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Birth
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller is born in Torquay, Devon, England. -
The Miller Family Moves to France
Agatha's family moves to France when she is six. -
Agatha Writes Her First Poem
Agatha writes one of her first poems. -
Sent to School in Paris
Agatha is sent to a school in Paris to continue her education. -
Agatha and Archie Marry
Agatha marries Archibald Christie. -
Agatha Gives Birth to Rosalind
Agatha gave birth to her only child, Rosalind, on August 5, 1919. -
Agatha Christie Publishes The Mysterious Affair at Styles
It was written in 1916 and was first published in October 1920.
It is Christie's first published novel and introduces Hercule Poirot. -
Agatha Christie publishes The Secret Adversary
The Secret Adversary is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in January 1922.The book introduces the characters of Tommy and Tuppence who feature in three other Christie books and one collection of short stories written throughout her writing career. -
Agatha Christie publishes The Murder on the Links
The Murder on the Links is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and was first published in 1923. It features Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings. -
Agatha Christie releases The Man in the Brown Suit
The Man in the Brown Suit is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in August 1924 and in the US by Dodd, Mead, and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. -
Agatha Christie publishes The Secret of Chimneys
The Secret of Chimneys is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and was first published in June 1925. It introduces the characters of, among others, Superintendent Battle and Lady Eileen "Bundle" Brent. -
Agatha Christie publishes The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, was first published in June of 1926. It features Hercule Poirot as the lead detective. -
Agatha Christie publishes The Big Four
The Big Four is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published on January 27, 1927. It features Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp. The structure of the book is different from that of most Christie novels in that The Big Four is a series of short cases involving the Big Four villains rather than the investigation of a single crime. This is due to the fact that it is derived from a series of linked short stories that first appeared in The Sketch magazine. -
Agatha Christie publishes The Mystery of the Blue Train
The Mystery of the Blue Train is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and was first published on March 29, 1928. The book features her detective Hercule Poirot. -
Agatha and Archie are Divorced
Agatha is granted a divorce from her husband, Archie, He will later marry the woman he was having an affair with. -
Agatha Christie publishes The Seven Dials Mystery
The Seven Dials Mystery is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and was first published on January 24, 1929. In it, Christie brings back the characters from an earlier novel, The Secret of Chimneys: Lady Eileen (Bundle) Brent, Lord Caterham, Bill Eversleigh, George Lomax, Tredwell, and Superintendent Battle. -
Agatha Christie publishes The Murder at the Vicarage
The Murder at the Vicarage is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and was first published in October 1930. It is the first novel to feature the character of Miss Marple although the character had previously appeared in short stories published in The Royal Magazine and The Story-Teller Magazine starting in December 1927. These earlier stories would later appear in book form in The Thirteen Problems in 1932. -
Agatha ventures into radio
Agatha collaborates with other crime writers, for a popular BBC radio program called behind the Screen. Her first radio episode is called, Something is Missing and sadly no longer survives. -
Agatha and Max marry
Much to the disapproval of her older sister Madge, Agatha marries Max. They choose to marry in Scotland. -
Agatha Christie publishes The Sittaford Mystery
The Sittaford Mystery is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1931 under the title of The Murder at Hazlemoor and in UK by the Collins Crime Club on September 7 of the same year under Christie's original title. It is the first Christie novel to be given a different title for the US market. -
Agatha Christie publishes Peril at End House
Peril at End House is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in February of 1932. The book features her famous character Hercule Poirot, as well as Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp, and was the seventh book featuring Poirot. -
Agatha Christie publishes Lord Edgware Dies
Lord Edgware Dies is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in September of 1933 and in the US by Dodd, Mead, and Company later in the same year under the title of Thirteen at Dinner. The novel features Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings, and Chief Inspector Japp. -
Agatha Christie publishes Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on January 1, 1934, and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year under the title of Murder in the Calais Coach. The book features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. -
Agatha Christie publishes Three Act Tragedy
Three Act Tragedy is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US in 1934 under the title of Murder in Three Acts and in UK in January 1935 under Christie's original title. The book features Hercule Poirot and Mr. Satterthwaite. This is the one book in which Satterthwaite collaborates with Poirot. He previously appeared in the stories which feature Mr. Harley Quin, in particular those collected in The Mysterious Mr. Quin. -
Agatha Christie publishes Death in the Clouds
Death in the Clouds is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company on March 10 1935 under the title of Death in the Air and in UK by the Collins Crime Club in the July of the same year under Christie's original title. The book features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and Chief Inspector Japp. -
Agatha Christie publishes The A.B.C. Murders
The A.B.C. Murders is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie published on January 6, 1936. The book features the characters of Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings, and Chief Inspector Japp. The form of the novel is unusual, combining first and third-person narrative. Christie had previously experimented with this approach in her novel The Man in the Brown Suit. What's unusual in this book is that the third-person narrative is supposedly reconstructed by the first-person narrator. -
Agatha Christie publishes Murder in Mesopotamia
Murder in Mesopotamia is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published on July 6, 1936, and in the US by Dodd, Mead, and Company later in the same year. The book features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The novel is set at an archaeological excavation in Iraq, and descriptive details derive from the author's visit to the Royal Cemetery at Ur with her husband, Sir Max Mallowan, and other British archaeologists. -
Agatha Christie publishes Cards on the Table
Cards on the Table is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published on November 2, 1936. The book features the recurring characters of Hercule Poirot, Colonel Race, Superintendent Battle, and the bumbling crime writer Ariadne Oliver, making her first appearance in a Christie novel (she previously had a role in the Parker Pyne short story The Case of the Discontented Soldier). -
Agatha Christie publishes Dumb Witness
Dumb Witness is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published on July 5, 1937. The book features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and is the second to last Poirot novel (the last being 1975's Curtain: Poirot's Last Case) to be published that features Hastings as narrator. -
Agatha Christie publishes Appointment with Death
The book features the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot and reflects Christie's experiences travelling in the Middle East with her husband, the archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan. -
Agatha Christie publishes Hercule Poirot's Christmas
It was published in the US by Dodd, Mead, and Company in February 1939 under the title of Murder for Christmas. The book features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and is a locked room mystery. -
Agatha Christie publishes Murder Is Easy
Murder is Easy is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on June 5, 1939 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in September of the same year under the title of Easy to Kill. -
Agatha Christie publishes Then There Were None
And Then There Were None is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie 6 November 1939 in US by Dodd, Mead and Company in January 1940 under the title of And Then There Were None. It is Christie's best-selling novel with 100 million sales to date, making it the world's best-selling mystery and the seventh most popular book in all time. And Then There Were None has been adapted into several plays, films, and a video game. -
Agatha Christie publishes Sad Cypress
Sad Cypress is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in March of 1940. The novel is notable for being the first courtroom drama in the Poirot series. -
Agatha Christie publishes One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in November 1940 and in the US by Dodd, Mead, and Company in February 1941 under the title of The Patriotic Murders. It is one of several of Christie's crime fiction novels to feature both the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and Chief Inspector Japp. -
Agatha Christie publishes N or M?
N or M? is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1941 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in November of the same year. -
Agatha Christie publishes Evil Under the Sun
Evil Under the Sun is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in June 1941 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in October of the same year. -
Agatha begins her career as a playwright
Agatha begins work on Black Coffee. -
Agatha Christie publishes The Body in the Library
In her Author's Foreword, Agatha Christie describes "the body in the library" as a cliché of detective fiction. She states that when writing her own variation on this theme, she decided that the library should be a completely conventional one while the body would be a highly improbable and sensational one. For the most part, the novel is distinctly light-hearted in style, and even broadly comic in places, particularly in its portrayal of the idiosyncrasies of the British upper and lower classes. -
Agatha Christie publishes Five Little Pigs
Five Little Pigs is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in May 1942. The book features Hercule Poirot. The novel is notable as a rigorous attempt to demonstrate Poirot’s repeatedly stated contention that it is possible to solve a mystery purely by reflecting upon the testimony of the participants, and without access to the scene of the crime. -
Agatha Christie publishes The Moving Finger
The Moving Finger is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead, and Company in July 1942 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in June 1943. The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6). It features the elderly detective, Miss Marple, in a minor, deus ex machina-like role, appearing more than halfway through and in only a handful of scenes. -
Agatha Christie publishes Towards Zero
Before a murder is committed, events collude and juxtapose in such a fashion as to set up the scene of the crime; indeed, it is only a matter of time until the clock points towards zero and violent death occurs... -
Agatha Christie publishes Death Comes as the End
The quiet lives of an Egyptian family are disturbed when the father, Imhotep, returns from the North with his new concubine, Nofret, who begins to sow discontent amongst them. Once the deaths begin, fears are aroused of a curse upon the house, but is the killer closer to home? -
Agatha Christie publishes Sparkling Cyanide
Sparkling Cyanide is a work of detective fiction first published in the US by Dodd, Mead, and Company in February 1945 under the title of Remembered Death. The novel features the recurring character of Colonel Race for his last appearance to solve the mysterious deaths of a married couple, exactly one year apart. The plot of this novel expands the plot of a short story, Yellow Iris. -
Agatha Christie publishes The Hollow
On the morning that he and his downtrodden wife, Gerda, are due to travel down to the country to weekend with friends, John Christow allows his little daughter to tell his fortune with cards. When the death card is drawn, he pays no attention, but the appearance of an old flame at The Hollow seems to be the final link in a chain of fatal circumstances. -
Agatha Christie publishes Taken at the Flood
Taken at the Flood is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1948 under the title of There is a Tide and in UK by the Collins Crime Club in the November of the same year under Christie's original title. The US edition retailed at $2.50 and the UK edition at eight shillings and sixpence (8/6). It features her famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, and is set in 1946. -
Agatha Christie publishes Crooked House
Crooked House is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the US by Dodd, Mead, and Company in March 1949 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 23 May of the same year. The action takes place in and near London in the autumn of 1947. Christie said the titles of this novel and Ordeal by Innocence were her favorites amongst her own works. -
Agatha Christie publishes A Murder is Announced
A Murder is Announced is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in June 1950 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in the same month. The novel features her detective Miss Marple and is considered a crime novel classic. The book was heavily promoted upon publication in 1950 as being Christie's fiftieth book, although in truth this figure could only be arrived at by counting in both UK and US short story collections. -
Agatha Christie publishes They Came to Baghdad
They Came to Baghdad is a work of detective fiction Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on March 5, 1951 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The book was inspired by Christie's own trips to Baghdad with her second husband, archaeologist Max Mallowan and is also one of few Christie novels belonging to the action and spy drama genres, rather than to mysteries and whodunnits. -
Agatha Christie publishes They Do It with Mirrors
They Do It With Mirrors is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1952 under the title of Murder with Mirrors and in UK by the Collins Crime Club on November 17 in the same year under Christie's original title. The US edition retailed at $2.50 and the UK edition at ten shillings and sixpence (10/6). The book features her detective Miss Marple. -
Agatha Christie publishes Mrs McGinty's Dead
Mrs. McGinty's Dead is a work of detective fiction first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1952 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 3 March the same year. The novel features the characters Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver. The story is a "village mystery", a subgenre of whodunit which Christie usually reserved for Miss Marple. -
Agatha Christie publishes After the Funeral
After the Funeral is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in March 1953 under the title of Funerals are Fatal and in the UK on 18 May of the same year under Christie's original title. The book features the author's Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, but the Murder at the Gallop film adaptation instead featured her amateur sleuth, Miss Marple. -
Agatha Christie publishes A Pocket Full of Rye
A Pocket Full of Rye is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on November 9, 1953, and in the US by Dodd, Mead, and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at ten shillings and sixpence (10/6) and the US edition at $2.75. The book features her detective Miss Marple. -
Agatha Christie publishes Hickory Dickory Dock
Hickory Dickory Dock is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 31 October 1955 and in the US by Dodd, Mead, and Company in November of the same year under the title of Hickory Dickory Death. It features her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The novel is notable for featuring Poirot's efficient secretary, Miss Felicity Lemon, who had previously only appeared in the Poirot short stories. -
Agatha Christie publishes Destination Unknown
Destination Unknown is a work of spy fiction and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 1 November 1954 and in the US by Dodd, Mead, and Company in 1955 under the title of So Many Steps to Death. It is one of the five Christie novels to have not received an adaptation of any kind, the others being Death Comes as the End, Passenger to Frankfurt, They Came to Baghdad, and Postern of Fate. -
Agatha is awarded a CBE
Agatha is awarded a CBE, by the Queen in the New Years Honours list. CBE stands for Commander of the British Empire. -
Agatha Christie publishes Dead Man's Folly
Dead Man's Folly is a work of detective fiction first published in the US by Dodd, Mead, and Company in October 1956 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 5 November of the same year. It features Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver. -
Agatha Christie publishes 4.50 from Paddington
4.50 from Paddington is a detective fiction novel first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on November 4, 1957, and in the US by Dodd, Mead, and Company in the same month under the title of What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!. The UK edition retailed at twelve shillings and sixpence (12/6) and the US edition at $2.95. A paperback edition by Pocket Books in 1963 changed the title again to Murder, She Said to tie in with the feature film release. The novel features Miss Marple. -
Agatha Christie publishes Ordeal by Innocence
Ordeal by Innocence is a work of detective fiction first published on November 3 1958 and in the US by Dodd, Mead, and Company the following year. It is regarded by critics as one of the best of her later works and was also one of Christie's two favorites of her own novels, the other being Crooked House. The novel is also noted for being one of Christie's darkest works, alongside such classics as And Then There Were None, with a strong focus on the psychology of innocence. -
Agatha Christie publishes Cat Among the Pigeons
Cat Among the Pigeons is a work of detective fiction first published on 2 November 1959. It features Christie's Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, who makes a very late appearance in the final third of the novel. The emphasis on espionage in the early part of the story relates it to Christie's international adventures (such as They Came to Baghdad) and to the Tommy and Tuppence stories. -
Agatha Christie publishes The Pale Horse
The Pale Horse is a work of detective fiction first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on November 6, 1961. The novel features her novelist detective Ariadne Oliver as a minor character and reflects in tone the supernatural novels of Dennis Wheatley who was then at the height of his popularity. -
Agatha Christie publishes The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 12 November 1962 and in the US by Dodd, Mead, and Company in September 1963 under the shorter title of The Mirror Crack'd and with a copyright date of 1962. It is set in the fictional English village of St. Mary Mead and features Miss Marple. It was dedicated by Christie: "To Margaret Rutherford, in admiration." -
Agatha Christie publishes The Clocks
The Clocks is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 7 November 1963 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. It features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The UK edition retailed at sixteen shillings and the US edition at $4.50. -
Agatha Christie publishes A Caribbean Mystery
A Caribbean Mystery is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published on 16 November 1964 It features the detective Miss Marple.
Two reviewers at the time the novel was published said that Agatha Christie was returning to the top of her form. A critic writing in 1990 judged this plot to be standard fare for any writer who travels to the Caribbean and needs double duty out of a vacation. -
Agatha completes her autobiography
15 years after she first started writing it, Agatha completes her autobiography. It will be published after her death. -
Agatha Christie publishes At Bertram's Hotel
At Bertram's Hotel is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on November 15, 1965, and in the US by Dodd, Mead, and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at sixteen shillings and the US edition at $4.50. It features the detective Miss Marple. -
Agatha Christie publishes Third Girl
Third Girl is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in November 1966 and in the US by Dodd, Mead, and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at eighteen shillings and the US edition at $4.50. -
Agatha Christie publishes Endless Night
Endless Night is a crime novel by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 30 October 1967 and in the US by Dodd, Mead, and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at eighteen shillings and the US edition at $4.95. It was one of the favorites of her own works and received some of the warmest critical notices of her career upon publication. -
Agatha Christie publishes By the Pricking of My Thumbs
By the Pricking of My Thumbs is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in November 1968. It features her detectives Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Tommy and Tuppence are elderly in this work (they aged from novel to novel). The title of the book comes from Act 4, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's Macbeth when the second witch says: By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes. -
Agatha Christie publishes Hallowe'en Party
Hallowe'en Party is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie in November 1969. The novel features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the mystery novelist Ariadne Oliver, who begins the novel in attendance at a Hallowe'en party. A review at the time of publication and another 20 years later both felt this story was not one of Agatha Christie's best, "a disappointment", a novel littered with loose ends and unrealized characters. -
Agatha Christie publishes Passenger to Frankfurt
Passenger to Frankfurt: An Extravaganza is a spy novel by Agatha Christie first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club in September 1970. It was published to mark Christie's eightieth birthday and, by counting up both UK and US short-story collections to reach the desired total, was also advertised as her eightieth book. It is the last of her spy novels. -
Agatha Christie publishes Nemesis
Nemesis is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in November 1971 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. It was the last Miss Marple novel the author wrote, although not the last published. -
Agatha Christie publishes Elephants Can Remember
Elephants Can Remember is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in 1972. It features her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the recurring character Ariadne Oliver. This was the last novel to feature either character, although it was succeeded by Curtain: Poirot's Last Case, which had been written in the early 1940s but was published last. Elephants Can Remember concentrates on memory and oral testimony. -
Agatha Christie publishes Postern of Fate
Postern of Fate is a work of detective fiction first published in October of 1973. The book features her detectives Tommy and Tuppence Beresford and is the detectives' last appearance. It is the last novel Christie wrote, but not the last to be published as it was followed by two previously unpublished novels from 1940. It is one of only four Christie novels not to have received an adaptation of any kind, the others being Death Comes as the End, Destination Unknown, and Passenger to Frankfurt. -
Agatha Christie publishes Curtain
Curtain: Poirot's Last Case is a work of detective fiction first published in September 1975. The novel features Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings in their final appearances in Christie's works. It is a country house novel, with all the characters and the murder set in one house. Not only does the novel return the characters to the setting of her first but it reunites Poirot and Hastings, who last appeared together in Dumb Witness in 1937. It is the last published by Christie before her death. -
Agatha Christie publishes Sleeping Murder
Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple's Last Case is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1976. The book features Miss Marple. It was the last Christie novel, published posthumously, although not the last one Christie wrote featuring Miss Marple. The story is set in the 1930s, though written during the Second World War. She aids a young couple who choose to uncover events in the wife's past life, and not let sleeping murder lie -
Agatha Christie dies
Agatha dies at Winterbrook House aged 85.