Agatha Christie bibliography
was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. Her reputation rests on 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections that have sold over two billion copies, an amount surpassed only by the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare. Her works contain several regular characters with whom the public became familiar, including Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, Parker Pyne and Harley Quin. Christie wrote more Poirot stories than any of the others, even though she thought the character to be "rather insufferable". Following the publication of the 1975 novel Curtain, Poirot's obituary appeared on the front page of The New York Times.
She married Archibald Christie in December 1914 but the couple were divorced in 1928. After he was sent to the Western Front in the First World War, she worked with the Voluntary Aid Detachment and in the chemist dispensary, giving her a working background knowledge of medicines and poisons. Christie's writing career began during the war after she was challenged by her sister to write a detective story; she produced The Mysterious Affair at Styles, which was turned down by two publishers before it was published in 1920. Following the limited success of the novel, she continued to write and steadily built up a fan base. She went on to write over a hundred works, including further novels, short stories, plays, poetry, and two autobiographies. She also wrote six romantic novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.
One of Christie's plays, The Mousetrap, opened in West End theatre in 1952 and, as of December 2019, was still running; in 2009 the London run exceeded 25,000 performances. In September 2015 a public vote identified And Then There Were None—originally published in 1939 under the name Ten Little Niggers—as the public's favourite Christie novel; the book was the writer's favourite, and the one she found most difficult to write.
In September 1930 Christie married the archaeologist Max Mallowan. The pair travelled frequently on archaeological expeditions and she used the experiences as a basis for some plots, including Murder on the Orient Express, Murder in Mesopotamia and Death on the Nile. She also wrote the autobiographical travel book Come, Tell Me How You Live, which described their life in Syria; her biographer, Janet Morgan, reports that "archaeologists have celebrated ... contribution to Near Eastern exploration". Christie died in January 1976, her reputation as a crime novelist high.
Novels
Initially in chronological order by UK publication date, even when the book was published first in the US or serialised in a magazine in advance of publication in book form.| UK title | Year of UK publication | UK publisher | Year of US publication | US title | US publisher | Series | Notes |
| John Lane | – | ||||||
| Dodd, Mead & Co | Tommy and Tuppence | – | |||||
| Dodd, Mead & Co | – | ||||||
| Dodd, Mead & Co | – | ||||||
| Dodd, Mead & Co | – | ||||||
| William Collins & Sons | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||||
| William Collins & Sons | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||||
| William Collins & Sons | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||||
| William Collins & Sons | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||||
| William Collins & Sons | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||||
| Giant's Bread | William Collins & Sons | Giant's Bread | Doubleday | Other | As Mary Westmacott | ||
| Hodder & Stoughton | Doubleday | Mystery novel | With members of The Detection Club. | ||||
| William Collins & Sons | Dodd, Mead & Co | Mystery novel | – | ||||
| Peril at End House | William Collins & Sons | Peril at End House | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||
| Lord Edgware Dies | William Collins & Sons | Thirteen at Dinner | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||
| Murder on the Orient Express | William Collins & Sons | Murder in the Calais Coach | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||
| Unfinished Portrait | William Collins & Sons | Unfinished Portrait | Doubleday | Other | As Mary Westmacott | ||
| Why Didn't They Ask Evans? | William Collins & Sons | Dodd, Mead & Co | Mystery novel | – | |||
| Three Act Tragedy | William Collins & Sons | Murder in Three Acts | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||
| Death in the Clouds | William Collins & Sons | Death in the Air | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||
| William Collins & Sons | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||||
| Murder in Mesopotamia | William Collins & Sons | Murder in Mesopotamia | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||
| Cards on the Table | William Collins & Sons | Cards on the Table | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||
| Dumb Witness | William Collins & Sons | Poirot Loses a Client | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||
| Death on the Nile | William Collins & Sons | Death on the Nile | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||
| Appointment with Death | William Collins & Sons | Appointment with Death | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||
| Hercule Poirot's Christmas | William Collins & Sons | Murder for Christmas | Dodd, Mead & Co | Later US editions also published under the title A Holiday for Murder | |||
| Murder Is Easy | William Collins & Sons | Easy to Kill | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||
| Ten Little Niggers | William Collins & Sons | Dodd, Mead & Co | Mystery novel | Also published in the U.S. as Ten Little Indians | |||
| Sad Cypress | William Collins & Sons | Sad Cypress | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||
| One, Two, Buckle My Shoe | William Collins & Sons | Dodd, Mead & Co | Published in paperback in the US under the title An Overdose of Death | ||||
| Evil Under the Sun | William Collins & Sons | Evil Under the Sun | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||
| N or M? | William Collins & Sons | N or M? | Dodd, Mead & Co | Tommy and Tuppence | – | ||
| William Collins & Sons | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||||
| Five Little Pigs | William Collins & Sons | Murder in Retrospect | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||
| William Collins & Sons | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||||
| Towards Zero | William Collins & Sons | Towards Zero | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||
| Absent in the Spring | William Collins & Sons | Absent in the Spring | Farrar & Rinehart | Other | As Mary Westmacott | ||
| Death Comes as the End | William Collins & Sons | Death Comes as the End | Dodd, Mead & Co | Mystery novel | – | ||
| Sparkling Cyanide | William Collins & Sons | Remembered Death | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||
| William Collins & Sons | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||||
| Taken at the Flood | William Collins & Sons | There is a Tide... | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||
| Heinemann | Rinehart & Company | Other | As Mary Westmacott | ||||
| Crooked House | William Collins & Sons | Crooked House | Dodd, Mead & Co | Mystery novel | – | ||
| William Collins & Sons | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||||
| They Came to Baghdad | William Collins & Sons | They Came to Baghdad | Dodd, Mead & Co | Mystery novel | – | ||
| Mrs McGinty's Dead | William Collins & Sons | Mrs McGinty's Dead | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||
| They Do It with Mirrors | William Collins & Sons | Murder with Mirrors | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||
| William Collins & Sons | Dell Publishing | Other | As Mary Westmacott | ||||
| After the Funeral | William Collins & Sons | Funerals are Fatal | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||
| William Collins & Sons | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||||
| Destination Unknown | William Collins & Sons | So Many Steps to Death | Dodd, Mead & Co. Syndicated in US Newspapers as Destination X. | Mystery novel | – | ||
| Hickory Dickory Dock | William Collins & Sons | Hickory Dickory Death | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||
| Dead Man's Folly | William Collins & Sons | Dead Man's Folly | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||
| Heinemann | Dell Publishing | Other | As Mary Westmacott | ||||
| 4.50 from Paddington | William Collins & Sons | What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw! | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||
| Ordeal by Innocence | William Collins & Sons | Ordeal by Innocence | Dodd, Mead & Co | Mystery novel | – | ||
| Cat Among the Pigeons | William Collins & Sons | Cat Among the Pigeons | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||
| William Collins & Sons | Dodd, Mead & Co | Mystery novel | – | ||||
| William Collins & Sons | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||||
| William Collins & Sons | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||||
| William Collins & Sons | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||||
| William Collins & Sons | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||||
| Third Girl | William Collins & Sons | Third Girl | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||
| Endless Night | William Collins & Sons | Endless Night | Dodd, Mead & Co | Mystery novel | – | ||
| By the Pricking of My Thumbs | William Collins & Sons | By the Pricking of My Thumbs | Dodd, Mead & Co | Tommy and Tuppence | – | ||
| Hallowe'en Party | William Collins & Sons | Hallowe'en Party | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||
| Passenger to Frankfurt | William Collins & Sons | Passenger to Frankfurt | Dodd, Mead & Co | Mystery novel | – | ||
| Nemesis | William Collins & Sons | Nemesis | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||
| Elephants Can Remember | William Collins & Sons | Elephants Can Remember | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |||
| Postern of Fate | William Collins & Sons | Postern of Fate | Dodd, Mead & Co | Tommy and Tuppence | – | ||
| Curtain | William Collins & Sons | Curtain | Dodd, Mead & Co | Poirot's last case, written in the 1940s. | |||
| Sleeping Murder | William Collins & Sons | Sleeping Murder | Dodd, Mead & Co | Miss Marple's last case, written in the 1940s. | |||
| Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly | HarperCollins | Written in 1954 to raise money for a church. |
Short-story collections
Many of Christie's stories first appeared in journals, newspapers and magazines. This list consists of the published collections of stories, in chronological order by UK publication date, even when the book was published first in the US or serialised in a magazine in advance of publication in book form.| UK title | Year of UK publication | UK publisher | US title | Year of US publication | US publisher | Series |
| Poirot Investigates | John Lane | Poirot Investigates | Dodd, Mead & Co | |||
| Partners in Crime | William Collins & Sons | Partners in Crime | Dodd, Mead & Co | Tommy and Tuppence | ||
| William Collins & Sons | Dodd, Mead & Co | |||||
| William Collins & Sons | Dodd, Mead & Co | |||||
| Odhams Press | – | – | – | – | ||
| William Collins & Sons | – | – | – | – | ||
| Parker Pyne Investigates | William Collins & Sons | Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective | Dodd, Mead & Co | |||
| Murder in the Mews | William Collins & Sons | Dead Man's Mirror | Dodd, Mead & Co | |||
| – | – | – | Dodd, Mead & Co | , Parker Pyne & Miss Marple | ||
| Vallencey | Bantam Books | Also called Problem at Sea | ||||
| Bantam Books | Bantam Books | |||||
| Poirot and the Regatta Mystery | Bantam Books | Poirot and the Regatta Mystery | Bantam Books | |||
| Poirot on Holiday | Todd | – | – | – | ||
| Problem at Pollensa Bay and The Christmas Adventure | Todd | – | – | – | ||
| Todd | – | – | – | |||
| Poirot Knows the Murderer | Todd | – | – | – | ||
| William Collins & Sons | Dodd, Mead & Co | |||||
| – | – | – | Dodd, Mead & Co | and others | ||
| – | – | – | Dodd, Mead & Co | |||
| – | – | – | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | ||
| William Collins & Sons | – | – | – | , Miss Marple and others | ||
| – | – | – | Double Sin and Other Stories | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |
| 13 for Luck! A Selection of Mystery Stories for Young Readers | William Collins & Sons | 13 for Luck! A Selection of Mystery Stories for Young Readers | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | ||
| – | – | – | Surprise! Surprise! | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | |
| – | – | – | 13 Clues for Miss Marple | Dodd, Mead & Co | ||
| – | – | – | Dodd, Mead & Co | – | ||
| Poirot's Early Cases | William Collins & Sons | Hercule Poirot's Early Cases | Dodd, Mead & Co | |||
| Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories | William Collins & Sons | – | – | – | ||
| Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories | Harper Collins | – | – | – | , Parker Pyne & Harley Quin and others | |
| While the Light Lasts and Other Stories | Harper Collins | – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | – | The Harlequin Tea Set | G. P. Putnam's Sons | – | |
| The Big Four '' | Harper Collins | – | – | – |
List of short stories
A total of 165 stories have been written and published in 15 collections in the US and the UK. 164 stories were published in the UK with the omission of "Three Blind Mice". The original short stories that were used for The Big Four were published in 2017. 152 stories were published in the US with the omission of "Christmas Adventure", which was the original version of "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding". Some stories were published under different names in the US collections.Four short stories—"The Submarine Plans", "Christmas Adventure", "The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest", and "The Second Gong"—were expanded into longer stories by Christie. All four of the original versions were published in the UK, and three of them were published in the US.
UK collections
This is a list of 165 stories sorted by the 15 UK collections in chronological order.| UK collection | UK title | US collection |
| Poirot Investigates | "The Adventure of 'The Western Star'" | Poirot Investigates —also includes "The Veiled Lady", "The Lost Mine", and "The Chocolate Box" |
| Poirot Investigates | "The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor" | Poirot Investigates —also includes "The Veiled Lady", "The Lost Mine", and "The Chocolate Box" |
| Poirot Investigates | "The Adventure of the Cheap Flat" | Poirot Investigates —also includes "The Veiled Lady", "The Lost Mine", and "The Chocolate Box" |
| Poirot Investigates | "The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge" | Poirot Investigates —also includes "The Veiled Lady", "The Lost Mine", and "The Chocolate Box" |
| Poirot Investigates | "The Million Dollar Bond Robbery" | Poirot Investigates —also includes "The Veiled Lady", "The Lost Mine", and "The Chocolate Box" |
| Poirot Investigates | "The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb" | Poirot Investigates —also includes "The Veiled Lady", "The Lost Mine", and "The Chocolate Box" |
| Poirot Investigates | "The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan" | Poirot Investigates —also includes "The Veiled Lady", "The Lost Mine", and "The Chocolate Box" |
| Poirot Investigates | "The Kidnapped Prime Minister" | Poirot Investigates —also includes "The Veiled Lady", "The Lost Mine", and "The Chocolate Box" |
| Poirot Investigates | "The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim" | Poirot Investigates —also includes "The Veiled Lady", "The Lost Mine", and "The Chocolate Box" |
| Poirot Investigates | "The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman" | Poirot Investigates —also includes "The Veiled Lady", "The Lost Mine", and "The Chocolate Box" |
| Poirot Investigates | "The Case of the Missing Will" | Poirot Investigates —also includes "The Veiled Lady", "The Lost Mine", and "The Chocolate Box" |
| Partners in Crime | "A Fairy in the Flat" | Partners in Crime |
| Partners in Crime | "A Pot of Tea" | Partners in Crime |
| Partners in Crime | "The Affair of the Pink Pearl" | Partners in Crime |
| Partners in Crime | "The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger" | Partners in Crime |
| Partners in Crime | "Finessing the King/The Gentleman Dressed in Newspaper" | Partners in Crime |
| Partners in Crime | "The Case of the Missing Lady" | Partners in Crime |
| Partners in Crime | "Blindman's Buff" | Partners in Crime |
| Partners in Crime | "The Man in the Mist" | Partners in Crime |
| Partners in Crime | "The Crackler" | Partners in Crime |
| Partners in Crime | "The Sunningdale Mystery" | Partners in Crime |
| Partners in Crime | "The House of Lurking Death" | Partners in Crime |
| Partners in Crime | "The Unbreakable Alibi" | Partners in Crime |
| Partners in Crime | "The Clergyman's Daughter/The Red House" | Partners in Crime |
| Partners in Crime | "The Ambassador's Boots" | Partners in Crime |
| Partners in Crime | "The Man Who Was No. 16" | Partners in Crime |
| The Mysterious Mr Quin | "The Coming of Mr. Quin" | The Mysterious Mr Quin |
| The Mysterious Mr Quin | "The Shadow on the Glass" | The Mysterious Mr Quin |
| The Mysterious Mr Quin | "At the 'Bells and Motley'" | The Mysterious Mr Quin |
| The Mysterious Mr Quin | "The Sign in the Sky" | The Mysterious Mr Quin |
| The Mysterious Mr Quin | "The Soul of the Croupier" | The Mysterious Mr Quin |
| The Mysterious Mr Quin | "The Man from the Sea" | The Mysterious Mr Quin |
| The Mysterious Mr Quin | "The Voice in the Dark" | The Mysterious Mr Quin |
| The Mysterious Mr Quin | "The Face of Helen" | The Mysterious Mr Quin |
| The Mysterious Mr Quin | "The Dead Harlequin" | The Mysterious Mr Quin |
| The Mysterious Mr Quin | "The Bird with the Broken Wing" | The Mysterious Mr Quin |
| The Mysterious Mr Quin | "The World’s End" | The Mysterious Mr Quin |
| The Mysterious Mr Quin | "Harlequin’s Lane" | The Mysterious Mr Quin |
| The Thirteen Problems | "The Tuesday Night Club" | The Tuesday Club Murders |
| The Thirteen Problems | "The Idol House of Astarte" | The Tuesday Club Murders |
| The Thirteen Problems | "Ingots of Gold" | The Tuesday Club Murders |
| The Thirteen Problems | "The Blood-Stained Pavement" | The Tuesday Club Murders |
| The Thirteen Problems | "Motive v. Opportunity" | The Tuesday Club Murders |
| The Thirteen Problems | "The Thumb Mark of St. Peter" | The Tuesday Club Murders |
| The Thirteen Problems | "The Blue Geranium" | The Tuesday Club Murders |
| The Thirteen Problems | "The Companion" | The Tuesday Club Murders |
| The Thirteen Problems | "The Four Suspects" | The Tuesday Club Murders |
| The Thirteen Problems | "A Christmas Tragedy" | The Tuesday Club Murders |
| The Thirteen Problems | "The Herb of Death" | The Tuesday Club Murders |
| The Thirteen Problems | "The Affair at the Bungalow" | The Tuesday Club Murders |
| The Thirteen Problems | "Death by Drowning" | The Tuesday Club Murders |
| The Hound of Death | "The Hound of Death" | The Golden Ball and Other Stories |
| The Hound of Death | "The Red Signal" | The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories |
| The Hound of Death | "The Fourth Man" | The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories |
| The Hound of Death | "The Gypsy" | The Golden Ball and Other Stories |
| The Hound of Death | "The Lamp" | The Golden Ball and Other Stories |
| The Hound of Death | "Wireless" | The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories under the name "Where There's a Will" |
| The Hound of Death | "The Witness for the Prosecution" | The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories |
| The Hound of Death | "The Mystery of the Blue Jar" | The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories |
| The Hound of Death | "The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael" | The Golden Ball and Other Stories under the name "The Strange Case of Sir Andrew Carmichael" |
| The Hound of Death | "The Call of Wings" | The Golden Ball and Other Stories |
| The Hound of Death | "The Last Seance" | Double Sin and Other Stories |
| The Hound of Death | "S.O.S." | The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories |
| The Listerdale Mystery | "The Listerdale Mystery" | The Golden Ball and Other Stories |
| The Listerdale Mystery | "Philomel Cottage" | The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories |
| The Listerdale Mystery | "The Girl in the Train" | The Golden Ball and Other Stories |
| The Listerdale Mystery | "Sing a Song of Sixpence" | The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories |
| The Listerdale Mystery | "The Manhood of Edward Robinson" | The Golden Ball and Other Stories |
| The Listerdale Mystery | "Accident" | The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories |
| The Listerdale Mystery | "Jane in Search of a Job" | The Golden Ball and Other Stories |
| The Listerdale Mystery | "A Fruitful Sunday" | The Golden Ball and Other Stories |
| The Listerdale Mystery | "Mr. Eastwood’s Adventure" | The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories |
| The Listerdale Mystery | "The Golden Ball" | The Golden Ball and Other Stories |
| The Listerdale Mystery | "The Rajah's Emerald" | The Golden Ball and Other Stories |
| The Listerdale Mystery | "Swan Song" | The Golden Ball and Other Stories |
| Parker Pyne Investigates | "The Case of the Middle-aged Wife" | Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective |
| Parker Pyne Investigates | "The Case of the Discontented Soldier" | Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective |
| Parker Pyne Investigates | "The Case of the Distressed Lady" | Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective |
| Parker Pyne Investigates | "The Case of the Discontented Husband" | Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective |
| Parker Pyne Investigates | "The Case of the City Clerk" | Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective |
| Parker Pyne Investigates | "The Case of the Rich Woman" | Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective |
| Parker Pyne Investigates | "Have You Got Everything You Want?" | Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective |
| Parker Pyne Investigates | "The Gate of Baghdad" | Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective |
| Parker Pyne Investigates | "The House at Shiraz" | Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective |
| Parker Pyne Investigates | "The Pearl of Price" | Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective |
| Parker Pyne Investigates | "Death on the Nile" | Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective |
| Parker Pyne Investigates | "The Oracle at Delphi" | Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective |
| Murder in the Mews | "Murder in the Mews" | Dead Man's Mirror |
| Murder in the Mews | "The Incredible Theft" | Dead Man's Mirror |
| Murder in the Mews | "Dead Man’s Mirror" | Dead Man's Mirror |
| Murder in the Mews | "Triangle at Rhodes" | Dead Man's Mirror |
| The Labours of Hercules | "The Nemean Lion" | The Labors of Hercules |
| The Labours of Hercules | "The Lernean Hydra" | The Labors of Hercules |
| The Labours of Hercules | "The Arcadian Deer" | The Labors of Hercules |
| The Labours of Hercules | "The Erymanthian Boar" | The Labors of Hercules |
| The Labours of Hercules | "The Augean Stables" | The Labors of Hercules |
| The Labours of Hercules | "The Stymphalean Birds" | The Labors of Hercules |
| The Labours of Hercules | "The Cretan Bull" | The Labors of Hercules |
| The Labours of Hercules | "The Horse of Diomedes" | The Labors of Hercules |
| The Labours of Hercules | "The Girdle of Hippolyta" | The Labors of Hercules |
| The Labours of Hercules | "The Flock of Geryon" | The Labors of Hercules |
| The Labours of Hercules | "The Apples of the Hesperides" | The Labors of Hercules |
| The Labours of Hercules | "The Capture of Cerberus" | The Labors of Hercules |
| The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding | "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding" | Double Sin and Other Stories under the name "The Theft of the Royal Ruby" |
| The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding | "The Mystery of the Spanish Chest" | The Harlequin Tea Set |
| The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding | "The Under Dog" | The Under Dog and Other Stories |
| The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding | "Four and Twenty Blackbirds" | Three Blind Mice and Other Stories |
| The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding | "The Dream" | The Regatta Mystery |
| The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding | "Greenshaw's Folly" | Double Sin and Other Stories |
| Poirot's Early Cases | "The Affair at the Victory Ball" | The Under Dog and Other Stories |
| Poirot's Early Cases | "The Adventure of the Clapham Cook" | The Under Dog and Other Stories |
| Poirot's Early Cases | "The Cornish Mystery" | The Under Dog and Other Stories |
| Poirot's Early Cases | "The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly" | Three Blind Mice and Other Stories |
| Poirot's Early Cases | "The Double Clue" | Double Sin and Other Stories |
| Poirot's Early Cases | "The King of Clubs" | The Under Dog and Other Stories |
| Poirot's Early Cases | "The Lemesurier Inheritance" | The Under Dog and Other Stories |
| Poirot's Early Cases | "The Lost Mine" | Poirot Investigates |
| Poirot's Early Cases | "The Plymouth Express" | The Under Dog and Other Stories |
| Poirot's Early Cases | "The Chocolate Box" | Poirot Investigates |
| Poirot's Early Cases | "The Submarine Plans" | The Under Dog and Other Stories |
| Poirot's Early Cases | "The Third-Floor Flat" | Three Blind Mice and Other Stories |
| Poirot's Early Cases | "Double Sin" | Double Sin and Other Stories |
| Poirot's Early Cases | "The Market Basing Mystery" | The Under Dog and Other Stories |
| Poirot's Early Cases | "Wasps’ Nest" | Double Sin and Other Stories |
| Poirot's Early Cases | "The Veiled Lady" | Poirot Investigates |
| Poirot's Early Cases | "Problem at Sea" | The Regatta Mystery |
| Poirot's Early Cases | "How Does Your Garden Grow?" | The Regatta Mystery |
| Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories | "Sanctuary" | Double Sin and Other Stories |
| Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories | "Strange Jest" | Three Blind Mice and Other Stories |
| Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories | "Tape-Measure Murder" | Three Blind Mice and Other Stories |
| Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories | "The Case of the Caretaker" | Three Blind Mice and Other Stories |
| Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories | "The Case of the Perfect Maid" | Three Blind Mice and Other Stories |
| Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories | "Miss Marple Tells a Story" | The Regatta Mystery |
| Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories | "The Dressmaker’s Doll" | Double Sin and Other Stories |
| Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories | "In a Glass Darkly" | The Regatta Mystery |
| Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories | "Problem at Pollensa Bay" | The Regatta Mystery |
| Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories | "The Second Gong" | The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories |
| Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories | "Yellow Iris" | The Regatta Mystery |
| Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories | "The Harlequin Tea Set" | The Harlequin Tea Set |
| Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories | "The Regatta Mystery" | The Regatta Mystery |
| Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories | "The Love Detectives" | Three Blind Mice and Other Stories |
| Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories | "Next to a Dog" | The Golden Ball and Other Stories |
| Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories | "Magnolia Blossom" | The Golden Ball and Other Stories |
| While the Light Lasts and Other Stories | "The House of Dreams" | The Harlequin Tea Set |
| While the Light Lasts and Other Stories | "The Actress" | The Harlequin Tea Set |
| While the Light Lasts and Other Stories | "The Edge" | The Harlequin Tea Set |
| While the Light Lasts and Other Stories | "Christmas Adventure" | Never published in the US |
| While the Light Lasts and Other Stories | "The Lonely God" | The Harlequin Tea Set |
| While the Light Lasts and Other Stories | "Manx Gold" | The Harlequin Tea Set |
| While the Light Lasts and Other Stories | "Within A Wall" | The Harlequin Tea Set |
| While the Light Lasts and Other Stories | "The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest" | The Regatta Mystery |
| While the Light Lasts and Other Stories | "While the Light Lasts" | The Harlequin Tea Set |
| The Big Four – The Detective Club | "The Unexpected Guest" | As yet unpublished in the US |
| The Big Four – The Detective Club | "The Adventure of the Dartmoor Bungalow" | As yet unpublished in the US |
| The Big Four – The Detective Club | "The Lady on the Stairs" | As yet unpublished in the US |
| The Big Four – The Detective Club | "The Radium Thieves" | As yet unpublished in the US |
| The Big Four – The Detective Club | "In the House of the Enemy" | As yet unpublished in the US |
| The Big Four – The Detective Club | "The Yellow Jasmine Mystery" | As yet unpublished in the US |
| The Big Four – The Detective Club | "The Chess Problem" | As yet unpublished in the US |
| The Big Four – The Detective Club | "The Baited Trap" | As yet unpublished in the US |
| The Big Four – The Detective Club | "The Adventure of the Peroxide Blonde" | As yet unpublished in the US |
| The Big Four – The Detective Club | "The Terrible Catastrophe" | As yet unpublished in the US |
| The Big Four – The Detective Club | "The Dying Chinaman" | As yet unpublished in the US |
| The Big Four – The Detective Club | "The Crag in the Dolomites" | As yet unpublished in the US |
| Never published in a UK collection | "Three Blind Mice" | Three Blind Mice and Other Stories |
US collections
There are 14 US collections, excluding Poirot's Early Cases, since all of its eighteen stories appeared in earlier collections.| Year | US collection | Number of stories |
| 1925 | Poirot Investigates | 14 |
| 1929 | Partners in Crime | 15 |
| 1930 | The Mysterious Mr Quin | 12 |
| 1932 | The Tuesday Club Murders | 13 |
| 1934 | Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective | 12 |
| 1937 | Dead Man's Mirror | 4 |
| 1939 | The Regatta Mystery | 9 |
| 1947 | The Labors of Hercules | 12 |
| 1948 | The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories | 11 |
| 1950 | Three Blind Mice and Other Stories | 9 |
| 1951 | The Under Dog and Other Stories | 9 |
| 1961 | Double Sin and Other Stories | 8 |
| 1971 | The Golden Ball and Other Stories | 15 |
| 1997 | The Harlequin Tea Set | 9 |
Miscellany
| Title | Year of first publication | First edition publisher | Category | Notes |
| Geoffrey Bles | Poetry | |||
| Come, Tell Me How You Live | William Collins & Sons | Autobiographical travel book | Under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan | |
| Star Over Bethlehem | William Collins & Sons | Poetry and short stories | Under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan | |
| Poems | William Collins & Sons | Poetry | ||
| John Day | Mystery stories | Editor, with others | ||
| ' | William Collins & Sons | Autobiography | ||
| The Scoop and Behind the Screen | Victor Gollancz | Mystery novellas | With members of The Detection Club | |
| ' | Letters |
Broadcast works
Several of Christie's works have been adapted for stage and screen; the following is a list of only those works written by her on her own or as a member of a group.| Title | First performance | Date of first performance | Type of work | Notes | |
| Behind The Screen | BBC Radio | Radio play | Written together with Hugh Walpole, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley, E. C. Bentley and Ronald Knox of The Detection Club. | ||
| BBC Radio | Radio play | Written together with Dorothy L. Sayers, E. C. Bentley, Anthony Berkeley, Freeman Wills Crofts and Clemence Dane of The Detection Club. | |||
| Wasp's Nest | BBC Television | Television play | |||
| BBC Radio | Radio play | ||||
| Three Blind Mice | BBC Radio | Radio play | |||
| Butter in a Lordly Dish | BBC Radio | Radio play | |||
| Personal Call | BBC Radio | Radio play |
Stage works
The definitive study of Agatha Christie's stage plays is Curtain Up: Agatha Christie, a Life in Theatre by Julius Green.for The Mousetrap at St Martin's Theatre, London
, Barry Fitzgerald, Richard Haydn, Mischa Auer and Walter Huston in the 1945 film And Then There Were None, which was based on the 1943 play Ten Little Niggers.
| Title | Location of first performance | Date of first performance | Year of publication | Publisher | Notes |
| Black Coffee | Embassy Theatre | Ashley | Novelised by Charles Osborne in 1998 as Black Coffee | ||
| Ten Little Niggers | St James's Theatre | Samuel French Ltd. | Based on the 1939 novel Ten Little Niggers; also known as And Then There Were None. | ||
| Appointment with Death | Piccadilly Theatre | Samuel French Ltd. | Based on the 1938 novel Appointment with Death | ||
| Murder on the Nile | Wimbledon Theatre | Samuel French Ltd. | Based on the 1937 novel Death on the Nile; a revised version—published as Murder on the Nile—was produced at Ambassadors Theatre on 19 March 1946 | ||
| Fortune Theatre | Samuel French Ltd. | Based on the 1946 novel The Hollow. | |||
| Ambassadors Theatre | Samuel French Ltd. | the play was still running; in 2009 the London run exceeded 25,000 performances. | |||
| Witness for the Prosecution | Winter Garden Theatre | Samuel French Ltd. | Based upon the 1925 short story "The Witness for the Prosecution" | ||
| Spider's Web | Savoy Theatre | Samuel French Ltd. | Novelised by Charles Osborne in 2000 as Spider's Web | ||
| Towards Zero | St James's Theatre | Samuel French Ltd. | With Gerald Verner; based on the novel Towards Zero | ||
| Verdict | Strand Theatre | Samuel French Ltd. | |||
| Duchess Theatre | Samuel French Ltd. | Novelised by Charles Osborne in 1999 as The Unexpected Guest | |||
| Go Back for Murder | Duchess Theatre | Samuel French Ltd. | Based on the novel Five Little Pigs | ||
| Rule of Three | Duchess Theatre | Samuel French Ltd. | Contains three works: Afternoon at the Sea-side, The Patient and The Rats | ||
| Fiddlers Three | Kings Theatre, Southsea | ||||
| Akhnaton | New York | William Collins & Sons | First produced under the title Akhnaton and Nefertiti. | ||
| Chimneys | Pitlochry Festival Theatre Company | Unpublished. Written in 1931 and forgotten until the early 1980s when the script was discovered in the British Library Archive. Its existence was suppressed for 20 years at the request of Christie's daughter, but eventually came to light when it was discovered by another researcher who was unaware of the request. The play was unperformed until 2006. Based on the 1925 novel The Secret of Chimneys. |