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[1890-1976]
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Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born 15 September 1890 in Torquay, Devon, England. She married R.A.F. fighter pilot Archie Christie in 1914, and while he was engaged in the World War, she wrote her first novel "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" (written in 1915, published in 1920), giving the world the inimitable Hercule Poirot. This brought Agatha fame and fortune.
In 1926 Archie asked for a divorce, and Agatha's reaction was to disappear for three weeks; she claimed then that she had amnesia, and never explained further. (Speculation about the incident includes the 1979 film - see below.)
In 1930, she met and married archeologist Max Mallowan; in the same year, she introduced the beloved Miss Jane Marple character, in "Murder At The Vicarage". She wrote 66 novels, many short stories, several plays & screenplays as Agatha Christie, as well as six romance novels using the pen name Mary Westmacott. Over 70 films and television movies have been made from her works.
She was awarded the title 'Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire' in 1971, and died 12 January 1976.
official Agatha Christie website
Agatha Christie entry at Wikipedia
browse the Agatha Christie Store {returns over 600 titles} at Amazon
Works About Agatha Christie
 | "Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime - An Anthology of Biographic and Critical Studies" [1977] Edited by H.R.F. Keating with contributions by Christiana Brand, Edmund Crispin, Celia Fremlin, Michael Gilbert, Dorothy B. Hughes, Philip Jenkinson, editor Keating, Emma Lathen, Julian Symons, J.C. Trewin, Elizabeth Walter, Colin Watson, and William Weaver Holt, Rinehart & Winston 9¾x7 hardcover [4/77] out of print/many used Littlehampton Book Services 9¾x7 hardcover [4/77] out of print/many used |
 | "The Story of My Life: An Autobiography" [1977] by Agatha Christie HarperCollins pb [1/2001] out of print/used Dodd, Mead hardcover [11/77] out of print/used |
 | "The Agatha Christie Who's Who" [1980] by Randall Toye Holt Rinehart & Winston hardcover [6/80] out of print/many used |
 | "Agatha Christie A to Z: The Essential Reference To Her Life & Writings" [1996] by Dawn B. Sova, PhD Checkmark pb [3/2000] for $12.21 Facts On File 9½x7½ hardcover [10/96] for $54.45 |
 | "The Complete Christie: An Agatha Christie Encyclopedia" [2000] by Matthew Bunson Pocket 9.4x7½ pb [9/2000] for $23.95 Atria hardcover [9/2000] out of print/used |
 | "Agatha Christie: A Life In Pictures" [B.B.C. tv special 2004] Directed by Richard Curson Smith; starring Olivia Williams, Anna Massey, Raymond Coulthard, Anthony O'Donnell, Bonnie Wright, Celia Montague, Vicki Pepperdine & Bertie Carvel Acorn Media widescreen color DVD [8/2006] for $17.99 full credits at IMDb |
 | "Everyman's Guide To The Mysteries of Agatha Christie: An Agatha Christie Reference Book" [2004] by Bruce Pendergast Trafford 9x7 pb [7/2006] for $33.00 |
 | "The 8:55 To Baghdad: From London To Iraq On The Trail of Agatha Christie & The Orient Express" [2005] by Andrew Eames
Kindle Edition from Overlook [2006 edition] for $13.99 Overlook 8x5¼ pb [5/2006] for $14.18 Overlook 8¼x5¾ hardcover [6/2005] for $22.78 |
 | "The Pocket Essential Agatha Christie" [2005] by Mark Campbell includes a biography, ten main character profiles, story analyses, a section on film, TV & stage adaptations, and an appendix on the then-best Christie websites Kindle Edition from Oldcastle Books [2005 Edition] for $7.19 Oldcastle Books 125th Anniv. Edition 7¾x5 pb [11/2015] for $14.32 Oldcastle Books mass pb [8/2005] out of print/used |
 | "Agatha Christie: A Reader's Companion - Illustrated" [2005] by Vanessa Wagstaff & Stephen Poole Aurum Press pb [4/2007] for $13.57 Aurum Press 10½x8 hardcover [9/2005] for $19.00 |
 | "Agatha Christie’s Garden: Murder & Mystery In Devon" [2006]
A tour of Agatha Christie's 30-acre Georgian gardens at her secret Greenway estate in Devon County, southwest U.K.; hosted by Pam Ferris; not listed at IMDb Acorn Media widescreen color DVD [2006] out of prodn/used also available on the Poirot Classic Movie Collection DVD box set Acorn Media DVD set [6/2007] 10 disks for $46.99 |
 | "Agatha Christie: An English Mystery" [2007] by Laura Thompson "written with unique access to her diaries, letters & family" Headline Book Publng 7½x5 pb [4/2009] for $11.66 Headline Review 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/2007] out of print/used |
 | "Doing Agatha" feature film [indep 2008] The lead actress in a Broadway revival of "The Mousetrap" disappears, and a mysterious woman shows up to audition at a community theater in Connecticut that is struggling to put on "The Unexpected Guest"; the lead actress has just quit and the new arrival knows all the lines of the play . . . Directed by Michael Stanley; starring Ann Kinner, Doug MacHugh, Tom Petrone & Douglas Taylor VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available (2015) • full credits at IMDb |
 | "Duchess of Death: The Unauthorized Biography of Agatha Christie" [2009] by Richard Hack "drawing from over 5,000 unpublished letters, notes & documents" Phoenix Books 9¼x6¼ hardcover [7/2009] for $17.13 J.R. Books Ltd. 9¼x6¼ hardcover [6/2010] out of print/imported |
 | "A Is For Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie" [2015] by Kathryn Harkup covers in detail the 14 deadly poisons specified in Christie's works Kindle Edition from Bloomsbury Sigma [9/2015] for $9.99 Bloomsbury Sigma 8¾x5½ hardcover [9/2015] for $17.51 |
 | "Curtain Up: Agatha Christie - A Life In The Theatre" [2015] by {her stage producer} Julius Green Kindle Edition from HarperCollins Publrs [12/2015] for $13.99 Harper 8x5¼ pb [12/2017] for $12.18 Harper 9x6 hardcover [12/2015] for $4.83 |
"Tom Adams Uncovered: The Art of Agatha Christie and Beyond" [DUE May 2016] by Tom Adams & John Curran
http://www.amazon.com/Tom-Adams-Uncovered-Agatha-Christie/dp/0008165351/
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Whatever Happened In 1926?
fansite about the 1926 disappearance
 | "Agatha" [Casablanca/Warner Feb 1979] Directed by Michael Apted; starring Dustin Hoffman, Vanessa Redgrave & Timothy Dalton Warner Bros. Home Video widescreen color DVD [11/2010] for $17.66 Warner Home Video color VHS [3/95] for $24.99 full credits from IMDb novel by Kathleen Tynan [1978] Ballantine pb [4/79] out of print/used Ballantine hardcover [7/78] out of print/used |
 | "The Lost Days of Agatha Christie" [1996] by Carole Owens Cottage Press pb [4/96] out of print/used Reef Audio UNABR [2/99] out of prodn/used |
 | "A Talent for Murder: A Novel" [2017] by Andrew Wilson 'What if?' Successful mystery author Agatha Christie is accosted by a blackmailer with orders to kill someone specific using her best knowledge of poisons and other methods . . . Kindle Edition from Atria Books/Simon & Schuster Digital Sales [7/2017] for $11.99 Simon & Schuster, Ltd. 7¾x5 pb [3/2018] for $9.22 Washington Square Press 8¼x5¼ pb [1/2018] for $15.98 Simon & Schuster, Ltd. 9¼x6 hardcover [5/2017] for $13.31 |
"Poirot was right. He always is, confound him!" "Alas, I suffer the penalties of greatness."
Hercule Poirot Mystery Series
— Capt. Hastings
— Hercule Poirot
The character of the fussy Belgian ex-police detective Hercule Poirot lives in a London apartment
sometimes shared with friend & protégé Capt. Hastings; Poirot appeared in 33 of Agatha Christie's crime novels
and 51 short stories, published between 1920 and 1975 – and many subsequent feature films and TV movies.
series books at Amazon.com
Suchet tv movies at Amazon.com
Poirot feature-length videos & DVDs at Amazon.com
Hercule Poirot entry at Wikipedia
second Hercule Poirot entry at Wikipedia
French-language Hercule Poirot / Suchet fansite
 | "Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot: The Life & Times of Hercule Poirot" [1990] by Anne Hart HarperCollins pb [12/2004] out of print/used Chrysalis Books hardcover [1/90] out of print/used |
"The Mysterious Affair At Styles" [1920]
 | Agatha wrote her first book on a bet with her sister, and came up with the tale of Capt. Hastings on a visit to an English country manor; after the elderly matriarch is poisoned, Hastings runs into a neighbor, a fussy little retired Belgian police chief. {See also "Curtains", a many-years-later sequel.}
Berkley mass pb [8/2003] for $6.99 Modern Library 8x5¼ pb [12/2003] for $9.95 Black Dog & Leventhal 8¼x5¾ hardcover [9/2006] for $9.60 Audio Partners UNABR audio CD read by David Suchet [1/2003] for $22.76 TV movie starring David Suchet [Sept 1990] Acorn Media color DVD [2/2001] for $22.99 episode credits at IMDb |
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"The Murder On The Links" [1923]
 | On holiday in Deauville, France, Hastings & Poirot are challenged by a young, 'modern' police detective. The victim had planned to fake his own death to avoid blackmail, but a real murderer struck first.
Berkley mass pb [5/2004] for $6.99 Putnam hardcover [9/87] out of print/used TV movie starring David Suchet [Feb 1996] Acorn Media color DVD [4/2002] for $22.99 episode credits at IMDb |
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"Poirot Investigates" [14 stories; 1924]
 | includes "The Adventure of 'The Western Star'", "The Tragedy At Marsden 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 Metro-politan", "The Kidnapped Prime Minister", "The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim", "The Adventure of The Italian Nobleman", "The Case of The Missing Will", "The Veiled Lady", "The Lost Mine", and "The Chocolate Box"
Berkley mass pb [5/2000] for $6.99 HarperCollins mass pb [1/92] out of print/many used |
"Poirot Investigates: 11 Complete Mysteries" [2003] read by David Suchet
Audio Partners UNABR audio CD [7/2003] for $18.45
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"The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" [1926]
 | Told by a village doctor, whose friend reads him a letter written by a female friend who then killed herself over a blackmail demand. The doctor then asks his neighbor Poirot to help, following him around as his 'Watson'.
Berkley mass pb [3/2000] for $5.99 Pocket pb [5/86] out of print/many used Black Dog & Leventhal 8¼x6 hardcover [9/2006] for $9.60 Audio Partners UNABR audio CD read by Robin Bailey [19.77] for $19.77 double DVD set starring David Suchet [Jan 2000] also includes "Lord Edgware Dies" [Feb 2000] A&E color DVD [8/2000] 2 disks for $35.99 episode credits at IMDb |
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"The Big Four" [1927]
 | Hastings, on a visit from Argentina, helps Poirot thwart a wealthy American, a powerful Oriental, a French scientist, and an elusive British assassin in their plan for world domi-nation. (After Rohmer's Fu Manchu, before Fleming's James Bond.)
Berkley mass pb [6/2001] for $6.99 HarperCollins mass pb [1/2002] out of print/used |
"The Mystery of The Blue Train" [1928]
 | Poirot takes a train to the French Riviera; an American heiress is murdered in her compartment, and her world-famous ruby is missing.
Berkley mass pb [6/2000] for $6.99 Pocket mass pb [7/79] out of print/many used Amereon 8¾x5¾ hardcover [1/99] for $22.95 4-disk set starring David Suchet [Dec 2005] also includes "Taken At The Flood" [April 2006], "After The Funeral" [Dec 2005], & "Cards On The Table" [Dec 2005] A&E color DVD [5/2006] 4 disks for $32.99 episode credits at IMDb |
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"Black Coffee"
[1930 play, with Poirot, Hastings & Inspector Japp]
 | Poirot & Hastings are asked to meet with an important British physicist; when they arrive, the man is found dead.
1973 German-language TV movie starring Horst Bollmann, Jochen Sostmann, Gert Haucke & Ernst Fritz Fürbringer not available on VHS/DVD; full credits at IMDb 1998 novelization by Charles Osborne St. Martin's pb [9/99] for $6.29 St. Martin's 9½x6½ hardcover [9/98] out of print/many used Highbridge UNABR audio [11/2001] for $24.95 |
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"Peril At End House" [1932]
 | A young woman in Cornwall mentions to Poirot that she has narrowly escaped three attempts on her life in as many days, then her cousin is shot dead. Berkley mass pb [12/2003] for $6.99 Bantam Doubleday Dell hardcover [1/87] out of print/used Audio Partners UNABR audio CD [6/2005] for $21.24 TV movie starring David Suchet [Jan 1990] Acorn Media color DVD [6/2001] for $22.99 episode credits at IMDb |
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"Thirteen At Dinner" [1933]
aka "Lord Edgware Dies"
 | An actress asks Poirot to convince her husband to allow a divorce, but he declines. On the night of Lord Edgeware's murder, she is seen going into his study, while also having the solid alibi of being at dinner with 12 others.
L.E.D.: Berkley mass pb [10/86] for $5.99 T.A.D.: Delta mass pb [9/69] out of print/many used T.A.D.: UNABR audio CD read by Hugh Fraser [4/2003] for $29.95 "Lord Edgware Dies" TV movie starring David Suchet [Feb 2000] double DVD set also includes "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" [Jan 2000] A&E color DVD [8/2000] 2 disks for $35.99 episode credits at IMDb |
 | "Thirteen At Dinner" TV movie [C.B.S./Warner Bros. Sept 1985] Same basic story, set in Acapulco, Mexico Directed by Lou Antonio; starring Peter Ustinov, Jonathan Cecil (as Hastings), David Suchet (as Japp!), Faye Dunaway, Lee Horsley, Bill Nighy, Diane Keen & John Barron Warner color triple DVD set [9/2006] 3 disks for $34.99 DVD set also includes "Dead Man's Folly" [1986] co-starring Jean Stapleton; and "Murder In Three Acts" [1986] co-starring Tony Curtis Warner color VHS [5/99] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb |
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"Murder On The Orient Express" [1934]
aka "Murder In The Calais Coach"
 | Returning from Mesopotamia, the famous Orient Express is blocked by a snow storm, and detective Hercule Poirot is asked to solve the murder of a passenger. Berkley mass pb [8/2004] for $6.99 Black Dog & Leventhal 8½x5¾ hardcover [9/2006] for $9.60 |
  | 1974 color feature film [E.M.I./Paramount Nov 1974] Directed by Sidney Lumet; based on the 1934 Agatha Christie novel; starring Albert Finney {as Poirot}, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Rachel Roberts, Richard Widmark & Michael York; won Best Supporting Actress Oscar [IB], nominated for Best Script Adaptation, Best Actor [AF], Best Cinemato-graphy, Best Music, Best Costumes; won BAFTAs for Best Supporting Actor & Actress [JG & IB], nominated for 7 others including Best Film; won W.G.G.B. Award for Best Script Paramount widescreen color DVD [7/2004] for $9.98 Paramount color VHS [2/98] 2 tapes / out of prodn/used D.R.G. soundtrack CD [1/2003] for $9.98 full credits at IMDb |
 | color TV movie [British 2001] In a modern-day setting, Poirot's train is returning from Istanbul, and is blocked by a landslide. Directed by Carl Schenkel; starring Alfred Molina {as Poirot}, Meredith Baxter, Leslie Caron, Amira Casar, Nicolas Chagrin, Tasha de Vasconcelos, David Hunt, Adam James, Dylan Smith & Peter Strauss Allumination color DVD [12/2005] for $9.98 full credits at IMDb |
 | "Murder On The Orient Express" TV episode [I.T.V. Studios/WGBH-TV July 2010] 90-minute episode of the long-running "Agatha Christie's Poirot" [1989–2013] TV series starring David Suchet; filmed at Pinewood Studios and in Malta • Directed by Philip Martin; teleplay by Stewart Harcourt; also starring Tristan Shepherd, Sam Crane, Toby Jones, Brian J. Smith, David Morrissey, Jessica Chastain, Stewart Scudamore, Serge Hazanavicius, Eileen Atkins, Susanne Lothar, Denis Ménochet, Barbara Hershey, Hugh Bonneville, Marie-Josée Croze, Stanley Weber, Elena Satine, Joseph Mawle, Samuel West; extras on Blu-ray include 47-minute featurette • episode credits at IMDb Acorn Media widescreen color Blu-ray [10/2010] for $16.05 Season 12 (4 episodes): Acorn Media widescreen color DVD set [5/2014] 2 disks for $19.79 watch full episode [1:20:46] free online at YouTube |
"Murder On The Orient Express" TV mini-series [Japan Jan 2015] /tt3973830/
 | 2017 color feature film [Fox Nov 2017] 
'Everyone is a suspect' • Filmed in Malta, Italy & England; co-produced & directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh {as Hercule Poirot}; adapted by Michael Green; also starring Judi Dench, Josh Gad, Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Daisy Ridley, Michelle Pfeiffer, Willem Dafoe, Lucy Boynton, Olivia Colman, Miranda Raison, Derek Jacobi, Tom Bateman, Marwan Kenzari, Sergei Polunin DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 6/2017 official trailer [2:26] online at YouTube watch 9/2017 official extended trailer [3:50] online at YouTube |
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"Murder In Three Acts" [1935]
aka "Three Act Tragedy"
 | A death at a party hosted by an actor is considered accidental; but a second death at a second party with the same participants has Satterthwaite and Miss Egg suspect murder, which Poirot solves at the end.
Berkley mass pb [6/2005] for $6.99 Berkley mass pb [2/2004] for $5.99 Audio Partners UNABR audio CD [11/2004] for $27.95 TV movie starring David Suchet [Jan 2007] video/DVD not yet available; episode credits at IMDb |
 | "Murder In Three Acts" TV movie [C.B.S./Warner Bros. Sept 1986] Same basic story, with Hastings replacing Satterthwaite and set in Acapulco, Mexico Directed by Gary Nelson; starring Peter Ustinov, Jonathan Cecil {as Hastings}, Tony Curtis, Emma Samms, Fernando Allende, Dana Elcar, Marian Mercer, Philip Guilmant, Lisa Eichhorn & Pedro Armendáriz Jr. Warner color triple DVD set [9/2006] 3 disks for $34.99 DVD set also includes "Dead Man's Folly" [1986] co-starring Jean Stapleton; and "Thirteen At Dinner" [1985] co-starring Faye Dunaway full credits at IMDb |
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"Death In The Air" [1935]
aka "Death In The Clouds"
 | While Poirot is on an airplane flight between Paris and England, a fellow passenger dies of what is at first assumed to be a wasp sting, but turns out to be a poison dart from a blowgun. DitC: Berkley mass pb [1/87] for $6.99 DitA: Warner Books pb [1977?] out of print/many used DitA: Bantam Doubleday Dell hardcover [1/86] out of print/used TV movie starring David Suchet [Jan 1992] Acorn media color DVD [2/2000] for $22.99 episode credits at IMDb |
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"The A.B.C. Murders" [1935]
 | Poirot learns of a series of murders from notes signed 'A.B.C.'
Berkley mass pb [12/91] for $6.99 Berkley 7½x5¼ pb [2/2005] for $6.99 Black Dog & Leventhal 8½x5¾ hardcover [9/2006] for $9.60 TV movie starring David Suchet [Jan 1992] Acorn Media color DVD [2/2000] for $22.99 episode credits at IMDb |
 | "The Alphabet Murders" [M.G.M. U.K. Aug 1965, USA May 1966] Comedy feature film based on "The A.B.C. Murders"; directed by Frank Tashlin; starring Tony Randall {as Poirot}, Robert Morley {as Hastings}, Maurice Denham {as Japp}, Anita Ekberg & Austin Trevor DVD/Blu-ray not available M.G.M./Warner 'glorious b&w' VHS [9/98] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"Murder In Mesopotamia" [1936]
 | Narrated by nurse Amy Leatheran; an old woman at an archeo- logical dig tells of receiving threatening letters, and then is killed; Poirot & Hastings happen to be traveling nearby. Berkley mass pb [12/2003] for $6.99 Black Dog & Leventhal hardcover [3/2007] for $9.60 TV movie starring David Suchet [July 2001] A&E color DVD [7/2001] for $17.99 A&E color VHS [7/2001] out of prodn/used episode credits at IMDb |
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"Cards On The Table" [1936]
 | At a bridge game evening attended by Poirot, Supt. Battle, Col. Race & Ariadne Oliver, one of the other players is murdered. Berkley mass pb [4/2001] for $5.99 Berkley mass pb [7/2005] for $6.99 Bantam Doubleday Dell hardcover [1/84] out of print/used TV movie starring David Suchet [Dec 2005] color DVD [undated] out of prodn/rare episode credits at IMDb |
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"Poirot Loses A Client" [1937]
aka "Dumb Witness"
 | Hastings narrates the tale of a wealthy woman in Berkshire who is injured in a fall and later dies, possibly of natural causes. But before her death, she mailed a letter to Poirot asking for help ... DW: Berkley mass pb [10/86] for $6.99 PLAC: Delta mass pb [3/74] out of print/many used PLAC: Putnam 8½x6 hardcover [8/91] for $22.99 TV movie starring David Suchet [Feb 1996] Acorn Media color DVD [8/2001] for $22.99 episode credits at IMDb |
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"Murder In The Mews" [4 stories; 1937]
 | includes novella "Murder In The Mews", stories "The Incredible Theft", "Dead Man’s Mirror", and "Triangle At Rhodes"
Berkley mass pb [3/87] for $5.99 HarperCollins mass pb [4/2002] out of print/used "Murder In The Mews" TV movie starring David Suchet [Jan 1989] High Bridge color VHS [8/91] out of prodn/used DVD available within collections below; episode credits at IMDb "Triangle At Rhodes" TV movie starring David Suchet [Feb 1989] High Bridge color VHS [8/91] out of prodn/used DVD available within collections below; episode credits at IMDb "The Incredible Theft" TV movie starring David Suchet [Feb 1989] High Bridge color VHS [8/91] for $14.50 DVD available within collections below; episode credits at IMDb "Dead Man’s Mirror" TV movie starring David Suchet [Feb 1993] video/DVD not available; episode credits at IMDb |
"Dead Man's Mirror" [3 stories 1937]
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includes stories "Dead Man's Mirror" & "Triangle At Rhodes", and the novella "Murder In The Mews"
Berkley mass pb [2/84] out of print/many used Berkley mass pb [3/86] out of print/used |
"Death On The Nile" [1937]
 | A woman whose best friend stole the man she loved follows them on a honeymoon to Egypt, and turns up on the Nile riverboat where Poirot & Col. Race are also traveling.
Berkley mass pb [7/2001] for $5.99 Berkley mass pb [8/2004] for $6.99 Putnam hardcover [5/85] out of print/used TV movie starring David Suchet [April 2004] A&E color DVD [10/2004] for $17.99 A&E color VHS [10/2004] for $18.95 episode credits at IMDb |
 | "Death On The Nile" feature film [E.M.I. Oct 1978] Directed by John Guillermin; starring Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Lois Chiles, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, Simon MacCorkindale, Angela Lansbury, David Niven, Maggie Smith, Olivia Hussey, Jack Warden, George Kennedy & Jon Finch Anchor Bay widescreen color DVD [2/2001] for $9.98 Republic Pictures color VHS [1/98] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb |
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"Appointment With Death" [1938]
 | A family under the thumb of a nasty matriarch travels from Jerusalem to the rock city of Petra in Transjordan, where the woman is murdered. Berkley mass pb [5/91] for $6.99 Black Dog & Leventhal hardcover [3/2007] for $9.60 |
 | "Appointment With Death" feature film [Cannon April 1988]
Co-written & directed by Michael Winner; starring Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher, John Gielgud, Piper Laurie, Hayley Mills, Jenny Seagrove, David Soul & Douglas Sheldon DVD/Blu-ray not available Warner color VHS [5/99] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb |
"Hercule Poirot's Christmas" [1938]
original title "Murder For Christmas" aka "A Holiday For Murder"
  | An elderly millionaire summons his family for the Christmas holiday, and is found murdered inside a locked room. HPC: Berkley mass pb [11/2000] for $6.99 HPC: Black Dog & Leventhal hardcover [10/2008] for $11.16 AHFM: Bantam mass pb [5/62] out of print/many used TV movie starring David Suchet [Jan 1995] Acorn Media color DVD [9/2001] for $22.99 episode credits at IMDb |
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"Sad Cypress" [1940]
 | The doctor friend of a woman accused of poisoning two aunts asks Poirot to help prove her innocent. Berkley mass pb [4/2004] for $6.99 Putnam hardcover [2/83] out of print/used TV movie starring David Suchet [Dec 2003] A&E color DVD [undated] out of prodn/used A&E color VHS [undated] out of prodn/used episode credits at IMDb |
"The Patriotic Murders" [1940]
aka "An Overdose of Death" aka "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe"
 | After a patient dies of an overdose of anesthetic, Poirot's dentist dies of a gunshot wound, which police assume was a suicide. But Poirot believes that it was murder. OTBMS: Berkley mass pb [3/2004] for $6.99 AOOD: Dell mass pb [6/72] out of print/many used "O.T.B.M.S." TV movie starring David Suchet [Jan 1992] Acorn Media color DVD [3/2001] for $22.99 episode credits at IMDb |
"Evil Under The Sun" [1941]
 | At a remote sea-island resort in Cornwall where Poirot is on holiday, a beautiful woman is strangled; suspects include the jealous husband, the woman's latest lover and his jealous wife, a longtime friend of the husband, the husband's daughter, a yachtsman, and two other guests of the inn.
Berkley mass pb [2/2004] for $6.99 Black Dog & Leventhal 8¼x5¾ hardcover [9/2006] for $9.60 Audio Partners UNABR audio CD [10/2005] for $22.76 TV movie starring David Suchet [Dec 2002] A&E color DVD [8/2002] for $17.99 A&E color VHS [8/2002] for $18.95 episode credits at IMDb |
 | "Evil Under The Sun" feature film [E.M.I. March 1982]
Directed by Guy Hamilton; starring Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Nicholas Clay, Colin Blakely, James Mason, Roddy McDowall, Sylvia Miles, Denis Quilley, Diana Rigg, Maggie Smith & Emily Hone Anchor Bay widescreen color DVD [2/2001] for $9.98 Anchor Bay widescreen color VHS [2/2001] for $9.49 DRG soundtrack CD [2/99] for $9.98 full credits at IMDb |
"The Making of Evil Under The Sun" documentary [E.M.I. 1982]
video/DVD not available;
full credits at IMDb
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"Murder In Retrospect" [1943]
aka "Five Little Pigs"
 | An about-to-be married girl asks Poirot to clear her mother who was convicted of murder five years previous.
FLP: Berkley mass pb [9/2005] for $5.99 FLP: Berkley mass pb [5/2004] for $5.99 "Five Little Pigs" TV movie starring David Suchet [Dec 2003] color DVD [8/00] out of prodn/used episode credits at IMDb |
"Murder After Hours" [1946]
aka "The Hollow"
 | Poirot accepts an invitation for Sunday tea at the neighboring country estate, and walks in on a woman standing over a dead man beside the swimming pool, holding a gun.
TH: Berkley mass pb [4/2001] for $6.99 "The Hollow" TV movie starring David Suchet [May 2004] A&E color DVD [undated] out of prodn/used New Video color DVD [undated] out of prodn/used episode credits at IMDb |
"The Labors of Hercules"
[12 connected stories 1947]
 | includes "The Nemean Lion", "The Lernean Hydra", "The Arcadian Deer", "The Erymanthian Boar", "The Augean Stables", "The Stymphalean Birds", "The Cretan Bull", "The Horses of Diomedes", "The Girdle of Hyppolita", "The Flock of Geryon", "The Apples of The Hesperides", and "The Capture of Cerberus"
Berkley mass pb [3/2004] for $6.99 Dell pb [2/82] out of print/many used |
"Taken At The Flood" [1948]
aka "There Is A Tide ..."
 | A family in a small village is desperate to overturn the inheritance of an old bachelor relative given to the woman that he married just before his death. TATF: Berkley mass pb [1/2004] for $6.99 TIAT: Dell mass pb [1965] out of print/used TV movie starring David Suchet [April 2006] video/DVD not available; episode credits at IMDb |
"The Under Dog, and other stories""
[9 stories; 1951]
 | includes "The Under Dog", "The Plymouth Express", "The Affair At The Victory Ball", "The Market Basing Mystery", "The Lemesurier Inheritence", "The Cornish Mystery", "The King of Clubs", "The Submarine Plans", and "The Adventure of The Clapham Cook"
Dell mass pb [8/82] out of print/many used Dell mass pb [1/75] out of print/used |
"Mrs. McGinty's Dead" [1952]
 | An elderly cleaning woman is brutally murdered in her village, and her lodger is arrested; her small cache of savings is found hidden near her cottage, and her blood and hair are found on the man's coat. But Supt. Spence suspects that something is not quite right and calls in Hercule Poirot to investigate.
Berkley mass pb [7/2000] for $6.99 HarperCollins mass pb [6/92] out of print/many used |
Adapted & filmed as "Murder Most Foul" [1964]
directed by George Pollock & starring Margaret Rutherford {as Miss Marple}
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"After The Funeral" [1953]
aka "Funerals Are Fatal"
  | The master of Enderby Hall dies and his heirs assemble at the vast Victorian mansion to hear the reading of the will; his sister suggests that the man was murdered, and she is found murdered the next day. ATF Berkley mass pb [10/2004] for $6.99 ATF Pocket mass pb [11/80] out of print/used ATF Black Dog & Leventhal 8¼x5½ hardcover [9/2007] for $9.41 FAF Bantam hardcover [5/84] out of print/used |
Adapted & filmed as "Murder At The Gallop" [1963]
directed by George Pollock & starring Margaret Rutherford {as Miss Marple}
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"Hickory, Dickory, Death" [1955]
aka "Hickory, Dickory, Dock"
 | Poirot agrees to help the sister of his secretary, Miss Lemon; the woman manages a youth hostel in London and Poirot's first inquiry elicits a confession of odd thefts from one of the guests; but next day the boy is found murdered ...
Berkley mass pb [7/2000] for $6.99 Bantam hardcover [1/84] out of print/used Dodd, Mead hardcover [1955] out of print/used |
"Dead Man's Folly" [1956]
 | Poirot's friend, mystery author Ariadne Oliver, invites him to the country for a weekend that includes a Murder Hunt for charity; instead of a pretend corpse, the game produces a real dead body. Berkley mass pb [5/2000] for $6.99 HarperCollins mass pb [4/92] out of print/used Bantam hardcover [2/98] out of print/used Putnam hardcover [11/86] out of print/used |
starring Peter Ustinov & Jean Stapleton
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"Cat Among The Pigeons" [1959]
 | The indomitable headmistress at Meadowbank, a prestigious, well-respected British girls' school, is preparing to retire and name her successor. When one of the teachers is found shot to death, detective Hercule Poirot is called in. Berkley mass pb [7/2005] for $6.99 V 8¼x5½ hardcover [9/2007] for $9.41 Bantam hardcover [2/84] for out of print/used |
"The Adventure of The Christmas Pudding"
[Poirot stories collection 1960]
includes the Miss Marple short story "Greenshaw's Folly"
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"Double Sin and Other Stories" [1961]
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"The Clocks" [1963]
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"The Third Girl" [1966]
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"Hallowe'en Party" [1969]
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"Elephants Can Remember" [1972]
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"Curtain: Poirot's Last Case" [1975]
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 | "Hercule Poirot's Casebook" [all 50 stories; 1984]
HarperCollins 7¾x5 pb [11/99] out of print/used HarperCollins pb [1/89] out of print/used Putnam hardcover [12/2004] out of print/many used Putnam hardcover [8/1984] out of print/many used |
 | "Poirot's Early Cases: 18 Hercule Poirot Mysteries" [1974]
story list [1923-36] at Wikipedia HarperCollins mass pb [12/2002] out of print/used Collins Crime hardcover [6/2003] out of print/used audio CD read by David Suchet & Hugh Fraser Mystery Masters UNABR audio CD [9/2005] for $21.09 |
 | "Strand Magazine" cover of February 1936, featuring Hercule Poirot & the short story "The Crime In Cabin 66" {which appeared later under the title "Problem At Sea"} |
H. Poirot Continuation Novels
 | "The Monogram Murders: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery" [2014] by Sophie Hannah Authorized/approved by the Christie Estate; set in 1920s London Kindle Edition from Wm. Morrow/HarperCollins [9/2014] for $12.74 William Morrow 9x5¾ deckle-edge hardcover [9/2014] for $16.43 |
Hercule Poirot has been portrayed on-screen by
Horst Bollmann
Kenneth Branagh 
Albert Finney
Martin Gabel [1912–86]
Alfred Molina
Anthony O'Donnell
Tom Petrone
Konstantin Rajkin
Tony Randall [1920–2004]
David Suchet
Austin Trevor [1897-1978]
Peter Ustinov [1921–2004]
 | "Agatha Christie Collection Featuring Peter Ustinov" [2006] all starring Peter Ustinov as Poirot & Jonathan Cecil as Hastings Warner color DVD [9/2006] 3 disks for $34.99 includes "Thirteen At Dinner" [1985] co-starring Faye Dunaway; "Dead Man's Folly" [1986] co-starring Jean Stapleton; and "Murder In Three Acts" [1986] co-starring Tony Curtis |
B.B.C. / P.B.S. Mystery! Poirot series
 | Poirot Classic Collection includes 36 episodes starring David Suchet, from all six DVD sets below Acorn Media DVD set [7/2005] 12 disks for $179.99 |
includes "The Dream", "The Incredible Theft", "The King of Clubs", "Problem At Sea",
"The Third Floor Flat" & "Triangle At Rhodes"
Poirot Silver box set
includes "The Adventure of Johnny Waverly", "The Adventure of The Clapham Cook", "Dead Man's
Mirror", "Four & Twenty Blackbirds", "Jewel Robbery At The Grand Metropolitan" & "Murder In The Mews"
Poirot Purple box set
includes "The Adventure of The Egyptian Tomb", "The Adventure of The Italian Nobleman",
"The Case of The Missing Will", "The Chocolate Box", "The Underdog" & "Yellow Iris"
Poirot Blue set
includes "The Adventure of The Cheap Flat", "The Cornish Mystery", "The Disappearance of
Mr. Davenheim", "Double Sin", "The Lost Mine" & "The Veiled Lady"
Poirot Bronze box set
includes "The Adventure of The Western Star", "How Does Your Garden Grow?", "The Kidnapped
Prime Minister", "The Million Dollar Bond Robbery", "The Plymouth Express" & "Wasps' Nest"
Poirot Green box set
includes "The Affair At The Victory Ball", "The Double Clue", "The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge",
"The Mystery of The Spanish Chest", "The Theft of The Royal Ruby" & "The Tragedy At Marsdon Manor"
 | Poirot Classic Movie Collection includes the 9 feature-length programs below starring David Suchet, plus documentary "Agatha Christie’s Garden" [2006] & other extras Acorn Media DVD set [6/2007] 10 disks for $46.99 |
includes "The ABC Murders", "Death In The Clouds", "The Mysterious Affair At Styles",
"One, Two Buckle My Shoe" & "Peril At End House"
Poirot Movie Collection 2
includes "Dumb Witness", "Hercule Poirot's Christmas", "Hickory Dickory Dock"
& "Murder On The Links"
Agatha's Family & Friends
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller Christie Mallowan, CBE was born in 1890 and died in 1976.
first husband Archibald 'Archie' Christie [] - married in 1914, divorced in 1928
daughter Rosalind Margaret Christie Prichard Hicks [1919-2004]
first son-in-law Hubert Prichard [-1944]
grandson Mathew Prichard
Mathew's first wife [d. 2005] & 3 children + second wife
second son-in-law Anthony Hicks [] - widower 2004
second husband archeologist Sir Max Mallowan, CBE [1904-78] - married in 1930, widower 1976
Greenway Estate: purchased 1938, opened under National Trust 2/2009
house at Wallingford, near Oxford
house Ashfield on Barton Hill Road in Torquay - razed in 1970s
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