Agatha Christie was an English murder mystery novel writer. She was born in Ashfield, Torquay to a wealthy family. Hers was a happy childhood, until her father died in 1901. Her father’s death plunged the family into financial strain, especially Agatha who was only 11 at the time. Although she started writing plays and songs at an early age, her true passion lay in writing stories, and in her lifetime, she wrote a remarkable number of them. Agatha died in 1976 at the age of 85.
Order of Hercule Poirot Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Mysterious Affair At Styles | 1920 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Murder on the Links | 1923 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | 1926 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Big Four | 1927 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Mystery of the Blue Train | 1928 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Black Coffee (Short Story) | 1930 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Peril at End House | 1932 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Lord Edgware Dies | 1933 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Three Act Tragedy | 1934 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Murder on the Orient Express / Murder in the Calais Coach | 1934 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Death in the Clouds | 1935 | Description / Buy | |
12 | The A.B.C. Murders | 1936 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Murder in Mesopotamia | 1936 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Cards on the Table | 1936 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Dumb Witness | 1937 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Death on the Nile | 1937 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Appointment with Death | 1938 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Hercule Poirot's Christmas | 1938 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Sad Cypress | 1940 | Description / Buy | |
20 | One, Two, Buckle My Shoe | 1940 | Description / Buy | |
21 | Evil Under the Sun | 1941 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Five Little Pigs | 1942 | Description / Buy | |
23 | The Hollow | 1946 | Description / Buy | |
24 | Taken at the Flood | 1948 | Description / Buy | |
25 | Mrs. McGinty's Dead | 1952 | Description / Buy | |
26 | After the Funeral | 1953 | Description / Buy | |
27 | Hickory Dickory Dock | 1955 | Description / Buy | |
28 | Dead Man's Folly | 1956 | Description / Buy | |
29 | Cat Among the Pigeons | 1959 | Description / Buy | |
30 | The Clocks | 1963 | Description / Buy | |
31 | Third Girl | 1966 | Description / Buy | |
32 | Hallowe'en Party | 1969 | Description / Buy | |
33 | Elephants Can Remember | 1972 | Description / Buy | |
34 | Curtain | 1975 | Description / Buy | |
35 | Curtain | 1975 | Description / Buy | |
36 | The Monogram Murders | 2014 | Description / Buy |
Order of Hercule Poirot Collections
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Labors of Hercules | 1947 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Witness for the Prosecution | 1948 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Under Dog and Other Stories | 1951 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Poirot's Early Cases | 1974 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Hercule Poirot's Casebook | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Double Clue | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The Grey Cells of Mr. Poirot | 2019 | Description / Buy |
Order of Hercule Poirot Short Stories/Novellas
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan (Short Story) | 1923 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor (Short Story) | 1923 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Affair at the Victory Ball (Short Story) | 1923 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Adventure of the Western Star (Short Story) | 1923 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb (Short Story) | 1923 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Afternoon At The Seaside (Short Story) | 1962 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Patient (Short Story) | 1962 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The Witness for the Prosecution (Short Story) | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Four and Twenty Blackbirds (Short Story) | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The Million Dollar Bond Robbery (Short Story) | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb (Short Story) | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
12 | The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Market Basing Mystery, The (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
14 | The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
15 | The Cornish Mystery (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Problem at Sea (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
17 | The Under Dog (Short Story) | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
18 | The Case of the Missing Will (Short Story) | 2019 | Description / Buy |
Order of Miss Marple Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Murder at the Vicarage | 1930 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Body in the Library | 1942 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Moving Finger | 1942 | Description / Buy | |
4 | A Murder is Announced | 1950 | Description / Buy | |
5 | They Do It With Mirrors | 1952 | Description / Buy | |
6 | A Pocket Full of Rye | 1953 | Description / Buy | |
7 | 4:50 From Paddington | 1957 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side | 1962 | Description / Buy | |
9 | A Caribbean Mystery | 1964 | Description / Buy | |
10 | At Bertram's Hotel | 1965 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Nemesis | 1971 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Sleeping Murder | 1976 | Description / Buy |
Order of Miss Marple Collections
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Thirteen Problems | 1932 | Description / Buy | |
2 | 13 Clues for Miss Marple | 1966 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Miss Marple's Final Cases | 1979 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories | 1985 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Miss Marple Short Stories | 2005 | Description / Buy |
Order of Tommy and Tuppence Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Secret Adversary (Short Story) | 1922 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Partners in Crime | 1929 | Description / Buy | |
3 | N or M? | 1941 | Description / Buy | |
4 | By the Pricking of My Thumbs | 1968 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Postern of Fate | 1973 | Description / Buy |
Order of Tommy & Tuppence Short Stories/Novellas
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Affair of the Pink Pearl (Short Story) | 1929 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The House of Lurking Death (Short Story) | 1995 | Description / Buy |
Order of Superintendent Battle Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Secret of Chimneys | 1925 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Seven Dials Mystery | 1929 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Cards on the Table | 1936 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Murder is Easy / Easy To Kill | 1939 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Towards Zero | 1944 | Description / Buy |
Order of Agatha Christie Plays
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Mousetrap | 1952 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Spider's Web | 1954 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Verdict | 1958 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Rats | 1962 | Description / Buy |
Order of Colonel Race Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Man in the Brown Suit | 1924 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Man in the Brown Suit & 4 | 1924 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Man in the Brown Suit & 4 | 1924 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Cards On the Table | 1936 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Death on the Nile | 1937 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Sparkling Cyanide | 1944 | Description / Buy |
Order of Harley Quin Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Mysterious Mr.Quin | 1930 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Love Detectives (Short Story) | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Coming of Mr. Quin (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy |
Order of Agatha Christie Standalone Novels
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Man in the Brown Suit | 1924 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Giant Bread | 1930 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Sittaford Mystery / The Murder at Hazelmoor | 1931 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Unfinished Portrait | 1934 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Why Didn't They Ask Evans? | 1934 | Description / Buy | |
6 | And Then There Were None / Ten Little Indians | 1939 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Absent in the Spring | 1944 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Death Comes as the End | 1944 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Sparkling Cyanide | 1945 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The Rose And The Yew Tree | 1947 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Crooked House | 1949 | Description / Buy | |
12 | They Came to Baghdad | 1951 | Description / Buy | |
13 | A Daughter's a Daughter | 1952 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Destination Unknown | 1954 | Description / Buy | |
15 | The Burden | 1956 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Ordeal by Innocence | 1958 | Description / Buy | |
17 | The Pale Horse | 1961 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Endless Night | 1967 | Description / Buy | |
19 | 13 at Dinner | 1969 | Description / Buy | |
20 | Passenger to Frankfurt | 1970 | Description / Buy |
Order of Agatha Christie Short Story Collections
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories | 1932 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Hound of Death | 1933 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Listerdale Mystery and Eleven Other Stories | 1934 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Parker Pyne Investigates | 1934 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories | 1948 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Three Blind Mice and Other Stories | 1952 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Double Sin and other stories | 1961 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Star over Bethlehem, and other stories | 1965 | Description / Buy | |
9 | The Golden Ball and Other Stories | 1971 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The Mousetrap and Other Plays | 1978 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Witness for the Prosecution | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Problem at Pollensa Bay | 1985 | Description / Buy | |
13 | The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
14 | While the Light Lasts | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Bloodstained Pavement and Other Stories | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Death by Drowning | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Seven Deadly Sins | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Masterpieces in Miniature | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
19 | The Detectives - Short Stories | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
20 | The Tuesday Night Club and Other Stories | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
21 | The Red Signal and Other Stories (Short Story) | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
22 | The Listerdale Mystery | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
23 | Masterpieces of Mystery and the Unknown | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
24 | The Actress and Other Short Stories | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
25 | A Fruitful Sunday and Other Short Stories | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
26 | Miss Marple and Mystery | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
27 | The Witness for the Prosecution, and Other Stories | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
28 | Midwinter Murder | 2020 | Description / Buy |
Order of Agatha Christie Non-Fiction Books
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Come, Tell Me How You Live | 1946 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Agatha Christie: An Autobiography | 1977 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery | 2012 | Description / Buy |
Agatha Christie Anthologies
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Ask a Policeman | 1933 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Web She Weaves | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Witches' Brew | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Win, Lose or Die | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Death Cruise: Crime Stories on the Open Seas | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
6 | A Century of British Mystery and Suspense | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Joan Hess Presents Malice Domestic | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Books to Die For | 2012 | Description / Buy |
Agatha was married twice in her life. Her first marriage to Archibald Christie ended in 1928, and in a very dramatic way. When Agatha discovered that Archie was having an affair with a certain Nancy Neele, and after Archie asked her for a divorce, she disappeared for a solid ten days, a period in which there were frantic efforts to find her. She would later be found at her a hotel having registered under Neele’s name. It was thought by many that she had disappeared in an effort to frame her husband and his lover for her murder, but she would later be diagnosed with amnesia. Her second marriage was to Sir Max Mallowan and it lasted until she died in 1976.
Most of Agatha’s work revolves around solving murder cases and an assortment of other crimes. However, Agatha also wrote 6 romantics using the pen name Mary Westmaccot. Agatha wrote both novels and short stories: she wrote 66 novels and 14 short stories. Some of the characters that appear in several of her books include the brainy and crafty Captain Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, both of whom are very gifted detectives.
Agatha Christie Awards
Agatha has been listed in the Guinness World Book of Records as the best-selling novelist of all time. Her books have also been rated as the third most published books after Shakespeare’s and The Bible. She was the first recipient of the Mystery Writers of America’s highest honor, the Grand Master Award in 1955. Her book, Witness for The Prosecution also won her the Edgar Award while her other book The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was voted the best crime novel ever by 600 writers of the Crime Writer’s Association.
Agatha Christie Books Made Into Movies/TV
Witness for the Prosecution is one of the many books by Agatha that have been made into movies. In this particular book, the main character, Leonard Vole, an inventor, is accused of the murder of his acquaintance, a rich lady who was killed a short while after she changed the content of her will to leave some of her wealth to Leonard. Leonard seeks the services of a sickly lawyer who does all he can to get him acquitted. The great controversy occurs when Leonard’s wife, Christine Vole, accepts to be a witness for the prosecution, thus building a very strong case against her husband. However, Christine later saves Leonard and, in an odd turn of events, kills him at the very end.
Best Agatha Christie Books:
And Then There Were None is one of Agatha Christie’s best- selling novels. The novel revolves around the mysterious deaths of ten people in a remote Indian Island. It all starts with an invitation of eight strangers to the Island by a mysterious Mr. Owen. Vera Claythorne, one of the guests thinks she is being offered a job as a secretary in the Island. She is a former governess. Dr. Armstrong thinks he is being invited to care for the wife of the owner of the Island. Four of them, Emily Brent, General Macarthy, Tony Marston and judge Wargrave all think that they are going to visit old friends, while the remaining two, Philip Lombard and William Blore think that that have been called to look out over the Island over the weekend.
To their shock, they all start dying one after the other under questionable circumstances, such as poisoning and even shooting. It follows that when they are all dead and the police start investigating the murder, that the murderer was the judge, who in a note wrote to say that he wanted to kill the victims for crimes they had committed in their lifetimes; crimes that could not be punished by law. The mystery in this book unravels in a truly captivating manner.
Mysterious Affair at Styles is also another great book by Agatha Christie, where Poirot, the clever detective, saves the day by correctly solving the murder of Mrs. Ingelthorpe.
All of Agatha’s work is fascinating in its own way and it therefore comes as no surprise that her books have won so many awards.
When Does The Next Agatha Christie book come out?
Agatha Christie doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is Midwinter Murder and was released on October, 20th 2020. It is the newest book in the Agatha Christie Short Story Collections.