Cozy Mystery List

A Guide to Cozy Mystery (and Other Favorite) Books, Movies, and TV

A Guide to Cozy Mystery (and Other Favorite) Books, Movies, and TV

Agatha Christie

Click here for a post I’ve written about Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple Mystery Series.

MISS MARPLE MYSTERIES:

Main Character: Miss Marple, Elderly Spinster
Location: St. Mary Mead, England

  1. Murder at the Vicarage    ‘30
  2. The Tuesday Club Murders   ’32 (aka: The Thirteen Problems) stories
  3. The Regatta Mystery    ‘39
  4. The Body in the Library     ’42
  5. The Moving Finger    ‘43
  6. A Murder is Announced     ‘50
  7. They Do It With Mirrors    ’52 (aka Murder with Mirrors)
  8. A Pocket Full of Rye    ‘53
  9. 4:50 from Paddington  ’57 (aka What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw)
  10. Double Sin & Other Stories   ‘61
  11. The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side    ’62  (aka The Mirror Crack’d)
  12. A Caribbean Mystery   ‘64
  13. At Bertram’s Hotel   ‘65
  14. Nemesis   ‘71
  15. Sleeping Murder   ‘76
  16. Miss Marple’s Final Cases   ‘79
  17. Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories ’85

HERCULE POIROT, Private Investigator Mysteries:

Location: England

  1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles    ‘20
  2. Murder on the Links    ‘23
  3. Poirot Investigates    ‘24
  4. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd    ‘26
  5. The Big Four     ‘27
  6. The Mystery of the Blue Train    ‘28
  7. The Under Dog and Other Stories   ’29
  8. Peril at End House    ‘32
  9. Lord Edgware Dies  ’33 (aka Thirteen at Dinner)
  10. Murder on the Orient Express    ‘34
  11. Three Act Tragedy   ’35 (aka Murder in Three Acts)
  12. Death in the Clouds    ’35 (aka Death in the Air)
  13. The A.B.C. Murders     ‘35 (aka The Alphabet Murders)
  14. Murder in Mesopotamia     ‘36
  15. Cards on the Table     ‘36
  16. Dumb Witness   ’37 (aka Poirot Loses a Client)
  17. Death on the Nile     ‘37
  18. Murder in the Mews  ’37 (aka Dead Man’s Mirror)
  19. Appointment With Death    ‘38
  20. Hercule Poirot’s Christmas ’38 (A Holiday for Murder & Murder for Christmas)
  21. The Regatta Mystery    ‘39  (aka Sparkling Cyanide & Remembered Death)
  22. Sad Cypress    ‘40
  23. One, Two Buckle My Shoe  ’40 (aka The Patriotic Murders  & An Overdose of Death)
  24. Evil Under the Sun    ‘41
  25. Five Little Pigs   ’43 (aka Murder in Retrospect)
  26. The Hollow   ’46 (aka Murder After Hours)
  27. The Labors of Hercules   ‘47
  28. Taken at the Flood  ‘48  (aka There is a Tide)
  29. The Witness for the Prosecution & Other Stories   ‘48
  30. The Underdog and Other Stories    ‘51
  31. Mrs. McGinty’s Dead    ‘52 (aka Blood Will Tell)
  32. After the Funeral   ‘53 (aka Funerals Are Fatal & Murder at the Gallop)
  33. Hickory, Dickory, Death    ‘55 (aka Hickory, Dickory, Death)
  34. Dead Man’s Folly    ‘56
  35. Cat Among the Pigeons    ‘59
  36. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding ’60…..CHRISTMAS
  37. Double Sin and Other Stories    ‘61
  38. The Clocks    ‘63
  39. Third Girl    ‘66
  40. Halloween Party     ‘69………………………..HALLOWEEN
  41. Elephants Can Remember    ‘72
  42. Hercule Poirot’s Early Cases    ‘74
  43. Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case    ‘75

TOMMY AND TUPPENCE MYSTERIES:

  1. The Secret Adversary   ‘22
  2. Partners in Crime   ‘22
  3. N or M?   ‘41
  4. By the Pricking of My Thumbs   ‘68
  5. Postern of Fate   ‘73

SUPERINTENDENT BATTLE SERIES:

  1. The Secret of Chimneys    ’25
  2. The Seven Dials Mystery    ’29
  3. Cards on the Table    ’36 (w/ Poirot)
  4. Murder is Easy    ’39 (aka Easy to Kill)
  5. Towards Zero   ’44

Mousetrap & Other Plays    ‘50

STAND ALONES:

(some are novels, others are stories)

The Love Detectives

The Christmas Tragedy

The Jewel Robbery

The Incredible Theft

The Man in the Brown Suit   ’24

The Mysterious Mr. Quin  ’30

The Sittaford Mystery   ’31 (aka The Murder at Hazelmoor)

Why Didn’t They Ask Evans   ’34 (aka Boomerang Clue)

Parker Pyne Investigates   ’34  (aka Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective)

The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories   ’39

And Then There Were None   ’39 (aka Ten Little Indians)

Murder Is Easy   ’39 (aka Easy to Kill)

Sparkling Cyanide    ’45  (aka Remember Death)

Death Comes as the End   ’45 (aka Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories)

Crooked House    ’49

Mousetrap & Other Plays    ‘50

They Came to Baghdad   ’51

Destination Unknown   ’54 (aka So Many Steps to Death)

Ordeal By Innocence   ’58

The Pale Horse     ’61

Endless Night   ’67

Passenger to Frankfurt   ’70

The Golden Ball and Other Stories   ’71

Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories   ’97

If you enjoy Agatha Christie and are all “caught up” with her mystery books: Authors Similar to Agatha Christie

I have highlighted a collection of DVDs that feature Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple as well as Hercule Poirot on the TV and Movies page.

I have posted an article called:  Dame Agatha Christie: Grande Dame of Cozy Mysteries

 

 

 

 

 

 

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