by John Curran
Cat among the Pigeons 1959
Chimneys (stage play) 1931
Clocks, The 1963
Come, Tell Me How You Live (memoir) 1946
Crooked House 1949
Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case 1975
Daughter’s a Daughter, A (stage play) 1956
Daughter’s a Daughter, A (as Mary Westmacott) 1952
Dead Man’s Folly 1956
Death Comes as the End 1945
Death in the Clouds 1935
Death on the Nile 1937
Destination Unknown 1954
Dumb Witness 1937
Elephants Can Remember 1972
Endless Night 1967
Evil Under the Sun 1941
Fiddlers Five/Fiddlers Three (stage play) 1972
Five Little Pigs 1943
Floating Admiral, The (co-authored) 1931
Giant’s Bread (as Mary Westmacott) 1930
Go Back for Murder (stage play) 1960
Hallowe’en Party 1969
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas 1938
Hickory Dickory Dock 1955
Hollow, The 1946
Hollow, The (stage play) 1951
Hound of Death, The (short stories) 1933
Labours of Hercules, The (short stories) 1947
Listerdale Mystery , The (short stories) 1934
Lord Edgware Dies 1933
Man in the Brown Suit, The 1924
Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side, The 1962
Miss Marple’s Final Cases (short stories) 1979
Mousetrap, The (stage play) 1952
Moving Finger, The 1943
Mrs McGinty’s Dead 1952
Murder at the Vicarage, The 1930
Murder in Mesopotamia 1936
Murder in the Mews (short stories) 1937
Murder is Announced, A 1950
Murder is Easy 1939
Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The 1926
Murder on the Links, The 1923
Murder on the Nile/Hidden Horizon (stage play) 1946
Murder on the Orient Express 1934
Mysterious Affair at Styles, The 1921
Mysterious Mr Quin, The (Short stories) 1930
Mystery of the Blue Train, The 1928
N or M? 1941
Nemesis 1971
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe 1940
Ordeal by Innocence 1958
Pale Horse, The 1961
Parker Pyne Investigates (short stories) 1934
Partners in Crime (short stories) 1929
Passenger to Frankfurt 1970
Peril at End House 1932
Personal Call (radio play) 1954
Pocket Full of Rye, A 1953
Poems (poetry) 1973
Poirot Investigates (short stories) 1924
Poirot’s Early Cases (short stories) 1974
Postern of Fate 1973
Problem at Pollensa Bay (short stories) 1991
Road of Dreams (poetry) 1925
Rose and the Yew Tree, The (as Mary Westmacott) 1948
Rule of Three (3 one-act plays) 1962
Sad Cypress 1940
Scoop, The (radio serial,co-authored) 1931
Secret Adversary, The 1922
Secret of Chimneys, The 1925
Seven Dials Mystery, The 1929
Sittaford Mystery, The 1931
Sleeping Murder 1976
Sparkling Cyanide 1945
Spider’s Web (stage play) 1954
Star over Bethlehem (poetry and stories) 1965
Taken at the Flood 1948
Ten Little Niggers/And Then There Were None 1939
They Came to Baghdad 1951
They Do It with Mirrors 1952
Third Girl 1966
Thirteen Problems, The (short stories) 1932
Three Act Tragedy 1935
Three Blind Mice (radio play) 1947
Towards Zero 1944
Towards Zero (stage play) 1956
Unexpected Guest, The (stage play) 1958
Unfinished Portrait (as Mary Westmacott) 1934
Verdict (stage play) 1958
Wasp’s Nest (TV play) 1937
While the Light Lasts (short stories) 1997
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? 1934
Witness for the Prosecution (stage play) 1953
Yellow Iris (radio play) 1937
Index of Titles
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4.50 from Paddingtond 39, 49, 261, 272, 283, 303, 309, 319, 321, 325, 332
The A.B.C. Murders 31, 34, 37, 39, 40, 54, 55, 123, 138, 183, 186n, 209, 212, 332, 348
Absent in the Spring 192
‘Accident’ 70, 127
‘The Adventure of Johnny Waverley’ 61
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding 282, 303
‘The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding’ 330
‘The Adventure of the Clapham Cook’ 98
‘The Affair at the Victory Ball’ 68, 362
After the Funeral 26, 31, 46, 56, 98, 170, 260, 262, 272, 281, 282–90, 295, 299, 304, 320, 321, 323, 330, 346, 350, 390
Akhnaton (play) 138, 374
And Then There Were None (play) 38, 48, 50, 53, 55, 66, 101, 122, 137, 190, 193, 210, 228, 233; see also Ten Little Niggers
‘The Apples of the Hesperides‘ 211
Appointment with Death 31, 40, 49, 94, 98, 138, 163, 170, 182, 188, 213, 222, 260, 288, 309, 325, 366
Appointment with Death (play) 101, 193
At Bertram’s Hotel 57, 331, 332, 348, 382
An Autobiography 26, 28, 36, 41, 67, 71, 73, 88n, 95, 109, 117, 125, 127, 128, 140, 150, 157, 163, 184n, 190, 194, 201, 217, 262, 297, 328, 333, 374, 382, 390, 395, 404, 410
Behind the Screen (radio serial) 16, 138
The Big Four 32, 36, 57, 59, 60, 61, 68, 119, 212
Black Coffee (play) 94, 101, 137, 138, 139, 161, 296
‘The Blue Geranium’ 365
The Body in the Library 31, 57, 98, 140, 141, 180, 190, 192, 194, 195, 200–208, 234, 239, 386, 403
The Burden 261
Butter in a Lordly Dish (radio play) 193, 382
By the Pricking of my Thumbs 66, 199, 267, 301, 331, 332, 354–60, 366, 379, 383, 396, 397
‘The Call of Wings’ 124, 125
‘The Capture of Cerberus’ 212, 376, 381
Cards on the Table 23, 40, 64, 182, 187
A Caribbean Mystery 23, 39, 49, 58, 94, 124, 178, 180, 309, 331, 332, 336, 337, 345, 346, 379
‘The Case of the Caretaker/Caretaker’s Wife’ 234-39, 240–58, 327
‘The Case of the Missing Lady’ 69
‘The Case of the Missing Will’ 39
‘The Case of the Perfect Maid’ 234, 235, 236, 260, 276, 393
Cat among the Pigeons 39, 57, 177, 230, 260, 261, 307–18, 336, 382
Chimneys (play) 98–108, 139
‘The Chocolate Box’ 213
‘A Christmas Adventure’ 330
‘The Clock Stops’ 338
The Clocks 39, 52, 232, 304, 308, 323, 330, 331, 335–45, 358, 411
Come, Tell Me How You Live (memoir) 190
‘The Coming of Mr Quin’ 70
‘The Cornish Mystery’ 179, 348
‘The Crackler’ 69
‘The Cretan Bull’ 178, 309, 346
Crooked House 22, 40, 49, 58, 119, 121, 123, 127, 192, 264, 284, 299
Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case 31, 37, 40, 46, 49, 53, 189n, 190, 194, 208–28, 235, 366, 373, 374, 403, 409
A Daughter’s a Daughter 261 ‘The Dead Harlequin’ 104
Dead Man’s Folly 179, 201, 303, 338, 384
‘Dead Man’s Mirror’ 38, 101, 137, 159, 162, 169, 170, 222, 236
‘Death by Drowning’ 69, 124, 126, 127, 141, 200
Death Comes as the End 24, 50, 53, 93, 94, 125, 192, 309
Death in the Clouds 31, 54, 63, 98, 137, 170, 201, 229, 230, 260, 288,
304, 383
Death on the Nile 22, 24, 31, 41, 46, 48, 57, 137, 138, 150, 179, 180, 182, 188, 191, 193, 208, 212, 213, 223, 260, 274, 362, 383
Destination Unknown 39, 51, 233, 260, 261, 265, 267, 283, 291–6, 321, 322
‘Detective Writers in England’ 191
The Disappearance of Mr
Davenheim (TV play) 333
‘The Double Clue’ 212
Double Sin 377
‘The Dream’ 38, 304, 305, 346
‘The Dressmaker’s Doll’ 124, 125–6
Dumb Witness 36, 37, 46, 62, 101, 125, 127, 151, 182, 213, 238, 383
Elephants Can Remember 212, 346, 372, 383, 389–94, 395
Endless Night 24, 31, 37, 38, 39, 47, 48, 50, 55, 57, 66, 123, 137, 150, 179, 234, 235, 260, 274, 299, 301, 330, 331, 348, 360, 362, 374, 379, 382, 404
Evil under the Sun 31, 41, 46, 57, 119, 137, 150, 201, 275, 409
Fiddlers Five/Fiddlers Three (play)
230, 309, 374
Five Little Pigs 24, 37, 40, 55, 63, 64, 94, 101, 191, 210, 319, 320, 326, 332, 361, 389
The Floating Admiral 138
‘The Four Suspects’ 39, 62
Giant’s Bread 137
‘The Girdle of Hyppolita’ 314
Go Back for Murder (play) 101, 332
‘Greenshaw’s Folly’ 170, 260, 303–7, 343
‘The Greenshore Folly’ 303
‘The Gypsy’ 124, 151
Hallowe’en Party 179, 201, 321, 331, 332, 346, 348, 383, 384, 389 ‘The Herb of Death’ 397
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas 31, 38, 40, 52, 137, 161, 163, 188n, 283, 366
Hickory Dickory Dock 261, 283, 309, 323
The Hollow 31, 40, 41, 57, 63, 64, 93, 191, 192, 213
The Hollow (play) 101, 262, 275, 296
‘The Horses of Diomedes’ 211
The Hound of Death 32n, 62, 69, 98, 125, 127, 138, 151
‘The Hound of Death’ 151
‘The House of Lurking Death’ 58
‘How Does Your Garden Grow?’ 321
‘How I Created Hercule Poirot’ (article) 182-9
‘In a Dispensary’ (poem) 328
‘In a Glass Darkly’ 124, 125
‘The Incident of the Dog’s Ball’ 101
The Labours of Hercules 29, 41, 65, 123, 178, 192, 211, 217, 309, 314, 346
‘The Lamp’ 124, 125, 151
‘The Last Séance’ 69, 124, 125, 151
The Listerdale Mystery 32n, 69, 138
‘The Listerdale Mystery’ 170
Lord Edgware Dies 31, 45, 48, 49, 61, 94, 137, 139, 151, 158, 162–8, 169, 174, 185, 282, 283, 330, 350
‘The Lost Mine’ 60
‘The Love Detectives’ 124, 126, 127, 141
Love from a Stranger (play) 70, 139, 193
The Man in the Brown Suit 23, 31, 37, 48, 54, 68, 94, 95, 109, 152, 261, 264, 291
‘The Man in the Mist’ 31, 52, 69, 304
‘The Man Who Knew’ 128, 129–35, 135–6
‘The Market Basing Mystery’ 31, 50, 365
‘A Masque from Italy’ (poem) 363
The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side 38–9, 58, 94, 119, 229, 231, 233, 309, 319, 320, 323, 331, 332, 336, 337, 345, 411
‘Miss Marple Tells a Story’ 234
Miss Marple’s Final Cases 374
The Mousetrap (play) 23, 31, 52, 193, 230, 233, 262, 263, 296, 298, 304, 332, 361, 373
The Moving Finger 64, 119, 123, 127, 174, 184n, 235, 236, 322, 404
Mrs McGinty’s Dead 28, 37, 187n, 210, 222, 261, 272, 276, 295, 311, 388
The Murder at the Vicarage 31, 32, 33, 41, 57, 119, 126, 137, 140–50, 161, 200, 237, 239, 258
Murder at the Vicarage (play) 193, 261
Murder in Mesopotamia 38, 93, 138, 161, 233, 322, 382
Murder in the Mews 138, 159, 169, 222, 236
‘Murder in the Mews’ 31, 50, 62, 209, 365
A Murder is Announced 22, 46, 65, 93, 122, 126, 208, 229, 230, 239, 261, 263, 264
Murder is Easy 23, 40, 138, 174, 179, 201, 309, 323, 325, 379
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 23, 31, 32, 34, 37, 40, 46, 47, 48, 49, 55, 67, 70, 122, 139, 140, 149, 163, 185, 213, 333
The Murder on the Links 67, 82n, 101, 135, 184, 185n, 223
Murder on the Nile (play) 101
Murder on the Orient Express 23, 31, 38, 46, 57, 110, 119, 123, 137, 163, 190, 210, 211, 213, 233, 373, 374, 383
The Mysterious Affair at Styles 22, 23, 29, 31, 36, 48, 52, 57, 58, 65, 67, 70–94, 98, 101, 124, 128, 135, 137, 150, 182, 183, 184n, 260, 274, 309, 323, 362
The Mysterious Mr Quin 62, 69, 127, 138, 362
‘The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge’ 39, 288, 305
‘The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest’ 164, 170, 267, 330
‘The Mystery of the Blue Jar’ 124, 125
The Mystery of the Blue Train 14, 23, 32, 67, 109–16, 128, 150, 170, 185, 186n, 260, 288, 389
‘The Mystery of the Spanish Chest’ 267, 303, 330
N or M? 190, 191, 192, 193–9, 200, 204, 235, 266, 345, 354, 397, 400
‘The Nemean Lion’ 41
Nemesis 63, 348, 372, 383–8, 396
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe 24, 31, 57, 119, 170, 229, 230, 283, 363
Ordeal by Innocence 31, 37, 56, 93, 123, 126, 127, 210, 261, 272, 308, 309, 362
The Pale Horse 39, 58, 59, 62, 127, 151, 177, 180, 309, 323, 331, 346, 356, 366, 404
Parker Pyne Investigates 32n, 138
Partners in Crime 23, 32, 52, 58, 61, 69, 152, 194, 263, 304, 397
Passenger to Frankfurt 21, 25, 51, 58, 157, 267, 309, 372, 373, 375–82
Peril at End House 14, 23, 32, 61, 127, 152, 161, 192, 213, 229, 230
Personal Call (radio play) 62, 263, 321
‘Philomel Cottage’ 70, 127, 139, 193
‘The Plymouth Express’ 110
A Pocket Full of Rye 31, 56, 58, 68, 121, 262, 273, 275, 284, 295, 299, 323, 324, 346, 363, 403
Poems 374
Poirot Investigates 39, 68, 72, 288
Poirot’s Early Cases 68, 127, 362, 373
Postern of Fate 22, 39, 62, 96, 123, 354, 368, 372, 382, 383, 389, 394–402, 407
Problem at Pollensa Bay 32n, 159
‘Problem at Sea’ 403
‘The Rajah’s Emerald’ 110
The Rats (play) 267
‘The Red Signal’ 98, 124, 125, 128, 135–6, 151
The Regatta Mystery 137, 377
‘The Regatta Mystery’ 310
Road of Dreams (poetry) 69, 329, 363
The Rose and the Yew Tree 192
Rule of Three (3 one-act plays) 267, 332
‘S.O.S.’ 124
Sad Cypress 37, 191, 211, 212, 222, 348, 366, 403
‘Sanctuary’ 119, 124, 126, 127, 239
The Scoop (radio serial) 138
‘The Second Gong’ 101, 137, 159–62, 170, 222, 236
The Secret Adversary 51, 68, 70, 152, 194, 354, 376, 397, 400
The Secret of Chimneys 23, 51, 57, 61, 68, 69, 95–109, 152
The Seven Dials Mystery 32, 59, 68, 95, 109
‘The Sign in the Sky’ 119, 234, 237
The Sittaford Mystery 13, 14, 61, 127, 138, 150–58, 161, 174, 292
Sleeping Murder 22, 65, 121, 127, 182, 190, 211, 222, 237, 348, 356, 373
Sparkling Cyanide 31, 49, 55, 57, 101, 170, 191, 195, 208, 229, 230, 233, 260, 283, 288, 323, 404
Spider’s Web (play) 61, 102, 119, 231, 263, 291, 296, 297, 333
Star over Bethlehem 333
‘The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael’ 124, 151
‘Strange Jest’ 39, 236
‘Swan Song’ 124, 126
Taken at the Flood 31, 50, 57, 63, 151, 170, 260, 273, 288, 322, 366
‘Tape Measure Murder’ 234
Tea for Three (play) 70
Ten Little Niggers 65–66, 192; see also And Then There Were None They Came to Baghdad 22, 24, 31, 51, 63, 93, 95, 152, 233, 260, 261, 264–72, 291, 292, 293, 322, 376
They Do It with Mi
rrors 31, 49, 260, 261, 272–81, 284, 295, 320, 321, 361, 362, 403
‘The Third Floor Flat’ 110, 274, 303, 365
Third Girl 23, 327, 330, 331, 343, 345–53, 380, 382, 390
Thirteen at Dinner 164
The Thirteen Problems 38, 39, 57, 62, 69, 100, 104, 110, 123, 126, 141, 152, 200, 234, 239, 363, 365, 397
Three Act Tragedy 31, 51, 54, 61, 65, 94, 119, 137, 139, 142, 164, 169–76, 185, 208, 229, 230, 238, 260, 288, 319, 320, 323, 330, 350
Three Blind Mice 377
Three Blind Mice (radio play) 23, 52, 193
Towards Zero 40, 55, 123, 191, 238, 322
Towards Zero (play) 263, 296
‘Triangle at Rhodes’ 180, 212, 223, 276, 327
‘The Tuesday Night Club’ 57, 69, 110, 140–41, 363
‘The Unbreakable Alibi’ 31, 61
The Underdog 377
The Unexpected Guest (play) 24, 260, 263, 296–302, 303, 397
Verdict (play) 263, 296, 297, 298, 327
Vision 72
‘The Voice in the Dark’ 62
Wasp’s Nest (TV play) 139
While the Light Lasts 32n Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? 13, 14, 17, 48–9, 93, 95, 119, 137, 138, 152, 157, 158, 161, 164, 168, 170, 292
Witness for the Prosecution (play) 70, 101, 210, 231, 262, 263, 291, 296, 374 ‘Witness for the Prosecution’ 23, 31, 37, 38, 127, 210, 330, 350
Yellow Iris (radio play) 138
‘Yellow Iris’ 101, 234
Acknowledgements
Although my name alone appears on the title-page there were many others who made significant contributions to Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making.
As reflected in the Dedication, my gratitude to Mathew Prichard and his wife, Lucy, is boundless. Without their contribution Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making would not exist.
My editors, David Brawn and Steve Gove.
My brother and sister-in-law, Brendan and Virginia, for my home-from-home.
Joseph and Francis, who helped with the proof-reading.
Patricia, Noel, Brian and Ann Donnelly, hosts par excellence.
Robyn Brown, National Trust General Manager of Greenway House, where it all began.
Dr Robin Whelpton for his advice on matters chemical.
Elaine Wiltshire for double-checking.
David, Daniel and Pavla of Goldsboro Books.
Thanks also to Katie Lusty and Torbay Library Services; Elizabeth Wilson of HarperCollins Archive; Moira Reilly, Alice Moss and Laura Mell, publicists extraordinaire; Tony Medawar, my friend and fellow Christie admirer; and Eurion Brown, Peter Coleman, Karl Pike, John Ryan, John Timon and Andy Trott.