Agatha Christie

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Biography

Agatha Christie was a renowned British author known for her iconic detective series featuring the beloved character Hercule Poirot. Born in 1890 in Torquay, England, Christie's first novel, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles," was published in 1920 and introduced the world to the brilliant Belgian detective Poirot. Over the course of her prolific career, Christie wrote a total of 33 novels and numerous short stories featuring Poirot, captivating readers with her intricate plots, clever twists, and unforgettable characters. Christie's works have been translated into over 100 languages and have sold over two billion copies worldwide, making her one of the best-selling authors of all time. Her mastery of the detective genre has earned her the title of "Queen of Crime," and her work continues to captivate readers and inspire generations of writers. Agatha Christie's legacy as a pioneer in the mystery genre is unparalleled, and her timeless tales of intrigue and deduction remain as popular today as they were in her lifetime.

Standalone Novels

Individual novels by Agatha Christie not part of a series

  • 10 LITTLE INDIANS
  • 16 Uhr 50 ab Paddington.
  • 3RD GIRL )
  • 4:50 From Paddington
  • 4:50 From Paddington )
  • 4:50 from Paddington
  • A B C MURDERS
  • A Caribbean Mystery
  • A Caribbean Mystery )
  • A Murder Is Announced )
  • A Pocket Full of Rye )
  • A l'H�?´tel Bertram
  • A.B.C. contre Poirot
  • ABC Contre Poirot
  • ABC MURDERS
  • ABC Murders
  • AND THEN THERE WERE NONE E
  • AT BERTRAM'S HOTEL
  • AT BERTRAMS HOTEL
  • Abc Murders
  • Absent in the Spring
  • After the Funeral )
  • Agatha Christie Murderers Abroad: Five Complete Novels
  • Agatha Christie Mysteries: Philomel Cottage, the Red Signal, the Mystery of the Spanish Shawl
  • Agatha Christie the Clocks Poirot
  • Agatha Christie's Detectives: 5 Complete Novels
  • Agatha Christie's Detectives: Five Complete Novels
  • Agatha Christie's Mysterious Affair at Styles
  • Agatha Christie's Poirot : The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Murder on the Links/ Cassettes
  • Agatha Christie, Five Classic Murder Mysteries
  • Agatha Christie: 5 Complete Hercule Poirot Novels
  • Agatha Christie: 5 Complete Miss Marple Novels
  • Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
  • Agatha Christie: Five Classic Murder Mysteries
  • Alibi. Ein Hercule Poirot Krimi.
  • Alter sch�?¼tzt vor Scharfsinn nicht.
  • An Autobiography
  • And Then There Were None
  • And Then There Were None :
  • Appointment With Death
  • Appointment with Death
  • Asesinato en el Orient Express
  • Asesinato en el campo de golf
  • Associ�?©s contre le crime
  • At Bertram's Hotel
  • At Bertram's Hotel )
  • Auch P�?¼nktlichkeit kann t�?¶ten. Crime Stories.
  • BODY IN LIBRARY )
  • BY PRICKING THUMB
  • Big Four
  • Big Four, The
  • Black Coffee.
  • Body in the Library )
  • By the Pricking of My Thumb
  • By the Pricking of My Thumbs
  • By the Pricking of My Thumbs )
  • By the Pricking of my Thumbs
  • CARIBBEAN MYSTERY
  • CAT AMONG PIGEONS
  • CLOCKS
  • COME TELL HOW LIVE
  • CROOKED HOUSE
  • CURTAIN
  • Cafe Solo
  • Cards On the Table
  • Cards on the Table
  • Cards on the Table )
  • Cartas Sobre LA Mesa
  • Cartes Sur Table
  • Casa Torcida, La
  • Cat Among the Pigeons
  • Cat Among the Pigeons )
  • Cianuro Espumoso
  • Cianuro Espumoso/Remembered Death
  • Cinco cerditos
  • Cinq heures vingt-cinq
  • Cinq petits cochons
  • Come, Tell Me How You Live
  • Crooked House
  • Curtain
  • Curtain: Poirot's last case
  • Curtain: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
  • DEAD MANS FOLLY )
  • DEATH COMES AS END
  • DEATH COMES AS THE END
  • DESTINATION UNKNWN
  • Das Geheimnis der Goldmine.
  • Das Geheimnis der Schnallenschuhe. Ein Hercule Poirot Krimi.
  • Das Schicksal in Person.
  • Das Sterben in Wychwood.
  • Das fahle Pferd.
  • Das fehlende Glied in der Kette.
  • Das fehlende Glied in der Kette. Sonderausgabe.
  • Das unvollendete Bildnis.
  • Das unvollendete Bildnis. Ein Hercule-Poirot-Krimi.
  • Dead Man's Folly
  • Dead Man's Folly )
  • Dead Man's Mirror
  • Death Comes As the End
  • Death In the Air
  • Death by Drowning
  • Death in the Air
  • Death in the Clouds
  • Death in the Clouds )
  • Death on the Nile
  • Death on the Nile )
  • Der Dienstagabend- Club.
  • Der Ferienkrimi. Ein m�?¶rderischer Sommer.
  • Der Gutenacht- Krimi mit Hercule Poirot.
  • Der Todeswirbel.
  • Der Wachsblumenstrau�?�?.
  • Der Wachsblumenstrau�?�?. Sonderausgabe.
  • Der blaue Express.
  • Destination Unknown
  • Die Memoiren des Grafen.
  • Die Morde des Herrn ABC.
  • Die M�?¶rder - Maschen. Ein Miss- Marple- Krimi.
  • Die Schattenhand.
  • Die Tote in der Bibliothek.
  • Die besten Crime- Stories. Meistererz�?¤hlungen der Queen of Crime.
  • Die gro�?�?en Vier.
  • Die m�?¶rderische Teerunde.
  • Diez negritos
  • Dix petits n�?¨gres
  • Double Sin and Other Stories
  • Double Sin and other stories
  • Drame en trois actes
  • Dreizehn bei Tisch.
  • Dumb Witness )
  • EASY TO KILL
  • ENDLESS NIGHT
  • EVIL UNDER THE SUN
  • Easy to Kill
  • Ein Mord wird angek�?¼ndigt.
  • Ein diplomatischer Zwischenfall.
  • Ein gef�?¤hrlicher Gegner.
  • El Misterio De Sittaford
  • El Misterio de Listerdale
  • El Pudding de Navidad
  • El Tren de las 4,50/What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw
  • El caso de los anónimos
  • El misterio del tren azul
  • Elephants Can Remember
  • Elephants Can Remember )
  • Endless Night
  • Evil Under the Sun
  • Evil Under the Sun )
  • FUNERALS ARE FATAL
  • Fata Morgana.
  • Five Complete Hercule Poirot Novels
  • Five Complete Miss Marple Novels
  • Five Complete Novels of Murder and Detection
  • Five Little Pigs )
  • Floating Admiral
  • Giant's Bread
  • HALOWEEN PARTY )
  • HICKRY DICKRY DETH
  • Halloween Party
  • Halloween Party )
  • Hercule Poirot's Casebook
  • Hercule Poirot's Christmas
  • Hercule Poirot's Christmas )
  • Hercule Poirot's Early Cases
  • Hercule Poirot's gr�?¶�?�?te Tr�?¼mpfe.
  • Hercule Poirots Weihnachten.
  • Hercule Poirots gr�?¶�?�?te Tr�?¼mpfe.
  • Hickory Dickory Death
  • Hickory Dickory Dock
  • Hickory Dickory Dock )
  • Holiday for Murder
  • Im Spinnennetz.
  • Inocencia Tragica
  • Jeux De Glaces
  • Karibische Affaire
  • Krumme Haus/Crooked House
  • L' Affaire Prothero
  • L'affaire Proth�?©ro
  • L'homme au complet marron
  • LA Puerta Del Destino/Postern of Fate
  • La Fete Du Potiron
  • La Muerte Vista Al Dentista
  • La Muerte de Lord Edgware/Lord Edgware Dies
  • La Señora McGinty ha muerto
  • La Vengaza de Nofret
  • La derni�?¨re �?©nigme
  • La maison biscornue
  • La troisi�?¨me fille
  • La venganza de Nofret
  • Labours of Hercules
  • Le Cheval p�?¢le
  • Le Crime de l'Orient-Express
  • Le Crime du golf
  • Le Meurtre de Roger Ackroyd
  • Le Myst�?©rieux Monsieur Quinn
  • Le Noel De Hercule Poirot
  • Le No�?«l d'Hercule Poirot
  • Le Train bleu
  • Le Vallon
  • Le cheval �? bascule
  • Le couteau sur la nuque
  • Le crime du golf
  • Le crime est notre affaire
  • Le secret de Chimneys
  • Le train bleu
  • Les Sept cadrans
  • Les vacances d'Hercule Poirot
  • Lord Edgware Dies
  • MIRROR CRACKD
  • MIRROR CRACKD )
  • MRS MCGINTYS DEAD
  • MURDER IS ANNOUNCE
  • MURDER ORIENT EXPS
  • MURDER ROG ACKROYD
  • MURDER W MIRRORS
  • MYSTERY BLUE TRAIN
  • Man in the Brown Suit
  • Masterpieces of murder
  • Meine gute alte Zeit. Die Autobiographie einer Lady.
  • Meistererz�?¤hlungen.
  • Meurtre au champagne
  • Miss Marple the Complete Short Stories
  • Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
  • Miss marple y 13 problemás
  • Mister Parker Pyne, Detective
  • Mord Im Orientexpress/Murder on the Orient Express
  • Mord auf dem Golfplatz.
  • Mord auf dem Golfplatz. Sonderausgabe.
  • Mord im Orientexpress.
  • Mord im Pfarrhaus.
  • Mord im Spiegel.
  • Mord in Mesopotamien. Ein Hercule- Poirot- Krimi.
  • More Murder Most Cozy: More Mysteries in the Classic Tradition
  • Morphium.
  • Mort sur le Nil
  • Mousetrap and Other Plays
  • Moving Finger
  • Mrs. McGinty's Dead
  • Mrs. McGinty's Dead )
  • Murder After Hours
  • Murder After Hours/
  • Murder At Hazelmoor
  • Murder At the Vicarage
  • Murder In Three Acts
  • Murder Is Easy
  • Murder On the Links
  • Murder On the Orient Express
  • Murder With Mirrors
  • Murder at the Manor
  • Murder at the Manor: An Agatha Christie Lost Classics Omnibus
  • Murder at the Vicarage
  • Murder at the Vicarage )
  • Murder in Mesopotamia
  • Murder in Mesopotamia )
  • Murder in Retrospect
  • Murder in Three Acts
  • Murder in the Calais Coach
  • Murder in the Mews
  • Murder in the Mews )
  • Murder in the Mews and Other Stories )
  • Murder in the Mews: Three Perplexing Cases for Poirot
  • Murder is Announced
  • Murder is Easy
  • Murder on Board: Including \"the Mystery of the Blue Train\", \"What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw\" and \"Death in the Air\"
  • Murder on the Links
  • Murder on the Orient Express
  • Murder on the Orient Express )
  • Murder on the Orient express
  • Murder with Mirrors
  • Murderers Abroad: Five Complete Novels
  • Mysterious Affair At Styles
  • Mysterious Affair at Styles
  • Mystery of the Blue Train
  • N or M?
  • N or M? )
  • NEMESIS
  • Nemesis
  • Nikotin. Kriminalroman.
  • ORDEAL BY INOCENCE
  • OVERDOSE OF DEATH
  • One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
  • One, Two, Buckle My Shoe )
  • Ordeal by Innocence
  • Osi Poirot
  • PALE HORSE
  • PASENGER TO FRNKRT
  • PASSENGER TO FRANKFURT
  • PERIL AT END HOUSE
  • PKT FULL OF RYE
  • PKT FULL OF RYE )
  • Parker Pyne Investigates
  • Partners in Crime
  • Partners in Crime )
  • Pasajero Para Francfort
  • Passager pour Francfort
  • Passenger to Frankfurt
  • Passenger to Frankfurt: An Extravaganza
  • Passenger to Frankfurt: An extravaganza,
  • Patriotic Murders
  • Pension Vanilos
  • Peril at End House
  • Peril at End House )
  • Peril at End House: Hercules Poirot Audio Mystery
  • Pleamares de la Vida
  • Pocket Full of Rye
  • Poirot En Egipto
  • Poirot Infringe la Ley
  • Poirot Investigates
  • Poirot Investigates )
  • Poirot Loses a Client
  • Poirot en Egipto
  • Poirot joue le jeu
  • Poirot's Early Cases
  • Postern of Fate
  • Postmark: Murder
  • Pourquoi Pas Evans?
  • Primeros Casos de Poirot
  • Primeros casos de Poirot
  • Problem at Pollensa Bay and 7 Other Mysteries
  • REMEMBERED DEATH
  • Regatta Mystery
  • Rendez vous avec la mort
  • Rendez-vous a Bagdad
  • Rendez-vous �? Bagdad
  • SLEEPING MURDER
  • Sad Cypress
  • Sad Cypress )
  • Sangre en la Piscina
  • Schicksal in Person/Nemesis
  • Schneewittchen- Party.
  • Secret Adversary
  • Seven Dials Mystery
  • Sleeping Murder
  • Sleeping Murder )
  • Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple's Last Case
  • Sleeping murder: Miss Marple's last case
  • So Many Steps to Death
  • Solange es hell ist.
  • Sparkling Cyanide
  • Spider's Web
  • Starring Miss Marple
  • Surprise! Surprise!
  • TOWARDS ZERO
  • Taken At The Flood
  • Taken at the Flood )
  • Telon
  • Ten Little Indians
  • Testigo de cargo
  • The 4:50 From Paddington
  • The 4:50 from Paddington
  • The A.B.C. Murders
  • The ABC MURDERS
  • The Big Four
  • The Body in the Library
  • The Body in the Library )
  • The Boomerang Clue
  • The Clocks
  • The Floating Admiral
  • The Golden Ball and Other Stories
  • The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories
  • The Hollow )
  • The Labors of Hercules
  • The Labors of Hercules )
  • The Labours of Hercules
  • The Man in the Brown Suit
  • The Man in the Brown Suit )
  • The Mirror Crack'D )
  • The Mirror Crack'd
  • The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
  • The Mousetrap and Other Plays
  • The Mousetrap and Other Plays )
  • The Moving Finger
  • The Moving Finger )
  • The Murder at Hazelmoor
  • The Murder at the Vicarage
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd )
  • The Murder on the Links
  • The Mysterious Affair at Styles
  • The Mysterious Affair at Styles : A Detective Story
  • The Mysterious Mr. Quin
  • The Mysterious Mr. Quin )
  • The Mystery of the Blue Train
  • The Mystery of the Blue Train )
  • The Pale Horse
  • The Patriotic Murders
  • The Regatta Mystery
  • The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories
  • The Scoop
  • The Secret Adversary
  • The Secret Adversary )
  • The Secret of Chimneys
  • The Seven Dials Mystery
  • The Sittaford Mystery
  • The Sittaford Mystery [BBC AUDIO COLLECTION, 2 AUDIOCASSETES]
  • The Thirteen Problems
  • The Thirteen Problems )
  • The Under Dog and Other Stories
  • The Underdog and Other Stories
  • The Unexpected Guest: A Mystery
  • The Witness for the Prosecution
  • The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories
  • The golden ball and other stories
  • The mysterious Mr. Quin
  • There Is a Tide
  • There Is a Tide )
  • They Came to Baghdad
  • They Do It With Mirrors )
  • Third Girl
  • Third Girl )
  • Thirteen At Dinner
  • Thirteen Clues for Miss Marple
  • Thirteen at Dinner
  • Thirteen at Dinner )
  • Three Act Tragedy
  • Three Act Tragedy )
  • Three Blind Mice
  • Three Blind Mice and Other Stories
  • Three Puzzles for Poirot
  • Towards Zero
  • Towards Zero )
  • Tragedia en Tres Actos
  • Tragedia en tres actos
  • Tuesday Club Murders
  • UN Crimen Dormido/Sleeping Murder
  • UN Gato En El Palomar
  • Un Puñado de Centeno
  • Un cadáver en la biblioteca
  • Un meurtre sera commis le--
  • Un, Deux, Trois
  • Unexpected Guest
  • Vergessliche Morderin/Third Girl
  • WHAT MCGILCUDY SAW
  • What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw
  • Why Didn't They Ask Evans: Agatha Christie Audio Mystery
  • Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
  • Witness for the Prosecution
  • Zehn kleine Negerlein.

Hercule Poirot

Books in the Hercule Poirot series by Agatha Christie

  • Appointment With Death: A Hercule Poirot Mystery )
  • Five Little Pigs: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
  • Hallowe'en Party: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
  • Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Novel )

Miss Marple

Books in the Miss Marple series by Agatha Christie

  • Body in the Library, The: A Miss Marple Mystery
  • Murder at the Vicarage: A Miss Marple Mystery

Tommy and Tuppence

Books in the Tommy and Tuppence series by Agatha Christie

  • N or M?: A Tommy and Tuppence Mystery
  • Postern of Fate: A Tommy and Tuppence Mystery

Classic Series

The series that started it all

  • The Mysterious Affair at Styles
  • Murder on the Orient Express
  • Death on the Nile

Recent Series

Latest works by the author

  • The ABC Murders
  • Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case

Reading Order

Complete reading order for Agatha Christie's books

1Standalone Novels
2Hercule Poirot
3Miss Marple
4Tommy and Tuppence

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Agatha Christie known for?

Agatha Christie is known for her mystery novels, particularly the Hercule Poirot series.

How many books are in the Hercule Poirot series?

There are a total of 33 books in the Hercule Poirot series.

What is the first book in the Hercule Poirot series?

The first book in the Hercule Poirot series is 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles'.

Which Agatha Christie book is considered to be her most famous work?

Agatha Christie's most famous work is 'Murder on the Orient Express', a Hercule Poirot mystery.

How many Hercule Poirot books were adapted into movies or TV shows?

Many of the Hercule Poirot books have been adapted into movies and TV shows, with 'Murder on the Orient Express' being one of the most popular adaptations.