Dame Agatha - Reading List Update
Update - Jul. 2017: 35 of 66 books read. I think most of the clangers are out of the way now.
Update - Jan. 2017: 28 of 66 books read. Looking forward to more.
Update - Jun. 2016: A few more of the reads and re-reads taken off the list.
Update - Dec. 2015: I'll repost this every now and then to keep track of titles and reviews.
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I have read most of Dame Agatha's books in my teens (though mostly in translation) but as am in the process of a re-read, I need a list to keep me right.
Year published |
Title | Detectives |
|---|---|---|
| 1920 | The Mysterious Affair at Styles | Hercule Poirot Arthur Hastings, Inspector Japp |
| 1922 | The Secret Adversary | Tommy and Tuppence |
| 1923 | The Murder on the Links | Hercule Poirot Arthur Hastings, Monsieur Giraud |
| 1924 | The Man in the Brown Suit | Colonel Race Anne Beddingfeld |
| 1925 | The Secret of Chimneys | Superintendent Battle Anthony Cade |
| 1926 | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | Hercule Poirot Inspector Raglan |
| 1927 | The Big Four | Hercule Poirot Arthur Hastings, Inspector Japp |
| 1928 | The Mystery of the Blue Train | Hercule Poirot |
| 1929 | The Seven Dials Mystery | Superintendent Battle Eileen "Bundle" Brent |
| 1930 | The Murder at the Vicarage | Miss Marple Inspector Slack |
| 1931 | The Sittaford Mystery also Murder at Hazelmoor |
Emily Trefusis Inspector Narracott |
| 1932 | Peril at End House | Hercule Poirot Arthur Hastings, Inspector Japp |
| 1933 | Lord Edgware Dies also Thirteen at Dinner |
Hercule Poirot Arthur Hastings, Inspector Japp |
| 1934 | Murder on the Orient Express also Murder in the Calais Coach |
Hercule Poirot |
| 1934 | Why Didn't They Ask Evans? also The Boomerang Clue |
Bobby Jones Frankie Derwent |
| 1935 | Three Act Tragedy also Murder in Three Acts |
Hercule Poirot Mr. Satterthwaite |
| 1935 | Death in the Clouds also Death in the Air |
Hercule Poirot Inspector Japp |
| 1936 | The A.B.C. Murders also The Alphabet Murders |
Hercule Poirot Arthur Hastings, Chief Inspector Japp |
| 1936 | Murder in Mesopotamia | Hercule Poirot Captain Maitland, Dr. Reilly |
| 1936 | Cards on the Table | Hercule Poirot Colonel Race, Superintendent Battle, Ariadne Oliver |
| 1937 | Dumb Witness also Poirot Loses a Client/Mystery at Littlegreen House |
Hercule Poirot Arthur Hastings |
| 1937 | Death on the Nile | Hercule Poirot Colonel Race |
| 1938 | Appointment with Death | Hercule Poirot |
| 1938 | Hercule Poirot's Christmas also Murder for Christmas/A Holiday for Murder |
Hercule Poirot |
| 1939 | Murder is Easy also Easy to Kill |
Superintendent Battle Luke Fitzwilliam |
| 1939 | And Then There Were None |
Sir Thomas Legge Inspector Maine |
| 1940 | Sad Cypress | Hercule Poirot |
| 1940 | One, Two, Buckle My Shoe also An Overdose of Death/The Patriotic Murders |
Hercule Poirot Chief Inspector Japp |
| 1941 | Evil Under the Sun | Hercule Poirot Colonel Weston, Inspector Colgate |
| 1941 | N or M? | Tommy and Tuppence |
| 1942 | The Body in the Library | Miss Marple Inspector Slack |
| 1942 | Five Little Pigs also Murder in Retrospect |
Hercule Poirot |
| 1942 | The Moving Finger also The Case of the Moving Finger |
Miss Marple |
| 1944 | Towards Zero also Come and Be Hanged |
Superintendent Battle Inspector James Leach |
| 1944 | Death Comes as the End | Hori |
| 1945 | Sparkling Cyanide also Remembered Death |
Colonel Race Chief Inspector Kemp |
| 1946 | The Hollow also Murder After Hours |
Hercule Poirot Inspector Grange |
| 1948 | Taken at the Flood also There is a Tide... |
Hercule Poirot Superintendent Spence |
| 1949 | Crooked House | Charles Hayward Chief Inspector Taverner |
| 1950 | A Murder is Announced | Miss Marple Chief Inspector Craddock |
| 1951 | They Came to Baghdad | Victoria Jones |
| 1952 | Mrs McGinty's Dead also Blood Will Tell |
Hercule Poirot Ariadne Oliver, Superintendent Spence |
| 1952 | They Do It with Mirrors also Murder with Mirrors |
Miss Marple Inspector Curry |
| 1953 | After the Funeral also Funerals are Fatal |
Hercule Poirot Inspector Morton, Mr. Goby |
| 1953 | A Pocket Full of Rye | Miss Marple |
| 1954 | Destination Unknown also So Many Steps to Death |
Mr. Jessop, Captain Leblanc |
| 1955 | Hickory Dickory Dock also Hickory Dickory Death |
Hercule Poirot Inspector Sharpe |
| 1956 | Dead Man's Folly | Hercule Poirot Ariadne Oliver |
| 1957 | 4.50 from Paddington also What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!/Murder She Said |
Miss Marple Chief Inspector Craddock, Lucy Eyelesbarrow |
| 1958 | Ordeal by Innocence | Arthur Calgary Superintendent Huish |
| 1959 | Cat Among the Pigeons | Hercule Poirot Inspector Kelsey, Adam Goodman |
| 1961 | The Pale Horse | Inspector Lejeune Ariadne Oliver, Mark Easterbrook |
| 1962 | The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side also The Mirror Crack'd |
Miss Marple Chief Inspector Craddock |
| 1963 | The Clocks | Hercule Poirot Det. Inspector Hardcastle, Colin Lamb |
| 1964 | A Caribbean Mystery | Miss Marple |
| 1965 | At Bertram's Hotel | Miss Marple Chief Inspector Fred "Father" Davy |
| 1966 | Third Girl | Hercule Poirot Ariadne Oliver, Chief Inspector Neele, Mr. Goby |
| 1967 | Endless Night | Sergeant Keene |
| 1968 | By the Pricking of My Thumbs | Tommy and Tuppence |
| 1969 | Hallowe'en Party | Hercule Poirot Ariadne Oliver, Superintendent Spence |
| 1970 | Passenger to Frankfurt | Stafford Nye |
| 1971 | Nemesis | Miss Marple |
| 1972 | Elephants Can Remember | Hercule Poirot Ariadne Oliver |
| 1973 | Postern of Fate Last novel Christie wrote |
Tommy and Tuppence |
| 1975 | Curtain Poirot's last case, written 36 years earlier. |
Hercule Poirot Arthur Hastings |
| 1976 | Sleeping Murder Miss Marple's last case, written 36 years earlier |
Miss Marple |
Stats:
Read: 35/66
77
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