Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie (September 15 1890 - January 12 1976)
British crime fiction writer. Published over 80 books and other works. Also used pen name Mary Westmacott for romantic novels.
Famous characters include Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple. Her stage play The Mousetrap holds the record for the longest run ever in London, having opened in London in November 1952, and still running in March 2002.
Books:
- 1920 The Mysterious Affair at Styles (her first book, which introduced Hercule Poirot)
- 1922 The Secret Adversary (introduced Tommy and Tuppence)
- 1923 Murder on the Links
- 1924 The Man in the Brown Suit
- 1925 The Secret of Chimneys
- 1927 The Big Four
- 1928 The Mystery of the Blue Train
- 1929 The Seven Dials Mystery
- 1930 The murder at the Vicarage (introduced Jane Marple)
- 1930 The Mysterious Mr Quin (introduced Mr Harley Quin)
- 1931 The Sittaford Mystery
- 1932 Peril at End House
- 1933 The Hound of Baskerville (twelve short mysteries)
- 1933 Lord Edgware dies
- 1934 Murder on the Orient Express
- 1934 Parker Pyne investigates (twelve short mysteries)
- 1934 The Listerdale mystery (twelve short mysteries)
- 1935 Three Act Tragedy
- 1935 Why didn't they ask Evans?
- 1936 The ABC Murders
- 1936 Murder in Mesopotamia
- 1936 Cards on the Table
- 1937 Death on the Nile
- 1937 Dumb Witness
- 1938 Appointment with Death
- 1938 (1939?) Ten Little Niggers (also known as And Then There Were None, Ten Little Indians)
- 1939 Murder is Easy
- 1939 Hercule Poirot's Christmas
- 1941 Evil under the Sun
- 1941 N or M?
- 1941 One, Two, Buckle my Shoe
- 1942 The Body in the Library
- 1942 Five little pigs
- 1942 The Moving Finger
- 1944 Towards Zero
- 1944 (1945?) Sparkling Cyanide
- 1945 Death comes as the End
- 1946 The Hollow
- 1947 The Labours of Hercules (twelve short mysteries)
- 1948 There is a Tide (also known as Taken at the Flood)
- 1949 Crooked House
- 1950 A Murder is Announced
- 1951 They came to Baghdad
- 1952 Mrs McGinty's Dead
- 1953 A Pocketful of Rye
- 1953 After the Funeral
- 1953 Death in the Clouds
- 1955 Hickory Dickory Dock
- 1955 Destination Unknown
- 1956 Dead Man's Folly
- 1957 4.50 from Paddington
- 1957 Ordeal by Innocence
- 1959 Cat Among the Pigeons
- 1961 The Pale Horse
- 1962 The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
- 1963 The Clocks
- 1964 A Caribbean Mystery
- 1965 At Bertram's Hotel
- 1966 Third Floor Flat
- 1967 Endless Night
- 1968 By the Pricking of my Thumbs
- 1969 Hallowe'en Party
- 1970 Passenger to Frankfurt
- 1971 Nemesis
- 1972 Elephants can remember
- 1973 Postern of Fate
- 1974 Poirot's Early Cases (eighteen short mysteries)
- 1975 Curtain
- 1976 Sleeping Murder
- ? The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Co-authored Works:
- 1931 The Floating Admiral written together with G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy L Sayers and certain other members of the Detection Club.
Works written as Mary Westmacott:
- 1930 Giant's Bread
- 1934 Unfinished Portrait
- 1947 The Rose and the Yew Tree
- 1952 A Daughter's a Daughter
- 1956 The Burden
References and external links:
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Project Gutenberg edition: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=863