The Great Agatha Christie Challenge

I have been reading Agatha Christie on and off for years. I love her books, they don't pretend to be great literature, just great puzzles. I adore the extreme "Englishness" of her plots, all tea and scones and hats and gloves. I have decided to read all her crime books in order of publication. With 66 novels and over 100 short stories, it could take me a while. I'll review each one and add them to the book reviews blog area. You can filter for just the Christie books by clicking on "The Great Agatha Christie Challenge" in the Tag Cloud on the right hand side.

Below is a list of all her books, taken from the Official Agatha Christie Website. So off I go!

1920 The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Finished

1922 The Secret Adversary - Finished

1923 Murder on the Links - Finished

1924 The Man in the Brown Suit - Finished

1924 Poirot Investigates  - Finished

1925 The Secret of Chimneys - Finished

1926 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Finished

1927 The Big Four - Finished

1928 The Mystery of the Blue Train - Finished

1929 The Seven Dials Mystery - Finished

1929 Partners in Crime - Finished

1930 The Mysterious Mr Quin – Finished

1930 The Murder at the Vicarage - Finished

1931 The Sittaford Mystery

1932 Peril at End House

1932 The Thirteen Problems

1933 Lord Edgware Dies

1933 The Hound of Death 

1934 The Listerdale Mystery

1934 Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?

1934 Parker Pyne Investigates

1934 Three-Act Tragedy

1935 Death in the Clouds

1936 The ABC Murders

1936 Murder in Mesopotamia

1936 Cards on the Table

1937 Dumb Witness

1937 Death on the Nile

1937 Murder in the Mews

1938 Appointment with Death

1938 Hercule Poirot’s Christmas

1939 Easy to Kill

1939 And Then There Were None

1940 Sad Cypress

1940 One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

1941 Evil Under the Sun

1941 N or M?

1942 The Body in the Library

1942 Five Little Pigs

1942 The Moving Finger

1944 Towards Zero

1944 Death Comes as the End

1945 Sparking Cyanide

1946 The Hollow

1947 The Labours of Hercules

1948 Taken at the Flood

1949 Crooked House

1950 A Murder is Announced

1951 They Came to Baghdad

1952 Mrs McGinty’s Dead

1952 They Do It with Mirrors

1953 After the Funeral

1953 A Pocket Full of Rye

1954 Destination Unknown

1955 Hickory Dickory Dock

1956 Dead Man’s Folly

1957 4.50 from Paddington

1958 Ordeal by Innocence

1959 Cat Among the Pigeons

1960 The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

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

1975 Curtain

1976 Sleeping Murder

1979 Miss Marple’s Final Cases 

1991 Problem at Pollensa Bay

1997 While the Light Lasts