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. 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