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Agatha 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.