Agatha Christie works in Chronological order
So I have tried to gather all her works and made a list of them in chronological order as the title mentions. I will be reading them in that order as much as I can. I do hope to be able to get the works be it in physical, digital or audiobook format. I'll really try to get to as many of them as I can during the rest of the year.
List:
1. 1920 The Mysterious Affair at Styles (introducing Hercule Poirot, Chief Inspector Japp and Captain Hastings)
2. 1922 The Secret Adversary (introducing Tommy and Tuppence)
3. 1923 Murder on the Links (already have a blog review, very vague for this find it here)
4. 1923 The Lemesurier inheritance: A Hercule Poirot short story
5. 1924 Poirot Investigates
6. 1924 The Man in the Brown Suit
7. 1925 The Secret of Chimneys
8. 1926 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
9. 1927 The Big Four
10. 1928 The Mystery of the Blue Train
11. 1929 The Seven Dials Mystery
12. 1930 The Murder at the Vicarage (introducing Jane Marple)
13. 1930 The mysterious Mr. Quin
14. 1931 The Sittaford Mystery (also known as Murder at Hazelmore)
15. 1932 Peril at End House
16. 1933 Lord Edgware Dies (also known as Thirteen at Dinner)
17. 1933 The thirteen problems
18. 1933 The veiled lady. The Hound of death. Double sin
19. 1934 Murder on the Orient Express
20. 1934 Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (also known as The Boomerang Clue)
21. 1935 Three Act Tragedy (also known as Murder in Three Acts)
22. 1935 Death in the Clouds (also known as Death in the Air)
23. 1936 The A.B.C. Murders (also known as The Alphabet Murders)
24. 1936 Murder in Mesopotamia
25. 1936 Cards on the Table
26. 1937 Death on the Nile
27. 1937 Dumb Witness (also known as Poirot Loses a Client and Mystery at Littlegreen House and Murder at Littlegreen House)
28. 1937 Murder in the mews and other stories
29. 1938 Appointment with Death
30. 1938 Hercule Poirot's Christmas (also known as Murder for Christmas and A Holiday for Murder)
31. 1939 And Then There Were None (also known as Ten Little Indians and originally as Ten Little Niggers)
32. 1939 Murder is Easy (also known as Easy to Kill)
33. 1940 Sad Cypress
34. 1940 One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (also known as An Overdose of Death and The Patriotic Murders)
35. 1941 Evil Under the Sun
36. 1941 N or M?
37. 1942 The Body in the Library
38. 1942 Five Little Pigs (also known as Murder in Retrospect)
39. 1942 The Moving Finger (also known as The Case of the Moving Finger)
40. 1944 Towards Zero (also known as Come and Be Hanged)
41. 1944 Death Comes as the End
42. 1945 Sparkling Cyanide (also known as Remembered Death)
43. 1946 The Hollow (also known as Murder After Hours)
44. 1947 The labours of Hercules
45. 1948 Taken at the Flood (also known as There is a Tide)
46. 1948 The witness for the prosecution and other stories
47. 1949 Crooked House
48. 1950 A Murder is Announced
49. 1950 Three blind Mice and other stories
50. 1951 The under dog and other stories
51. 1951 They Came to Baghdad
52. 1952 Mrs McGinty's Dead (also known as Blood Will Tell)
53. The mousetrap
54. 1952 They Do It with Mirrors (also known as Murder with Mirrors)
55. 1953 A Pocket Full of Rye
56. 1953 After the Funeral (also known as Funerals are Fatal and Murder at the Gallop)
57. 1954 Destination Unknown (also known as So Many Steps to Death)
58. 1955 Hickory Dickory Dock (also known as Hickory Dickory Death)
59. 1956 Dead Man's Folly
60. 1957 4.50 From Paddington (also known as What Mrs. McGillycuddy Saw and Murder She Said)
61. 1958 Ordeal by Innocence
62. 1959 Cat Among the Pigeons
63. 1960 The adventure of the Christmas pudding
64. 1961 The Pale Horse
65. 1962 The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (also known as The Mirror Crack'd)
66. 1963 The Clocks
67. 1964 A Caribbean Mystery
68. 1965 At Bertram's Hotel
69. 1966 Third Girl
70. 1967 Endless Night
71. 1968 By the Pricking of My Thumbs
72. 1969 Hallowe'en Party
73. 1970 Passenger to Frankfurt
74. 1971 Nemesis
75. 1972 Elephants Can Remember
76. 1973 Postern of Fate (final Tommy and Tuppence, last novel Christie wrote)
77. 1974 Poirot’s early cases
78. 1975 Curtain (Poirot's last case, written four decades earlier)
List:
2. 1922 The Secret Adversary (introducing Tommy and Tuppence)
3. 1923 Murder on the Links (already have a blog review, very vague for this find it here)
4. 1923 The Lemesurier inheritance: A Hercule Poirot short story
5. 1924 Poirot Investigates
6. 1924 The Man in the Brown Suit
7. 1925 The Secret of Chimneys
8. 1926 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
9. 1927 The Big Four
10. 1928 The Mystery of the Blue Train
11. 1929 The Seven Dials Mystery
12. 1930 The Murder at the Vicarage (introducing Jane Marple)
13. 1930 The mysterious Mr. Quin
14. 1931 The Sittaford Mystery (also known as Murder at Hazelmore)
15. 1932 Peril at End House
16. 1933 Lord Edgware Dies (also known as Thirteen at Dinner)
17. 1933 The thirteen problems
18. 1933 The veiled lady. The Hound of death. Double sin
19. 1934 Murder on the Orient Express
20. 1934 Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (also known as The Boomerang Clue)
21. 1935 Three Act Tragedy (also known as Murder in Three Acts)
22. 1935 Death in the Clouds (also known as Death in the Air)
23. 1936 The A.B.C. Murders (also known as The Alphabet Murders)
24. 1936 Murder in Mesopotamia
25. 1936 Cards on the Table
26. 1937 Death on the Nile
27. 1937 Dumb Witness (also known as Poirot Loses a Client and Mystery at Littlegreen House and Murder at Littlegreen House)
28. 1937 Murder in the mews and other stories
29. 1938 Appointment with Death
30. 1938 Hercule Poirot's Christmas (also known as Murder for Christmas and A Holiday for Murder)
31. 1939 And Then There Were None (also known as Ten Little Indians and originally as Ten Little Niggers)
32. 1939 Murder is Easy (also known as Easy to Kill)
33. 1940 Sad Cypress
34. 1940 One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (also known as An Overdose of Death and The Patriotic Murders)
35. 1941 Evil Under the Sun
36. 1941 N or M?
37. 1942 The Body in the Library
38. 1942 Five Little Pigs (also known as Murder in Retrospect)
39. 1942 The Moving Finger (also known as The Case of the Moving Finger)
40. 1944 Towards Zero (also known as Come and Be Hanged)
41. 1944 Death Comes as the End
42. 1945 Sparkling Cyanide (also known as Remembered Death)
43. 1946 The Hollow (also known as Murder After Hours)
44. 1947 The labours of Hercules
45. 1948 Taken at the Flood (also known as There is a Tide)
46. 1948 The witness for the prosecution and other stories
47. 1949 Crooked House
48. 1950 A Murder is Announced
49. 1950 Three blind Mice and other stories
50. 1951 The under dog and other stories
51. 1951 They Came to Baghdad
52. 1952 Mrs McGinty's Dead (also known as Blood Will Tell)
53. The mousetrap
54. 1952 They Do It with Mirrors (also known as Murder with Mirrors)
55. 1953 A Pocket Full of Rye
56. 1953 After the Funeral (also known as Funerals are Fatal and Murder at the Gallop)
57. 1954 Destination Unknown (also known as So Many Steps to Death)
58. 1955 Hickory Dickory Dock (also known as Hickory Dickory Death)
59. 1956 Dead Man's Folly
60. 1957 4.50 From Paddington (also known as What Mrs. McGillycuddy Saw and Murder She Said)
61. 1958 Ordeal by Innocence
62. 1959 Cat Among the Pigeons
63. 1960 The adventure of the Christmas pudding
64. 1961 The Pale Horse
65. 1962 The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (also known as The Mirror Crack'd)
66. 1963 The Clocks
67. 1964 A Caribbean Mystery
68. 1965 At Bertram's Hotel
69. 1966 Third Girl
70. 1967 Endless Night
71. 1968 By the Pricking of My Thumbs
72. 1969 Hallowe'en Party
73. 1970 Passenger to Frankfurt
74. 1971 Nemesis
75. 1972 Elephants Can Remember
76. 1973 Postern of Fate (final Tommy and Tuppence, last novel Christie wrote)
77. 1974 Poirot’s early cases
78. 1975 Curtain (Poirot's last case, written four decades earlier)
So I own a few of the books, seven of them but in such a messy collection. Two of them are in mass-market English version and four of them in a mass market paperback booklet version and the last one is an old hardcover that I found in a used book store.
Here they are so you get an idea:
I clearly do not care much about my book series to match. Good thing the people who visit do not really care about an aesthetically pleasing bookshelf.
I already started to read them. I had initially found a list and it was a bit out of order so I read Murder at the Links first, but then went back to the start of my list and will follow the order included here, I hope I missed very little. We'll see as we go along.
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