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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.