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Bibliography Works by Agatha Christie The following works are referred to in the text. They are listed under the standard British titles, with American titles in brackets. Date of the first publication is given. Works are referred to in the text by an abbreviated form of the British title, given in square brackets in this list. Since there have been so many editions of the novels, references are to the chapter numbers and not to the page. The current standard edition is published by Harper-Collins in the United Kingdom and by Dodd Mead in the United States. 4.50 from Paddington (What Mrs McGillicuddy Saw), 1957 [4.50] The ABC Murders, 1936 [ABC] The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, 1960 [Pudding] After the Funeral (Funerals Are Fatal), 1953 [Funeral] And Then There Were None, 1939 [None] Appointment with Death, 1938 [Appointment] At Bertram’s Hotel, 1965 [Bertram] Autobiography, 1977 The Body in the Library, 1942 [Library] By the Pricking of My Thumbs, 1968 [Pricking] Cards on the Table, 1936 [Cards] A Caribbean Mystery, 1964 [Caribbean] Cat among the Pigeons, 1959 [Cat] The Clocks, 1963 [Clocks] Crooked House, 1949 [Crooked] Curtain, 1975 [Curtain] Dead Man’s Folly, 1956 [Folly] Death Comes As the End, 1945 [Comes End] Death in the Clouds (Death in the Air), 1935 [Clouds] Death on the Nile, 1937 [Nile] Destination Unknown (So Many Steps to Death), 1954 [Destination] Dumb Witness (Poirot Loses a Client), 1937 [Witness] Elephants Can Remember, 1972 [Elephants] Endless Night, 1967 [Endless] Evil under the Sun, 1941 [Sun] Five Little Pigs (Murder in Retrospect), 1943 [Pigs] Hallowe’en Party, 1969 [Hallowe’en] Hercule Poirot’s Christmas (Murder for Christmas), 1938 [Christmas] Hickory Dickory Dock (Hickory, Dickory, Death), 1955 [Hickory] The Hollow, 1946 [Hollow] The Labours of Hercules, 1947 [Labours] Lord Edgeware Dies (Thirteen at Dinner), 1933 [Edgeware] The Man in the Brown Suit, 1924 [Suit] 166 Bibliography 167 The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side (The Mirror Crack’d), 1962 [Crack’d] The Moving Finger, 1943 [Finger] Mrs McGinty’s Dead (Blood Will Tell), 1952 [McGinty] Murder at the Vicarage, 1930 [Vicarage] Murder in Mesopotamia, 1936 [Mesopotamia] Murder in the Mews, 1937 [Mews] A Murder is Announced, 1950 [Announced] Murder is Easy (Easy to Kill), 1939 [Easy] The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926 [Ackroyd] Murder on the Links, 1923 [Links] Murder on the Orient Express (Murder in the Calais Coach), 1934 [Orient Express] The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920 [Styles] The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1927 [Blue] Nemesis, 1971 [Nemesis] One Two, Buckle My Shoe (The Patriotic Murders), 1940 [Buckle] Ordeal by Innocence, 1958 [Ordeal] The Pale Horse, 1961 [Pale] Passenger to Frankfurt, 1970 [Frankfurt] Peril at End House, 1932 [End H] A Pocket Full of Rye, 1953 [Rye] Poirot Investigates, 1924 [Investigates] Sad Cypress, 1940 [Cypress] The Secret of Chimneys, 1925 [Chimneys] The Seven Dials Mystery, 1929 [7D] The Sittaford Mystery (Murder at Hazelmoor), 1931 [Sittaford] Sleeping Murder, 1976 [Sleeping] Sparkling Cyanide (Remembered Death), 1945 [Cyanide] Taken at the Flood (There is a Tide), 1948 [Flood] They Came to Baghdad, 1951 [Baghdad] They Do It With Mirrors (Murder With Mirrors), 1952 [Mirrors] Third Girl, 1966 [Girl] Three Act Tragedy (Murder in Three Acts), 1935 [3Act] Towards Zero, 1944 [Zero] Other works cited Ackershoek, Mary Anne, “The daughters of his manhood”, in Theory and Practice of Classic Detective Fiction, ed. Jerome H. Delamater and Ruth Prigozy, Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1997, pp. 119–128. Ascari, Maurizio, “Vidocq or the French Jonathan Wild”, in Two Centuries of Detective Fiction, ed. Maurizio Ascari, Bologna, Università di Bologna, 2000, pp. 29–46. Barnard, Robert, A Talent to Deceive: An Appreciation of Agatha Christie, London, Collins, 1980. Bayard, Pierre, Who Killed Roger Ackroyd? The Mystery Behind the Agatha Christie Mystery, London, Fourth Estate, 2000. Birns, Nicholas and Birns, Margaret Boe, “Agatha Christie: modern and modernist”, inTheCunningCraft,ed.RonaldG.WalkerandJuneM.Frazer,EssaysinLiterature, Macomb, Ill., Western Illinois University, 1990, pp. 120–134. 168 Bibliography Blake, Nicholas (C. Day Lewis), “The detective story – why?” in The Art of the Mystery Story: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Howard Haycraft, New York, Carroll and Graf, 1983, pp. 398–405. Butor, Michel, L’Emploi du Temps, Paris, Minuit, 1957. Caillois, Roger, “The detective story as game”, in The Poetics of Murder, ed. Glenn W. Most and William W. Stowe, San Diego, HBJ, 1983, pp. 1–12. Cawelti, John G., Adventure, Mystery and Romance, Chicago, IL, Chicago University Press, 1976. Champigny, Robert, What Will Have Happened: A Philosophical and Technical Essay on Detective Stories, Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 1977. Chandler, Raymond, “The simple art of murder”, in The Art of the Mystery Story, A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Howard Haycraft, New York, Carroll and Graf, 1983, pp. 222–237. Chaney, Hanna, The Detective Novel of Manners, Rutherford, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1981. Craig, Patricia and Cadogan, Mary, The Lady Investigates, Women Detectives and Spies in Fiction, London, Gollancz, 1981. Gill, Gillian, Agatha Christie, the Woman and Her Mysteries, London, Robson, 1991. Grella, George, “Murder and manners”, in Dimensions of Detective Fiction, ed. Larry L. Landrum, Pat Browne and Ray B. Browne, Bowling Green, OH, Popular Press, 1976, pp. 37–57. Grossvogel, David I., “Death deferred”, in Essays on Detective Fiction, ed. Bernard Benstock, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1983, pp. 1–17. Hark, Ina Rae, “Impossible murderers, Agatha Christie and the community of readers”, in Theory and Practice of Classic Detective Fiction, ed. Jerome H. Delamater and Ruth Prigozy, Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1997, pp. 111– 118. Heissenbüttel, Helmut, “Rules of the game of the crime novel”, in The Poetics of Murder, ed. Glenn W. Most and William W. Stowe, San Diego, CA, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983, pp. 79–92. Herbert, Rosemary, Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing, New York, OUP, 1994. Holquist, Michael, “Whodunit and other questions”, in The Poetics of Murder, ed. Glenn W. Most and William W. Stowe, San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983, pp. 149–174. Hühn, Peter, “The politics of secrecy and publicity”, in Theory and Practice of Classic Detective Fiction, ed. Jerome H. Delamater and Ruth Prigozy, Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1997, pp. 39–50 . Hutter, A.D., “Dreams, transformations and literature, the implications of detective fiction”, in Two Centuries of Detective Fiction, ed. Maurizio Ascari, Bologna, Università di Bologna, 2000, pp. 95–114. Klein, Kathleen Gregory, “Truth, authority and detective fiction: the case of Agatha Christie’s The Body in the Library”, in Analyzing the Different Voice, ed. Jerilyn Fisher and Ellen S. Silber, Lanham, Rowman and Littlefield, 1998, pp. 103–116. Knepper, Marty S., “The curtain falls: Agatha Christie’s last novels”, Clues, 23, 4, 2005, pp. 69–84; at Lion.Chadwick Literature Online. Knight, Stephen, Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1980. ——, “Radical thrillers”, in Watching the Detectives, ed. I.A. Bell and G. Daldry, London, Macmillan, 1990, pp. 171–187. Bibliography 169 ——, “ ‘A great blue triumphant cloud’, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, in Two Centuries of Detective Fiction, ed. Maurizio Ascari, Bologna, Università di Bologna, 2000, pp. 115–152. ——, Crime Fiction, 1800–2000, Detection, Death, Diversity, London, Palgrave, 2004. Kyzlinková, Lidia, “Social issues in Agatha Christie’s mysteries: country, class, crime, clothes and children”, Brno Studies in English, 1997, http://dkf.ics. muni.cz/∼xvalicek/journal/ff_bse/vol1997num1/vol1997num1/9.html. Lathen, Emma, “Cornwallis’s revenge”, in Agatha Christie, First Lady of Crime, ed. H.R.F. Keating, London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977, pp. 79–94. Light, Alison, Forever England, Femininity, Literature and Conservatism between the Wars, London, Routledge, 1991. Lovitt, Carl R., “Controlling discourse in detective fiction, or caring very much who killed Roger Ackroyd”, in The Cunning Craft, ed. Ronald G. Walker and June M. Frazer, Essays in Literature, Macomb, Ill., Western Illinois University, 1990, p. 68. MacDonald, Janice, “Parody in detective fiction”, in Theory and Practice of Classic Detective Fiction, ed. Jerome H. Delamater and Ruth Prigozy, Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1997, pp. 61–73. Makinen, Merja, Agatha Christie: Investigating Femininity, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2006. Mandel, Ernest, Delightful Murder, London, Pluto Press, 1984. Merrill, Robert. “Christie’s narrative games”, in Theory and Practice of Classic Detective Fiction, ed. Jerome H. Delamater and Ruth Prigozy, Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1997, pp. 87–99. Moretti, Franco, Signs Taken for Wonders, London, New Left Books, 1983. Morgan, Janet, Agatha Christie, London, Fontana, 1985. Most, Glenn W., “The Hippocratic smile”, in The Poetics of Murder, ed. Glenn W. Most and William W. Stowe, San Diego, CA, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983, pp. 341–365. Murch, Alma E., The Development of the Detective Novel, London, Peter Owen, 1958. Pawling, Christopher, Popular Fiction and Social Change, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1984. Peach, Linden, Masquerade, Crime and Fiction, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2006. Peirce, Charles Sanders, Philosophical Writings of Peirce, selected and edited with an introduction by Justus Buchler, New York, Dover, 1955. Porter, Dennis, The Pursuit of Crime, Art and Ideology in Detective
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