At the Essenwood Saturday market in Durban, I could feel autumn was calmly approaching. On this day I had found The Dame of Crime. A battered and plain yellow hardcover stood out amongst a box of books, all looking like they saw centuries pass. I picked it up and saw no blurb, no description whatsoever, just the title “After the Funeral,” by Agatha Christie. I thought, “Hmm. Why not.” It was not until weeks later, when the world was stilled by the no-need-to-be-named pandemic and the summer sun was giving me an affectionate last goodbye on a towel by the pool, that I became a devout member of the Christie Club.
After listening to an all-time favourite podcast, Shedunnit, I was inspired by a couple who decided to go on an adventure! What is this voyage you may ask? Yep, you guessed it! To read every single one of her books, chronologically from 1920 to 1997.
Now, I won’t be going chronologically, but I am still excited to work toward the goal of being an Agatha Completist. I think I got this. See how I go and feel free to comment below!😉
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
The Secret Adversary (1922)
Murder on the Links (1923)
The Man in the Brown Suit (1924)
Poirot Investigates (1924)
The Secret of Chimneys (1925)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
The Big Four (1927)
The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
The Seven Dials Mystery (1929)
Partners in Crime (1929)
The Mysterious Mr Quin (1930)
The Murder at the Vicarage (1930)
The Sittaford Mystery (1931)
Peril At End House (1932)
The Thirteen Problems aka The Tuesday Club Murders (1932)
Lord Edgware Dies (1933)
The Hound of Death (1933)
Murder on the Orient Express aka Murder on the Calais Coach (1934)
The Listerdale Mystery (1934)
Why Didn’t they Ask the Evans (1934)
Parker Pyne Investigates (1934)
Three-Act Tragedy aka Murder in Three Acts (1934)
Death in the Clouds (1935)
The ABC Murders (1936)
Murder in Mesopatomia (1936)
Cards on the table (1936)
Dumb Witness aka Mystery at Littlegreen House (1937)
Death on the Nile (1937)
Murder in the Mews aka Dead Man’s Mirror (1937)
Appointment with Death (1938)
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas aka Murder for Christmas (1938)
Murder is easy aka Easy to Kill (1939)
And Then There Were None aka Ten Little Indians (1939)
The Regatta Mystery (1939)
Sad Cypress (1940)
One Two Buckle My Shoe (1940)
Evil Under the Sun (1941)
N or M (1941)
The Body in the Library (1942)
Five Little Pigs aka Murder in Retrospect (1942)
The Moving Finger (1942)
Towards Zero aka Come and Be Hanged (1944)
Death Comes as the End (1944)
Sparking Cyanide aka Remembered Death (1945)
The Hollow aka Murder after Hours (1946)
The Labours of Hercules (1947)
Taken at the Flood (1948)
Witness for the Prosecution (1948)
Crooked House (1949)
A Murder is Announced (1950)
Three Blind Mice aka The Mousetrap (1950)
They Came to Baghdad (1951)
The Under Dog (1951)
Mrs McGinty’s Dead aka Blood Will Tell (1952)
They Do It with Mirrors (1952)
After the Funeral (1953)
A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)
Destination Unknown aka So Many Steps to Death (1954)
Hickory Dickory Dock aka Hickory Dickory Death (1955)
Dead Man’s Folly (1956)
4.50 from Paddington (1957)
Ordeal by Innocence (1958)
Cat Among Pigeons (1959)
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960)
The Pale Horse (1961)
Double Sin (1961)
The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side (1962)
The Clocks (1963)
A Caribbean Mystery (1964)
A Bertram’s Hotel (1965)
Third Girl (1966)
Endless Night (1967)
By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968)
Hallowe’en Party (1969)
Passenger to Frankfurt (1970)
Nemesis (1971)
The Golden Ball (1971)
Elephants Can Remember (1972)
Postern of Fate (1973)
Poirot’s Early Cases (1974)
Curtain (1975)
Sleeping Murder (1976)
Miss Marple’s Final Cases (1979)
Problem at Pollensa Bay (1991)
The Harlequin Tea Set (1997)
While the light Lasts (1997)
*DISCLAIMER* The order goes according to the publication date and not by the date that the book was written. For example, the last few books were collections of her earlier short stories (She died in 1976 so I should sure hope she wasn’t writing then!).
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