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How many Christie's have you read?
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Murder on The Orient Express
Curtain
Mysterious Affair At Styles
The Big Four
Elephants Can Remember
Five Little Pigs
Nemesis
By The Pricking of My Thumbs
Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Poirot Investigates
The Body In The Library
While The Light Lasts
(Odds are I'll read these again sooner rather than later. I could read her texts countless times). ;)
Currently reading Dame Agatha's autobiography. And then I intend on reading Three Act Tragedy. Yup. I'm excited :)



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I do hope to complete this herculean task one day.

Mohammad wrote: "15 Books . I started to read Christie's book since 1 or 2 months ago"
That's really good for only starting about 1-2 months ago Mohammad.
That's really good for only starting about 1-2 months ago Mohammad.
A lot, and re-reading, and I'm considering to re-read again, since the beginning, with The Mysterious Affair at Styles.


I have a wonderful hardcover collection that I have been building for many years, and hopefully one day it will be complete!


I collected the books with my grandmother and we had at least 70. During a move we culled those on the verge of collapse (1960s paperbacks!) so I have inherited about 60.
My New Year's resolution is to read all of Agatha Christie's mysteries in chronological order so at the end I will have a complete collection.
We've been doing that Esther. That's what our books of the month are - we're reading them in order of publication. I think we only have about a year left before we start all over again.

If you don't mind a late comer I may join in the book threads
Yes, of course Esther. It will take us 7 years to get through all of them. And if you read a book we had previously read, go to that discussion if you'd like to talk about. Just be aware, the book was discussed at that time.



M. wrote: "I've read every mystery novel. I keep hoping that someday I'll magically find one that I haven't read..."
Maybe if you're in the US, one that was never published here. It seems that the anthologies are different between the US and UK so maybe one short story didn't make it here.
Maybe if you're in the US, one that was never published here. It seems that the anthologies are different between the US and UK so maybe one short story didn't make it here.

1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
2. The Murder on the Links
3. Poirot Investigates
4. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
5. The Big Four
6. The Mystery of the Blue Train
7. Peril at End House
8. Lord Edgware Dies (Thirteen At Dinner)
9. Murder on the Orient Express
10. Three Act Tragedy
11. Death in the Clouds
12. The ABC Murders
13. Murder in Mesopotamia
14. Cards on the Table
15. Dumb Witness
16. Death on the Nile
17. Murder in the Mews (aka Dead Man's Mirror)
18. Hercule Poirot's Christmas (or A Holiday for Murder)
19. Appointment with Death
20. Sad Cypress
21. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
22. Evil Under the Sun
23. Five Little Pigs
24. The Hollow
25. Taken at the Flood
26. Mrs. McGinty's Dead
27. After the Funeral
28. Hickory Dickory Dock
29. Third Girl
30. Black Coffee
31. The Labours of Hercules
32. Dead Man's Folly
33. A Cat Among the Pigeons
34. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
35. The Clocks
36. Hallowe'en Party
37. Elephants Can Remember
38. Poirot's Early Cases
39. The Under Dog and Other Stories
40. Curtain
41. The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories
42. Problem at Pollensa Bay
43. Destination Unknown
44. Murder at the Vicarage
45. The Body in the Library
46. The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #4)
47. A Murder Is Announced
48. They Do It With Mirrors
49. A Pocket Full of Rye
50. 4:50 from Paddington
51. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
52. A Caribbean Mystery (Miss Marple, #10)
53. At Bertram's Hotel
54. Nemesis
55. Sleeping Murder
56. Miss Marple's Final Cases
57. The Man in the Brown Suit
58. Sparkling Cyanide
59. The Listerdale Mystery And Eleven Other Stories
60. While the Light Lasts
61. An Autobiography
62. The Secret Adversary
63. And Then There Were None
64. Death Comes as the End
65. Crooked House

1. And Then There Were None
2. The Murder at the Vicarage
3. 4:50 From Paddington
4. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
5. Sleeping Murder
6. The Body in the Library
7. The Moving Finger
8. The Unexpected Guest
9. The Thirteen Problems
10. The Golden Ball and Other Stories
11. A Murder Is Announced
12. They Do It With Mirrors
13. A Pocket Full of Rye
14. A Caribbean Mystery
15. The Dead Harlequin: A Short Story
16. The Mystery of the Blue Jar: A Short Story
17. At Bertram's Hotel
18. Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
I believe I've read everything--certainly all the actual books (including the autobiographical stuff, and the Mary Westmacotts), and at least the vast majority of the short stories and the odd article too. And I love them dearly and re-read nearly all of them regularly!



Polly wrote: "I believe I've read everything--certainly all the actual books (including the autobiographical stuff, and the Mary Westmacotts), and at least the vast majority of the short stories and the odd arti..."
Wow, even the Westmacotts - great job Polly!
Wow, even the Westmacotts - great job Polly!
Cora wrote: "All 67 novels and almost all short stories. Made a spreadsheet tallying themes, murder weapons, and other details trying to find a pattern or formula. There is none. Each book is original in its ow..."
That's so funny Cora - you'd think she'd have some type of pattern for all of her books.
That's so funny Cora - you'd think she'd have some type of pattern for all of her books.
mod_lyn wrote: "I count only ones I have read, not watched their adaptation to film/television, I do however count audiobooks! So that would make 6 completed and a few others have been started simultaneously."
I count audiobooks too mod_lyn.
I count audiobooks too mod_lyn.

1) Three Act Tragedy. I found I was having a hard time getting into this one -- not sure why, but it feels dry...this would be the only A.C. book I did not finish! --anyone else have a similar problem?
2) One, Two, Buckle My Shoe. This one I'm enjoying very much & I think it's very clever the way she related each section of the book to a part of the rhyme.



I think I've also read most if not all of Miss Marple, a couple of T&T and some Harle Quinn ones and of course the one-offs like Toward Zero, ATTWN etc.
I haven't gotten round to reading her autobiography and the ones she wrote under Mary Westmacott.
But I don't mind a reread of Poirot/Marple mysteries I haven't visited in a long time since I've forgotten most of them ^^;