Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie Two of her novels were written at the height of her career, but held back until after her death: they were the last cases of Poirot and Miss Marple. In the final Poirot novel Curtain, Christie killed her creation and explained in her diary that she had always found him insufferable. She had a great fondness for Miss Marple however, as she had based her characterisation largely on her own grandmother, so she allowed Miss Marple to solve one more mystery in Sleeping Murder and return to the solitude of her village. Works 1920 The Mysterious Affair at Styles (her first book, which introduced Hercule Poirot, Chief Inspector Japp and Captain Hastings) 1922 The Secret Adversary (introduced Tommy and Tuppence) 1923 Murder on the Links 1924 The Man in the Brown Suit 1924 Poirot Investigates (eleven short stories) 1925 The Secret of Chimneys 1926 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 1927 The Big Four 1928 The Mystery of the Blue Train 1929 Partners in Crime (fifteen short stories) 1929 The Seven Dials Mystery 1930 The Murder at the Vicarage (introduced Jane Marple) 1930 The Mysterious Mr. Quin (introduced Mr. Harley Quin, short stories) 1931 The Sittaford Mystery 1932 Peril at End House 1933 The Hound of Death (twelve short mysteries) 1933 Lord Edgware Dies 1933 The Thirteen Problems (thirteen short mysteries) 1934 Murder on the Orient Express 1934 Parker Pyne Investigates (twelve short mysteries) (introduced Parker Pyne and Ariadne Oliver) 1934 The Listerdale mystery (twelve short mysteries) 1935 Three Act Tragedy 1935 Why Didn't They Ask Evans? 1935 Death in the Clouds (first published as Death in the Air) 1936 The A.B.C. Murders 1936 Murder in Mesopotamia 1936 Cards on the Table 1937 Death on the Nile 1937 Dumb Witness 1937 Murder in the Mews (Four short stories: Murder in the Mews, The Incredible Theft, Dead Man's Mirror, Triangle at Rhodes.) 1938 Appointment with Death 1939 And Then There Were None (first published as Ten Little Niggers, also known as Ten Little Indians) 1939 Murder is Easy 1939 Hercule Poirot's Christmas 1939 Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (Nine short stories) 1940 Sad Cypress 1941 Evil Under the Sun 1941 N or M? 1941 One, Two, Buckle My Shoe 1942 The Body in the Library 1942 Five Little Pigs (also known as Murder in Retrospect) 1942 The Moving Finger 1944 Towards Zero 1944 Sparkling Cyanide 1945 Death Comes as the End 1946 The Hollow 1947 The Labours of Hercules (twelve short mysteries featuring Hercule Poirot) 1948 There is a Tide (also known as Taken at the Flood) 1948 Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories 1949 Crooked House 1950 A Murder is Announced 1950 Three Blind Mice and Other Stories 1951 They Came to Baghdad 1951 The Under Dog and Other Stories (Nine short stories) 1952 Mrs McGinty's Dead 1952 They Do It with Mirrors 1953 A Pocket Full of Rye 1953 After the Funeral (also known as Funerals are Fatal) 1955 Hickory Dickory Dock (also known as Hickory Dickory Death) 1955 Destination Unknown 1956 Dead Man's Folly 1957 4.50 from Paddington (also known as What Mrs. McGillycuddy Saw!) 1957 Ordeal by Innocence 1959 Cat Among the Pigeons 1960 The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (Six short stories) 1961 The Pale Horse 1962 The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side 1963 The Clocks 1964 A Caribbean Mystery 1965 At Bertram's Hotel 1966 Third Girl 1967 Endless Night 1968 By the Pricking of My Thumbs 1969 Hallowe'en Party 1970 Passenger to Frankfurt 1971 Nemesis 1971 The Golden Ball and Other Stories (Fifteen short stories) 1972 Elephants Can Remember 1973 Akhnaton - A play in three acts 1973 Postern of Fate (final Tommy and Tuppence, last novel Christie wrote) 1974 Poirot's Early Cases (eighteen short mysteries) 1975 Curtain (Poirot's last case, written four decades earlier) 1976 Sleeping Murder (Miss Marple's last case, written four decades earlier) 1979 Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories 1997 While the Lights Last and Other Stories