Agatha Christie bibliography

Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Infobox bibliography Agatha Christie (1890–1976) was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. Her reputation rests on 66 detective novels and 15 short-story collections that have sold over two billion copies, an amount surpassed only by the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare. She is also the most translated individual author in the world with her books having been translated into more than 100 languages. Her works contain several regular characters with whom the public became familiar, including Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, Parker Pyne and Harley Quin. Christie wrote more Poirot stories than any of the others, even though she thought the character to be "rather insufferable". Following the publication of the 1975 novel Curtain, Poirot's obituary appeared on the front page of The New York Times.

She married Archibald Christie in December 1914, but the couple divorced in 1928. After he was sent to the Western Front in the First World War, she worked with the Voluntary Aid Detachment and in the chemist dispensary, giving her a working background knowledge of medicines and poisons. Christie's writing career began during the war, after she was challenged by her sister to write a detective story; she produced The Mysterious Affair at Styles, which was turned down by two publishers before being published in 1920. Following the limited success of the novel, she continued to write and steadily built up a fan base. She went on to write over a hundred works, including further novels, short stories, plays, poetry, and two autobiographies. She also wrote six romantic novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.

One of Christie's plays, The Mousetrap, opened in West End theatre in 1952, and ran continuously until 16 March 2020, when the stage performances had to be temporarily discontinued during the COVID-19 pandemic. It then re-opened on 17 May 2021. In 2009, the London run exceeded 25,000 performances.

In September 2015, a public vote identified And Then There Were None as the public's favourite Christie novel; the book was the writer's favourite, and the one she found most difficult to write.

In September 1930, Christie married the archaeologist Max Mallowan. The pair travelled frequently on archaeological expeditions, and she utilized the experiences she had while on her many adventures as a basis for some plots, including Murder on the Orient Express (1934), Murder in Mesopotamia (1936), Death on the Nile (1937) and Appointment with Death (1938). She also wrote the autobiographical travel book Come, Tell Me How You Live (1946), which described their life in Syria. Her biographer, Janet Morgan, reports that "archaeologists have celebrated ... [Christie's] contribution to Near Eastern exploration". Christie died in 1976, her reputation as a crime novelist high.

Novels

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First edition cover of The Mysterious Affair at Styles, published in 1920

Initially in chronological order by UK publication date, even when the book was published first in the US or serialised in a magazine in advance of publication in book form.

Christie's novels

UK title	Year of UK publication	UK publisher (All London)	Year of US publication	US title	US publisher (All New York)	Series	Notes
					John Lane		–
					Dodd, Mead & Co	Tommy and Tuppence	–
					Dodd, Mead & Co		–
					Dodd, Mead & Co		–
					Dodd, Mead & Co		–
		William Collins & Sons			Dodd, Mead & Co		–
		William Collins & Sons			Dodd, Mead & Co		–
		William Collins & Sons			Dodd, Mead & Co		–
		William Collins & Sons			Dodd, Mead & Co		–
		William Collins & Sons			Dodd, Mead & Co		–
Giant's Bread		William Collins & Sons		Giant's Bread	Doubleday	Other	As Mary Westmacott
		Hodder & Stoughton			Doubleday	Mystery novel	With members of The Detection Club.Template:Efn
		William Collins & Sons			Dodd, Mead & Co	Mystery novel	–
Peril at End House		William Collins & Sons		Peril at End House	Dodd, Mead & Co		–
Lord Edgware Dies		William Collins & Sons		Thirteen at Dinner	Dodd, Mead & Co		–
Murder on the Orient Express		William Collins & Sons		Murder in the Calais Coach	Dodd, Mead & Co		–
Unfinished Portrait		William Collins & Sons		Unfinished Portrait	Doubleday	Other	As Mary Westmacott
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?		William Collins & Sons			Dodd, Mead & Co	Mystery novel	–
Three Act Tragedy		William Collins & Sons		Murder in Three Acts	Dodd, Mead & Co		–
Death in the Clouds		William Collins & Sons		Death in the Air	Dodd, Mead & Co		–
		William Collins & Sons			Dodd, Mead & Co		–
Murder in Mesopotamia		William Collins & Sons		Murder in Mesopotamia	Dodd, Mead & Co		–
Cards on the Table		William Collins & Sons		Cards on the Table	Dodd, Mead & Co		–
Dumb Witness		William Collins & Sons		Poirot Loses a Client	Dodd, Mead & Co		–
Death on the Nile		William Collins & Sons		Death on the Nile	Dodd, Mead & Co		–
Appointment with Death		William Collins & Sons		Appointment with Death	Dodd, Mead & Co		–
Hercule Poirot's Christmas		William Collins & Sons		Murder for Christmas	Dodd, Mead & Co		Later US editions also published under the title A Holiday for Murder
Murder Is Easy		William Collins & Sons		Easy to Kill	Dodd, Mead & Co		–
And Then There Were None		William Collins & Sons			Dodd, Mead & Co	Mystery novel	Also published in the U.S. as Ten Little Indians
Sad Cypress		William Collins & Sons		Sad Cypress	Dodd, Mead & Co		–
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe		William Collins & Sons			Dodd, Mead & Co		Published in paperback in the US under the title An Overdose of Death
Evil Under the Sun		William Collins & Sons		Evil Under the Sun	Dodd, Mead & Co		–
N or M?		William Collins & Sons		N or M?	Dodd, Mead & Co	Tommy and Tuppence	–
		William Collins & Sons			Dodd, Mead & Co		–
Five Little Pigs		William Collins & Sons		Murder in Retrospect	Dodd, Mead & Co		–
		William Collins & Sons			Dodd, Mead & Co		–
Towards Zero		William Collins & Sons		Towards Zero	Dodd, Mead & Co		–
Absent in the Spring		William Collins & Sons		Absent in the Spring	Farrar & Rinehart	Other	As Mary Westmacott
Death Comes as the End		William Collins & Sons		Death Comes as the End	Dodd, Mead & Co	Mystery novel	–
Sparkling Cyanide		William Collins & Sons		Remembered Death	Dodd, Mead & Co		–
		William Collins & Sons			Dodd, Mead & Co		–
Taken at the Flood		William Collins & Sons		There is a Tide . . .	Dodd, Mead & Co		–
		Heinemann			Rinehart & Company	Other	As Mary Westmacott
Crooked House		William Collins & Sons		Crooked House	Dodd, Mead & Co	Mystery novel	–
		William Collins & Sons			Dodd, Mead & Co		–
They Came to Baghdad		William Collins & Sons		They Came to Baghdad	Dodd, Mead & Co	Mystery novel	–
Mrs McGinty's Dead		William Collins & Sons		Mrs McGinty's Dead	Dodd, Mead & Co		–
They Do It with Mirrors		William Collins & Sons		Murder with Mirrors	Dodd, Mead & Co		–
		William Collins & Sons			Dell Publishing	Other	As Mary Westmacott
After the Funeral		William Collins & Sons		Funerals are Fatal	Dodd, Mead & Co		–
		William Collins & Sons			Dodd, Mead & Co		–
Destination Unknown		William Collins & Sons		So Many Steps to Death	Dodd, Mead & Co. Syndicated in US Newspapers as Destination X.	Mystery novel	–
Hickory Dickory Dock		William Collins & Sons		Hickory Dickory Death	Dodd, Mead & Co		–
Dead Man's Folly		William Collins & Sons		Dead Man's Folly	Dodd, Mead & Co		–
		Heinemann			Dell Publishing	Other	As Mary Westmacott
4.50 from Paddington		William Collins & Sons		What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!	Dodd, Mead & Co		–
Ordeal by Innocence		William Collins & Sons		Ordeal by Innocence	Dodd, Mead & Co	Mystery novel	–
Cat Among the Pigeons		William Collins & Sons		Cat Among the Pigeons	Dodd, Mead & Co		–
		William Collins & Sons			Dodd, Mead & Co	Mystery novel	–
		William Collins & Sons			Dodd, Mead & Co		–
		William Collins & Sons			Dodd, Mead & Co		–
		William Collins & Sons			Dodd, Mead & Co		–
		William Collins & Sons			Dodd, Mead & Co		–
Third Girl		William Collins & Sons		Third Girl	Dodd, Mead & Co		–
Endless Night		William Collins & Sons		Endless Night	Dodd, Mead & Co	Mystery novel	–
By the Pricking of My Thumbs		William Collins & Sons		By the Pricking of My Thumbs	Dodd, Mead & Co	Tommy and Tuppence	–
Hallowe'en Party		William Collins & Sons		Hallowe'en Party	Dodd, Mead & Co		Also published as A Haunting in Venice, as a tie-in with the movie of the same name
Passenger to Frankfurt		William Collins & Sons		Passenger to Frankfurt	Dodd, Mead & Co	Mystery novel	–
Nemesis		William Collins & Sons		Nemesis	Dodd, Mead & Co		–
Elephants Can Remember		William Collins & Sons		Elephants Can Remember	Dodd, Mead & Co		–
Postern of Fate		William Collins & Sons		Postern of Fate	Dodd, Mead & Co	Tommy and Tuppence	–
Curtain		William Collins & Sons		Curtain	Dodd, Mead & Co		Poirot's last case, written in the 1940s.
Sleeping Murder		William Collins & Sons		Sleeping Murder	Dodd, Mead & Co		Miss Marple's last case, written in the 1940s.
Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly		HarperCollins					Written in 1954 to raise money for a church. Later reworked into Dead Man's Folly (see above).

Short fiction collections

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Agatha Christie as a girl, date unknown

Many of Christie's stories first appeared in journals, newspapers and magazines. This list consists of the published collections of stories, in chronological order by UK publication date, even when the book was published first in the US or serialised in a magazine in advance of publication in book form.

Christie's short-story collections

UK title	Year of UK publication	UK publisher (All London)	US title	Year of US publication	US publisher (All New York)	Series
Poirot Investigates		John Lane	Poirot Investigates		Dodd, Mead & Co
Partners in Crime		William Collins & Sons	Partners in Crime		Dodd, Mead & Co	Tommy and Tuppence
		William Collins & Sons			Dodd, Mead & Co
Template:Efn		William Collins & Sons			Dodd, Mead & Co
		Odhams Press	–	–	–	–
		William Collins & Sons	–	–	–	–
Parker Pyne Investigates		William Collins & Sons	Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective		Dodd, Mead & Co
Murder in the Mews		William Collins & Sons	Dead Man's Mirror		Dodd, Mead & Co
–	–	–			Dodd, Mead & Co	, Parker Pyne & Miss Marple
		Vallencey			Bantam Books	Also called Problem at Sea
		Bantam Books			Bantam Books
Poirot and the Regatta Mystery		Bantam Books	Poirot and the Regatta Mystery		Bantam Books
Poirot on Holiday		Todd	–	–	–
Problem at Pollensa Bay and The Christmas Adventure		Todd	–	–	–
		Todd	–	–	–
Poirot Knows the Murderer		Todd	–	–	–
		William Collins & Sons			Dodd, Mead & Co
–	–	–			Dodd, Mead & Co	and others
–	–	–			Dodd, Mead & Co
–	–	–	Template:Efn		Dodd, Mead & Co	–
		William Collins & Sons	–	–	–	, Miss Marple and others
–	–	–	Double Sin and Other Stories		Dodd, Mead & Co	–
13 for Luck! A Selection of Mystery Stories for Young Readers		William Collins & Sons	13 for Luck! A Selection of Mystery Stories for Young Readers		Dodd, Mead & Co	–
–	–	–	Surprise! Surprise!		Dodd, Mead & Co	–
–	–	–	13 Clues for Miss Marple		Dodd, Mead & Co
–	–	–			Dodd, Mead & Co	–
Poirot's Early Cases		William Collins & Sons	Hercule Poirot's Early Cases		Dodd, Mead & Co
Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories		William Collins & Sons	–	–	–	and others
Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories		HarperCollins	–	–	–	, Parker Pyne & Harley Quin and others
While the Light Lasts and Other Stories		HarperCollins	–	–	–	–
Miss Marple Complete Short Stories	1997	HarperCollins	-		-	–
The Big Four (short-story version)		HarperCollins	–	–	–

List of short stories

A total of 166 stories have been written and published in 15 collections in the US and the UK. 165 stories were published in the UK, with the omission of "Three Blind Mice." The 12 original short stories that were used for The Big Four were published in the UK in 2017. 154 other stories were published in the US. Some stories were published under different names in the US collections.

Four short stories, including "The Submarine Plans," "Christmas Adventure," "The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest," and "The Second Gong," were expanded into longer stories by Christie (respectively "The Incredible Theft," "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding," "The Mystery of the Spanish Chest," and "Dead Man's Mirror").

UK collections

This is a list of 166 stories sorted by the 15 UK collections in chronological order.

UK collections

UK collection	UK title	US collection
Poirot Investigates (11)	"The Adventure of 'The Western Star'"	Poirot Investigates (14)—also includes "The Veiled Lady", "The Lost Mine", and "The Chocolate Box"
	"The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor"
	"The Adventure of the Cheap Flat"
	"The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge"
	"The Million Dollar Bond Robbery"
	"The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb"
	"The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan"
	"The Kidnapped Prime Minister"
	"The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim"
	"The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman"
	"The Case of the Missing Will"
Partners in Crime (15)	"A Fairy in the Flat"	Partners in Crime
	"A Pot of Tea"
	"The Affair of the Pink Pearl"
	"The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger"
	"Finessing the King/The Gentleman Dressed in Newspaper"
	"The Case of the Missing Lady"
	"Blindman's Buff"
	"The Man in the Mist"
	"The Crackler"
	"The Sunningdale Mystery"
	"The House of Lurking Death"
	"The Unbreakable Alibi"
	"The Clergyman's Daughter/The Red House"
	"The Ambassador's Boots"
	"The Man Who Was No. 16"
The Mysterious Mr Quin (12)	"The Coming of Mr. Quin"	The Mysterious Mr Quin
	"The Shadow on the Glass"
	"At the 'Bells and Motley'"
	"The Sign in the Sky"
	"The Soul of the Croupier"
	"The Man from the Sea"
	"The Voice in the Dark"
	"The Face of Helen"
	"The Dead Harlequin"
	"The Bird with the Broken Wing"
	"The World's End"
	"Harlequin's Lane"
The Thirteen Problems (13)	"The Tuesday Night Club"	The Tuesday Club Murders
	"The Idol House of Astarte"
	"Ingots of Gold"
	"The Blood-Stained Pavement"
	"Motive v. Opportunity"
	"The Thumb Mark of St. Peter"
	"The Blue Geranium"
	"The Companion"
	"The Four Suspects"
	"A Christmas Tragedy"
	"The Herb of Death"
	"The Affair at the Bungalow"
	"Death by Drowning"
The Hound of Death (12)	"The Hound of Death"	The Golden Ball and Other Stories
	"The Red Signal"	The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories
	"The Fourth Man"
	"The Gypsy"	The Golden Ball and Other Stories
	"The Lamp"
	"Wireless"	The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories under the name "Where There's a Will"
	"The Witness for the Prosecution"	The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories
	"The Mystery of the Blue Jar"
	"The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael"	The Golden Ball and Other Stories under the name "The Strange Case of Sir Andrew Carmichael"
	"The Call of Wings"	The Golden Ball and Other Stories
	"The Last Seance"	Double Sin and Other Stories
	"S.O.S."	The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories
The Listerdale Mystery (12)	"The Listerdale Mystery"	The Golden Ball and Other Stories
	"Philomel Cottage"	The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories
	"The Girl in the Train"	The Golden Ball and Other Stories
	"Sing a Song of Sixpence"	The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories
	"The Manhood of Edward Robinson"	The Golden Ball and Other Stories
	"Accident"	The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories
	"Jane in Search of a Job"	The Golden Ball and Other Stories
	"A Fruitful Sunday"
	"Mr. Eastwood's Adventure"	The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories
	"The Golden Ball"	The Golden Ball and Other Stories
	"The Rajah's Emerald"
	"Swan Song"
Parker Pyne Investigates (12)	"The Case of the Middle-aged Wife"	Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective
	"The Case of the Discontented Soldier"
	"The Case of the Distressed Lady"
	"The Case of the Discontented Husband"
	"The Case of the City Clerk"
	"The Case of the Rich Woman"
	"Have You Got Everything You Want?"
	"The Gate of Baghdad"
	"The House at Shiraz"
	"The Pearl of Price"
	"Death on the Nile"
	"The Oracle at Delphi"
Murder in the Mews (4)	"Murder in the Mews"	Dead Man's Mirror
	"The Incredible Theft"
	"Dead Man's Mirror"
	"Triangle at Rhodes"
The Labours of Hercules (12)	"The Nemean Lion"	The Labors of Hercules
	"The Lernaean Hydra"
	"The Arcadian Deer"
	"The Erymanthian Boar"
	"The Augean Stables"
	"The Stymphalean Birds"
	"The Cretan Bull"
	"The Horse of Diomedes"
	"The Girdle of Hippolyta"
	"The Flock of Geryon"
	"The Apples of the Hesperides"
	"The Capture of Cerberus"
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (6)	"The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding"	Double Sin and Other Stories under the name "The Theft of the Royal Ruby"
	"The Mystery of the Spanish Chest"	The Harlequin Tea Set
	"The Under Dog"	The Under Dog and Other Stories
	"Four and Twenty Blackbirds"	Three Blind Mice and Other Stories
	"The Dream"	The Regatta Mystery
	"Greenshaw's Folly"	Double Sin and Other Stories
Poirot's Early Cases (18)	"The Affair at the Victory Ball"	The Under Dog and Other Stories
	"The Adventure of the Clapham Cook"
	"The Cornish Mystery"
	"The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly"	Three Blind Mice and Other Stories
	"The Double Clue"	Double Sin and Other Stories
	"The King of Clubs"	The Under Dog and Other Stories
	"The Lemesurier Inheritance"
	"The Lost Mine"	Poirot Investigates (US edition only)
	"The Plymouth Express"	The Under Dog and Other Stories
	"The Chocolate Box"	Poirot Investigates (US edition only)
	"The Submarine Plans"	The Under Dog and Other Stories
	"The Third-Floor Flat"	Three Blind Mice and Other Stories
	"Double Sin"	Double Sin and Other Stories
	"The Market Basing Mystery"	The Under Dog and Other Stories
	"Wasps’ Nest"	Double Sin and Other Stories
	"The Veiled Lady"	Poirot Investigates (US edition only)
	"Problem at Sea"	The Regatta Mystery
	"How Does Your Garden Grow?"
Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories (8)	"Sanctuary"	Double Sin and Other Stories
	"Strange Jest"	Three Blind Mice and Other Stories
	"Tape-Measure Murder"
	"The Case of the Caretaker"
	"The Case of the Perfect Maid"
	"Miss Marple Tells a Story"	The Regatta Mystery
	"The Dressmaker's Doll"	Double Sin and Other Stories
	"In a Glass Darkly"	The Regatta Mystery
Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (8)	"Problem at Pollensa Bay"	The Regatta Mystery
	"The Second Gong"	The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories
	"Yellow Iris"	The Regatta Mystery
	"The Harlequin Tea Set"	The Harlequin Tea Set
	"The Regatta Mystery"	The Regatta Mystery
	"The Love Detectives"	Three Blind Mice and Other Stories
	"Next to a Dog"	The Golden Ball and Other Stories
	"Magnolia Blossom"
While the Light Lasts and Other Stories (9)	"The House of Dreams"	The Harlequin Tea Set
	"The Actress"
	"The Edge"
	"Christmas Adventure"	Midwinter Murder
	"The Lonely God"	The Harlequin Tea Set
	"Manx Gold"
	"Within A Wall"
	"The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest"	The Regatta Mystery
	"While the Light Lasts"	The Harlequin Tea Set
The Big Four – The Detective Club (short story version) (12)	"The Unexpected Guest"	As yet unpublished in the US
	"The Adventure of the Dartmoor Bungalow"
	"The Lady on the Stairs"
	"The Radium Thieves"
	"In the House of the Enemy"
	"The Yellow Jasmine Mystery"
	"The Chess Problem"
	"The Baited Trap"
	"The Adventure of the Peroxide Blonde"
	"The Terrible Catastrophe"
	"The Dying Chinaman"
	"The Crag in the Dolomites"
Never published in a UK collection	"Three Blind Mice"	Three Blind Mice and Other Stories
The Last Séance: Tales of the Supernatural	"The Wife of the Kenite"	The Last Séance: Tales of the Supernatural

US collections

There are 14 US collections, excluding Poirot's Early Cases, since all of its eighteen stories appeared in earlier collections, and The Last Séance: Tales of the Supernatural and Midwinter Murder, which each include only one previously unavailable Christie story.

US collections

Year	US collection	Number of stories
1925	Poirot Investigates	14
1929	Partners in Crime	15
1930	The Mysterious Mr Quin	12
1932	The Tuesday Club Murders	13
1934	Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective	12
1937	Dead Man's Mirror	4
1939	The Regatta Mystery	9
1947	The Labors of Hercules	12
1948	The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories	11
1950	Three Blind Mice and Other Stories	9
1951	The Under Dog and Other Stories	9
1961	Double Sin and Other Stories	8
1971	The Golden Ball and Other Stories	15
1997	The Harlequin Tea Set	9

Collaborative Prose Fiction

Collaborative Prose Fiction by Christie

Title	Year of first publication	First edition publisher (All London)	Category	Notes
Ask a Policeman		Arthur Barker	Novel	Part 1 of The Detection Club trilogy
The Scoop and Behind the Screen		Victor Gollancz	Mystery novellas	With members of The Detection Club
		John Day	Mystery stories	Editor, with others

Miscellany

Miscellaneous works by Christie

Title	Year of first publication	First edition publisher (All London)	Category	Notes
		Geoffrey Bles	Poetry
Come, Tell Me How You Live		William Collins & Sons	Autobiographical travel book	Under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan
Star Over Bethlehem		William Collins & Sons	Poetry and short stories	Under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan
Poems		William Collins & Sons	Poetry
Agatha Christie: An Autobiography		William Collins & Sons	Autobiography
The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery			Letters

Broadcast works

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Blue plaque, at her former residence, 58 Sheffield Terrace, Kensington, London

Several of Christie's works have been adapted for stage and screen; the following is a list of only those works written by her on her own or as a member of a group.

Broadcast works of Christie

Title	First performance	Date of first performance	Type of work	Notes	Ref.
Behind The Screen	BBC Radio		Radio play	Written together with Hugh Walpole, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley, E. C. Bentley and Ronald Knox of The Detection Club.
	BBC Radio		Radio play	Written together with Dorothy L. Sayers, E. C. Bentley, Anthony Berkeley, Freeman Wills Crofts and Clemence Dane of The Detection Club.
Wasp's Nest	BBC Television		Television play
	BBC Radio		Radio play
Three Blind Mice	BBC Radio		Radio play
Butter in a Lordly Dish	BBC Radio		Radio play
Personal Call	BBC Radio		Radio play

Stage works

The definitive study of Agatha Christie's stage plays is Curtain Up: Agatha Christie, a Life in Theatre by Julius Green.

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Blue plaque for The Mousetrap at St Martin's Theatre, London

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From left: Louis Hayward, C. Aubrey Smith, Barry Fitzgerald, Richard Haydn, Mischa Auer and Walter Huston in the 1945 film And Then There Were None, which was based on the 1943 play Ten Little Niggers.

Stage works of Christie

Title	Location of first performance (London, unless otherwise stated)	Date of first performance	Year of publication	Publisher (All London)	Notes
Black Coffee	Embassy Theatre			Ashley	Novelised by Charles Osborne in 1998 as Black Coffee
Ten Little Niggers	St James's Theatre			Samuel French Ltd.	Based on the 1939 novel Ten Little Niggers; also known as Ten Little Indians and And Then There Were None.
Appointment with Death	Piccadilly Theatre			Samuel French Ltd.	Based on the 1938 novel Appointment with Death
Murder on the Nile	Wimbledon Theatre			Samuel French Ltd.	Based on the 1937 novel Death on the Nile; a revised version—published as Murder on the Nile—was produced at Ambassadors Theatre on 19 March 1946
	Fortune Theatre			Samuel French Ltd.	Based on the 1946 novel The Hollow.
	Ambassadors Theatre			Samuel French Ltd.	As of 2024 the play was still running. In February 2024 the London run exceeded 29,500 performances.
Witness for the Prosecution	Winter Garden Theatre			Samuel French Ltd.	Based upon the 1925 short story "The Witness for the Prosecution"
Spider's Web	Savoy Theatre			Samuel French Ltd.	Novelised by Charles Osborne in 2000 as Spider's Web
Towards Zero	St James's Theatre			Samuel French Ltd.	With Gerald Verner; based on the novel Towards Zero
Verdict	Strand Theatre			Samuel French Ltd.
	Duchess Theatre			Samuel French Ltd.	Novelised by Charles Osborne in 1999 as The Unexpected Guest
Go Back for Murder	Duchess Theatre			Samuel French Ltd.	Based on the novel Five Little Pigs
Rule of Three	Duchess Theatre			Samuel French Ltd.	Contains three works: Afternoon at the Sea-side, The Patient and The Rats
Fiddlers Three	Kings Theatre, Southsea
Akhnaton	New York			William Collins & Sons	First produced under the title Akhnaton and Nefertiti.
Chimneys	Pitlochry Festival Theatre Company				Unpublished. Written in 1931 and forgotten until the early 1980s when the script was discovered in the British Library Archive. Its existence was suppressed for 20 years at the request of Christie's daughter, but eventually came to light when it was discovered by another researcher who was unaware of the request. The play was unperformed until 2006. Based on the 1925 novel The Secret of Chimneys.
The Lie	Paignton, Devon				Unpublished. Written in the 1920s and discovered by Julius Green in the Christie archive while doing research for Curtain Up.

other UNPUBLISHED Scripts of Christie

The Conqueror	One act play
Teddy Bear	One act play
Eugenia and Eugenics	One act play
The Clutching Hand	Full-length play. Adapted from: The Exploits of Elaine, a novel by Arthur B. Reeve (1915)
The Last Seance	One act play
Ten Years	One act play
Marmalade Moon	One act play
Someone at the Window	Full-length play. Adapted from Agatha Christie's short story "The Dead Harlequin"
Miss. Perry	Full-length play
Bleak House	Full-length movie script. Adapted from the Charles Dickens novel

Notes and references

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