MY AGATHA CHRISTIE INDEX

/ Brad

It’s no secret that I have given much focus on this blog to Agatha Christie, but then she is my favorite mystery author. I’ve even got a Christie tag at the top!! Now, if you prefer meandering around people’s blogs, feel free to do so; WordPress provides a search engine which is all you need. Still, I thought it might be helpful to provide an index of sorts where you could find links to specific titles of interest to you. There are plenty of more free-wheeling articles I haven’t listed here, including discussions about Christie’s victims, her delving into impossible crimes, her military men, my favorite female characters, madness in Christie’s books and lots more. Here, I thought I would focus on the novels, plus a couple of short story collections and one play. I also have links to various film and TV adaptations scattered about, but this is far from complete!

I promise to update as new articles are posted. I hope you find this resource helpful.

BIOGRAPHY

You might also be interested in this overview of the past century of Agatha Christie. Part biographical and part commentary, I wrote this in 2020 as my way of celebrating the centenary of Christie’s first novel. 

THE TITLES

  1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
  2. The Secret Adversary (1922)
  3. The Murder on the Links (1923)
  4. The Man in the Brown Suit (1924)
  5. The Secret of Chimneys (1925)
  6. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) (Here’s an episode of the Spoiler Warning podcast, where Jim Noy, Moira Redmond and I discuss Ackroyd)
  7. The Big Four (1927)
  8. The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
  9. The Seven Dials Mystery (1929)
  10. The Murder at the Vicarage (1930) (Here’s an earlier take and an episode of Spoiler Warning about the novel)
  11. The Sittaford Mystery (a.k.a. Murder at Hazelmoor) (1931) (This analysis shares space with Evil Under the Su; and here’s what happened when I read it with my Book Club)
  12. Peril at End House (1932)
  13. The Thirteen Problems (a.k.a.The Tuesday Night Club) (1932) (One of my first reviews, this is actually divided into five parts: Part I*****Part II*****Part III*****Part IV*****Part V)
  14. Lord Edgware Dies (a.k.a. Thirteen at Dinner) (1933)
  15. Murder on the Orient Express (a.k.a. Murder on the Calais Coach) (1934) (a review of Kenneth Branagh’s film . . . if you dare!!)
  16. Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (a.k.a. The Boomerang Clue) (1934) (I haven’t discussed the book, but I did review the BBC adaptation)
  17. Three-Act Tragedy (a.k.a. Murder in Three Acts) (1935) (No discussion yet (!), but my Book Club read it and I wrote a play about it!!)
  18. Death in the Clouds (a.k.a. Death in the Air) (1935)
  19. The A.B.C. Murders (1936) (I managed to rant about, er, discuss Sarah Phelps’ take on it for television.)
  20. Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
  21. Cards on the Table (1936) (Here is the Spoiler Warning episode about it. Lots of heated disagreement here!!)
  22. Dumb Witness (Poirot Loses a Client) (1937)
  23. Death on the Nile (1937) (I also wrote about this in conjunction with Evil Under the Sun here. And here is a review of Kenneth Branagh’s film. Finally, here is a discussion of Christie’s play adaptation, Murder on the Nile, which I had the pleasure to direct.)
  24. Appointment with Death (1938)
  25. Hercule Poirot’s Christmas (a.k.a. A Holiday for Murder) (1938) (Here’s a review of the French TV adaptation. Mais oui!!)
  26. Murder Is Easy (a.k.a. Easy to Kill) (1939) (Here’s a review of the BBC TV adaptation)
  27. And Then There Were None (1939) (Here’s a review of Sarah Phelps’ TV adaptation – her best work! And here are reflections on directing the play.)
  28. Sad Cypress (1940)
  29. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (a.k.a. An Overdose to Death or The Patriotic Murders) (1940)
  30. Evil Under the Sun (1941) (This analysis shares space with The Sittaford Mystery. Here’s another link to the post I wrote as a comparison between this to Death on the Nile.)
  31. N or M? (1941)
  32. The Body in the Library (1942) (and here’s an earlier take)
  33. Five Little Pigs (a.k.a. Murder in Retrospect) (1942) (here’s the episode of Spoiler Warning)
  34. The Moving Finger (1943) (and here’s an earlier take)
  35. Towards Zero (1944) (And here is a review of the 2025 BBC adaptation.)
  36. Death Comes As the End (1945)
  37. Sparkling Cyanide (a.k.a. Remembered Death) (1945)
  38. The Hollow (1946)
  39. The Labors of Hercules (1947)
  40. Taken at the Flood (a.k.a. There Is a Tide) (1948)
  41. Crooked House (1949) (and here’s a review of the film adaptation)
  42. A Murder Is Announced (1950) (and here’s the episode of Spoiler Warning)
  43. Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (1950 – U.S. only)
  44. They Came to Baghdad (1951)
  45. Mrs. McGinty’s Dead (1952) (I know we talked about this one on Spoiler Warning, but for some reason I didn’t announce it!!)
  46. They Do It with Mirrors (a.k.a. Murder with Mirrors) (1952)
  47. The Mousetrap (play) (1952) (The article is mostly about directing the play, which I have done twice. Here’s a review of what may be the closest they get in my lifetime to a film based on the play.)
  48. After the Funeral (a.k.a. Funerals Are Fatal) (1953) (and here’s an episode of Spoiler Warning)
  49. A Pocketful of Rye (1953)
  50. Destination Unknown (a.k.a. So Many Steps to Death) (1954)
  51. Hickory Dickory Dock (a.k.a. Hickory Dickory Death) (1955)
  52. Dead Man’s Folly (1956)
  53. 4:50 from Paddington (a.k.a. What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw) (1957)
  54. Ordeal by Innocence (1958)
  55. Cat Among the Pigeons (1959)
  56. The Pale Horse (1961)
  57. The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side (1962) (and here’s an earlier take)
  58. The Clocks (1963)
  59. A Caribbean Mystery (1964) (and here’s an earlier take)
  60. At Bertram’s Hotel (1965)
  61. Third Girl (1966)
  62. Endless Night (1967)
  63. By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968)
  64. Hallowe’en Party (1969) (I also had the pleasure of discussing this one with Flex and Herds on their podcast Death to the Reader; plus, here’s a review of Kenneth Branagh’s loose film adaptation, A Haunting in Venice)
  65. Passenger to Frankfurt (1970)
  66. Nemesis (1971) (Here’s an earlier take. And here is a review of the South Korean series, Ms. Ma, Nemesis.)
  67. Elephants Can Remember (1972)
  68. Postern of Fate (1973) (weirdly, I have never discussed this one here, but I have talked about it in conversation with Jim Noy over at his blog, The Invisible Event)
  69. Curtain (1975)
  70. Sleeping Murder (1976) (and here’s an earlier take)

RANKINGS

Here is a summation of last year’s Ranking Marple project. 

Here is a draft that I held with two dear friends, Sergio Angelini and Nick Cardillo, to determine the Top Twenty Agatha Christie Novels.

And, finally, here is my own list of My Top Ten Agatha Christie Novels.

MISCELLANEOUS

Here is a list of The Perfect Starter Christies that a bunch of friendly experts teamed up to craft.

In 2025, I rewatched the entire Joan Hickson series. Here are my thoughts (Part One and Part Two).

25 thoughts on “MY AGATHA CHRISTIE INDEX”

  1. I for one would love to see you tackle the Poirot novels in the same manner you did the Marples…This is a great reference, Brad. Thanks for putting it together!

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  5. This index is wonderful, Brad — and just the kind of thing I can use, since I spend a lot of time searching for Christie articles, both here and on the other GAD blogs. And yes, a ranking of the Poirot books similar to your recent ranking of the Marple books would be amazing — please do it!

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  7. If you were to rank the Poirot novels, I’d read every one of them. I loved your Marple project and in general, your take on all things Christie. So if you’d have fun doing this, why not? Also, this index is super helpful.

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  9. Congratulations on being invited and for the prime time slot on Agatha’s birthday! Bill and I will be there.

    We’ve also been invited; I’ll speak about Agatha’s international films on Thursday afternoon!

    Hope to meet you frequently at the various Festival events.

    Teresa Peschel; Agatha Christie, She Watched

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    • I bought your book, Teresa, after listening to you speak with Kemper (a talk I enjoyed very much). What I love about Christie films is how strongly you and I both agree and disagree over different titles! I’ll be sitting in the audience for your talk and, of course, for the All About Agatha panel. (I’ll be the one in the front, scowling whenever you folks make a mistake. No pressure!)

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      • I’m sure we won’t make a single mistake because you’ll agree -swayed by our sweet selves in person — with everything we say!

        We’re continuing the Agatha Project with international films and hope (God Willing!) to press [PUBLISH] by August. The range of international films is amazing.

        They are all so different from English/American films yet still recognizably her stories.

        Sadly, we can’t get many of the films because they aren’t available with English subtitles.

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        • Yes, it makes me feel like a
          P.I. – and it’s not cheap – to track down these films. I had to join a South Korean streaming service to watch Ms. Ma, Nemesis-, and I’ll need to rejoin MHZ if I want to watch the 70’s edition of Les Petits Meurtres d’Agatha Christie. Right now, I’m frustrated at all the Asian adaptations I can’t watch until someone has the idea to translate them! We’ll have to work on somebody at the Festival!

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          • Exactly! Agatha Christie Ltd is leaving money on the table. We can’t be the only people who want to watch great Japanese films. And don’t get me started on Charlie Chopra! Arg.

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          • Hi Brad! Bill tells me he got Season 3 (the ’70s) of Les Petits Meurtres from Amazon Prime. Oddly, they just released the Mortal Karma episode which was with the Amazon Prime set, released early to a non-French audience. I follow them on Instagram so I know.

            We got a huge amount of our films, even the foreign ones, via the Interlibrary loan. A good Interlibrary loan goddess like ours in Hershey can get you just about anything if some library in the U.S. has it in their catacombs.

            Bill also uses Amazon, Amazon Prime, eBay, and Daily Motion which you have to check regularly. We bought a region-free DVD player so we could watch outside the U.S. DVDS. This came in handy when we bought from eBay the French The Hollows from a seller in Greece!

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  11. I was looking for Teresa’s name and the title of her book – is she by chance related to the Bill Peschel who annotated “Links” and “Secret Adversary”?

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