Agatha Christie’s Detectives and Their World
The Queen of Crime
- Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
Nonfiction Books by and about Agatha Christie and Her Works
- Book review: Agatha Christie & Mathew Prichard: The Grand Tour – Letters and Photographs from the British Empire Expedition
- Book review: Agatha Christie: Come, Tell Me How You Live
- Book review / reading progress updates: Martin Edwards: The Golden Age of Murder
- Book review: Kathryn Harkup: A Is for Arsenic – The Poisons of Agatha Christie
Christie’s Detectives
Hercule Poirot
- Book review: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
- Book review: The Big Four (1927)
- Book review: The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
- Audiobook reviews: Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
- David Suchet‘s narration: Review no. 1
- David Suchet‘s narration: Review no. 2
- Kenneth Branagh‘s narration: Review
- David Suchet‘s, Kenneth Branagh‘s and Dan Stevens’s narrations: Comparative review
- Audiobook review: Three-Act Tragedy (1934; narrated by Hugh Fraser)
- Audiobook review: Death in the Clouds (1935; narrated by Hugh Fraser)
- Audiobook review: The ABC Murders (1936; narrated by Hugh Fraser)
- Audiobook review: Murder in Mesopotamia (1936; narrated by Anna Massey)
- Audiobook review: Death on the Nile (1937; narrated by Kenneth Branagh)
- Buddy read: Death on the Nile (1937; narrated by David Suchet):
- Audiobook review: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1940; narrated by Hugh Fraser)
- Audiobook review: Mrs. McGinty’s Dead (1962; narrated by Hugh Fraser)
- Book review: Hallowe’en Party (1969)
- TV series review: Agatha Christie’s Poirot (ITV 1989 – 2013, starring David Suchet)
– and individual episodes:
Miss Marple
- Audiobook review: The Murder at the Vicarage (1930; narrated by Richard E. Grant)
- Book review: The Thirteen Problems (1932)
- Book review: A Murder Is Announced (1950)
- Book review: A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)
- Book review: Miss Marple’s Final Cases (1979)
- Book review: Miss Marple – The Complete Short Stories (1985)
- Audiobook review: narration by Joan Hickson, Isla Blair and Anna Massey
- TV series review: Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple (BBC 1984 – 1992, starring Joan Hickson)
– and individual episodes: - Miss Marple: A Limerick
Tommy & Tuppence
- TV series review: Partners in Crime (ITV 1983 – 1984)
Ariadne Oliver
- Book review: Hallowe’en Party (1969)
Superintendent Battle and Lady Eileen (“Bundle”) Brent
- Book review: The Secret of Chimneys (1925)
- Book review: The Seven Dials Mystery (1929)
- Audiobook review: Towards Zero (1944; narrated by Hugh Fraser)
Colonel Race
- Audiobook review: The Man in the Brown Suit (1924; narrated by Emilia Fox)
- Audiobook review: Death on the Nile (1937; narrated by Kenneth Branagh)
- Buddy read: Death on the Nile (1937; narrated by David Suchet):
Cross-Series Short Story Compilations
- Audiobook review: The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (1939; narrated by Simon Vance, David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, and Joan Hickson)
- Audiobook review: A Deadly Affair (2022; narrated by Judith Boyd, David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, and Joan Hickson)
Nonseries Novels and Short Stories
- Buddy read: Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (1934; narrated by Emilia Fox)
- Book review: And Then There Were None (1939)
- Audiobook review: Murder Is Easy (1939; narrated by Hugh Fraser)
- Audiobook and movie review: Crooked House (1949; narrated by Hugh Fraser)
- Book review: They Came to Baghdad (1951)
- Audiobook review: Star Over Bethlehem (1965; narrated by Simon Vance)
- Audiobook review: Endless Night (1967; full cast dramatization)
Agatha Christie’s Plays
- Overview
- Play review: The Lie (mid-1920s)
- Play review: Murder on the Nile (1948)
- Radio play review: The Lost Plays:
- Butter in a Lordly Dish (1948; full cast recording)
- Personal Call (1954; full cast recording)
- Murder in the Mews (1955 full cast adaptation of Christie’s short story)
- Buddy Read Invitation
- Movie review: Witness for the Prosecution (1954; movie: MGM / United Artists 1957, starring Marlene Dietrich)
- Play and movie review: Spider’s Web (1957)
- Play and audiobook review: The Unexpected Guest (1958; audiobook featuring full cast)
Detection Club Round Robins
- Audiobook review: The Floating Admiral (1931; narrated by David Timson)
- Audiobook review: Ask a Policeman (1933;narrated by David Timson)
Buddy Reads and Reading Projects
- Group read project page: Appointment With Agatha: The Agatha Christie Centenary Celebration – reading all of Agatha Christie’s novels in publication order, plus monthly “side reads” by other classic mystery authors
- Reading project: Agatha Christie’s Plays
- Buddy read: Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (1934; narrated by Emilia Fox)
- Buddy read: Death on the Nile (1937; narrated by David Suchet):
- Play review: Murder on the Nile (1948)
- Radio play review: The Lost Plays:
- Butter in a Lordly Dish (1948; full cast recording)
- Personal Call (1954; full cast recording)
- Murder in the Mews (1955 full cast adaptation of Christie’s short story)
- Buddy Read Invitation
Agatha Christie Books Used for Reading Games (without reviewing)
- Murder on the Orient Express (1934; 3 versions narrated by David Suchet, Kenneth Branagh and Dan Stevens) – Festive Tasks 2021
- Murder on the Links (1923; narrated by Hugh Fraser) – Festive Tasks 2020
- One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1940; narrated by Hugh Fraser) – Kill Your Darlings
- And Then There Were None (1939; narrated by Dan Stevens) – Festive Tasks 2019
- Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (1950; narrated by Simon Vance, Joan Hickson, Hugh Fraser, and David Suchet) – Festive Tasks 2019
- Hallowe’en Party (1969) – Halloween Bingo 2019
Christie for Christmas
- Christmas Pudding (to go with The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, 1960; narrated by Charles Armstrong)
- Hercule Poirot’s Christmas (1938; my annual Christmas reread, narrated by Hugh Fraser)
- Hercule Poirot’s Christmas (TV adaptation starring David Suchet)
- Two Christmas Mystery Short Story Anthologies: Murder for Christmas (audio collection) and Cecily Gayford (ed.): Murder Under the Christmas Tree; both containing The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
- Holiday Movies (including the TV adaptations of Hercule Poirot’s Christmas and The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, both starring David Suchet)
- Classic Christmas Mystery Movie Binge (including the TV adaptations of Hercule Poirot’s Christmas and The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, both starring David Suchet)
- My Annual Christmas Movie Double Feature: Hercule Poirot’s Christmas & A Christmas Carol
The Legacy
- The Guardian: New Agatha Christie stamps deliver hidden clues (Sept. 15, 2016)
- The 2019 Vintage editions of Agatha Christie’s books
