Key:
HP = Hercule Poirot
MM = Miss Marple
TT = Tommy and Tuppence
CR = Colonel Race
SB = Superintendent Battle
Novels
“The Mysterious Affair at Styles” (1920, HP)
“The Secret Adversary” (1922, TT)
“The Murder on the Links” (1923, HP)
“The Man in the Brown Suit” (1924, CR)
“The Secret of Chimneys” (1925, SB)
“The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” (1926, HP)
“The Big Four” (1927, HP)
“The Mystery of the Blue Train” (1928, HP)
“The Seven Dials Mystery” (1929, SB)
“The Murder at the Vicarage” (1930, MM)
“The Floating Admiral” (1931, written with members of The Detection Club)
“The Sittaford Mystery” (1931, also published as “The Murder at Hazelmoor”)
“Peril at End House” (1932, HP)
“Lord Edgware Dies” (1933, HP, also published as “13 at Dinner”)
“Murder on the Orient Express” (1934, HP, also published as “Murder in the Calais Coach”)
“Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?” (1934, also published as “The Boomerang Clue”)
“Three Act Tragedy” (1935, HP, also published as “Murder in Three Acts”)
“Death in the Clouds” (1935, HP, also published as “Death in the Air”)
“The A.B.C. Murders” (1936, HP, also published as “The Alphabet Murders”)
“Murder in Mesopotamia” (1936, HP)
“Cards on the Table” (1936, HP)
“Dumb Witness” (1937, HP, also published as “Poirot Loses a Client”)
“Death on the Nile” (1937, HP, also published as “Murder on the Nile,” “Hidden Horizon”)
“Appointment with Death” (1938, HP)
“Hercule Poirot’s Christmas” (1938, HP, also published as “Murder for Christmas,” “A Holiday for Murder”)
“Murder is Easy” (1939, SB, also published as “Easy to Kill”)
“And Then There Were None” (1939, also published as “Ten Little Indians”)
“Sad Cypress” (1940, HP)
“One, Two, Buckle My Shoe” (1940, HP, also published as “An Overdose of Death,” “The Patriotic Murders”)
“Evil Under the Sun” (1941, HP)
“N or M?” (1941, TT)
“Five Little Pigs” (1942, HP, also published as “Murder in Retrospect”)
“The Body in the Library” (1942, MM)
“The Moving Finger” (1943, MM)
“Towards Zero” (1944, SB)
“Death Comes as the End” (1944)
“Sparkling Cyanide” (1945, CR, also published as “Remembered Death”)
“The Hollow” (1946, HP, also published as “Murder after Hours”)
“Taken at the Flood” (1948, HP, also published as “There Is a Tide …”)
“Crooked House” (1949)
“A Murder Is Announced” (1950, MM)
“They Came to Baghdad” (1951)
“Mrs. McGinty’s Dead” (1952, HP, also published as “Blood Will Tell”)
“They Do It with Mirrors” (1952, MM, also published as “Murder with Mirrors”)
“After the Funeral” (1953, HP, also published as “Funerals are Fatal”)
“A Pocket Full of Rye” (1953, MM)
“Destination Unknown” (1954, also published as “So Many Steps to Death”)
“Hickory Dickory Dock” (1955, HP, also published as “Hickory Dickory Death”)
“Dead Man’s Folly” (1956, HP)
“4.50 from Paddington” (1957, MM, also published as “What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!”)
“Ordeal by Innocence” (1958)
“Cat Among the Pigeons” (1959, HP)
“The Pale Horse” (1961)
“The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side” (1962, MM, also published as “The Mirror Crack’d”)
“The Clocks” (1963, HP)
“A Caribbean Mystery” (1964, MM)
“At Bertram’s Hotel” (1965, MM)
“Third Girl” (1966, HP)
“Endless Night” (1967)
“By the Pricking of My Thumbs” (1968, TT)
“Hallowe’en Party” (1969, HP)
“Passenger to Frankfurt” (1970)
“Nemesis” (1971, MM)
“Elephants Can Remember” (1972, HP)
“Postern of Fate” (1973, TT)
“Curtain” (1975, HP)
“Sleeping Murder” (1976, MM)
Mary Westmacott novels
Non-mystery novels written by Christie under pseudonym
“Giants’ Bread” (1930)
“Unfinished Portrait” (1934)
“Absent in the Spring” (1944)
“The Rose and the Yew Tree” (1948)
“A Daughter’s a Daughter” (1952)
“The Burden” (1956)
Novelizations by Charles Osborne
“Black Coffee” (1998, HP, based on 1930 play)
“The Unexpected Guest” (1999, based on 1958 play)
“Spider’s Web” (2000, based on 1954 play)
Continuations by Sophie Hannah
“The Monogram Murders” (2014, HP)
“Closed Casket” (2016, HP)
“The Mystery of Three Quarters” (2018, HP)
“The Killings at Kingfisher Hill” (2020, HP)
“Hercule Poirot’s Silent Night” (2023, HP)
Short story collections
U.S. collections
“Poirot Investigates” (1924, HP)
“Partners in Crime” (1929, TT)
“The Mysterious Mr. Quin” (1930)
“The Thirteen Problems” (1932, MM, also published as “The Tuesday Club Murders”)
“Parker Pyne Investigates” (1934, also published as “Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective”)
“Murder in the Mews” (1937, HP, also published as “Dead Man’s Mirror”)
“The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories” (1939, HP, MM)
“The Labors of Hercules” (1947, HP)
“The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories” (1948, HP)
“Three Blind Mice and Other Stories” (1950, HP, MM, also published as “The Mousetrap and Other Stories”)
“The Under Dog and Other Stories” (1951, HP)
“Double Sin and Other Stories” (1961, HP, MM)
“The Golden Ball and Other Stories” (1971)
“The Harlequin Tea Set” (1997, HP)
“The Last Seance” (2019, reprinted stories plus “The Wife of the Kenite”)
Continuations
“Marple: Twelve New Mysteries” (2022, MM)
Biographies
“Come, Tell Me How You Live” (1946, autobiographical travel book)
“Agatha Christie: An Autobiography” (1977)
“Agatha Christie: A Biography” by Janet Morgan (1984)
Screen adaptations
TV series
“Miss Marple” (Joan Hickson as MM, 1984-92, click here for episode list)
“Agatha Christie’s Poirot” (David Suchet as HP, 1989-2013, click here for episode list)
“Agatha Christie’s Marple” (Geraldine McEwan and Julia McKenzie as MM, 2004-13, click here for episode list)
Movies, TV movies and miniseries
(Unless otherwise noted, it’s a theatrical film.)
“The Passing of Mr. Quin” (1928, based on the short story “The Coming of Mr. Quin”)
“Alibi” (1931, Austin Trevor as HP, based on the play “Alibi,” which is based on the novel “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd”)
“Black Coffee” (1931, Trevor as HP)
“Lord Edgware Dies” (1937, Trevor as HP)
“A Night of Terror” (1937, also released as “Love from a Stranger,” based on the short story “Philomel Cottage”)
“And Then There Were None” (1945)
“Love from a Stranger” (1947, based on the short story “Philomel Cottage”)
“Witness for the Prosecution” (1957)
“Ten Little Indians” (TV movie, 1959)
“The Spider’s Web” (1960)
“Murder, She Said” (1961, Margaret Rutherford as MM, based on “4.50 from Paddington”)
“Murder at the Gallop” (1963, Rutherford as MM, based on “After the Funeral”)
“Murder Most Foul” (1964, Rutherford as MM, based on “Mrs. McGinty’s Dead”)
“Murder Ahoy!” (1964, Rutherford as MM, borrows elements of “They Do It with Mirrors”)
“Ten Little Indians” (1965)
“The Alphabet Murders” (1965, Tony Randall as HP)
“Endless Night” (1972)
“Murder on the Orient Express” (1974, Albert Finney as HP)
“Ten Little Indians” (1974, also released as “And Then There Were None”)
“Death on the Nile” (1978, Peter Ustinov as HP)
“The Mirror Crack’d” (1980, Angela Lansbury as MM)
“Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?” (TV movie, 1980)
“Seven Dials Mystery” (TV movie, 1981, SB)
“Evil Under the Sun” (1982, Ustinov as HP)
“Spider’s Web” (TV movie, 1982)
“The Agatha Christie Hour” (10-episode TV miniseries, 1982, adapting short stories)
“Murder is Easy” (TV movie, 1982, SB)
“The Witness for the Prosecution” (TV movie, 1982)
“Partners in Crime” (11-episode TV miniseries, 1983, TT, adapting “The Secret Adversary” and short stories from “Partners in Crime”)
“A Caribbean Mystery” (TV movie, 1983, Helen Hayes as MM)
“Sparkling Cyanide” (TV movie, 1983)
“Ordeal by Innocence” (1985)
“Murder with Mirrors” (TV movie, 1985, Hayes as MM)
“Thirteen at Dinner” (TV movie, 1985, Ustinov as HP)
“Dead Man’s Folly” (TV movie, 1986, Ustinov as HP)
“Murder in Three Acts” (TV movie, 1986, Ustinov as HP)
“Appointment with Death” (1988, Ustinov as HP)
“Ten Little Indians” (1989)
“The Man in the Brown Suit” (TV movie, 1989, CR)
“Innocent Lies” (1995, loosely based on “Towards Zero”)
“The Pale Horse” (TV movie, 1997)
“Murder on the Orient Express” (TV movie, 2001, Alfred Molina as HP)
“Sparkling Cyanide” (TV movie, 2003, CR)
“Mindhunters” (2004, loosely based on “And Then There Were None”)
“Partners in Crime” (six-episode TV miniseries, 2015, TT, adapting “The Secret Adversary” and “N or M?”)
“And Then There Were None” (three-episode TV miniseries, 2015)
“The Witness for the Prosecution” (two-episode TV miniseries, 2016)
“Murder on the Orient Express” (2017, Kenneth Branagh as HP)
“Crooked House” (2017)
“Ordeal by Innocence” (three-episode TV miniseries, 2018)
“The ABC Murders” (three-episode TV miniseries, 2018, John Malkovich as HP)
“The Pale Horse” (two-episode TV miniseries, 2020)
“Death on the Nile” (2022, Branagh as HP)
“See How They Run” (2022, original story with “The Mousetrap” as a backdrop)
“Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?” (three-episode TV miniseries, 2022)
“A Haunting in Venice” (2023, Branagh as HP, inspired by “Hallowe’en Party”)
Lists and rankings
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Elsewhere
Podcasts
All About Agatha — Two readers break down all of Christie’s novels and short stories en route to compiling an overall ranking of her works.