The Agatha Christie Omnibus is a collection of five omnibus editions released by HarperCollins in 2006 featuring 20 Agatha Christie novels arranged by decade. Each volume has 4 of her stand-alone or Tommy and Tuppence novels published in a particular decade with the first volume starting with novels published in the 1920s. The last volume contains 4 titles published in the 1960s and 1970s. The volumes are available in paperback format only.
Blurb[]
(from website of HarperCollins)
"Agatha Christie's imaginative crime novels and thrillers made her a household name from the 1920s right through to her final books in the early 1970s. Best known as the creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, her prolific output would bring her publisher William Collins at least one book every year. Twenty of her contemporary crime novels were to feature neither Poirot or Marple, instead a wide range of ingenious plots would be played out by a selection of amateur sleuths, professional detectives, young adventuresses or unwary bystanders caught up in unforeseen events.
This collection of five omnibuses gathers together the twenty stand-alone novels, presenting them chronologically and providing a fascinating window on a changing world though six decades of investigation. Presented in this way, recurring characters – including Superintendent Battle, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, Colonel Johnny Race and Ariadne Oliver – rub shoulders with many who would appear only in one book, and the result is a selection of some of the finest mystery writing ever. Here is the answer to the question of what Agatha Christie might have been had she not invented Poirot or Marple – and the answer undoubtedly is still The Queen of Crime!"[1]
Details of each volume[]
| Volume | Titles Included | Pages | Published | ISBN | Cover |
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| Agatha Christie 1920s Omnibus | The Secret Adversary The Man in the Brown Suit The Secret of Chimneys The Seven Dials Mystery |
848 | 2006 | 9780007208623 | 
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| Agatha Christie 1930s Omnibus | The Sittaford Mystery Why Didn't They Ask Evans? And Then There Were None Murder is Easy |
752 | 2006 | 9780007208630 | 
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| Agatha Christie 1940s Omnibus | N or M? Towards Zero Sparkling Cyanide Crooked House |
704 | 2006 | 9780007208647 | 
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| Agatha Christie 1950s Omnibus | They Came to Baghdad Destination Unknown Ordeal by Innocence The Pale Horse |
768 | 2006 | 9780007208654 | 
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| Agatha Christie 1960s Omnibus | Endless Night By the Pricking of My Thumbs Passenger to Frankfurt Postern of Fate |
784 | 2006 | 9780007208661 | 
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