Peril at End House

1932 Poirot novel by Agatha Christie

Peril at End House

Dust-jacket illustration of the US (true first) edition. See Publication history (below) for UK first edition jacket image.

Author| Agatha Christie
Cover artist| Not known
Language| English
Series| Hercule Poirot
Genre| Crime novel
Publisher| Dodd, Mead and Company

Publication date

| February 1932
Publication place| United Kingdom
United States
Media type| Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages| 270 (first edition, hardcover)
Preceded by| The Mystery of the Blue Train
Followed by| Lord Edgware Dies

Peril at End House is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by the Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1932[1] and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in March of the same year.[2] The US edition retailed at $2.00[1] and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6).[2]

The book features Christie's private detective Hercule Poirot, as well as Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp, and is the sixth novel featuring Poirot. Poirot and Hastings vacation in Cornwall, meeting young Magdala "Nick" Buckley and her friends. He is persuaded that someone is out to kill her. They meet all of her friends at her home called End House. Though he aims to protect Nick, a murder happens that provokes Poirot to mount a serious investigation.

The novel was well received when first published, with the plot remarked as unusually ingenious and diabolically clever by reviewers. Writing in 1990, Robert Barnard found it cunning, but not one of Christie's very best. It has been adapted to stage, radio, film, television, graphic novel, and a computer game, and translated to many other languages as a book.

## Plot summary

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Poirot and Hastings are staying at a Cornish resort. Conversing with Magdala "Nick" Buckley, Poirot believes that someone is out to kill her, confirmed when he finds a bullet that Nick had thought to be a wasp shooting past her head. Poirot explains his concern to Nick. Poirot suspects someone in Nick's inner circle. Nick's nearest living relative is a lawyer cousin, Charles Vyse, who arranged the re-mortgaging on End House for her to supply desperately needed funds. Her housekeeper is Ellen, and the lodge near End House is leased by Australians Mr and Mrs Croft. George Challenger has a soft spot for Nick. Nick's two closest friends are Freddie Rice, an abused wife, and Jim Lazarus, an art dealer in love with Freddie. When Nick had surgery six months earlier, the Crofts suggested she make a will.

It is not clear who wants Nick dead. Charles would inherit End House and Freddie would get the rest of the estate – none of which is worth killing for. At Poirot's advice, Nick calls her cousin Maggie to stay with her for a few weeks. When Maggie arrives, Nick hosts a party with everyone present but George. A renowned pilot named Michael Seton has gone missing, sparking debate about his fate. Nick receives a call while the guests are enjoying the party. Maggie is found dead, wearing Nick's shawl. Nick and Maggie had gone to freshen up, after which Maggie wore Nick's shawl. George is relieved to see Nick alive. Realizing that Maggie was killed by mistake under his nose, Poirot becomes furious, launching an investigation.

To protect Nick, Poirot tells everyone that she is going to a hospital. He asks her not to eat anything from an unknown source. The next day, the newspapers report that Michael Seton is dead and Poirot correctly deduces that Nick received that information through the call. Nick confesses to Poirot that she and Michael were secretly engaged. Michael was the sole heir of vast wealth, and that wealth will go to his fiancée. Poirot is wary of the Crofts: he asks Inspector Japp to inquire about them. Poirot and Hastings find the love letters written by Michael, but do not find Nick's original will. Nick recalls sending it to Charles, who denies receiving it. Mr Croft tells Poirot that he sent the will to Charles; one of the men is lying. Nick receives a box of chocolates laced with cocaine, allegedly sent by Poirot. Nick is safe as she ate only one. The chocolates were delivered by Freddie, who claims that Nick phoned her to bring them. Poirot suspects Freddie, who is a cocaine addict.

Poirot sets up a ruse with Nick's participation, telling the others that Nick is dead. Charles tells Poirot that he received Nick's will, which is read in End House, awarding her money to the Crofts for helping her father in Australia. This startles all except the Crofts. Poirot announces to the stunned guests that a seance will be conducted and Nick's "ghost" appears, exposing the Crofts. They replaced her will with a forged one and sent it to Charles after they heard news of her death. Japp reveals that the Crofts are known forgers. He arrests the duo. But Poirot announces that they had no hand in the murder. Just then, someone outside shoots at Freddie and misses, then shoots himself. Poirot captures the man, Freddie's sick and dying husband, who wrote many notes begging her for money.

Poirot reveals that the real murderer is Nick. Michael was engaged to Maggie, not Nick: the cousins have the same name, Magdala Buckley. After learning of Michael's wealth and disappearance, Nick plotted to present herself as Michael's fiancée to usurp his wealth, a plot which required Maggie's death. The attempts on her life were her own work. George used to supply cocaine to both Freddie and Nick concealed in wristwatches; Nick used her supply to poison the chocolates. Nick is arrested, taking Freddie's wristwatch as a "souvenir"; the full box contains enough for Nick to take an overdose and escape the gallows. Poirot tells George either to surrender himself or go away, allowing Freddie to recover from her addiction. In the end, Jim and Freddie decide to marry, and Jim, who is an art dealer, reveals to Poirot that one of Nick's paintings on the wall is actually of considerable value, though Nick herself did not realize it.

## Characters

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* Hercule Poirot \- The famed Belgian detective, in charge of investigating the case regarding Nick’s various escapes from death. He is on holiday in Cornwall.
* Captain Arthur Hastings \- Poirot’s loyal friend and assistant, who is on holiday with the latter. He is the narrator of the story.
* Inspector Japp \- The officer for the case. He has a minor role in the story.
* Magdala “Nick” Buckley \- A young and seductive woman. She is the owner of End House.
* Frederica “Freddie” Rice \- Nick’s close best friend. She is divorced, due to her ex-husband’s abuse.
* Jim Lazarus \- A dealer of art, and Freddie’s sensational admirer. He is a friend of Nick.
* Commander George Challenger \- A commander of the English Navy. He is also a friend of Nick.
* Charles Vyse \- Nick’s trustworthy lawyer. He is her cousin, too.
* Maggie Buckley \- Another cousin of Nick. She is the victim of the case.
* Bert Croft \- An Australian leaser of the lodge near End House.
* Mildred Croft \- Bert’s wife.
* Michael Seton \- A well-known aviator. He is supposedly Nick’s boyfriend.
* Ellen \- Nick’s hesitant housekeeper.
* William Wilson \- The gardener of End House, and Ellen’s husband.
* Alfred Wilson \- Ellen and William’s son.
* Mr. Rice \- Freddie’s abusive ex-husband.

## Literary significance and reception

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The Times Literary Supplement on 14 April 1932, stated that the "actual solution is quite unusually ingenious, and well up to the standard of Mrs. Christie's best stories. Everything is perfectly fair, and it is possible to guess the solution of the puzzle fairly early in the book, though it is certainly not easy." The review further opined that, "This is certainly one of those detective stories which is pure puzzle, without any ornament or irrelevant interest in character. Poirot and his faithful Captain Hastings are characters whom one is glad to meet again, and they are the most lively in the book, but even they are little more than pawns in this problem. But the plot is arranged with almost mathematical neatness, and that is all that one wants."[3]

Isaac Anderson began his review in The New York Times Book Review on 6 March 1932, by writing "With Agatha Christie as the author and Hercule Poirot as the central figure, one is always assured of an entertaining story with a real mystery to it ... [T]he person who is responsible for the dirty work at End House is diabolically clever, but not quite clever enough to fool the little Belgian detective all the time. A good story with a most surprising finish."[4]

Robert Barnard: "A cunning use of simple tricks used over and over in Christie's career (be careful, for example, about names – diminutives and ambiguous male-female Christian names are always possibilities as readers discover). Some creaking in the machinery, and rather a lot of melodrama and improbabilities, prevent this from being one of the very best of the classic specimens."[5]

## References to other works

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* Two references (in chapters 1 and 5) are made to the events told in The Mystery of the Blue Train and it is clearly stated in chapter 1 that Peril at End House takes place the August following Poirot's trip to the French Riviera described in that book.
* In chapter 9, there is an remark in passing, on the cleverest type of crime, which later became the theme of Curtain: Poirot's Last Case, which ends with his death.
* At the beginning of chapter 14, Hastings describes how Poirot's obsession for tidiness helped him solve a case when he straightened ornaments on a mantelpiece. This is an indirect reference to The Mysterious Affair at Styles.
* In chapter 15, Poirot mentions the case The Chocolate Box included in the book Poirot's Early Cases, when he tells Commander Challenger that he indeed had failures in the past.
* In chapter 16, Inspector Japp asks Poirot if he had not retired to grow marrows. This is an indirect reference to the failed attempt at retirement depicted in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, when Poirot settled in the small village of King's Abbot, only to be prompted to investigate a murder in the village.

## Allusions to actual history, geography and current science

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* Transposed from Devon to Cornwall, the Majestic Hotel of the book is based on the Imperial Hotel in Torquay.[6]
* In chapter seven, reference is made by the characters to a female aviator who went to Australia. This is an allusion to Amy Johnson who made the first solo flight from England to Australia by a woman from 5 May 1930 to 24 May 1930.
* The attempt by Michael Seton to fly solo around the world is a key element in the novel, which was released in 1932. At the time, the feat had never been achieved; in 1933, Wiley Post became the first aviator to circumnavigate the globe.

## Publication history

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Dustjacket illustration of the UK First Edition (Book was first published in the US)

* 1932, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), February 1932, Hardcover, 270 pp
* 1932, Collins Crime Club (London), March 1932, Hardcover, 256 pp
* 1938, Modern Age Books (New York), Hardcover, 177 pp
* 1942, Pocket Books (New York), Paperback, (Pocket number 167), 240 pp
* 1948, Penguin Books, Paperback, (Penguin number 688), 204 pp
* 1961, Fontana Books (Imprint of HarperCollins), Paperback, 191 pp
* 1966, Pan books X521, Paperback
* 1978, Ulverscroft Large-print Edition, Hardcover, 327 pp, ISBN 0-7089-0153-0
* 2007, Facsimile edition (Facsimile of 1932 UK first edition), 2 April 2007, Hardcover, 256 pp ISBN 0-00-723439-2

The first true publication of the book was the US serialisation in the weekly Liberty magazine in eleven instalments from 13 June (Volume 8, Number 24) to 22 August 1931, (Volume 8, Number 34). There were slight abridgements to the text, no chapter divisions, and the reference in Chapter III to the character of Jim Lazarus as, "a Jew, of course, but a frightfully decent one"[7] was deleted. The serialisation carried illustrations by W.D. Stevens. In the UK, the novel was serialised in the weekly Women's Pictorial magazine in eleven instalments from 10 October (Volume 22, Number 561) to 19 December 1931, (Volume 22, Number 571) under the slightly different title of The Peril at End House. There were slight abridgements and no chapter divisions. All of the instalments carried illustrations by Fred W. Purvis.

### Book dedication

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The dedication of the book reads:

> To Eden Phillpotts. To whom I shall always be grateful for his friendship and the encouragement he gave me many years ago.

In 1908, Christie was recovering from influenza and bored, and she started to write a story at the suggestion of her mother, Clara Miller (see the dedication to The Mysterious Affair at Styles). This suggestion sparked Christie's interest in writing and several pieces were composed, some of which are now lost or remain unpublished (one exception to this is The Call of Wings which later appeared in The Hound of Death in 1933). These early efforts were mostly short stories, but at some point late in the year Christie attempted her first novel, Snow Upon the Desert. She sent it to several publishers but they all rejected the work. At Clara's suggestion she then asked Phillpotts to read and critique both the book and other examples of her writing. He was a neighbour and friend of the Miller family in Torquay. He sent an undated reply back which included the praise that, "some of your work is capital. You have a great feeling for dialogue". In view of her later success in allowing readers to judge characters' feelings and motivations for themselves (and in doing so, thereby deceiving themselves as to the identity of the culprits), Phillpotts offered valuable suggestions to, "leave your characters alone, so that they can speak for themselves, instead of always rushing in to tell them what they ought to say, or to explain to the reader what they mean by what they are saying". He gave her further advice in the letter regarding a number of suggestions for further reading to help improve her work.

Phillpotts gave Christie an introduction to his own literary agents, Hughes Massie, who rejected her work (although in the early 1920s, they did start to represent her). Undaunted, Christie attempted another story, now lost, called Being So Very Wilful, and again asked Phillpotts for his views. He replied on 9 February 1909 with a great deal more advice and tips for reading.[8] In her autobiography, published posthumously in 1977, Christie wrote, "I can hardly express the gratitude I feel to him. He could so easily have uttered a few careless words of well-justified criticism and possibly discouraged me for life. As it was, he set out to help".[9]

### Dustjacket blurb

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The blurb on the inside flap of the dustjacket of the UK first edition (which is also repeated opposite the title page) reads:

> Three near escapes from death in three days! Is it accident or design? And then a fourth mysterious incident happens, leaving no doubt that some sinister hand is striking at Miss Buckley, the charming young owner of the mysterious End House. The fourth attempt, unfortunately for the would-be murderer, is made in the garden of a Cornish Riviera hotel where Hercule Poirot, the famous Belgian detective, is staying. Poirot immediately investigates the case and relentlessly unravels a murder mystery that must rank as one of the most brilliant that Agatha Christie has yet written.

## Adaptations

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### Stage

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Main article: Peril at End House (play)

The story was adapted into a play by Arnold Ridley in 1940 and opened in the West End of London at the Vaudeville Theatre on 1 May. Poirot was played by Francis L. Sullivan.

### Television and film

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A Soviet film version, entitled Zagadka Endkhauza, was made in 1989 by Vadim Derbenyov, with Anatoly Ravikovich as Poirot.[10]

The novel was adapted for television in 1990, as part of the Agatha Christie's Poirot second series; it was the first full-length novel to be adapted. Poirot was portrayed by David Suchet and Nick Buckley by Polly Walker. Overall, the film was faithful to the novel; however, Freddie's husband does not appear in the film nor does he shoot at Nick during the denouement, Challenger is arrested rather than being allowed to flee, and the fates of Freddie and Jim remain unresolved. Colonel Weston had been omitted from the adaptation and Miss Lemon added. This episode was filmed in Salcombe, Devon near Agatha Christie's home town of Torquay, rather than on the Cornish Coast where the story is set.

The novel was adapted as an episode of the Japanese animated series Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple, under the title "The Mystery of End House". It aired in 2004.

The novel was again adapted as the fourth episode of the first season of the French television series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie, airing in 2009.

### Radio

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Peril at End House was adapted for radio by Michael Bakewell for BBC Radio 4 featuring John Moffatt as Poirot and Simon Williams as Captain Hastings.[11]

### Computer game

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On 22 November 2007, Peril at End House, like Death on the Nile, was adapted into a PC game by Floodlight Games, and published as a joint venture between Oberon Games and Big Fish Games, with the player once again taking the role of Poirot as he searches End House and other areas in Cornwall Coast for clues, and questions suspects based on information he finds, this time through the clue cards he gains on the way.[12] Two other titles developed by Floodlight Games were later released based on Christie's Dead Man's Folly and 4.50 from Paddington respectively.[13]

### Graphic novel

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Peril at End House was released by HarperCollins as a graphic novel adaptation in 2008, adapted by Thierry Jollet and illustrated by Didier Quella-Guyot (ISBN 0-00-728055-6).[10]

## References

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1. ^ a b Marcum, J.S. (May 2007). "The Classic Years 1930 - 1934". An American Tribute to Agatha Christie. J S Marcum. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
2. ^ a b Peers, Chris; Spurrier, Ralph; Sturgeon, Jamie (March 1999). Collins Crime Club – A checklist of First Editions (Second ed.). Dragonby Press. p. 14.
3. ^ The Times Literary Supplement, 14 April 1932, p. 273
4. ^ The New York Times Book Review, 6 March 1932, p. 20
5. ^ Barnard, Robert (1990). A Talent to Deceive – an appreciation of Agatha Christie (Revised ed.). Fontana Books. p. 202\. ISBN 0-00-637474-3.
6. ^ "Agatha Christie photo trail". Famous Devonians. BBC Devon. 24 September 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
7. ^ Christie, Agatha (1932). Peril at End House. Collins Crime Club. p. 44.
8. ^ Morgan, Janet (1984). Agatha Christie, A Biography. Collins. pp. 48–53. ISBN 0-00-216330-6. "the letter from 9 February 1909 is reproduced in full"
9. ^ Christie, Agatha (1977). An Autobiography. Collins. p. 195\. ISBN 0-00-216012-9.
10. ^ a b "Peril at End House". Agatha Christie Official Web site. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
11. ^ "Peril at End House Episode 1 of 5". BBC Radio 4 Extra. 27 October 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
12. ^ Saltzman, Marc (27 November 2007). "Agatha Christie: Peril at End House Review". Gamezebo. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
13. ^ "Floodlight Games". MobyGames. Retrieved 26 October 2020.

## External links

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* Peril at End House at the official Agatha Christie website
* Peril at End House (1990) at IMDb
* Agatha Christie: Peril at End House computer game

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Characters|

* Main
* Hercule Poirot
* Arthur Hastings
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* Ariadne Oliver
* Miss Lemon
* Recurring

Books|

| Novels|

* The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
* The Murder on the Links (1923)
* The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
* The Big Four (1927)
* The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
* Peril at End House (1932)
* Lord Edgware Dies (1933)
* Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
* Three Act Tragedy (1934)
* Death in the Clouds (1935)
* The A.B.C. Murders (1936)
* Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
* Cards on the Table (1936)
* Dumb Witness (1937)
* Death on the Nile (1937)
* Appointment with Death (1938)
* Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1938)
* Sad Cypress (1940)
* One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1940)
* Evil Under the Sun (1941)
* Five Little Pigs (1942)
* The Hollow (1946)
* Taken at the Flood (1948)
* Mrs McGinty's Dead (1952)
* After the Funeral (1953)
* Hickory Dickory Dock (1955)
* Dead Man's Folly (1956)
* Cat Among the Pigeons (1959)
* The Clocks (1963)
* Third Girl (1966)
* Hallowe'en Party (1969)
* Elephants Can Remember (1972)
* Curtain (1975)

|

Short stories|

* Poirot Investigates (1924)
* Murder in the Mews (1937)
* The Regatta Mystery (1939)
* The Labours of Hercules (1947)
* The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (1948)
* Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (1950)
* The Under Dog and Other Stories (1951)
* The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960)
* Double Sin and Other Stories (1961)
* Poirot's Early Cases (1974)
* Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (1991)
* The Harlequin Tea Set (1997)
* While the Light Lasts and Other Stories (1997)

Continuations|

* The Monogram Murders (2014)
* Closed Casket (2016)
* The Mystery of Three Quarters (2018)
* The Killings at Kingfisher Hill (2020)

Films|

| Austin Trevor|

* Alibi (1931)
* Black Coffee (1931)
* Lord Edgware Dies (1934)

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Peter Ustinov|

* Death on the Nile (1978)
* Evil Under the Sun (1982)
* Thirteen at Dinner (1985)
* Dead Man's Folly (1986)
* Murder in Three Acts (1986)
* Appointment with Death (1988)

Kenneth Branagh|

* Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
* Death on the Nile (2022)
* A Haunting in Venice (2023)
* soundtrack

Other|

* The Alphabet Murders (1965)
* Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

Television|

* Wasp's Nest (1937)
* Poirot (1989–2013)
* episodes
* Murder on the Orient Express (2001)
* Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple (2004–2005)
* The ABC Murders (2018)

Plays|

* Alibi (1928)
* Black Coffee (1930)
* Peril at End House (1940)

Video games|

* Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None (2005)
* Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express (2006)
* Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun (2007)
* Agatha Christie: Peril at End House (2007)
* Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile (2008)
* Agatha Christie: Dead Man's Folly (2009)
* Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders (2009)
* Agatha Christie: 4.50 from Paddington (2010)
* Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders (2016)
* Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot - The First Cases (2021)
* Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot - The London Case (2023)
* Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express (2023)

Other adaptations|

* The Yellow Iris (1937, radio)
* Orient Express (1985, board game)
* Hercule Poirot (1985–2007, radio)

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* Agatha Christie's fictional universe
* Miss Marple

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* Superintendent Battle
* Tommy and Tuppence Beresford
* Lady Eileen "Bundle" Brent
* Sir Henry Clithering
* Captain Arthur Hastings
* Chief Inspector James Japp
* Miss Jane Marple
* Ariadne Oliver
* Hercule Poirot
* Parker Pyne
* Mr. Harley Quin
* Raymond West

Locations|

* St. Mary Mead

Novels|

* The Mysterious Affair at Styles
* The Secret Adversary
* The Murder on the Links
* The Man in the Brown Suit
* The Secret of Chimneys
* The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
* The Big Four
* The Mystery of the Blue Train
* The Seven Dials Mystery
* The Murder at the Vicarage
* The Sittaford Mystery
* Peril at End House
* Lord Edgware Dies
* Murder on the Orient Express
* Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
* Three Act Tragedy
* Death in the Clouds
* The A.B.C. Murders
* Murder in Mesopotamia
* Cards on the Table
* Dumb Witness
* Death on the Nile
* Appointment with Death
* Hercule Poirot's Christmas
* Murder Is Easy
* And Then There Were None
* Sad Cypress
* One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
* Evil Under the Sun
* N or M?
* The Body in the Library
* Five Little Pigs
* The Moving Finger
* Towards Zero
* Death Comes as the End
* Sparkling Cyanide
* The Hollow
* Taken at the Flood
* Crooked House
* A Murder Is Announced
* They Came to Baghdad
* Mrs McGinty's Dead
* They Do It with Mirrors
* After the Funeral
* A Pocket Full of Rye
* Destination Unknown
* Hickory Dickory Dock
* Dead Man's Folly
* 4.50 from Paddington
* Ordeal by Innocence
* Cat Among the Pigeons
* The Pale Horse
* The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
* The Clocks
* A Caribbean Mystery
* At Bertram's Hotel
* Third Girl
* Endless Night
* By the Pricking of My Thumbs
* Hallowe'en Party
* Passenger to Frankfurt
* Nemesis
* Elephants Can Remember
* Postern of Fate
* Curtain
* Sleeping Murder

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* Giant's Bread
* Unfinished Portrait
* Absent in the Spring
* The Rose and the Yew Tree
* A Daughter's a Daughter
* The Burden

Short story
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* Poirot Investigates
* Partners in Crime
* The Mysterious Mr Quin
* The Thirteen Problems
* The Hound of Death
* The Listerdale Mystery
* Parker Pyne Investigates
* Murder in the Mews
* The Regatta Mystery
* The Labours of Hercules
* The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories
* Three Blind Mice and Other Stories
* The Under Dog and Other Stories
* The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
* Double Sin and Other Stories
* The Golden Ball and Other Stories
* Poirot's Early Cases
* Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories
* Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories
* The Harlequin Tea Set
* While the Light Lasts and Other Stories

Plays|

* Black Coffee
* And Then There Were None
* Appointment with Death
* Murder on the Nile
* The Hollow
* The Mousetrap
* Witness for the Prosecution
* Spider's Web
* Towards Zero
* Verdict
* The Unexpected Guest
* Go Back For Murder
* Fiddlers Three
* Akhnaton
* Chimneys

Radio and
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* Wasp's Nest
* The Yellow Iris
* Three Blind Mice
* Butter in a Lordly Dish
* Personal Call

Other books|

* The Road of Dreams
* Come, Tell Me How You Live
* Star Over Bethlehem
* Poems
* An Autobiography
* The Mousetrap and Other Plays
* Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks

Depictions|

* Agatha Christie Memorial
* Agatha (1979 film)
* Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures (2004 docudrama)
* The Unicorn and the Wasp (2008 TV episode)
* Agatha and the Truth of Murder (2018 film)
* Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar (2019 film)
* Agatha and the Midnight Murders (2020 film)
* See How They Run (2022 film)

Related|

* Archie Christie (first husband)
* Max Mallowan (second husband)
* Ashfield, Torquay (home)
* Greenway Estate (home)
* Agatha Award
* Agatha Christie Award (Japan)

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Agatha Christie series|

* And Then There Were None
* Murder on the Orient Express (2006)
* Evil Under the Sun
* Peril at End House
* Death on the Nile
* Dead Man's Folly
* The ABC Murders (2009)
* 4.50 from Paddington
* The ABC Murders (2016)
* Hercule Poirot - The First Cases
* Hercule Poirot - The London Case
* Murder on the Orient Express (2023)

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