Agatha Christie (1890 (or 1891?) -- 12 January 1976)
British crime fiction and mystery? writer. She was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1971. Published over 80 books and other works. Also used pen name [Mary Westmacott]? for romantic novels.
Famous characters include Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple.
Books:
- 1920 [The Mysterious Affair at Styles]? (her first book and introducing Hercule Poirot)
- 1922 [The Secret Adversary]? (introducing Tommy and Tuppence)
- 1923 [Murder on the Links]?
- 1924 [The Man in the Brown Suit]?
- 1925 [The Secret of Chimneys]?
- 1927 [The Big Four]?
- 1928 [The Mystery of the Blue Train]?
- 1929 [The Seven Dials Mystery]?
- 1930 [The Murder at the Vicarage]? (introducing Jane Marple)
- 1930 [The Mysterious Mr Quin]? (introducing Mr Harley Quin)
- 1931 [The Sittaford Mystery]?
- 1932 [Peril at End House]?
- 1933 [Sad Cypress]?
- 1933 [The Hound of Death]? (twelve short mysteries)
- 1933 [Lord Edgware dies]?
- 1934 [Murder on the Orient Express]?
- 1934 [Parker Pyne investigates]? (twelve short mysteries)
- 1934 [The Listerdale mystery]? (twelve short mysteries)
- 1935 [Three Act Tragedy]?
- 1935 [Why didn't they ask Evans?]?
- 1936 [The ABC Murders]?
- 1936 [Murder in Mesopotamia]?
- 1936 [Cards on the Table]?
- 1937 [Death on the Nile]?
- 1937 [Dumb Witness]?
- 1938 [Appointment with Death]?
- 1938 (1939?) Ten Little Niggers (also known as And Then There Were None, Ten Little Indians)
- 1939 [Murder is Easy]?
- 1939 [Hercule Poirot's Christmas]?
- 1941 [Evil under the Sun]?
- 1941 [N or M?]?
- 1941 [One, Two, Buckle my Shoe]?
- 1942 [The Body in the Library]?
- 1942 [Five little pigs]?
- 1942 [The Moving Finger]?
- 1944 [Towards Zero]?
- 1944 (1945?) [Sparkling Cyanide]?
- 1945 [Death comes as the End]?
- 1946 [The Hollow]?
- 1947 [The Labours of Hercules]? (twelve short mysteries)
- 1948 [There is a Tide]? (also known as Taken at the Flood)
- 1949 [Crooked House]?
- 1950 [A Murder is Announced]?
- 1951 [They came to Baghdad]?
- 1952 [Mrs McGinty's dead]?
- 1953 [A Pocketful of Rye]?
- 1953 [After the Funeral]?
- 1953 [Death in the Clouds]?
- 1955 [Hickory Dickory Dock]?
- 1955 [Destination Unknown]?
- 1956 [Dead Man's Folly]?
- 1957 [4.50 from Paddington]?
- 1957 [Ordeal by Innocence]?
- 1959 [Cat Among the Pigeons]?
- 1961 [The Pale Horse]?
- 1962 [The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side]?
- 1963 [The Clocks]?
- 1964 [A Caribbean Mystery]?
- 1965 [At Bertram's Hotel]?
- 1966 [Third Girl]?
- 1967 [Endless Night]?
- 1968 [By the Pricking of my Thumbs]?
- 1969 [Hallowe'en Party]?
- 1970 [Passenger to Frankfurt]?
- 1971 /Nemesis?
- 1972 [Elephants can remember]?
- 1973 [Postern of Fate]?
- 1974 [Poirot's Early Cases]? (eighteen short mysteries)
- 1975 /Curtain?
- 1976 [Sleeping Murder]?
- ? [The Murder of Roger Ackroyd]?
Co-authoring:
- 1931 [The Floating Admiral]? written together with G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy L Sayers and certain other members of the Detection Club.
Writing as Mary Westmacott:
- 1930 [Giant's Bread]?
- 1934 [Unfinished Portrait]?
- 1947 [The Rose and the Yew Tree]?
- 1952 [A Daughter's a Daughter]?
- 1956 [The Burden]?