Agatha Christie Lovers discussion

Here are all the books I’ve read of hers so far:

1.The Mysterious Affair at Styles – 1920 – Poroit & Hastins
2.The Secret Adversary – 1922 – Tommy & Tuppence (Reading Now)
3.The Murder on the Links – 1923 – Poirot & Hastings
4.The Man in the Brown Suit – 1924
5.The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – 1926 – Poirot – although I can’t remember what this is about
6.The Big 4 - 1927 – Poirot & Hastings
7.The Mystery of the Blue Train – 1928 – Poirot
8.Murder on the Orient Express – 1934 – Poirot
9.Why didn’t they ask Evans – 1934
10.Death in the Clouds – 1935 – Poirot
11.The ABC Murders – 1936 – Poirot & Hastings
12.Death on the Nile – 1937 – Poirot
13.Appointment with Death – 1938 – Poirot
14.Hercule Poirot’s Christmas – 1938 – Poirot
15.And Then There Were None – 1938 – I’ll spare you the actual original title b/c it’s 10 little N-words. Can you believe that??????
16.Evil Under the Sun – 1941 – Poirot
17.N or M – 1941 – Tommy & Tuppence
18.5 Little Pigs – 1942 – Poirot
19.Towards Zero – 1944 – Battle
20.The Hollow – 1946 – Poirot
21.Taken at the Flood – 1948 – Poirot
22.Crooked House – 1949
23.Mrs. McGinty’s Dead – 1952- Poirot
24.Destination Unknown – 1954
25.At Bertram’s Hotel – 1965 – Marple
26.Third Girl – 1966 – Poirot
27.Hallowe’en Party – 1969 – Poirot
28.Elephants Can Remember – 1972 – Poirot
29.Postern of Fate – 1973 – T&T
30.Curtain – 1975 – written in the 40′s & sealed in a vault during WWII - Poirot’s Last Case – released right before her death.

To read:

1.The Seven Dials Mystery – 1929
2.The Sittaford Mystery/Murder at Hazelmoor – 1931
3.Peril at End House – 1932 Poirot & Hastings ?
4.Three Act Tragedy – 1935 – Poirot
5.Murder in Mesopotamia – 1936 – Poirot
6.Dumb Witness – 1937 – Poirot & Hastings
7.Murder is Easy – 1939
8.Sad Cypress – 1940 – Poirot
9.One Two Buckle My Shoe – 1940 – Poirot
10.Sparkling Cyanide – 1945 – Race
11.After the Funeral – 1953 – Poirot
12.Hickory Dickory Dock – 1955 – Poirot
13.Dead Man’s Folly – 1956 – Poirot
14.Ordeal by Innocence – 1958
15.The Pale Horse – 1961
16.Cat Among the Pigeons – 1959 – Poirot
17.The Clocks – 1963 – Poirot
18.Endless Night – 1967
19.By the Pricking of my Thumbs – 1968 – T&T
20.Passenger to Frankfurt – 1970

Miss Marples (and random ones) that I might read after I finish the above:

1.Murder at the Vicarage – 1930 – Marple
2.The Body in the Library – 1942 – Marple
3.The Moving Finger – 1942 – Marple
4.Death Comes as the End – 1944 – Egypt
5.A Murder is Annouced – 1950 – Marple
6.They Came to Baghdad – 1951
7.They Do it with Mirrors – 1952 – Marple
8.A Pocket Full of Rye – 1953 – Marple
9.4:50 from Paddington – Marple
10.The Mirror Crack’d – 1962 – Marple
11.A Caribbean Mystery – 1964 – Marple
12.Nemesis – 1971 – Marple
13.Sleeping Murder – 1976 – written in the 40s

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - I just read this book - it's a very good one, you are guessing who done it all through the book, with a surprise ending. The narrator is the village doctor.

I have just read "Nemesis" with Miss Marple, and I would recommend reading "A Caribbean Mystery" first as a character from that one appears in Nemesis. I also enjoyed the Marple "4:50 from Paddington" after seeing it on Masterpiece Mystery.

"The Secret Adversary" was a freebee when I bought my Kobo, so will read that soon. I have bought "Poirot's Christmas" and "Peril at End House" and will read the later in November.

Wow Snarky, I wish I would have kept track.

@carolyn i didn't write them all down, but i've read quite a few lately. to make my list, i looked at her bibliography on wikipedia.org

@lorraine - i like the marple movies but haven't read the marple books. The Caribbean Mystery sounds fun!

I'd recommend A Murder is Announced and A Pocketful of Rye. They're Marple's best. I've read all the AC novels! Which did you like best so far?

I just finished "The A.B.C. Murders", an audio book read by Hugh Fraser. It was very good. Poirot receives a letter from a murderer stating that he will begin to kill people in alphabetical order, and taunting HP with "catch me if you can". I quite enjoyed it and recommend it.

Lorraine, I bet Hugh Fraser did an excellent job narrating.

I read so many of her books years ago; just coming back to her, and just finished . Enjoyed the story, and even looking for clues I still missed who the killer was.

Carolyn F. wrote: "Lorraine, I bet Hugh Fraser did an excellent job narrating."

He always does an excellent job - I've listened for several books that he narrated.

I bought this huge audiobook collection on CDs but it doesn't tell me who narrates just whether it's an audio play or straight narration. Crossing my fingers that I have him on at least one.

I wanted to read Peril at the End House, Three Act Tragedy, Third Girl,The Mysterious Affair at Styles, ABC Murders (I'm going to read it soon), and many more.

as someone who can find it hard to get stuck into a good book it's not often i find books like "confessions of a teenage drama queen" which I couldn't put down however this book might seem to dramatic for some but if you like following the lives of characters who are very dramatic and interesting then this is a great book.

Rebecca wrote: "as someone who can find it hard to get stuck into a good book it's not often i find books like "confessions of a teenage drama queen" which I couldn't put down however this book might seem to drama..."

My daughter watched the movie and enjoyed it. There's another book that's getting a lot of great reviews Beauty Queens . I put that on my library wish list.

I've recently started to collect her books and I'm intent on reading all of them.
So far I've read:
- The ABC Murders
- At Bertram's Hotel
- 4:50 from Paddington
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (My favorite so far ;)!)
- After the Funeral
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- And then there were none

and 4 books in german years ago but I'm not in the mood for searching the english titles :).

In my shelf are currently the following books which want to be read soon:
- The Secret of Chimneys
- The Mystery of the Blue Train
- The Secret Adversary
- The Big Four
- Death on the Nile
- A Murder is Announced

I've read:
And Then There Were None
After the Funeral
Murder on the Orient Express
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
ABC Murders

Want to read:
Curtain - to read soon!
Peril at the End House
Endless Night

and other Agatha Christie books I haven't read yet.

:D

I've been reading them off and on for years, that I've forgotten what I have and haven't read. On our books of the month, sometimes I'll start the book thinking I haven't read it and then about halfway through realize I had. Hopefully at the end of 7 years I can say I've read them all!

Like you, Carolyn, I've been reading Christie for so many years, I can't always remember what I've read.
I am wanting to read The Mystery of the Blue Train & Murder on the Links which I don't think I've read.

It doesn't help that they keep releasing the books under new names!

Ellie wrote: "Like you, Carolyn, I've been reading Christie for so many years, I can't always remember what I've read.
I am wanting to read The Mystery of the Blue Train & [book:Murder on the Links|..."

The Mystery of the Blue Train is excellent...I really enjoyed that one!

Ellie wrote: "Like you, Carolyn, I've been reading Christie for so many years, I can't always remember what I've read.
I am wanting to read The Mystery of the Blue Train & [book:Murder on the Links|..."

I know what you mean, I look up the books on wikipedia for the monthly BOM and they'll usually list one other title the book was published under but sometimes there are more than one. Like "And Then There Were None", I think that's like the 3rd title it was under. So confusing!

I liked the one with Mia Farrow too Heather. I thought she did an excellent job.

I was figuring that after we're through with her mysteries we could start on her alias books too, but that'll be 6 years down the road.

I too forget if I've read them before too and then about halfway through I'll figure out what's going on. I've been reading her stuff for about 30 years so I'll blame it on the length of time between readings.

That was a great one Heather.

I've heard that about the romance books, that they're as good. We'll see in 6 years, maybe we'll just go through all the books again.

I think I have read most of AC's book except for a few odds and ends there like the Christmas book. Some I have read more than once!!! Aside from the 'classic' Christies that everyone loves I think my obscure favorites are The Hollow, Cards on the Table and Curtain.

Oh, Im all now to her Books so maybe a tip for me what to start with? Im all in to crime and mystery so just let me know and I can try out her books :)

Which one is best to start with by these 2,
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd or Five little pigs?

Miss007 wrote: "Which one is best to start with by these 2,
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd or Five little pigs?"

Murder of Roger Ackroyd, try that first. Five little pigs is my all time favourite.

Veronica wrote: "Miss007 wrote: "Which one is best to start with by these 2,
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd or Five little pigs?"

Murder of Roger Ackroyd, try that first. Five little pigs is my all time favourite."

Okay thanks,

I just got an AC book from our lending library that I had not read. It is:
by Agatha Christie

It is comprised of short stories and is really good......they are a little different from her usual works. I like it!!!

It's not a murder mystery Jill?

Yes, most are murder mysteries but not your typical AC except for the Poirot and the Harley Quin.

Oooh

I have now read The Hallowe'en party and now im taking my hands on Hickory Dickory Dock :)

After reading Nemesis last year (with it's references to Miss Maple's holiday in the Caribbean) I'm now reading "A Caribbean Mystery".

I'd love to say at the end of the 7 years that I've read all her books but I have been skipping here and there, so I'll have to do catch up.

I want to read all her books. I do not know how many I have read. Some twice, but some not at all. Maybe I have dine 40, maybe less.

I have only read (3) of her works: Cards on the Table, The Tuesday Club Murders, and Murder at the Vicarage. My goal is to read and collect them all (in hardback).

Bantam has fancy bound editions Daimen. You can find some of them in groups on Ebay. They ran about $15.00 per book in the 1990s so who knows how much they are now. I have about 25 of them and have those out in my living room.

I've read:

1.The Mysterious Affair at Styles
2.The Secret Adversary
3.The Murder on the Links
4.The Man in the Brown Suit
5.The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
6.The Mystery of the Blue Train
7.N or M?
8.Destination Unknown
9.At Bertram’s Hotel
10.Peril at End House
11.Sparkling Cyanide
12.Hickory Dickory Dock
13.A Murder is Annouced
14.A Pocket Full of Rye
15. The Burden

To read:

All the other books.