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Revision as of 16:08, 31 July 2009
The works by Agatha Christie of the "Middle Period" (representing the years 1934 to 1946) are often regarded as Agatha Christie's finest works.[citation needed]
Novels
Collections of short stories
In addition to her novels Christie wrote and published 160 short stories in her career. Almost all of these were written for publication in fiction magazines with over half of them first appearing in the 1920s. They were then published in book form in various collections, some of which were identical in the UK and US (e.g., The Labours of Hercules) and others where publication took place in one market but not the other.
Twelve of the stories which were published in The Sketch magazine in 1924 under the sub-heading of The Man who was No. 4 were further joined into one continuous narrative in the novel The Big Four in 1927. Four further stories, The Submarine Plans (1923), Christmas Adventure (1923), The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest (1932) and The Second Gong (1932), were expanded into longer narratives by Christie (respectively The Incredible Theft, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, The Mystery of the Spanish Chest and Dead Man's Mirror although the shorter versions of all four have also been published in the UK).
Only one short story remains unpublished in the UK in book form: Three Blind Mice (1948) on which a Christie placed a moratorium whilst the stage play based on the story, The Mousetrap, was still running in the West End. Prior to this the story was published in four installments in the weekly magazine Woman's Own in the issues dated December 31, 1948 to January 21, 1949 with illustrations by K. J. Petts.
In the US, the story Christmas Adventure has not been published in book form.
The main collections in both markets are:
- 1924 Poirot Investigates (short stories: eleven in the UK, fourteen in the US)
- 1929 Partners in Crime (fifteen short stories; featuring Tommy and Tuppence)
- 1930 The Mysterious Mr. Quin (twelve short stories; introducing Mr. Harley Quin)
- 1932 The Thirteen Problems (thirteen short stories; featuring Miss Marple, also known as The Tuesday Club Murders in the US)
- 1933 The Hound of Death (twelve short stories–UK only)
- 1934 The Listerdale Mystery (twelve short stories–UK only)
- 1934 Parker Pyne Investigates (twelve short stories; introducing Parker Pyne and Ariadne Oliver, also known as Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective in the US)
- 1937 Murder in the Mews (four novella-length stories; featuring Hercule Poirot, also known as Dead Man's Mirror in the US)
- 1939 The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (nine short stories–US only)
- 1947 The Labours of Hercules (twelve short stories; featuring Hercule Poirot)
- 1948 The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (eleven short stories–US only)
- 1950 Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (nine short stories–US only)
- 1951 The Under Dog and Other Stories (nine short stories–US only)
- 1960 The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (six short stories–UK only)
- 1961 Double Sin and Other Stories (eight short stories–US only)
- 1971 The Golden Ball and Other Stories (fifteen short stories–US only)
- 1974 Poirot's Early Cases (eighteen short stories, also known as Hercule Poirot's Early Cases in the US)
- 1979 Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories (eight short stories–UK only)
- 1991 Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (eight short stories–UK only)
- 1997 The Harlequin Tea Set (nine short stories–US only)
- 1997 While the Light Lasts and Other Stories (nine short stories–UK only)
In addition, various collections have been published over the years which re-print short stories which have previously appeared in other collections e.g. Surprise, Surprise! (1965 in the US). On occasion, in among the reprinted material, these collections have sometimes contained the first book printing of an individual story e.g. The Market Basing Mystery in the UK version of Thirteen for Luck! (1966) which later appeared in the same market in Poirot's Early Cases.
Novels written as Mary Westmacott
- 1930 Giant's Bread
- 1934 Unfinished Portrait
- 1944 Absent in the Spring
- 1948 The Rose and the Yew Tree
- 1952 A Daughter's a Daughter
- 1956 The Burden
Plays
- 1930 Black Coffee
- 1943 And Then There Were None
- 1945 Appointment with Death
- 1946 Murder on the Nile/Hidden Horizon
- 1951 The Hollow
- 1952 The Mousetrap
- 1953 Witness for the Prosecution
- 1954 Spider's Web
- 1956 A Daughter's a Daughter (Written in the late 1930s. Performed professionally once. Unpublished but turned into the 1952 Mary Westmacott novel)
- 1956 Towards Zero
- 1958 Verdict
- 1958 The Unexpected Guest
- 1960 Go Back for Murder
- 1962 Rule of Three (Comprising Afternoon at the Seaside, The Rats and The Patient)
- 1972 Fiddler's Three (Originally written as Fiddler's Five. Unpublished.)
- 1973 Akhnaton (Written in 1937)
- 2003 Chimneys (Written in 1931, but unperformed for 72 years. Unpublished.)
Radio Plays
- 1937 The Yellow Iris (Based on the short story of the same name)
- 1947 Three Blind Mice (Christie's celebrated stage play The Mousetrap was based on this radio play)
- 1948 Butter In a Lordly Dish
- 1954 Personal Call
Television Plays
- 1937 Wasp's Nest (Based on the short story of the same name)
Nonfiction
Other published works
- 1925 The Road of Dreams (Poetry)
- 1965 Star Over Bethlehem and other stories (Christian stories and poems)
- 1973 Poems
Co-authored works
- 1930 Behind The Screen. A radio serial written together with Hugh Walpole, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley, E. C. Bentley and Ronald Knox of the Detection Club. Published in book form in 1983 in The Scoop and Behind The Screen.
- 1931 The Scoop. A radio serial written together with Dorothy L. Sayers, E. C. Bentley, Anthony Berkeley, Freeman Wills Crofts and Clemence Dane of the Detection Club. Published in book form in 1983 in The Scoop and Behind The Screen.
- 1931 The Floating Admiral. A book written together with G. K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers and certain other members of the Detection Club.
- 1956 Towards Zero (A West End theatre dramatization of her 1944 novel co-written with Gerard Verner)
