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Agatha Christie Works (and their connections with the area)
1920 |
The Mysterious affair at Styles |
Knowledge of poisons learned whist working in Torquay's wartime dispensary. |
1922 |
The Secret Adversary |
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1923 |
Murder on the Links |
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1924 |
The Man in the Brown Suit |
Scenes set in Hempsley Cavern, based on Kents Cavern, Torquay |
1925 |
The Secret of Chimneys |
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1926 |
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd |
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1927 |
The Big Four |
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1928 |
The Mystery of the Blue Train |
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1929 |
The Seven Dials Murder |
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1930 |
The Murder at the Vicarage |
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1931 |
The Sittaford Mystery |
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1932 |
Peril at End House |
Features Torquay’s Imperial Hotel (renamed as the Majestic) |
1933 |
Lord Edgeware Dies |
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1934 |
Murder on the Orient Express |
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1934 |
Murder on the Calais Coach |
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1935 |
Three Act Tragedy |
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1935 |
Death in the Clouds |
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1936 |
The ABC Murders |
Features Churston Station, now a steam train station near Greenway.Sir Carmichael Clark meets his untimely end at nearby Elberry Cove. Also features Princess Gardens |
1936 |
Murder in Mesopotamia |
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1936 |
Cards on the Table |
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1937 |
Death on the Nile |
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1937 |
Dumb Witness |
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1938 |
Appointment with Death |
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1938 |
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas |
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1939 |
Ten Little Indians |
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1939 |
Murder is Easy |
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1940 |
Sad Cypress |
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1940 |
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe |
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1941 |
Evil Under the Sun |
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1941 |
N or M? |
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1942 |
The Body in the Library |
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1942 |
Five Little Pigs |
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1942 |
The Moving Finger |
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1944 |
Towards Zero |
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1944 |
Death Comes as the End |
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1945 |
Sparkling Cyanide |
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1946 |
The Hollow |
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1948 |
Taken at the Flood |
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1949 |
Crooked House |
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1950 |
A Murder in Announced |
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1951 |
They Came to Baghdad |
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1952 |
Mrs McGinty’s Dead |
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1952 |
They Do It with Mirrors |
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1953 |
A Pocket Full of Rye |
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1953 |
After the Funeral |
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1954 |
Destination Unknown |
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1955 |
Hickory Dickory Dock |
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1956 |
Dead Man’s Folly |
Features Hercule’s arrival at Churston Station and a mystery to solve at Greenway. |
1957 |
4.50 From Paddington |
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1958 |
Ordeal by Innocence |
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1959 |
Cat Among the Pigeons |
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1961 |
The Pale Horse |
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1962 |
The Mirror Crack’d |
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1963 |
The Clocks |
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1964 |
A Caribbean Mystery |
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1965 |
At Bertram’s Hotel |
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1966 |
Third Girl |
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1967 |
Endless Night |
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1968 |
By the Pricking of My Thumbs |
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1969 |
Halloween Party |
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1970 |
Passenger to Frankfurt |
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1971 |
Nemesis |
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1972 |
Elephants Can Remember |
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1973 |
Postern of Fate |
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1975 |
Curtain |
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1976 |
Sleeping Murder |
Marple unravels the mystery on the terrace of the Imperial Hotel (Majestic) |
In addition to the list of novels, Christie published 22 collections of short stories, 6 novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott and two non fiction books including her 1977 autobiography.