A bibliography of the detective or mystery novels and other works of Agatha Christie.
Novels & Novellas[]
Agatha Christie wrote 66 detective or mystery novels and 5 novellas. She also wrote 6 romance novels under the pen name Mary Westmacott.
Major alternative titles used for US editions are listed in smaller print. For a more complete list which includes serialisations, see Alternative titles for works by Agatha Christie.
Novels[]
Novellas[]
| Year published |
Title | Detectives |
|---|---|---|
| 1936 | Murder in the Mews (adapted from short story The Market Basing Mystery) | Hercule Poirot
Inspector Japp |
| 1937 | Dead Man's Mirror (adapted from short story The Second Gong) | Hercule Poirot
Mr Satterthwaite |
| 1937 | The Incredible Theft (adapted from short story The Submarine Plans) | Hercule Poirot |
| 1960 | The Mystery of the Spanish Chest (adapted from short story The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest) | Hercule Poirot
Miss Lemon |
Mary Westmacott Novels[]
| Year published |
Title |
|---|---|
| 1930 | Giant's Bread |
| 1934 | Unfinished Portrait |
| 1944 | Absent in the Spring |
| 1947 | The Rose and the Yew Tree |
| 1952 | A Daughter's a Daughter |
| 1956 | The Burden |
Short stories[]
See also: List of short stories by Agatha Christie
During her lifetime, Agatha Christie wrote more than 150 short stories, including 50 Hercule Poirot stories, 20 Miss Marple stories, 14 Tommy & Tuppence stories, 14 Harley Quin stories, 14 Parker Pyne stories, and 34 stories with various main characters. Her stories were most often first published in various magazines in both the US and the UK, and then later in books as collections.
Information given in smaller print: Some stories appeared under several titles; those alternate titles are listed [in italics and inside square brackets, separated from each other by a slash]. Some stories were based on unpublished stories or expanded into novella/novel form; this is always specified in round brackets.
For stories published only after Christie's death, see the section 'Rediscovered stories' below.
| Year published |
Title | Detectives |
|---|---|---|
| Hercule Poirot (50): | ||
| Mar 1923 | The Affair at the Victory Ball | Poirot |
| Mar 1923 | The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan | Poirot |
| Mar 1923 | The King of Clubs | Poirot |
| Mar 1923 | The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim | Poirot |
| Apr 1923 | The Plymouth Express (expanded into novel The Mystery of the Blue Train) | Poirot |
| Apr 1923 | The Adventure of 'The Western Star' | Poirot |
| Apr 1923 | The Kidnapped Prime Minister | Poirot |
| Apr 1923 | The Lost Mine | Poirot |
| May 1923 | The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor | Poirot |
| May 1923 | The Million Dollar Bond Robbery | Poirot |
| May 1923 | The Adventure of the Cheap Flat | Poirot |
| May 1923 | The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge | Poirot |
| May 1923 | The Chocolate Box [also as The Clue of the Chocolate Box/The Time Hercule Poirot Failed] | Poirot |
| 26 Sep 1923 | The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb | Poirot |
| Oct 1923 | The Veiled Lady [also as The Case of the Veiled Lady] | Poirot |
| Oct 1923 | The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly [also as The Kidnapping of Johnnie Waverly] | Poirot |
| Oct 1923 | The Market Basing Mystery (expanded into novella Murder in the Mews) | Poirot |
| Oct 1923 | The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman | Poirot |
| Oct 1923 | The Case of the Missing Will | Poirot |
| Nov 1923 | The Submarine Plans (expanded into novella The Incredible Theft) | Poirot |
| Nov 1923 | The Adventure of the Clapham Cook | Poirot |
| Nov 1923 | The Cornish Mystery | Poirot |
| Dec 1923 | The Double Clue | Poirot |
| Dec 1923 | The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding [also as The Theft of the Royal Ruby] | Poirot |
| Dec 1923 | The Lemesurier Inheritance | Poirot |
| Oct 1926 | The Under Dog | Poirot |
| Sep 1928 | Double Sin [also as By Road or Rail] | Poirot |
| Nov 1928 | Wasps’ Nest [also as The Wasps' Nest] | Poirot |
| Jan 1929 | The Third Floor Flat | Poirot |
| Jan 1932 | The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest (expanded into novella The Mystery of the Spanish Chest) | Poirot |
| Jun 1932 | The Second Gong (expanded into novella Dead Man’s Mirror) | Poirot |
| Jun 1935 | How Does Your Garden Grow? | Poirot |
| Jan 1936 | Problem at Sea [also as Poirot and the Crime in Cabin 66] | Poirot |
| Feb 1936 | Triangle at Rhodes [also as Poirot and the Triangle at Rhodes] (expanded into novel Evil Under the Sun) | Poirot |
| May 1936 | Poirot and the Regatta Mystery (rewritten as The Regatta Mystery with Parker Pyne) | Poirot |
| Jul 1937 | Yellow Iris [also as Poirot Wins Again/Hercule Poirot and the Sixth Chair] (expanded into novel Sparkling Cyanide with Colonel Race and turned into a radio play) | Poirot |
| Oct 1937 | The Dream | Poirot |
| 3 Sep 1939 | The Lernean Hydra | Poirot |
| 10 Sep 1939 | The Girdle of Hippolyta | Poirot |
| 17 Sep 1939 | The Stymphalean Birds | Poirot |
| 24 Sep 1939 | The Cretan Bull | Poirot |
| Nov 1939 | The Nemean Lion | Poirot |
| Jan 1940 | The Arcadian Deer | Poirot |
| Feb 1940 | The Erymanthian Boar | Poirot |
| Mar 1940 | The Augean Stables | Poirot |
| 12 May 1940 | The Apples of the Hesperides | Poirot |
| 26 May 1940 | The Flock of Geryon | Poirot |
| Jun 1940 | The Horses of Diomedes | Poirot |
| 16 Mar 1947 | The Capture of Cerberus (replaced an unpublished version written years earlier) | Poirot |
| Nov 1940 | Four and Twenty Blackbirds | Poirot |
| Miss Marple (20): | ||
| Dec 1927 | The Tuesday Night Club | Marple |
| Jan1928 | The Idol House of Astarte | Marple |
| Feb 1928 | Ingots of Gold | Marple |
| Apr 1928 | Motive v. Opportunity | Marple |
| May 1928 | The Thumb Mark of St. Peter | Marple |
| Jun 1928 | The Blood-Stained Pavement | Marple |
| Dec 1929 | The Blue Geranium | Marple |
| Jan 1930 | The Four Suspects | Marple |
| Jan 1930 | A Christmas Tragedy [also as The Hat and the Alibi] | Marple |
| Feb 1930 | The Companion | Marple |
| Mar 1930 | The Herb of Death | Marple |
| May 1930 | The Affair at the Bungalow | Marple |
| Nov 1931 | Death by Drowning | Marple |
| 25 May 1935 | Miss Marple Tells a Story [also as Behind Closed Doors] (adapted from 1934 radio play Miss Marple Tells a Story) | Marple |
| Nov 2, 1941 | Strange Jest | Marple |
| Nov 16, 1941 | Tape-Measure Murder [also as Village Murder] | Marple |
| Jan 1942 | The Case of the Caretaker (adapted from unpublished short story The Case of the Caretaker's Wife) | Marple |
| Apr 1942 | The Case of the Perfect Maid [also as The Perfect Maid] | Marple |
| Sept 1954 | Sanctuary [also as Murder at the Vicarage – not to be confused with the novel] | Marple |
| Dec 1956 | Greenshaw’s Folly (a fundraiser for local church, it replaced the unpublished novella Greenshore Folly with Hercule Poirot) | Marple |
| Tommy & Tuppence (14): | ||
| Dec 1923 | The Clergyman’s Daughter/The Red House [also as The First Wish/Seek and Ye Shall Find] (a short story spanning two chapters) | Tommy & Tuppence |
| 24 Sept 1924 | A Fairy in the Flat/A Pot of Tea (a short story spanning two chapters) | Tommy & Tuppence |
| 1 Oct 1924 | The Affair of the Pink Pearl | Tommy & Tuppence |
| 8 Oct 1924 | Finessing the King/The Gentleman Dressed in Newspaper (a short story spanning two chapters) | Tommy & Tuppence |
| 15 Oct 1924 | The Case of the Missing Lady | Tommy & Tuppence |
| 22 Oct 1924 | The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger | Tommy & Tuppence |
| 29 Oct 1924 | The Sunningdale Mystery | Tommy & Tuppence |
| 5 Nov 1924 | The House of Lurking Death | Tommy & Tuppence |
| 12 Nov 1924 | The Ambassador’s Boots [also as The Matter of the Ambassador’s Boots] | Tommy & Tuppence |
| 19 Nov 1924 | The Crackler | Tommy & Tuppence |
| 26 Nov 1924 | Blindman’s Bluff | Tommy & Tuppence |
| 3 Dec 1924 | The Man in the Mist | Tommy & Tuppence |
| 10 Dec 1924 | The Man Who Was No. 16 [also as The Man Who Was Number Sixteen] | Tommy & Tuppence |
| Dec 1928 | The Unbreakable Alibi | Tommy & Tuppence |
| Harley Quin & Mr. Satterthwaite (14): | ||
| Mar 1924 | The Coming of Mr Quin | Harley Quin |
| Oct 1924 | The Shadow on the Glass | Harley Quin |
| Jul 1925 | The Sign in the Sky | Harley Quin |
| Nov 1925 | At the 'Bells and Motley' [also as A Man of Magic] | Harley Quin |
| Oct 1926 | The Love Detectives | Harley Quin |
| 20 Nov 1926 | The World’s End | Harley Quin |
| 4 Dec 1926 | The Voice in the Dark | Harley Quin |
| 13 Nov 1927 | The Soul of the Croupier | Harley Quin |
| Apr 1927 | The Face of Helen | Harley Quin |
| May 1927 | Harlequin’s Lane | Harley Quin |
| Mar 1929 | The Dead Harlequin (adapted into play Someone at the Window) | Harley Quin |
| Oct 1929 | The Man from the Sea | Harley Quin |
| Apr 1930 | The Bird with the Broken Wing | Harley Quin |
| Jan 1971 | The Harlequin Tea Set (written in the 1950s, unpublished until 1971) | Harley Quinn, Mr. Satterthwaite |
| Parker Pyne (14): | ||
| 8 Oct 1932 | The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife | Parker Pyne |
| Aug 1932 | The Case of the Discontented Soldier | Parker Pyne |
| Aug 1932 | The Case of the Distressed Lady | Parker Pyne |
| Aug 1932 | The Case of the Discontented Husband | Parker Pyne |
| Aug 1932 | The Case of the City Clerk | Parker Pyne |
| Aug 1932 | The Case of the Rich Woman | Parker Pyne |
| Apr 1933 | Have You Got Everything You Want? | Parker Pyne |
| Apr 1933 | The Gate of Baghdad | Parker Pyne |
| Apr 1933 | The House at Shiraz | Parker Pyne |
| Apr 1933 | The Pearl of Price | Parker Pyne |
| Apr 1933 | Death on the Nile | Parker Pyne |
| Jun 1933 | The Oracle at Delphi | Parker Pyne |
| Nov 1935 | Problem at Pollensa Bay | Parker Pyne |
| 1939 | The Regatta Mystery (adapted from short story Poirot and the Regatta Mystery with Hercule Poirot) | Parker Pyne |
| Non-Series Short Stories (34): | ||
| May 1923 | The Actress | Jake Levitt, Olga Stormer, Miss Jones, Danny Danahan, Sir Richard Everard, MP |
| Feb 1924 | The Girl in the Train | George & William Rowland, Rogers, Peter, Grand Duchess Anastasia, Inspector Jarrold & Mardenburg |
| Apr 1924 | While the Light Lasts | George & Deirdre Crozier, Tim Nugent, Mr.Walters |
| Jun 1924 | The Red Signal (adapted from unpublished short story The Man Who Knew) | Jack & Claire Trent, Violet Eversleigh, Air Alington & Dermot West, Inspector Verrall |
| Jul 1924 | The Mystery of the Blue Jar | Jack Hartington, Dr Lavington, Felise Marchaud, & Uncle George |
| Aug 1924 | Mr Eastwood’s Adventure [also as The Mystery of the Second Cucumber/The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl] | Anthony Eastwood, Mother Gibson, Rogers, Seamark, Detective Inspector Verrall, & Detective Sgt Carter |
| 1924 | Philomel Cottage | Alix Martin, Dick Windyford, Gerald Martin & George |
| Oct 1925 | Within a Wall | Alex Everard, Isobel Loring, Jane Haworth, Winnie, Mrs. Lempriere, Georgie & Alice |
| Dec 1925 | The Fourth Man | Canon Parfitt, Sir George Durand, Dr. Campbell Clark & Miss Slater |
| Jan 1926 | The House of Dreams (adapted from unpublished short story The House of Beauty, written in her teens) | John Seagrave, Maisie & Rudolf Wetterman & Allegra Kerr |
| Feb 1926 | S.O.S. [also as SOS] | Mr. & Mrs. Dinsmead, Charlotte, Johnnie & Magdalen Dinsmead, & Mortimer Cleveland |
| 1 Mar 1926 | Wireless | Mary & Patrick Harter, Charles Ridgeway, Elizabeth, Dr Meynell, Miriam Robinson & Mr. Hopkinson |
| Mar 1926 | Magnolia Blossom | Vincent Easton, Theodora Darrell & Richard Darrell |
| Jul 1926 | The Lonely God | Frank Oliver, Greta, Tom Hurley & The Governess |
| 1926 | The Rajah’s Emerald | James Bond, Grace, Claud, Clara, Alice & Dorothy Sopworth, The Rajah of Maraputna, Lord Edward Campion & Detective Insp. Merrilees |
| Nov 1926 | The Last Séance [also as The Last Seance] (adapted from unpublished play The Last Seance) | Raoul Daubreuil, Simone, Elsie, Madame Exe & Amelia Exe |
| Feb 1927 | The Edge | Claire Halliwell, Vivien Lee, Sir Gerald Lee |
| Sep 1929 | Accident | Inspector Evans, Prof & Mrs. Merrowdene, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony |
| Sep 1929 | Next to a Dog | Joyce Lambert, Terry, Mr & Mrs Barnes |
| Dec 1929 | Sing a Song of Sixpence | Sir Edward Palliser, Magdalen & Matthew Vaughan, William & Emily Crabtree, Martha |
| May 1930 | Manx Gold (commissioned as a treasure hunt on Isle of Man in The Daily Dispatch) | Fenella Mylecharane, Juan Faraker, Uncle Myles, Ewan Corjeag, & Dr Fyall |
| 1933 | The Gypsy | Dickie Carpenter, Esther, Rachel, Arthur & “Old” Lawes, Macfarlane, Mr. & Mrs. Haworth & Mrs. Rowse |
| 1933 | The Call of Wings | Silas Hamer, Dick Borrow, Bertrand Seldon |
| Jul 1934 | In a Glass Darkly | Neil, Alan & Sylvia Carslake, Charles Crawley, Major & Mrs. Oldam & Derek Wainwright |
| Dec 1934 | The Manhood of Edward Robinson | Edward Robinson, Maud, Gerald & Edward Champneys, James Folliot, Agnes Larella, Lady Noreen Elliott & Louise |
| 1948 | Three Blind Mice (adapted from radio play Three Blind Mice, which was later turned into stage play The Mousetrap) | Molly & Giles Davis, Mrs. Boyle, Major Metcalf, Mr.Paravacini, Christopher Wren, Sergeant Trotter & Mrs. Lyon |
| 1958 | The Dressmaker’s Doll | Alicia Coombe, Sybil Fox, Elspeth, Marlene, Margaret, Nellie, Mrs. Fellows-Brown, Mrs. Groves & Lady Lee |
| 1965 | Star over Bethlehem | Mary, Jesus, Joseph & Satan |
| 1965 | The Naughty Donkey | The Donkey, Mary, Jesus, Joseph, an Angel, The Three Wisemen |
| 1965 | The Water Bus | Mrs. Hargreaves |
| 1965 | In the Cool of the Evening | Major Rodney Grierson, Janet & Alan Grierson |
| 1965 | Promotion in the Highest | Jacob Narracott, Saint Catherine, St. Lawrence, the recording angel, Angel Gabriel & the vicar |
| 1965 | The Island | Mary, Jesus, Simon, Andrew & John the Evangelist |
| 1974 | Jane in Search of a Job | Jane Cleveland, Count Streptitch, Colonel Kranin, Princess Poporensky, Grand Duchess Pauline, Countess of Anchester & Detective Insp. Farrell |
Rediscovered stories[]
Stories published by Dr Curran[]
Some short stories were never published in the UK during Christie's lifetime and only saw the light of day when Dr John Curran rediscovered them after the author's death in her archives. These include:
- The Incident of the Dog's Ball (a short story featuring Poirot, written in the 1930s; it served as the basis for the novel Dumb Witness; first published in 2009)
- The Capture of Cerberus (rejected short story) (written in 1939, this was an early, rejected version of The Capture of Cerberus with Hercule Poirot which appeared in the Labours of Hercules collection; first published in 2009)
- The Case of the Caretaker's Wife (an earlier version of The Case of the Caretaker with Miss Marple; first published in 2011)
- The Man Who Knew (a shorter version of the supernatural short story The Red Signal; written in the 1920s, first published in 2011)
Other rediscovered stories[]
- The Wife of the Kenite (a 1922 horror story, originally published in an Australian magazine; published again in 2018)
- Poirot and the Regatta Mystery (a 1936 short story with Hercule Poirot, later rewritten as The Regatta Mystery to feature Parker Pyne instead; published again in 2008)
- The Greenshore Folly (a 1954 novella featuring Hercule Poirot, serving as the basis for the novel Dead Man's Folly; first published in 2014 under the title Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly)
Collections of short stories[]
- Main article: List of Agatha Christie Short Story Collections
In addition to her 66 mystery novels, Christie published 153 short stories in her career. Almost all of these were written for publication in fiction magazines with over half of them first appearing in the 1920s. They were then published in book form in various collections, some of which were identical in the UK and US (e.g. The Labours of Hercules) and others where publication took place in one market but not the other.
Twelve of the stories which were published in The Sketch magazine in 1924 under the sub-heading of The Man who was No. 4 were joined in one continuous narrative in the novel The Big Four in 1927. Four other stories, "The Submarine Plans" (1923), "Christmas Adventure" (1923), "The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest" (1932) and "The Second Gong" (1932), were expanded into longer narratives by Christie (respectively The Incredible Theft, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, The Mystery of the Spanish Chest and Dead Man's Mirror, although the shorter versions of all four have also been published in the UK).
Only one short story remains unpublished in the UK in book form: "Three Blind Mice" (1948), on which Christie placed a moratorium whilst the stage play based on the story, The Mousetrap, was still running in the West End. Prior to this the story was published in four instalments in the weekly magazine Woman's Own in the issues dated 31 December 1948 to 21 January 1949 with illustrations by K. J. Petts.
In the US, "Christmas Adventure" is the only story unpublished. The longer version "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding", which is based on "Christmas Adventure", can be found in Double Sin and Other Stories under the name "The Theft of the Royal Ruby".
The main collections in both markets are:
- 1924 Poirot Investigates (Eleven short stories in the UK, fourteen in the US)
- 1929 Partners in Crime (Fifteen short stories; featuring Tommy and Tuppence)
- 1930 The Mysterious Mr. Quin (Twelve short stories; introducing Mr. Harley Quin)
- 1932 The Thirteen Problems (Thirteen short stories; featuring Miss Marple. Published as The Tuesday Club Murders in the US.)
- 1933 The Hound of Death (Twelve short stories – UK only)
- 1934 The Listerdale Mystery (Twelve short stories – UK version, US version published in 2010 in eBook format only)
- 1934 Parker Pyne Investigates (Twelve short stories; introducing Parker Pyne and Ariadne Oliver. Published as Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective in the US.)
- 1937 Murder in the Mews (Four novella-length stories; featuring Hercule Poirot. Published as Dead Man's Mirror in the US, but without The Incredible Theft.)
- 1939 The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (Nine short stories – US only)
- 1947 The Labours of Hercules (Twelve short stories; featuring Hercule Poirot)
- 1948 The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (Eleven short stories – US only)
- 1950 Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (Nine short stories – US only)
- 1951 The Under Dog and Other Stories (Nine short stories – US only)
- 1960 The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (Six short stories – UK version, US version published in 2004)
- 1961 Double Sin and Other Stories (Eight short stories – US only)
- 1971 The Golden Ball and Other Stories (Fifteen short stories – US only)
- 1974 Poirot's Early Cases (Eighteen short stories. Published as Hercule Poirot's Early Cases in the US.)
- 1979 Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories (Eight short stories – UK and Commonwealth Countries only)
- 1984 Hercule Poirot's Casebook (Fifty short stories: fourteen from Poirot Investigates, all twelve from The Labours of Hercules, eight from The Under Dog and Other Stories, five from The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories, all four from Murder in the Mews, four from Double Sin and Other Stories, and three from Three Blind Mice and Other Stories)
- 1991 Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (Eight short stories – UK and Commonwealth Countries only)
- 1997 The Harlequin Tea Set (Nine short stories – US only)
- 1997 While the Light Lasts and Other Stories (Nine short stories – UK and Commonwealth Countries only)
- 2013 Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly (Novella; Expanded into the novel Dead Man's Folly)
In addition, various collections have been published over the years which re-print short stories which have previously appeared in other collections – e.g. Surprise! Surprise! (1965 in the US). On occasion, besides the reprinted material these collections have sometimes contained the first book printing of an individual story – e.g. The Market Basing Mystery in the UK version of Thirteen for Luck! (1966) which later appeared in the same market in Poirot's Early Cases.
Romance novels written under the pen name Mary Westmacott[]
See also: Mary Westmacott
- 1930 Giant's Bread
- 1934 Unfinished Portrait
- 1944 Absent in the Spring
- 1948 The Rose and the Yew Tree
- 1952 A Daughter's a Daughter
- 1956 The Burden
Plays[]
- c. 1910-20s The Conqueror
- c. 1910-20s Teddy Bear (written under the pseudonym George Miller)
- c. 1910-20s Eugenia and Eugenics
- c. 1915-1920s The Clutching Hand (adapted from a novel by Arthur Reeve)
- c. 1920s Ten Years
- c. 1920s Marmalade Moon
- c. 1920s The Lie
- c. 1922 The Last Seance (later turned into a short story published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories collection)
- 1930 Black Coffee (novelised by Charles Osborne in 1998 as Black Coffee)
- 1943 And Then There Were None (based on the 1939 novel Ten Little Indians)
- 1944 Murder on the Nile/Hidden Horizon (based on the 1937 novel Death on the Nile)
- 1945 Appointment with Death (based on the 1938 novel Appointment with Death)
- 1951 The Hollow (based on the 1946 novel The Hollow)
- 1952 The Mousetrap (based on the 1948 short story Three Blind Mice)
- 1953 Witness for the Prosecution (based on the short story The Witness for the Prosecution)
- 1954 Spider's Web (novelised by Charles Osborne in 2000 as Spider's Web)
- 1956 A Daughter's a Daughter (written as a play in the late 1930s, performed professionally once; unpublished but turned into the 1952 Mary Westmacott novel A Daughter's a Daughter)
- 1956 Towards Zero (based on the 1944 novel Towards Zero)
- 1958 Verdict
- 1958 The Unexpected Guest (novelised by Charles Osborne in 1999 as The Unexpected Guest)
- 1960 Go Back for Murder (based on the 1942 novel Five Little Pigs)
- 1962 Rule of Three (comprising one-act plays Afternoon at the Seaside, The Rats and The Patient)
- c. 1966 Miss Perry
- 1971 Fiddlers Five (one year later turned into the play Fiddler's Three)
- 1972 Fiddler's Three (originally written as Fiddler's Five; unpublished)
- 1973 Akhnaton (written in 1937)
- 2003 Chimneys (written in 1931, but unperformed for 72 years and as yet unpublished; based on the 1925 novel The Secret of Chimneys)
Radio plays[]
- 1937 The Yellow Iris (based on the short story of the same name)
- 1947 Three Blind Mice (turned into the short story Three Blind Mice and also into the celebrated stage play The Mousetrap)
- 1948 Butter in a Lordly Dish
- 1954 Personal Call
Television plays[]
- 1937 Wasp's Nest (based on the short story of the same name)
Nonfiction[]
- 1946 Come, Tell Me How You Live
- 1977 Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
- 2012 The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery
Poetry[]
- 1??? Harlequin's Song (poem in Poetry Review)
- 1925 The Road of Dreams
- 1965 Star Over Bethlehem and other stories (Christian stories and poems)
- 1973 Poems
Co-authored works[]
- 1930 Behind the Screen. A radio serial written together with Hugh Walpole, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley, E. C. Bentley and Ronald Knox of the Detection Club. Published in book form in 1983 in The Scoop and Behind The Screen.
- 1931 The Scoop. A radio serial written together with Dorothy L. Sayers, E. C. Bentley, Anthony Berkeley, Freeman Wills Crofts and Clemence Dane of the Detection Club. Published in book form in 1983 in The Scoop and Behind The Screen.
- 1931 The Floating Admiral. A book written together with G. K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers and certain other members of the Detection Club.
- 1956 Towards Zero (A West End theatre dramatisation of her 1944 novel co-written with Gerard Verner)
Unpublished written material[]
- Personal Call (supernatural radio play, featuring Inspector Narracott who also appeared in The Sittaford Mystery; a recording is in the British Library Sound Archive)
- Butter in a Lordly Dish (horror/detective radio play, adapted from The Woman and the Kenite)
- Being So Very Wilful (romantic)
- Snow Upon the Desert (romantic novel)
- Stronger than Death (supernatural)
- The Green Gate (supernatural)
- The War Bride (supernatural)
- Eugenia and Eugenics (stage play)
- Witchhazel (supernatural short story)
- Someone at the Window (play adapted from short story The Dead Harlequin)
- Miss Perry (stage play)
Works by other authors based on Christie's works[]
Plays adapted into novels[]
Charles Osborne novelised three of Christie's plays:
- 1998 Black Coffee (featuring Hercule Poirot, based on the 1930 play Black Coffee)
- 1999 The Unexpected Guest (based on the 1958 play The Unexpected Guest)
- 2000 Spider's Web (based on the 1954 play Spider's Web)
These three novels are now available in the collection Murder In Three Stages.
Works adapted into plays[]
- 1928 Alibi (dramatised by Michael Morton from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd)
- 1932 Roads of Memory (dramatised by W E Fuller; it is unclear what work this "sophisticated mystery" was based on)
- 1936 Love from a Stranger (dramatised by Frank Vosper from the short story Philomel Cottage)
- 1939 Tea for Three (dramatised by Margery Vosper from the short story Accident)
- 1940 Peril at End House (dramatised by Arnold Ridley)
- 1949 Murder at the Vicarage (dramatised by Moie Charles and Barbara Toy)
- 1956 Towards Zero (dramatised by Gerald Verner)
- 1977 A Murder is Announced (dramatised by Leslie Darbon)
- 1981 Cards on the Table (dramatised by Leslie Darbon)
- 1993 Murder is Easy (dramatised by Clive Exton)
- 2005 And Then There Were None (dramatised by Kevin Elyot from the novel And Then There Were None)
- 2012 The Mysterious Affair at Styles (dramatised by David Hansen from the novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles)
- 2014 Tommy & Tuppence in The Shepherd's Warning (dramatised by Ben Muir from the novel Partners in Crime) – the first time Agatha Christie Limited has granted the licence for her works to be adapted into a live Interactive Murder Mystery Production
Adapted into graphic novels[]
- 2023 Murder on the Orient Express (adapted and illustrated by Bob Al-Greene)