If you’re reading this, then you are probably wondering why I’m referring to the Queen of Mystery, Dame Agatha Christie, as “Surfer Girl”. The answer to that is one of the little known gems about Dame Agatha that is revealed in her autobiography.
As far as mystery goes, Dame Agatha didn’t just write them but she created some, too. Most famously, she went missing for a few days and was later located in Harrogate suffering from a lapse of memory, leaving her disappearance open to more speculation than any of her novels. And famously, Dame Agatha never recovered her memory of that event.
The Reading List:
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. I’ve limited my list to the novels at this point, but may add the short story collections later.
| 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: 51/66
