Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days (43 page)

1950

A Murder is Announced
(Collins)

1951

They Came to Baghdad
(Collins)

The Hollow
(play) (Samuel French)

1952

Mrs McGinty’s Dead
(Collins)

They Do it With Mirrors
(Collins)

A Daughter’s a Daughter
(Mary Westmacott) (Heinemann)

The Mousetrap
(play) (Samuel French)

1953

After the Funeral
(Collins)

A Pocket Full of Rye
(Collins)

Witness for the Prosecution
(play) (Samuel French)

1954

Destination Unknown
(Collins)

Spider’s Web
(play) (Samuel French)

1955

Hickory Dickory Dock
(Collins)

1956

Dead Man’s Folly
(Collins)

1957

4.50 from Paddington
(Collins)

1958

Ordeal by Innocence
(Collins)

Verdict
(play) (Samuel French)

Towards Zero
(play written in collaboration with Gerald Verner) (Samuel French)

The Unexpected Guest
(play) (Samuel French)

1959

Cat Among the Pigeons
(Collins)

1960

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
(Collins)

Go Back for Murder
(play based on
Five Little Pigs
) (Samuel French)

1961

The Pale Horse
(Collins)

1962

The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side
(Collins)

Rule of Three
(three one-act plays:
The Rats, The Patient
and
Afternoon at the Sea-Side
) (Samuel French)

1963

The Clocks
(Collins)

1964

A Caribbean Mystery
(Collins)

1965

At Bertram’s Hotel
(Collins)

Star Over Bethlehem
(poems and children’s stories) (Agatha Christie Mallowan) (Collins)

1966

Third Girl
(Collins)

1967

Endless Night
(Collins)

1968

By the Pricking of My Thumbs
(Collins)

1969

Hallowe’en Party
(Collins)

1970

Passenger to Frankfurt
(Collins)

1971

Nemesis
(Collins)

1972

Elephants Can Remember
(Collins)

Fiddler’s Three
(unpublished play a.k.a.
This Mortal Coil
a.k.a.
Fiddler’s Five
)

1973

Postern of Fate
(Collins)

Akhnaton
(play written in 1937) (Collins)

1974

Poirot’s Early Cases
(Collins)

1975

Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case
(Collins)

1976

Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple’s Last Case
(Collins)

1977

An Autobiography
(Collins)

A Murder is Announced
(play adapted by Leslie Darbon) (Samuel French)

1980

Miss Marple’s Final Cases
(Collins)

1981

Cards on the Table
(adapted by Leslie Darbon) (Samuel French)

1992

Problem at Pollensa Bay
(HarperCollins)

1993

Murder is Easy
(unpublished play adapted by Clive Exton) (Samuel French)

1997

While the Light Lasts
(HarperCollins)

1998

Black Coffee
(novel based on the 1930 play; adapted by Charles Osborne) (HarperCollins)

1999

The Unexpected Guest
(novel based on the 1958 play; adapted by Charles Osborne) (HarperCollins)

2000

Spider’s Web
(novel based on the 1954 play; adapted by Charles Osborne) (HarperCollins)

Select Bibliography

Adams, Tom,
Agatha Christie Cover Story,
Limpsfield, Surrey: Paper Tiger, 1981

Bargainnier, Earl,
The Gentle Art of Murder: The Detective Fiction of Agatha Christie,
Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1980

Barnard, Robert,
A Talent to Deceive: An Appreciation of Agatha Christie,
London: Collins, 1980

Bayard, Pierre,
Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?: The Murderer Who Eluded Hercule Poirot and Deceived Agatha Christie
, London: Fourth Estate, 2000

Behre, Frank,
Get, Come, and Go,
Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1973

Behre, Frank,
Studies in Agatha Christie’s Writings,
Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1967

Bloom, Harold (ed.),
Modern Critical Views: Agatha Christie
, New York: Chelsea House, 2002

Bryan, George B.,
Black Sheep, Red Herrings and Blue Murder: The Proverbial Agatha Christie,
Bern: Peter Lang, 1993

Campbell, Mark,
The Pocket Essential Agatha Christie
, Harpenden, Hertfordshire: Pocket Essentials, 2001; revised edition, 2005

Cotes, Peter,
Thinking Aloud: Fragments of Autobiography,
London: Peter Owen, 1993

Curran, John,
Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making
, London: Harper, 2009

Curran, John,
Agatha Christie’s Murder in the Making: Stories and Secrets from Her Archive
, London: Harper, 2011

David, Penny,
More Hidden Gardens
, London: Cassell Illustrated, 2004

Dommermuth-Costa, Carol,
Agatha Christie: Writer of Mystery
, Minneapolis, Minnesota: Lerner Publications, 1997

Eames, Andrew,
The 8.55 to Baghdad: From London to Iran on the Trail of Agatha Christie
, New York: Overlook Press, 2005

East, Andy,
The Agatha Christie Quiz Book,
New York: Drake Publishers, Inc., 1975

Escott, John,
Agatha Christie: Woman of Mystery,
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997

Feinman, Jeffrey,
The Mysterious World of Agatha Christie,
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1975

Fido, Martin,
The World of Agatha Christie
, London: Carlton Books, 1999

Fitzgibbon, Russell H.,
The Agatha Christie Companion,
Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1980

Gerald, Michael C.,
The Poisonous World of Agatha Christie,
Austin, Texas: University of Texas, 1993

Gill, Gillian,
Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries,
New York: Free Press, 1990

Gregg, Hubert,
Agatha Christie and All That Mousetrap,
London: William Kimber, 1980

Hack, Richard,
Duchess of Death: The Unauthorized Biography of Agatha Christie
, Beverley Hills, California: Phoenix Books, 2009

Haining, Peter,
Agatha Christie’s Poirot,
London: Boxtree, 1995

Haining, Peter,
Agatha Christie: Murder in Four Acts,
London: Virgin, 1990

Hart, Anne,
The Life and Times of Hercule Poirot,
London, Pavilion Books, 1990

Hart, Anne,
The Life and Times of Miss Jane Marple,
London: Macmillan, 1985

Hawthorne, Bret,
Agatha Christie’s Devon
, Wellington, Somerset: Halsgrove, 2009

Hiscock, Eric,
Last Boat to Folly Bridge,
London: Cassell, 1970

Holgate, Mike,
Stranger Than Fiction: Agatha Christie’s True Crime Inspirations
, Stroud, Gloucestershire: History Press, 2010

Hurdle, Judith,
The Getaway Guide to Agatha Christie’s England
, Oakland, California: RDR Books, 1999

Kaska, Kathleen,
What’s Your Agatha Christie IQ?,
Secaucus, New Jersey: Citadel Press, 1996

Keating, H.R.F. (ed.),
Agatha Christie, First Lady of Crime,
London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977

Langton, Jane,
Agatha Christie’s Devon,
Bodmin: Bossiney Books, 1990

Light, Alison,
Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars,
London: Routledge, 1991

Macaskill, Hilary,
Agatha Christie at Home
, London: Frances Lincoln, 2009

Maida, Patricia and Spornick, Nicholas,
Murder She Wrote: A Study of Agatha Christie’s Detective Fiction,
Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1982

Mallowan, Max,
Mallowan’s Memoirs,
London: Collins, 1977

Martin, Deborah (ed.),
The Official Guide to Agatha Christie in Devon
, Paignton, Devon: Creative Media Publishing, 2009

McCall, Henrietta,
The Life of Max Mallowan: Archaeology and Agatha Christie
, London: The British Museum Press, 2001

Morgan, Janet,
Agatha Christie: A Biography,
London: Collins, 1984

Morselt, Ben,
An A–Z of the Novels and Short Stories of Agatha Christie,
Paradise Valley, Arizona: Phoenix Publishing Associates, 1985

Murdoch, Derrick,
The Agatha Christie Mystery,
Toronto: Paguarian Press, 1976

Norman, Andrew,
Agatha Christie: The Finished Portrait
, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Tempus Publishing, 2006

Osborne, Charles,
The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie,
London: Collins, 1982

Palmer, Scott,
The Films of Agatha Christie,
London: Batsford, 1993

Porter, Tony,
The Great White Palace: Agatha Christie and All That Jazz: The Magical Story of Burgh Island and Its Hotel
, New York: Doubleday, 2002

Ramsey, Gordon,
Agatha Christie: Mistress of Mystery,
New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1967

Riley, Dick and McAllister, Pam,
The Bedside, Bathtub and Armchair Guide to Agatha Christie,
New York: Frederick Ungar, 1979; revised edition, New York: Frederick Ungar, 1993

Rivière, François,
In the Footsteps of Agatha Christie,
London: Ebury Press, 1997

Roberts, Tom,
Friends and Villains,
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1987

Robyns, Gwen,
The Mystery of Agatha Christie,
New York: Doubleday, 1978

Rowland, Susan,
From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell: British Women Fiction Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction
, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001

Ryan, Richard T.,
Agatha Christie Trivia,
Boston: Quinlan Press, 1987

Sanders, Denis and Lovallo, Len,
The Agatha Christie Companion: The Complete Guide to the Life and Works of Agatha Christie,
New York: Delacorte, 1984; revised edition, New York: Berkley Books, 1989

Santangelo, Elena,
Dame Agatha’s Shorts
, Rock Hill, South Carolina: Bella Rosa Books, 2009

Saunders, Peter,
The Mousetrap Man,
London: Collins, 1972

Shaw, Marion and Vanacker, Sabine,
Reflecting on Miss Marple,
London: Routledge, 1991

Sova, Dawn B.,
Agatha Christie A–Z: The Essential Reference to Her Life and Writings,
New York: Facts on File, 1996

Thompson, Laura,
Agatha Christie: An English Mystery
, London: Headline Review, 2007

Toye, Randall,
The Agatha Christie Who’s Who,
London: Frederick Muller, 1980

Toye, Randall and Gaffney, Judith Hawkins,
The Agatha Christie Crossword Puzzle Book,
London: Angus and Robertson, 1981

Trümpler, Charlotte (ed.),
Agatha Christie and Archaeology
, London: British Museum Press, 2001

Tynan, Kathleen,
Agatha: The Agatha Christie Mystery
, New York: Ballantine Books, 1978

Underwood, Lynn (ed.),
Agatha Christie Centenary Booklet,
London: Belgrave Publishing (HarperCollins), 1990

Wagoner, Mary,
Agatha Christie,
New York: Twayne Publishers, 1986

Wagstaff, Vanessa and Poole, Stephen,
Agatha Christie: A Reader’s Companion
, London: Aurum Press, 2004

Wynne, Nancy B.,
The Agatha Christie Chronology,
Santa Barbara, California: Ace Books, 1976

Zemboy, James,
The Detective Novels of Agatha Christie
, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 2008

Although numerous articles have been written about Agatha Christie she gave few interviews; the most significant are marked with an asterisk.

Atticus, ‘Men, Women and Memories’,
Sunday Times,
13 and 20 February 1949

*Bernstein, Marcelle, ‘Hercule Poirot Is 130 – But Then Agatha Christie Is 79’,
Observer,
14 December 1969

Calder, Ritchie, ‘Agatha and I’,
New Statesmen,
30 January 1976

Christie, Agatha, ‘Agatha Christie Pleads for the Tragic Family of Croydon’,
Sunday Chronicle,
11 August 1929

Christie, Agatha, ‘Does a Woman’s Instinct Make Her a Good Detective?’,
The Star,
14 May 1928

Christie, Agatha, ‘How I Became a Writer’,
Listener,
11 August 1938