Christie Completion

Here I will organize all of my Christie stuff, starting with what I have left to read:

I’m catching up a few reading projects, so I thought I would go through and identify which of the very few full-length Christie mysteries I have left:

I’ve rearranged them in the approximate order I plan to read them:

Destination Unknown
The Pale Horse
Partners in Crime
N or M
By The Pricking of My Thumbs
Postern of Fate
Death Comes As The End
Nemesis
Sleeping Murder
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans

That’s actually more than I thought, although I am aware that some of them are true clunkers – I’ve heard nothing good about Postern of Fate. At this point, I’ve decided to finish the Tommy & Tuppence books before I move on to Death Comes As The End. That leaves me two Marples and a stand-alone to finish out the mysteries.

I also have several of the short story collections left, including Harley Quin & Parker Pyne.

I also haven’t read the books she published under the Mary Westamacott name, which are a bit difficult to find, but are by no means unobtainable.

Giant’s Bread
Unfinished Portrait
Absent in Spring
The Rose and the Yew Tree
A Daughter’s A Daughter
The Burden

And I definitely want to track down the three Detection Club stories:

The Floating Admiral
Ask a Policeman
Six Against the Yard

Hercule Poirot mysteries:

x The Mysterious Affair at Styles 1920
x Murder on the Links 1923
x The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 1926
x The Big Four 1927
x The Mystery of the Blue Train 1928
x Peril at End House 1932
x Lord Edgware Dies 1933
x Murder on the Orient Express 1934
x Three Act Tragedy 1935
x Death in the Clouds 1935
x The ABC Murders 1936
x Murder in Mesopotamia 1936
x Cards on the Table 1936
x Dumb Witness 1937
x Death on the Nile 1937
x Appointment with Death 1938
x Hercule Poirot’s Christmas 1938
x Sad Cypress 1940
x One, Two Buckle My Shoe 1940
x Evil Under the Sun 1941
x Five Little Pigs 1943
x The Hollow 1946
x Taken at the Flood 1948
x Mrs McGinty’s Dead 1952
x After the Funeral 1953
x Hickory Dickory Dock 1955
x Dead Man’s Folly 1956
x Cat Among the Pigeons 1959
x The Clocks 1963
x Third Girl 1966
x Hallowe’en Party 1969
x Elephants Can Remember 1972
x Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case 1975

Marple Mysteries:

x Murder at the Vicarage 1930
x The Body in the Library 1942
x The Moving Finger 1943
Sleeping Murder 1976
x A Murder is Announced 1950
x 4.50 from Paddington 1957
x The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side 1962
x A Caribbean Mystery 1964
x At Bertram’s Hotel 1965
x They Do it with Mirrors 1952
x A Pocket Full of Rye 1953
Nemesis 1971

Tommy & Tuppence Beresford

x The Secret Adversary 1922
x Partners in Crime 1929
x N or M? 1941
x By the Pricking of My Thumbs 1968
x Postern of Fate 1973

Superintendent Battle

x The Secret of Chimneys 1925
x The Seven Dials Mystery 1929
x Cards on the Table 1936
x Murder is Easy 1939
x Towards Zero 1944

Colonel Race

x The Man in the Brown Suit 1924
x Cards on the Table 1936
x Death on the Nile 1937
x Sparkling Cyanide 1944

Ariadne Oliver

x Parker Pyne Investigates 1934
x Cards on the Table 1936
x Mrs. McGinty’s Dead 1952
x Dead Man’s Folly 1956
x The Pale Horse 1961
x Third Girl 1966
x Hallowe’en Party 1969
x Elephants Can Remember 1972

Other/standalone works

x The Sittaford Mystery 1931
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans 1933
x And Then There Were None 1939
Death Comes As The End 1944
x Crooked House 1949
x They Came to Baghdad 1951
x Destination Unknown 1954
x Ordeal by Innocence 1958
x Endless Night 1967
x Passenger to Frankfurt 1970

Mary Westmacott

The Giant’s Bread 1930
Unfinished Portrait 1933
Absent in Spring 1944
The Rose and the Yew Tree 1948
A Daughter’s A Daughter 1952
x The Burden 1956

Detection Club:

The Floating Admiral
Ask a Policeman
Six Against the Yard