List of Agatha Christie Mystery Books

English author Agatha Christie is widely regarded as the queen of mysteries. She wrote about 70 detective novels and many short story collections and introduced two of the most famous crime-solvers in literature: Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. The following is a list of Christie’s mystery books in the order that they were published.*

• The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920); HP
• The Secret Adversary (1922)
• The Murder on the Links (1923); HP
• The Man in the Brown Suit (1924)
• Poirot Investigates (1924); SS, HP
• The Secret of Chimneys (1925)
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926); HP
• The Big Four (1927); HP
• The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928); HP
• The Seven Dials Mystery (1929)
• Partners in Crime (1929); SS
• The Mysterious Mr. Quin (1930); SS
• The Murder at the Vicarage (1930); MM
• The Floating Admiral (1931); DC
• The Sittaford Mystery (1931), also published as The Murder at Hazelmoor
• Peril at End House (1932); HP
• The Thirteen Problems (1932), also published as The Tuesday Club Murders; SS, MM
• Ask a Policeman (1933); DC
• Lord Edgware Dies (1933), also published as Thirteen at Dinner; HP
• The Hound of Death (1933); SS
• Murder on the Orient Express (1934), also published as Murder in the Calais Coach; HP
• Three Act Tragedy (1934); HP
• The Listerdale Mystery (1934); SS
• Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (1934), also published as The Boomerang Clue
• Parker Pyne Investigates (1934); SS
• Death in the Air (1935), also published as Death in the Clouds; HP
• Cards on the Table (1936); HP
• Murder in Mesopotamia (1936); HP
• Six Against the Yard (1936); DC
• The ABC Murders (1936); HP
• Death on the Nile (1937); HP
• Murder in the Mews (1937); SS, HP
• Dumb Witness (1937), also published as Poirot Loses a Client; HP
• Appointment with Death (1938); HP
• Hercule Poirot’s Christmas (1938), also published as A Holiday for Murder; HP
• Murder Is Easy (1938), also published as Easy to Kill
• And Then There Were None (1939), also published as Ten Little Indians
• The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (1939); SS, HP, MM
• Evil Under the Sun (1940); HP
• One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1940), also published as The Patriotic Murders; HP
• Sad Cypress (1940); HP
• N or M? (1941)
• The Body in the Library (1942); MM
• Five Little Pigs (1942), also published as Murder in Retrospect; HP
• The Moving Finger (1942); MM
• Towards Zero (1944)
• Death Comes as the End (1944)
• Sparkling Cyanide (1945), also published as Remembered Death
• The Hollow (1946); HP
• The Labours of Hercules (1947); SS, HP
• Taken at the Flood (1948), also published as There Is a Tide; HP
• The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (1948); SS, HP
• Crooked House (1949)
• A Murder Is Announced (1950); MM
• Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (1950); SS
• They Came to Baghdad (1951)
• The Under Dog and Other Stories (1951); SS, HP
• Mrs. McGinty’s Dead (1952); HP
• They Do It with Mirrors (1952), also published as Murder with Mirrors; MM
• After the Funeral (1953), also published as Funerals Are Fatal; HP
• A Pocket Full of Rye (1953); MM
• Destination Unknown (1954), also published as So Many Steps to Death
• Hickory Dickory Dock (1955), also published as Hickory Dickory Death; HP
• Dead Man’s Folly (1956); HP
• 4.50 from Paddington (1957), also published as What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!; MM
• Ordeal by Innocence (1958)
• Cat Among the Pigeons (1959); HP
• The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960); SS
• The Pale Horse (1961)
• Double Sin and Other Stories (1961); SS
• The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side (1962); MM
• The Clocks (1963); HP
• A Caribbean Mystery (1964); MM
• Star Over Bethlehem (1965); SS
• At Bertram’s Hotel (1965); MM
• Third Girl (1966); HP
• Endless Night (1967)
• By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968)
• Hallowe’en Party (1969); HP
• Passenger to Frankfurt (1970)
• Nemesis (1971); MM
• The Golden Ball and Other Stories (1971); SS
• Elephants Can Remember (1972); HP
• Postern of Fate (1973)
• Poirot’s Early Cases (1974); SS, HP
• Curtain (1975), also published as Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case; HP
• Sleeping Murder (1976), published posthumously; MM

*List does not include Christie’s nonmystery works, which included travel writing and romance novels published under the pen name Mary Westmacott. Christie’s plays are also not included here.