other Stories | 9 |
1951 | The Under Dog and Other Stories | 9 |
1961 | Double Sin and Other Stories | 8 |
1971 | The Golden Ball and Other Stories | 15 |
1997 | The Harlequin Tea Set | 9 |
=Collaborative Prose Fiction=
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|+ Collaborative Prose Fiction by Christie |
scope="col" | Title{{sfn|Dalby|2004|p=37}}
! scope="col" | Year of first ! scope="col" | First edition publisher ! scope="col" | Category ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes |
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scope="row" |Ask a Policeman
| {{sort|1933|1933}} | Novel | Part 1 of The Detection Club trilogy |
scope="row" | The Scoop and Behind the Screen
| {{sort|1983|1983}} | Mystery novellas | With members of The Detection Club |
scope="row" | {{sort|Times of London Anthology of Detective Stories|The Times of London Anthology of Detective Stories}}
| {{sort|1973.2|1973}} | John Day | Mystery stories | Editor, with others |
Miscellany
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|+ Miscellaneous works by Christie |
scope="col" | Title{{sfn|Dalby|2004|p=37}}
! scope="col" | Year of first ! scope="col" | First edition publisher ! scope="col" | Category ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes |
---|
scope="row" | {{sort|Road of Dreams|The Road of Dreams}}
| {{sort|1924|1924}} | Poetry | |
scope="row" | Come, Tell Me How You Live
| {{sort|1946|1946}} | Autobiographical travel book | Under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan |
scope="row" | Star Over Bethlehem
| {{sort|1965|1965}} | Poetry and short stories | Under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan |
scope="row" | Poems
| {{sort|1973.1|1973}} | Poetry | |
scope="row" | Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
| {{sort|1977|1977}} | Autobiography | |
scope="row" | The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery
| {{sort|2012|2012}} | | Letters | |
Broadcast works
File:Agatha Christie 58 Sheffield Terrace blue plaque.jpg
Several of Christie's works have been adapted for stage and screen; the following is a list of only those works written by her on her own or as a member of a group.{{sfn|Fitzgibbon|1980|pp=98–99}}
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|+ Broadcast works of Christie |
scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | First performance ! scope="col" | Date of first performance ! scope="col" | Type of work ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{Tooltip|Ref.|Reference}} |
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scope="row" | Behind The Screen
| {{sort|1930|14 June 1930}} | Radio play | Written together with Hugh Walpole, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley, E. C. Bentley and Ronald Knox of The Detection Club. |
scope="row" | {{sort|Scoop|The Scoop}}
| {{sort|1931|10 January 1931}} | Radio play | Written together with Dorothy L. Sayers, E. C. Bentley, Anthony Berkeley, Freeman Wills Crofts and Clemence Dane of The Detection Club. |
scope="row" | Wasp's Nest
| {{sort|1937|18 June 1937}} | Television play | |
scope="row" | {{sort|Yellow Iris|The Yellow Iris}}
| {{sort|1937|2 November 1937}} | Radio play | |
scope="row" | Three Blind Mice
| {{sort|1947|30 May 1947}} | Radio play | |
scope="row" | Butter in a Lordly Dish
| {{sort|1948|13 January 1948}} | Radio play | |
scope="row" | Personal Call
| {{sort|1954|31 May 1954}} | Radio play | |
Stage works
The definitive study of Agatha Christie's stage plays is Curtain Up: Agatha Christie, a Life in Theatre by Julius Green.
File:St Martin's Theatre, Covent Garden, London -plaque-16March2010.jpg for The Mousetrap at St Martin's Theatre, London]]
File:And Then There Were None 1945.jpg, Barry Fitzgerald, Richard Haydn, Mischa Auer and Walter Huston in the 1945 film And Then There Were None, which was based on the 1943 play Ten Little Niggers.]]
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|+ Stage works of Christie |
scope="col" | Title{{sfn|Keating|1988|p=71}}
! scope="col" | Location of first performance (London, unless otherwise stated) ! scope="col" | Date of first performance ! scope="col" | Year of ! scope="col" | Publisher ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes |
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scope="row" | Black Coffee
| {{sort|1930|8 December 1930}} | {{sort|1934|1934}} | Ashley | Novelised by Charles Osborne in 1998 as Black Coffee |
scope="row" | Ten Little Niggers
| {{sort|1943|17 October 1943}} | {{sort|1944|1944}} | Based on the 1939 novel Ten Little Niggers; also known as Ten Little Indians and And Then There Were None. |
scope="row" | Appointment with Death
| {{sort|1945|31 March 1945}} | {{sort|1945|1945}} | Based on the 1938 novel Appointment with Death |
scope="row" | Murder on the Nile
| {{sort|1945|1945}} | {{sort|1948|1948}} | Based on the 1937 novel Death on the Nile; a revised version—published as Murder on the Nile—was produced at Ambassadors Theatre on 19 March 1946 |
scope="row" | {{sort|Hollow|The Hollow}}
| {{sort|1951|7 June 1951}} | {{sort|1952|1952}} | Based on the 1946 novel The Hollow. |
scope="row" | {{sort|Mousetrap|The Mousetrap}}
| {{sort|1952|25 November 1952}} | {{sort|1954|1954}} | {{As of|2024}} the play was still running.{{cite web |title=Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap |url=https://uk.the-mousetrap.co.uk/ |access-date=29 October 2019 |archive-date=28 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230928114115/https://uk.the-mousetrap.co.uk/ |url-status=live }} In February 2024 the London run exceeded 29,500 performances. |
scope="row" | Witness for the Prosecution
| {{sort|1953|28 October 1953}} | {{sort|1954|1954}} | Based upon the 1925 short story "The Witness for the Prosecution" |
scope="row" | Spider's Web
| {{sort|1954|14 December 1954}} | {{sort|1957|1957}} | Novelised by Charles Osborne in 2000 as Spider's Web |
scope="row" | Towards Zero
| {{sort|1956|4 September 1956}} | {{sort|1957|1957}} | With Gerald Verner; based on the novel Towards Zero |
scope="row" | Verdict
| {{sort|1958|22 May 1958}} | {{sort|1958|1958}} | |
scope="row" | {{sort|Unexpected Guest|The Unexpected Guest}}
| {{sort|1958|12 August 1958}} | {{sort|1958|1958}} | Novelised by Charles Osborne in 1999 as The Unexpected Guest |
scope="row" | Go Back for Murder
| {{sort|1960|23 March 1960}} | {{sort|1960|1960}} | Based on the novel Five Little Pigs |
scope="row" | Rule of Three
| {{sort|1962|20 December 1962}} | {{sort|1963|1963}} | Contains three works: Afternoon at the Sea-side, The Patient and The Rats |
scope="row" | Fiddlers Three
| Kings Theatre, Southsea | {{sort|1971|7 June 1971}} | | | |
scope="row" | Akhnaton
| New York | {{sort|1979|1979}} | {{sort|1973|1973}} | First produced under the title Akhnaton and Nefertiti. |
scope="row" | Chimneys
| Pitlochry Festival Theatre Company | {{sort|2006|1 June 2006}} | | | Unpublished. Written in 1931 and forgotten until the early 1980s when the script was discovered in the British Library Archive. Its existence was suppressed for 20 years at the request of Christie's daughter, but eventually came to light when it was discovered by another researcher who was unaware of the request. The play was unperformed until 2006. Based on the 1925 novel The Secret of Chimneys. |
scope="row" | The Lie
| Paignton, Devon | {{sort|2018|15 September 2018}} | | |Unpublished. Written in the 1920s and discovered by Julius Green in the Christie archive while doing research for Curtain Up.{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/agatha-christie-play-the-lie-tells-why-the-lady-vanished-939jvphlz|work=The Times|date=26 August 2020|last1=Sanderson|first1=David|last2=Davis|first2=Clive|title=Agatha Christie play The Lie tells why the lady vanished|access-date=21 October 2020|archive-date=26 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026043249/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/agatha-christie-play-the-lie-tells-why-the-lady-vanished-939jvphlz|url-status=live}}{{subscription required}}{{cite web|url=https://www.iacf-uk.org/activities/lie-agatha-christie/|publisher=International Agatha Christie Festival|access-date=21 October 2020|title=The Lie by Agatha Christie|archive-date=23 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023033551/https://www.iacf-uk.org/activities/lie-agatha-christie/|url-status=dead}} |
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|+ other UNPUBLISHED Scripts of Christie ! scope="row" | The Conqueror | One act play |
scope="row" | Teddy Bear
| One act play |
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scope="row" | Eugenia and Eugenics
| One act play |
scope="row" | The Clutching Hand
| Full-length play. Adapted from: The Exploits of Elaine, a novel by Arthur B. Reeve (1915) |
scope="row" | The Last Seance
| One act play |
scope="row" | Ten Years
| One act play |
scope="row" | Marmalade Moon
| One act play |
scope="row" | Someone at the Window
| Full-length play. Adapted from Agatha Christie's short story "The Dead Harlequin" |
scope="row" | Miss. Perry
| Full-length play |
scope="row" | Bleak House
| Full-length movie script. Adapted from the Charles Dickens novel |
Notes and references
=Notes=
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=References=
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{{cite web
|url = http://www.the-mousetrap.co.uk
|title = The Mousetrap
|publisher = Mousetrap Productions Limited
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