Agatha Christie's Book Dedications

Agatha Christie often dedicated her books to people she knew or had a special relationship with. This is a compilation of her dedications. Note that American editions frequently did not carry dedications even though they were on the UK editions. In terms of the typesetting style, the presentation below follows a "typical" one seen on a book, preferably a HarperCollins edition.

Year	Title	Dedication
1920	The Mysterious Affair at Styles	To my Mother
1922	The Secret Adversary	To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure.
1923	The Murder on the Links	To My Husband a fellow enthusiast for detective stories and to whom I am indebted for much helpful advice and criticism
1924	Poirot Investigates	(no dedication)
1924	The Man in the Brown Suit	To E.A.B. In memory of a journey, some lion stories and a request that I should some day write the 'Mystery of the Mill House'
1925	The Road of Dreams
1925	The Secret of Chimneys	To my nephew In memory of an inscription at Compton Castle and a day at the zoo
1926	The Murder of Roger Ackroyd	To Punkie who likes an orthodox detective story, murder, inquest, and suspicion falling on everyone in turn!
1927	The Big Four	(no dedication)
1928	The Mystery of the Blue Train	Dedicated to two distinguished members of the O. F. D. Carlotta and Peter
1929	The Seven Dials Mystery	(no dedication)
1929	Partners in Crime	(no dedication)
1930	Giant's Bread (Mary Westmacott)	To the memory of my best and truest friend, my mother (second dedication)
1930	The Mysterious Mr. Quin	To Harlequin the invisible
1930	The Murder at the Vicarage	To Rosalind
1931	The Sittaford Mystery	To M.E.M. with whom I discussed the plot of this book, to the alarm of those around us.
1932	Peril at End House	To EDEN PHILLPOTTS To whom I shall always be grateful for his friendship and the encouragement he gave me many years ago
1932	The Thirteen Problems	To Leonard and Katharine Woolley
1933	Lord Edgware Dies	To Dr. and Mrs. Campbell Thompson.
1933	The Hound of Death and Other Stories	(no dedication)
1934	Murder on the Orient Express	To M. E. L. M. Arpachiyah, 1933. (note: second dedication. Arpachiyah was his first independent excavation.)
1934	Unfinished Portrait (Mary Westmacott)	(no dedication)
1934	The Listerdale Mystery	(no dedication)
1934	Parker Pyne Investigates	(no dedication)
1934	Why Didn't They Ask Evans?	To Christopher Mallock in memory of Hinds
1935	Three Act Tragedy	Dedicated to My friends, Geoffrey and Violet Shipston
1935	Death in the Clouds	To Ormond Beadle
1936	The A.B.C. Murders	To James Watts One of my most sympathetic readers
1936	Murder in Mesopotamia	To my many archaeological friends in Iraq and Syria.
1936	Cards on the Table	(no dedication)
1937	Murder in the Mews and Other Stories	To My Old Friend Sybil Healey With affection
1937	Dumb Witness	To dear Peter, most faithful of friends and dearest of companions, a dog in a thousand
1937	Death on the Nile	To Sybil Burnett, who also loves wandering about the world.
1938	Appointment with Death	To Richard and Myra Mallock to remind them of their journey to Petra.
1938	Hercule Poirot's Christmas	My dear James, You have always been one of the most faithful and kindly of my readers, and I was therefore seriously perturbed when I received from you a word of criticism. You complained that my murders were getting too refined anaemic, in fact. You yearned for a 'good violent murder with lots of blood A murder where there was no doubt about its being murder! So this is your special story written for you. I hope it may please. Your affectionate sister-in-law, Agatha (note: second dedication)
1939	The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories	(no dedication)
1939	Murder is Easy	To Rosalind and Susan, the first critics of this book. (note: second dedication for Rosalind)
1939	And Then There Were None	To Carlo and Mary This is their book, dedicated to them with much affection. (note: second dedication for Carlo)
1940	Sad Cypress	To Peter and Peggy McLeod
1940	One, Two, Buckle My Shoe	To Dorothy North who likes detective stories and cream, in the hope it may make up to her for the absence of the latter!
1941	Evil Under the Sun	To John In memory of our last season in Syria
1941	N or M?	(no dedication)
1942	The Body in the Library	(no dedication)
1942	Five Little Pigs	To Stephen Glanville
1942	The Moving Finger	To my friends Sydney and Mary Smith
1944	Towards Zero	To Robert Graves Dear Robert, Since you are kind enough to say you like my stories, I venture to dedicate this book to you. All I ask is that you should sternly restrain your critical faculties (doubtless sharpened by your recent excesses in that line!) when reading it. This is a story for your pleasure and not a candidate for Mr Graves' literary pillory! Your friend, (signed Agatha Christie)
1944	Absent in the Spring (Mary Westmacott)	(no dedication)
1944	Death Comes as the End	TO PROFESSOR S.R.K. GLANVILLE Dear Stephen, It was you who originally suggested to me the idea of a detective story set in Ancient Egypt, and but for your active help and encouragement this book would never have been written. I want to say here how much I have enjoyed all the interesting literature you have lent me and to thank you once more for the patience with which you have answered my questions and for the time and trouble you have expended. The pleasure and interest which the writing of the book has brought to me you already know. Your affectionate and grateful friend, (signed Agatha Christie) (note: second dedication)
1945	Sparkling Cyanide	(no dedication)
1946	The Hollow	For LARRY and DANAE With apologies for using their swimming pool as the scene of a murder
1946	Come, Tell Me How You Live (Agatha Christie Mallowan)	To my husband Max Mallowan; to the Colonel, Bumps, Mac and Guilford, this meandering chronicle is affectionately dedicated
1947	The Labours of Hercules	To Edmund Cork of whose labours on behalf of Hercule Poirot I am deeply appreciative this book is affectionately dedicated
1948	Taken at the Flood	(no dedication)
1948	The Rose and the Yew Tree (Mary Westmacott)	(no dedication)
1948	The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories	(no dedication)
1949	Crooked House	(no dedication)
1950	A Murder is Announced	To Ralph and Anne Newman at whose house I first tasted 'Delicious Death!'
1950	Three Blind Mice and Other Stories	(no dedication)
1951	They Came to Baghdad	To all my friends in Baghdad
1951	The Under Dog and Other Stories	(no dedication)
1952	Mrs McGinty's Dead	To PETER SAUNDERS In gratitude for his kindness to authors
1952	They Do It with Mirrors	To Mathew Prichard
1952	A Daughter's a Daughter	(no dedication)
1953	After the Funeral	For James in memory of happy days at Abney
1953	A Pocket Full of Rye	For Bruce Ingram who liked and published my first short stories
1954	Destination Unknown	To ANTHONY who likes foreign travel as much as I do
1955	Hickory Dickory Dock	(no dedication)
1956	The Burden	(no dedication)
1956	Dead Man's Folly	To Peggy and Humphrey Trevelyan
1957	4.50 from Paddington	(no dedication)
1958	Ordeal by Innocence	To Billy Collins with affection and gratitude
1959	Cat Among the Pigeons	For Stella and Larry Kirwan
1960	The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and a Selection of Entrées	As part of Christie's foreword: "So let me dedicate this book to the memory of Abney Hall--its kindness and its hospitality."
1961	The Pale Horse	To JOHN & HELEN MILDMAY WHITE with many thanks for the opportunity given me to see justice done
1961	Double Sin and Other Stories	(no dedication)
1962	The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side	To Margaret Rutherford in admiration
1963	The Clocks	To my old friend MARIO with happy memories of delicious food at the CAPRICE
1964	A Caribbean Mystery	To my old friend John Cruickshank Rose with happy memories of my visit to the West Indies
1965	Star Over Bethlehem and other stories (Agatha Christie Mallowan)	For Hydie
1965	At Bertram's Hotel	FOR HARRY SMITH because I appreciate the scientific way he reads my books
1966	Third Girl	To Nora Blackborow
1967	Endless Night	To Nora Prichard from whom I first heard the legend of Gipsy's Acre.
1968	By the Pricking of My Thumbs	This book is dedicated to the many readers in this and in other countries who write to me asking: 'What has happened to Tommy and Tuppence? What are they doing now?' My best wishes to you all, and I hope will enjoy meeting Tummy and Tuppence again, years older, but with spirit unquenched! (signed Agatha Christie)
1969	Hallowe'en Party	To P. G. Wodehouse whose books and stories have brightened my life for many years. Also, to show my pleasure in his having been kind enough to tell me that he enjoys my books.
1970	Passenger to Frankfurt	To Margaret Guillaume
1971	Nemesis	To Daphne Honeybone
1971	The Golden Ball and Other Stories	(no dedication)
1972	Elephants Can Remember	to Molly Myers in return for many kindnesses
1973	Postern of Fate	For Hannibal and his master
1973	Poems
1974	Poirot's Early Cases
1975	Curtain
1976	Sleeping Murder
1979	Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories