Female : Prolific Crime novelist. Married Col. Archibald Christie 1914. Divorced 1928. Married Max Mallowan (an archaeologist) 1930

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Torquay, Devon

Date of Birth : 1891 Date of Death : 1976 Age : 85

Pseudonyms : Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller. Mary Westmacott. Agatha Christie Mallowan

Education : Educated privately

1920-1923
UK Editions by John Lane
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920 John Lane US) (1920 John Lane UK)
[A UK First (without a dustwrapper) sold for £3500 at Sotheby's in 2000]
US Editions by Dodd Mead
The Secret Adversary (1922) (1922)
The Murder on the Links (1923) (1923)

1924
The Man in the Brown Suit (1924 Lane) (1924)
Poirot Investigates (1924 Lane) (1925) - ss
The Adventure of the Western Star (1924)
The Tragedy at Marston Manor (1924)
The Adventure of the Cheap Flat (1924)
The Mystery of the Hunters Lodge (1924)
The Million Dollar Bond Robbery (1924)
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb (1924)
The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan (1924)
The Kidnapped Prime Minister (1924)
The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim (1924)
The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman (1924)
The Case of the Missing Will (1924)

1925-1928
The Secret of Chimneys (1925) (1925)
An offered copy, minus d/w, sold at auction in 2002 for £646
UK by Collins from here on
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) (1926)
[Filmed in 1931 as "Ailibi"]
The Big Four (1927) (1927)
The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928) (1928)
Dodd Mead version offered for £455 in 1999

1929
The Seven Dials Mystery (1929) (1929)
Partners in Crime (1929) (1929) - ss
A Fairy in the Flat (1929)
A Pot of Tea (1929)
The Affair of the Pink Pearl (1929)
The Affair of the Sinister Stranger (1929)
Finessing the King (1929)
The Gentleman Dressed in Newspaper (1929)
The Case of the Missing Lady (1929)
Blindman's Buff (1929)
The Man in the Mist (1929)
The Crackler (1929)
The Sunningdale Mystery (1929)
The House of Lurking Death (1929)
The Unbreakable Alibi (1929)
The Clergyman's Daughter (1929)
The Red House (1929)
The Ambassador's Boots (1929)
The Man Who was No. 16 (1929)

UK Editions by Collins, US by Dodd Mead
1930
The Mysterious Mr Quin (1930) (1930)
The Coming of Mr Quin (1930)
The Shadow on the Glass (1930)
At the Bells and Motley (1930)
The Sign in the Sky (1930)
The Soul of the Croupier (1930)
The World's End (1930)
The Voice in the Dark (1930)
The Face of Helen (1930)
The Dead Harlequin (1930)
The Bird with the Broken Wing (1930)
The Man from the Sea (1930)
Harlequin's Lane (1930)
The Murder at the Vicarage (1930) (1930)

1931
The Sittaford Mystery (1931) (1931 as "Murder at Hazelwood")

1932
Peril at End House (1932 7/6)
The Thirteen Problems :
The Tuesday Night Club (1932)
The Idol House of Astarte (1932)
Ingots of Gold (1932)
The Blood Stained Pavement (1932)
Motive v Opportunity (1932)
The Thumb Mark of St Peter (1932)
The Blue Geranium (1932)
The Companion (1932)
The Four Suspects (1932)
A Christmas Tragedy (1932)
The Herb of Death (1932)
The Affair at the Bungalow (1932)
Death by Drowning (1932)

1933
Lord Edgware Dies (1933)
[Filmed in 1934]
The Hound of Death & Other Stories (1933 Odhams) (1936 Collins)
The Red Signal (1933)
The Fourth Man (1933)
The Gypsy (1933)
The Lamp (1933)
Wireless (1933)
The Witness for the Prosecution (1933)
[Filmed in 1957]
The Mystery of the Blue Jar (1933)
The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael (1933)
The Call of Wings (1933)
The Last Seance (1933)
S.O.S. (1933)

1934
Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
Superb dustwrappered copy offered in 2000 for £8995
[Filmed in 1974]
The Listerdale Mystery
The Listerdale Mystery (1934)
Philomel Cottage (1934)
The Girl in the Train (1934)
Sing a Song of Sixpence (1934)
The Manhood of Edward Robinson (1934)
Accident (1934)
Jane in Search of a Job (1934)
A Fruitful Sunday (1934)
Mr Eastwood's Adventure (1934)
The Golden Ball (1934)
The Rajah's Emerald (1934)
Swan Song (1934)
Why Didn't They Ask Evans ? (1934) (1935 Dodd Mead as "The Boomerang Clue")
Parker Pyne Investigates (1934)
The Case of the Middle Aged Wife (1934)
The Case of the Discontented Soldier (1934)
The Case of the Distressed Lady (1934)
The Case of the Discontented Husband (1934)
The Case of the City Clerk (1934)
The Case of the Rich Woman (1934)
Have You Got Everything You Want ? (1934)
The Gate of Baghdad (1934)
The House at Shiraz (1934)
The Pearl of Price (1934)
Death on the Nile (1934)
The Oracle at Delphi (1934)

1935
Three Act Tragedy (1935)
Death in the Clouds (1935)

1936-1937
The ABC Murders (1936)
[Filmed in 1965 as "The Alphabet Murders"]
Murder in Mesapotamia (1936)
Cards on the Table (1936)
Dumb Witness (1937)
Death on the Nile (1937) (1938 USA)
[Filmed in 1978]
Murder in the Mews
Murder in the Mews (1937)
The Incredible Theft (1937)
Dead Man's Mirror (1937)
Triangle at Rhodes (1937)

1938-1939
Appointment with Death (1938)
[Filmed in 1988]
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1938)
Murder is Easy (1939)
Ten Little Niggers (1939) - Published in USA as Ten Little Indians
[Filmed in 1966 as "Ten Little Indians"]
(later retitled in the UK & USA (1940 Dodd Mead) as "Then There were None")
[Filmed in 1945 as "And Then There were None"]

The Following were published in the USA in 1939 But NOT in UK
The Regatta Mystery
The Mystery of the Bagdad Chest
How Does your Garden Grow ?
Problems at Pollensa Bay
Yellow Iris
Miss Marple Tells A Story
The Dream
In a Glass Darkly
Problem at Sea

UK editions by Collins
1940-1945
Sad Cypress (1940)
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1940)
Evil Under the Sun (1941)
[Filmed in 1982]
N or M ? (1941)
The Body in the Library (1942)
Five Little Pigs (1942)
The Moving Finger (1943)
Towards Zero (1944)
Death Comes as the End (1944 Dodd Mead) (1945)
Sparkling Cyanide (1945)

1946-1948
The Hollow (1946)
The Labours of Hercules (1947)
Foreword (1947)
The Nemean Lion (1947)
The Arcadian Deer (1947)
The Lernean Hydra (1947)
The Erymanthean Boar (1947)
The Augean Stables (1947)
The Stymphalian Birds (1947)
The Cretan Bull (1947)
The Horses of Diomedes (1947)
The Girdle of Hippolyta (1947)
The Flock of Geryon (1947)
The Apples of the Hesperides (1947)
The Capture of Cerberus (1947)
Taken at the Flood (1948)
Murder on the Nile (1948 French)

The following NOT published in the UK
The Witness for the Prosecution & other Stories (1948)
The Red Signal (1948)
The Fourth Man (1948)
S.O.S. (1948)
Where There's A Will (1948)
The Mystery of the Blue Jar (1948)
Philomel Cottage (1948)
Accident (1948)
The Second Gang (1948)
Crooked House (1949 Dodd Mead)
A Murder in Announced (1949)

The following NOT published in the UK in 1950
Three Blind Mice & other Stories
Strange Jest
The Tape Measure Murder
The Case of the Perfect Maid
The Case of the Caretaker
The Third Floor Flat
The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly
Four and Twenty Blackbirds
The Love Detectives
They Came to Baghdad (1951 Collins) (1951 Dodd Mead)
The following NOT published in the UK in 1951
The Under Dog
The Plymouth Express
The Affair at the Victory Ball
The Market Basing Mystery
The King of Clubs
The Submarine Plans
The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
The Cornish Mystery
The LeMesurier Inheritance

UK Editions by Collins
1952-1960
Mrs McGinty's Dead (1952)
[Filmed in 1964 as "Murder Most Foul"]
They Do it With Mirros (1952)
After the Funeral (1953)
[Filmed in 1963 as "Murder at the Gallop"]
A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)
Destination Unknown (1954 Collins 10/6) (1955 Dodd Mead as "So Many Steps to Death")
Hickory, Dickory, Dock (1955 Collins 10/6)
Dead Man's Folly (1956)
4.50 From Paddington (1957 12/6)
[Filmed in 1961 as "Murder She Said"]
Ordeal by Innocence (1958) (1959 Dodd Mead)
Cat Among the Pigeons (1959)
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960 Collins)
The Mystery of the Spanish Chest (1960)
The Under Dog (1960)
Four and Twenty Blackbirds (1960)
The Dream (1960)
Greenshaw's Folly (1960)

1961
The Pale Horse (1961)
Thirteen for Luck ! (1961 Dodd Mead) (1966 Collins)
The following NOT published in the UK in 1961
Double Sin
Wasp's Nest
The Theft of the Royal Ruby
The Dressmaker's Doll
Greenshaw's Folly
The Double Clue
The Last Seance
Sanctuary

1962-1970
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1962 Collins)
[Filmed in 1980 as "The Mirror Crack'd"]
The Clocks (1963)
A Caribbean Mystery (1964)
At Bertram's Hotel (1965)
Third Girl (1966)
Endless Night (1967) (1968 Dodd Mead)
[Filmed in 1971]
By the Pricking of My thumbs (1968 Collins)
Hallowe'en Party (1969)
Passenger to Frankfurt (1970) (1970 Dodd Mead)

After 1971
Nemesis (1971)
The following NOT published in the UK in 1971
The Listerdale Mystery
The Girl on the Train
The Manhood of Edward Robinson
Jane in Search of a Job
A Fruitful Sunday
The Golden Ball
The Rajah's Emerald
Swan Song
The Hound of Death
The Gypsy
The Lamp
The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael
The Call of Wings
Magnolia Blossom
Next to a Dog
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Elephants Can Remember (1972 )
Postern of Fate (1973)
Poirot's Early Cases all 1974
The Affair at the Victory Ball
The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
The Cornish Mystery
The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly
the Double Clue
The King of Clubs
The LeMesurier Inheritance
The Lost Mine
The Plymouth Express
The Chocolate Box
The Submarine Plans
The Third Floor Flat
Double Sin
The Market Basing Mystery
Wasps Nest
The Veiled Lady
Problem at Sea
How Does Your Garden Grow ?
Curtain (1975)
Sleeping Murder (1976)
Miss Marple's Final Cases (1979)

Published as MARY WESTMACOTT
Giant's Bread (1930 Collins) (1930 DM)
Unfinished Portrait (1934)
Absent in the Spring (1944)
The Rose and the Yew Tree (1948)
A Daughter's a Daughter (1952)
The Burden (1956)

Published as AGATHA CHRISTIE
The Road of Dreams (1924 Bles) - poetry
Poems (1973 Collins)
An Autobiography (1977 Collins)

Published as AGATHA CHRISTIE MALLOWAN
Come Tell Me How You Live (1946)
Star Over Bethlehem (1965) - poems and children's stories

PLAYS WRITTEN OR ADAPTED BY CHRISTIE
Black Coffee (1934 Ashley pb) (1952 French pb)
Ten Little Niggers (1944 French pb)
Murder on the Nile (1948 French pb)
The Hollow (1952 [1953] French pb)
The Mousetrap (1954 French pb)
Witness for the Prosecution (1954 Gollancz - in Famous Plays for 1954)
(1954 French US pb) (1956 French UK pb)
Appoitment with Death (1956 French pb)
Spider's Web (1957 French pb)
[Filmed in 1960]
Towrads Zero (1957 Dramatist's Play Service pb US) (1958 French pb) - with Gerald Verner
Verdict (1958 French pb)
The Unexpected Guest (1958 French pb)
Go Back for Murder (1960 French pb)
Rule of Three (1963 French pb) - 3 vols
Akhnaton (1973 Collins)

OMNIBUS EDITIONS
The Mousetrap and Other Plays (1978 Dodd Mead US) (1993 Harper Collins)
Witness for the Prosecution & Selected Plays (1995 Harper Collins pb £4.99)
The Mousetrap and Selected Plays (1995 Harper Collins pb £5.99)

PLAYS ADAPTED BY OTHER WRITERS
Michael Morton : Alibi (1929 French pb)
Frank Vosper : Love from a Stranger (1936 Collins pb & Hb) (1937 French pb)
Arnold Ridley : Peril at End House (1945 French pb)
Moie Charles & Barbara Toy : Murder at the Vicarage (1950 French pb)
Leslie Darbon : A Murder is Announced (1978 French pb)
Leslie Darbon : Cards on the Table (1982 French pb £5.50)

READING
Peter Saunders : The Mousetrap Man (1972 Collins)
Max Mallowan : Mallowan's Memoirs (1977 Collins)
Agatha Christie : An Autobiography (1977 Collins £7.95)
(Ed) H R F Keating : Agatha Christie - First Lady of Crime (1977 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Hubert Gregg : Agatha Christie and All That Mousetrap (1980 Kimber)
Charles Osborne : The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie (1982 Collins)
Patricia D Maida & Nicholas Spornick : Murder She Wrote - A Study of Agatha Christie's
Detective Fiction (1982)
Janet Morgan : Agatha Christie - A Biography (1984 Cape)
(Eds) Dennis Sanders & Lan Lovallo : The Agatha Christie Companion - The Complete Guide
to Agatha Christie's Life & Work (1985)
Peter Haining : Agatha Christie - Murder in Four Acts (1990 Virgin)
Anne Hart : Agatha Christie's Poirot : The Life and Times of Hercule Poirot (1990 Pavilion)
Marion Shaw & Sabine Vanacker : Reflecting on Miss Marple (1991)
John Cooper & B A Pike : Artists in Crime - An Illustrated Survey of Crime Fiction 1st
Edition Dustwrappers 1920-1970 (1995 Scolar Press £49.50)
Peter Haining : Agatha Christie's Poirot (1995 Boxtree £14.95 & £10.99)

FILMS
"Agatha" (1979)
[Christie's disappearance in 1926 and her subsequent re-appeaarance in a Harrogate hotel]