Agatha Christie Books in Order

Below is the complete list of Agatha Christie books in order of publication. This is the recommended reading sequence for the series.

Hercule Poirot Series

1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
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2. The Murder on the Links (1923)
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3. Poirot Investigates (1924)
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4. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
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5. The Big Four (1927)
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6. The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
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7. Black Coffee (1930)
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8. Peril at End House (1932)
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9. Lord Edgware Dies / Thirteen at Dinner (1933)
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10. Three Act Tragedy / Murder in Three Acts (1934)
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11. Murder on the Orient Express / Murder in the Calais Coach (1934)
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12. Death in the Clouds / Death in the Air (1935)
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13. The ABC Murders (1936)
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14. Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
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15. Cards on the Table (1936)
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16. Dumb Witness / Poirot Loses a Client (1937)
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17. Death on the Nile (1937)
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18. Murder in the Mews / Dead Man’s Mirror (1937)
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19. Appointment with Death (1938)
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20. Hercule Poirot’s Christmas / Holiday for Murder / Murder for Christmas (1938)
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21. The Girdle of Hyppolita (1939)
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22. The Nemean Lion (1939)
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23. Sad Cypress (1940)
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24. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe / Overdose of Death (1940)
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25. Evil Under the Sun (1941)
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26. Five Little Pigs / Murder in Retrospect (1942)
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27. The Hollow / Murder after Hours (1946)
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28. Taken at the Flood / There Is A Tide…. (1948)
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29. Mrs. McGinty’s Dead / Blood Will Tell (1952)
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30. After the Funeral / Funerals are Fatal (1953)
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31. Hickory Dickory Dock (1955)
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32. Dead Man’s Folly (1956)
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33. Cat Among the Pigeons (1959)
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34. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding / The Theft of the Royal Ruby (1960)
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35. The Clocks (1963)
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36. Third Girl (1966)
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37. Hallowe’en Party / A Haunting in Venice (1969)
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38. Elephants Can Remember (1972)
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39. Curtain (1975)
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Hercule Poirot Short Stories/Novellas Series

1. The Adventure of the Cheap Flat (1923)
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2. The King of Clubs (1923)
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3. The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly (1923)
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4. The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman (1923)
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5. The Veiled Lady (1923)
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6. The Kidnapped Prime Minister (1923)
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7. The Plymouth Express (1923)
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8. Christmas Adventure (1923)
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9. The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan (1923)
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10. The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor (1923)
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11. The Affair at the Victory Ball (1923)
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12. The Adventure of the Western Star (1923)
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13. The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb (1923)
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14. The Submarine Plans (1923)
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15. The Adventure of the Clapham Cook (1923)
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16. The Lost Mine (1923)
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17. The Lemesurier Inheritance (1923)
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18. The Chocolate Box (1925)
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19. The Chess Problem (1927)
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20. Double Sin (1928)
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21. The Third-Floor Flat (1929)
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22. Wasps’ Nest (1929)
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23. The Second Gong (1932)
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24. The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest (1932)
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25. How Does Your Garden Grow? (1935)
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26. Triangle at Rhodes (1936)
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27. Poirot and the Regatta Mystery (1936)
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28. Yellow Iris (1937)
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29. The Incredible Theft (1937)
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30. The Dream (1937)
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31. The Cretan Bull (1939)
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32. The Stymphalean Birds (1939)
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33. The Lernean Hydra (1939)
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34. The Apples of Hesperides (1940)
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35. The Flock of Geryon (1940)
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36. The Horses of Diomedes (1940)
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37. The Augean Stables (1940)
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38. The Erymanthian Boar (1940)
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39. The Arcadian Deer (1940)
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40. The Capture of Cerberus (1947)
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41. The Mystery of the Spanish Chest (1960)
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42. Afternoon at the Seaside (1962)
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43. The Patient (1962)
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44. The Witness for the Prosecution (1983)
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45. Four and Twenty Blackbirds (1989)
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46. The Million Dollar Bond Robbery (1998)
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47. The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim (2012)
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48. The Market Basing Mystery (2013)
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49. The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge (2013)
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50. The Cornish Mystery (2013)
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51. Problem at Sea (2013)
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52. Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly (2013)
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53. The Under Dog (2016)
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54. The Double Clue (2019)
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55. The Case of the Missing Will (2019)
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Hercule Poirot Collections Series

1. The Labours of Hercules / The Labors of Hercules (1947)
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2. The Witness for the Prosecution (1948)
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3. The Under Dog and Other Stories (1951)
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4. Poirot’s Early Cases (1974)
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5. Hercule Poirot’s Casebook (1984)
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6. Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories (1984)
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7. The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories (1997)
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8. Poirot’s Finest Cases (2014)
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9. The Double Clue (2016)
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10. The Early Cases of Hercule Poirot (2019)
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11. The Grey Cells of Mr. Poirot (2019)
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Miss Marple Series

1. The Four Suspects (1930)
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2. The Companion (1930)
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3. The Affair at the Bungalow (1930)
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4. The Murder at the Vicarage (1930)
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5. The Body in the Library (1942)
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6. The Moving Finger (1942)
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7. A Murder is Announced (1950)
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8. They Do It With Mirrors / Murder With Mirrors (1952)
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9. A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)
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10. 4:50 From Paddington / What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw! (1957)
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11. The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side (1962)
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12. A Caribbean Mystery (1964)
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13. At Bertram’s Hotel (1965)
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14. Nemesis (1971)
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15. Sleeping Murder (1976)
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16. Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel Series (2026)
    (With Lucy Foley)
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Miss Marple Short Stories/Novellas Series

1. The Idol House of Astarte (1928)
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2. Ingots of Gold (1928)
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3. Motive v. Opportunity (1928)
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4. The Thumb Mark of St. Peter (1928)
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5. The Blue Geranium (1929)
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6. The Herb of Death (1930)
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7. Miss Marple Tells a Story (1934)
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8. The Case of the Caretaker (1941)
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9. Strange Jest (1941)
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10. Tape-Measure Murder (1941)
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11. The Case of the Perfect Maid (1942)
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12. Sanctuary (1954)
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13. Greenshaw’s Folly (1956)
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14. A Christmas Tragedy (2013)
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Miss Marple Collections Series

1. The Thirteen Problems (1932)
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2. 13 Clues for Miss Marple (1966)
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3. Miss Marple’s Final Cases (1979)
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4. Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories (1985)
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5. Miss Marple Short Stories (2005)
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Tommy and Tuppence Series

1. The Secret Adversary (1922)
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2. Partners in Crime (1929)
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3. N or M? (1941)
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4. By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968)
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5. Postern of Fate (1973)
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Tommy & Tuppence Short Stories/Novellas Series

1. A Fairy in the Flat (1929)
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2. The Man Who Was No. 16 (1929)
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3. The Affair of the Pink Pearl (1929)
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4. The Sunningdale Mystery (1933)
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5. The Man in the Mist (1977)
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6. The House of Lurking Death (1995)
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7. The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger (2012)
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8. Finessing the King (2012)
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9. Blindman’s Buff (2013)
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10. The Gentleman Dressed in Newspaper (2013)
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11. A Pot of Tea (2013)
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12. The Crackler (2013)
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13. The Clergyman’s Daughter/The Red House (2013)
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14. The Ambassador’s Boots (2013)
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Superintendent Battle Series

1. The Secret of Chimneys (1925)
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2. The Seven Dials Mystery (1929)
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3. Cards on the Table (1936)
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4. Murder is Easy / Easy To Kill (1939)
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5. Towards Zero (1944)
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Ariadne Oliver Series

1. Cards on the Table (1936)
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2. Mrs. McGinty’s Dead / Blood Will Tell (1952)
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3. Dead Man’s Folly (1956)
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4. The Pale Horse (1961)
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5. Third Girl (1966)
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6. Hallowe’en Party / A Haunting in Venice (1969)
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7. Elephants Can Remember (1972)
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Colonel Race Series

1. The Man in the Brown Suit (1924)
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2. Cards on the Table (1936)
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3. Death on the Nile (1937)
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4. Sparkling Cyanide / Remembered Death (1944)
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Harley Quin Series

1. The Mysterious Mr. Quin (1930)
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Harley Quin Short Stories/Novellas Series

1. The Coming of Mr. Quin (1924)
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2. The Shadow on the Glass (1924)
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3. The Sign in the Sky (1925)
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4. At the ‘Bells and Motley’ (1926)
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5. The Soul of the Croupier (1927)
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6. The World’s End (1927)
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7. The Voice in the Dark (1927)
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8. The Face of Helen (1927)
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9. Harlequin’s Lane (1927)
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10. The Dead Harlequin (1929)
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11. The Man from the Sea (1929)
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12. The Bird with the Broken Wing (1930)
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13. The Harlequin Tea Set (1971)
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14. The Love Detectives (1993)
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Parker Pyne Short Stories/Novellas Series

1. The Case of the Discontented Soldier (1932)
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2. The Case of the City Clerk (1932)
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3. The Case of the Distressed Lady (1932)
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4. The Case of the Discontented Husband (1932)
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5. The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife (1932)
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6. The House at Shiraz (1933)
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7. Have You Got Everything You Want? (1933)
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8. The Gate of Baghdad (1933)
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9. The Oracle at Delphi (1933)
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10. The Pearl of Price (1933)
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11. The Case of the Rich Woman (1934)
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Standalone Novels Series

1. Giant Bread (1930)
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2. The Sittaford Mystery / The Murder at Hazelmoor (1931)
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3. Unfinished Portrait (1934)
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4. Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? / The Boomerang Clue (1934)
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5. And Then There Were None / Ten Little Indians (1939)
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6. Absent in the Spring (1944)
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7. Death Comes as the End (1944)
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8. The Rose And The Yew Tree (1947)
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9. Crooked House (1949)
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10. They Came to Baghdad (1951)
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11. A Daughter’s a Daughter (1952)
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12. Destination Unknown / So Many Steps to Death (1954)
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13. The Burden (1956)
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14. Ordeal by Innocence (1958)
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15. The Pale Horse (1961)
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16. Endless Night (1967)
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17. 13 at Dinner (1969)
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18. Passenger to Frankfurt (1970)
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19. The Unexpected Guest (1999)
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Short Stories/Novellas Series

1. Accident (1923)
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2. The Actress (1923)
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3. The Red Signal (1924)
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4. The Mystery of the Blue Jar (1924)
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5. The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl (1924)
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6. Philomel Cottage (1924)
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7. Wireless (1925)
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8. Within a Wall (1925)
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9. The House of Dreams (1926)
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10. Magnolia Blossom (1926)
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11. The Lonely God (1926)
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12. The Rajah’s Emerald (1926)
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13. The Edge (1927)
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14. Sing a Song of Sixpence (1929)
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15. Manx Gold (1930)
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16. The Fourth Man (1933)
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17. The Gipsy (1933)
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18. The Manhood of Edward Robinson (1934)
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19. Three Blind Mice: A Novella (1948)
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20. The Dressmaker’s Doll (1958)
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21. Express to Stamboul (1965)
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22. The Water Bus (1965)
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23. Jane in Search of a Job (1974)
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24. The Girl in the Train (1993)
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25. S.O.S. (2013)
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26. The Lamp (2013)
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27. The Call of Wings (2013)
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28. The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael (2013)
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29. A Fruitful Sunday (2013)
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30. Swan Song (2013)
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31. The Naughty Donkey (2013)
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32. In the Cool of the Evening (2013)
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33. The Island (2013)
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Short Story Collections Series

1. The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (1932)
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2. The Hound of Death (1933)
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3. The Listerdale Mystery and Eleven Other Stories (1934)
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4. Parker Pyne Investigates (1934)
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5. The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (1948)
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6. Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (1952)
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7. Double Sin and Other Stories (1961)
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8. Surprise! Surprise! (1965)
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9. Star Over Bethlehem and Other Stories (1965)
   (By Agatha Christie Mallowan)
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10. The Golden Ball and Other Stories (1971)
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11. The Mousetrap and Other Plays (1978)
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12. Agatha Christie Hour (1982)
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13. Problem at Pollensa Bay (1985)
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14. The Tuesday Club Murders (1986)
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15. The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories (1997)
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16. While the Light Lasts (1997)
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17. Bloodstained Pavement and Other Stories (2003)
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18. Death by Drowning (2003)
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19. Murder In Three Stages (2004)
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20. Seven Deadly Sins (2004)
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21. Masterpieces in Miniature (2005)
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22. The Detectives – Short Stories (2005)
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23. The Tuesday Night Club and Other Stories (2005)
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24. The Red Signal and Other Stories (2005)
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25. The Listerdale Mystery (2005)
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26. Masterpieces of Mystery and the Unknown (2006)
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27. The Actress and Other Short Stories (2006)
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28. A Fruitful Sunday and Other Short Stories (2006)
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29. Miss Marple and Mystery (2008)
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30. The Last Seance: Tales of the Supernatural (2019)
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31. Midwinter Murder (2020)
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32. Midsummer Mysteries: Tales from the Queen of Mystery (2021)
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33. A Deadly Affair (2022)
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34. Sinister Spring (2023)
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35. Autumn Chills: Tales of Intrigue from the Queen of Crime (2023)
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Plays Series

1. The Mousetrap (1952)
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2. Spider’s Web (1954)
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3. Verdict (1958)
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4. Rats (1962)
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Non-Fiction Series

1. Come, Tell Me How You Live (1946)
   (By Agatha Christie Mallowan)
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2. Agatha Christie: An Autobiography (1977)
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3. Clues to Christie (2011)
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4. The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery (2012)
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Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries Series

1. The Unbreakable Alibi (1929)
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2. The Case of the Missing Lady (1972)
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About Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie remains the central figure in detective fiction not simply because she sold so many books, but because she helped define what a mystery novel could be. Her name has become almost shorthand for the genre itself, yet her bibliography is far broader and more various than the familiar image of a country-house murder might suggest. She wrote detective novels, short stories, plays, thrillers, and a small but important body of fiction under the name Mary Westmacott. Across all of it, she showed a rare ability to make crime fiction seem both elegantly simple and endlessly renewable.

Born in 1890 in Torquay, Christie came to fiction from a background that was in some ways sheltered and traditional, yet she became one of the sharpest observers of deceit, vanity, greed, family tension, and social performance in modern popular literature. During the First World War she worked in a hospital dispensary, and the knowledge she gained there, especially about poisons, became one of the most distinctive technical strengths in her fiction. That detail matters because Christie’s books are often praised for cleverness, but the cleverness was not abstract. It rested on precise control of information, motive, timing, and method.

Her bibliography is best understood through several major lines rather than as one undifferentiated mass of famous titles. The first and most prominent is the Hercule Poirot sequence, which runs from The Mysterious Affair at Styles to Curtain and gave Christie one of the most recognizable detectives in world literature. Poirot is fussy, theatrical, vain, and brilliant, but what makes him last is the way Christie uses him to turn psychology into detection. He solves crimes not only by clue gathering, but by understanding what kind of people his suspects are when they think no one is truly seeing them.

The second great line is Miss Marple. If Poirot often feels cosmopolitan, controlled, and self-consciously brilliant, Miss Marple works differently. She is rooted in village life, memory, and analogy. Christie uses her to show that apparently quiet lives contain all the same malice, lust, pride, and desperation found anywhere else. Miss Marple gives the books a subtler and in some ways more socially penetrating intelligence. Together, Poirot and Marple explain much of Christie’s range within the mystery form.

But Christie was never only the author of two detective brands. She also wrote standalones that remain essential to understanding her, including And Then There Were None, which may be the purest expression of her gift for pressure and structure. That novel, along with books such as Crooked House, The Pale Horse, and Endless Night, shows a darker, often more experimental Christie than the most familiar image suggests. She could be unsettling, ironic, and unexpectedly ruthless. Her work is often described as cosy, but that label can hide how often she wrote about cruelty inside family life, the fragility of respectability, and the terrifying ease with which ordinary people can choose violence.

Her bibliography also includes the Mary Westmacott novels, which matter because they reveal a different emotional register. These are not detective stories, but relationship novels, and they show that Christie’s understanding of disappointment, longing, marriage, and private suffering was not limited to crime plots. They are useful reminders that beneath the famous puzzles was a writer deeply interested in emotional concealment of every kind.

Another major part of her legacy is the stage. The Mousetrap became one of the most extraordinary theatrical successes in history, and her instinct for compression, reveal, and audience manipulation translated naturally into drama. That theatrical skill is visible in the novels too. Christie understood entrances, exits, misdirection, and the exact moment a revelation should land.

The best way to understand Agatha Christie’s bibliography is as the work of a writer who turned mystery into an art of control. She could be playful, unsettling, charming, or cold, but she was always precise. Her books remain readable not only because they are clever, but because they understand people so well: their habits, pretenses, envies, and blind spots. That is why the shelf still feels alive. Christie did not just write detective stories. She built one of the great fictional laboratories of human motive, and readers are still entering it because no one has ever arranged the experiment quite the same way.