THE AGATHA CHRISTIE COLLECTION
1 The Mysterious Affair at Styles
2 The Secret Adversary
3 Murder on the Links
4 The Man in the Brown Suit
5 Poirot Investigates
6 The Secret of Chimneys
7 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
8 The Big Four
9 The Mystery of the Blue Train
10 The Seven Dials Mystery
11 Partners in Crime
12 The Mysterious Mr Quin
* Black Coffee
13 The Murder at the Vicarage
14 The Sittaford Mystery
15 Peril at End House
16 The Thirteen Problems
17 Lord Edgware Dies
18 The Hound of Death
19 Murder on the Orient Express
20 The Listerdale Mystery
21 Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?
22 Parker Pyne Investigates
23 Three Act Tragedy
24 Death in the Clouds
25 The ABC Murders
26 Murder in Mesopotamia
27 Cards on the Table
28 Dumb Witness
29 Death on the Nile
30 Murder in the Mews
31 Appointment with Death
32 Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
33 Murder is Easy
34 And Then There Were None
35 Sad Cypress
36 One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
37 Evil Under the Sun
38 N or M?
39 The Body in the Library
40 Five Little Pigs
41 The Moving Finger
42 Towards Zero
43 Death Comes as the End
44 Sparkling Cyanide
45 The Hollow
46 The Labours of Hercules
47 Taken at the Flood
48 Crooked House
49 A Murder is Announced
50 They Came to Baghdad
51 Mrs McGinty’s Dead
52 They Do It With Mirrors
53 After the Funeral
54 A Pocket Full of Rye
55 Destination Unknown
* Spider’s Web
56 Hickory Dickory Dock
57 Dead Man’s Folly
58 4.50 From Paddington
* The Unexpected Guest
59 Ordeal By Innocence
60 Cat Among the Pigeons
61 The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
62 The Pale Horse
63 The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side
64 The Clocks
65 A Caribbean Mystery
66 At Bertram’s Hotel
67 Third Girl
68 Endless Night
69 By the Pricking of My Thumbs
70 Hallowe’en Party
71 Passenger to Frankfurt
72 Nemesis
73 Elephants Can Remember
74 Postern of Fate
75 Poirot’s Early Cases
76 Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case
77 Sleeping Murder
78 Miss Marple’s Final Cases
79 Problem at Pollensa Bay
80 While the Light Lasts
* ADAPTED BY CHARLES OSBORNE
THE LIFE AND CRIMES
OF
AGATHA CHRISTIE
CHARLES OSBORNE
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