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Christie Works

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

 

 

 

1923

 

Murder on the Links

 

 

 

1924

 

The Man in the Brown Suit

 

Scenes set in Hempsley Cavern, based on Kents Cavern, Torquay

 

1925

 

The Secret of Chimneys

 

 

 

1926

 

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

 

 

 

1927

 

The Big Four

 

 

 

1928

 

The Mystery of the Blue Train

 

 

 

1929

 

The Seven Dials Murder

 

 

 

1930

 

The Murder at the Vicarage

 

 

 

1931

 

The Sittaford Mystery

 

 

 

1932

 

Peril at End House

 

Features Torquay’s Imperial Hotel (renamed as the Majestic)

 

1933

 

Lord Edgeware Dies

 

 

 

1934

 

Murder on the Orient Express

 

 

 

1934

 

Murder on the Calais Coach

 

 

 

1935

 

Three Act Tragedy

 

 

 

1935

 

Death in the Clouds

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

1936

 

Cards on the Table

 

 

 

1937

 

Death on the Nile

 

 

 

1937

 

Dumb Witness

 

 

 

1938

 

Appointment with Death

 

 

 

1938

 

Hercule Poirot’s Christmas

 

 

 

1939

 

Ten Little Indians

 

 

 

1939

 

Murder is Easy

 

 

 

1940

 

Sad Cypress

 

 

 

1940

 

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

 

 

 

1941

 

Evil Under the Sun

 

 

 

1941

 

N or M?

 

 

 

1942

 

The Body in the Library

 

 

 

1942

 

Five Little Pigs

 

 

 

1942

 

The Moving Finger

 

 

 

1944

 

Towards Zero

 

 

 

1944

 

Death Comes as the End

 

 

 

1945

 

Sparkling Cyanide

 

 

 

1946

 

The Hollow

 

 

 

1948

 

Taken at the Flood

 

 

 

1949

 

Crooked House

 

 

 

1950

 

A Murder in Announced

 

 

 

1951

 

They Came to Baghdad

 

 

 

1952

 

Mrs McGinty’s Dead

 

 

 

1952

 

They Do It with Mirrors

 

 

 

1953

 

A Pocket Full of Rye

 

 

 

1953

 

After the Funeral

 

 

 

1954

 

Destination Unknown

 

 

 

1955

 

Hickory Dickory Dock

 

 

 

1956

 

Dead Man’s Folly

 

Features Hercule’s arrival at Churston Station and a mystery to solve at Greenway.

 

1957

 

4.50 From Paddington

 

 

 

1958

 

Ordeal by Innocence

 

 

 

1959

 

Cat Among the Pigeons

 

 

 

1961

 

The Pale Horse

 

 

 

1962

 

The Mirror Crack’d

 

 

 

1963

 

The Clocks

 

 

 

1964

 

A Caribbean Mystery

 

 

 

1965

 

At Bertram’s Hotel

 

 

 

1966

 

Third Girl

 

 

 

1967

 

Endless Night

 

 

 

1968

 

By the Pricking of My Thumbs

 

 

 

1969

 

Halloween Party

 

 

 

1970

 

Passenger to Frankfurt

 

 

 

1971

 

Nemesis

 

 

 

1972

 

Elephants Can Remember

 

 

 

1973

 

Postern of Fate

 

 

 

1975

 

Curtain

 

 

 

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.