Order of Agatha Christie Books
Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was an English novelist who is best known for her detective novels featuring characters such as Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She has sold four billion novels altogether, making her the best-selling novelist of all time according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
Agatha Christie has been dubbed “The Queen of Crime,” having written 66 detective novels along with 14 short stories. Also to her credit are numerous West End Plays, television plays and radioplays. She also wrote six romance novels under the pseudonym of Mary Westmacott. Her work has been adapted into just about every medium imaginable – film, television, plays, video games and graphic novels. Without a doubt, Agatha Christie’s legacy lives on.
Below is a list of Agatha Christie’s novels in order of when they were originally published:
Publication Order of Hercule Poirot Books
The Mysterious Affair at Styles | (1920) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Murder on the Links | (1923) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Poirot Investigates | (1924) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | (1926) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Big Four | (1927) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Mystery of the Blue Train | (1928) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Black Coffee | (1930) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Peril at End House | (1932) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Lord Edgware Dies / Thirteen at Dinner | (1933) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Three Act Tragedy / Murder in Three Acts | (1934) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Murder on the Orient Express / Murder in the Calais Coach | (1934) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Death in the Clouds / Death in the Air | (1935) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The A.B.C. Murders | (1936) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Murder in Mesopotamia | (1936) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Cards on the Table | (1936) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Dumb Witness / Poirot Loses a Client | (1937) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Death on the Nile | (1937) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Murder in the Mews / Dead Man's Mirror | (1937) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Appointment with Death | (1938) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Hercule Poirot's Christmas / Holiday for Murder / Murder for Christmas | (1938) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Sad Cypress | (1940) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe / Overdose of Death | (1940) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Evil Under the Sun | (1941) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Five Little Pigs / Murder in Retrospect | (1942) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Hollow / Murder after Hours | (1946) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Taken at the Flood / There Is A Tide. | (1948) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Mrs. McGinty's Dead / Blood Will Tell | (1952) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
After the Funeral / Funerals are Fatal | (1953) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Hickory Dickory Dock | (1955) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Dead Man's Folly | (1956) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Cat Among the Pigeons | (1959) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding | (1960) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Clocks | (1963) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Third Girl | (1966) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Hallowe'en Party | (1969) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Elephants Can Remember | (1972) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Curtain | (1975) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly | (2013) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Publication Order of Hercule Poirot Short Stories/Novellas
The Adventure of the Cheap Flat | (1923) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The King of Clubs | (1923) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly | (1923) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman | (1923) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Veiled Lady | (1923) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Kidnapped Prime Minister | (1923) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Plymouth Express | (1923) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan | (1923) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor | (1923) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Affair at the Victory Ball | (1923) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Adventure of the Western Star | (1923) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb | (1923) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Submarine Plans | (1923) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Adventure of the Clapham Cook | (1923) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Lost Mine | (1923) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Lemesurier Inheritance | (1923) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Chocolate Box | (1925) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Double Sin | (1928) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Wasps' Nest | (1929) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Second Gong | (1932) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest | (1932) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
How Does Your Garden Grow? | (1935) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Poirot and the Regatta Mystery | (1936) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Yellow Iris | (1937) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Incredible Theft | (1937) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Dream | (1937) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Mystery of the Spanish Chest | (1960) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Afternoon at the Seaside | (1962) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Patient | (1962) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Witness for the Prosecution | (1983) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Four and Twenty Blackbirds | (1989) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Million Dollar Bond Robbery | (1998) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim | (2012) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Market Basing Mystery | (2013) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge | (2013) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Cornish Mystery | (2013) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Problem at Sea | (2013) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Under Dog | (2016) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Double Clue | (2019) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Case of the Missing Will | (2019) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Publication Order of Hercule Poirot Collections
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Publication Order of Miss Marple Books
The Murder at the Vicarage | (1930) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Body in the Library | (1942) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Moving Finger | (1942) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
A Murder is Announced | (1950) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
They Do It With Mirrors / Murder With Mirrors | (1952) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
A Pocket Full of Rye | (1953) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
4:50 From Paddington / What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw! | (1957) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side | (1962) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
A Caribbean Mystery | (1964) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
At Bertram's Hotel | (1965) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Nemesis | (1971) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Sleeping Murder | (1976) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Publication Order of Miss Marple Short Stories/Novellas
The Idol House of Astarte | (1928) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Ingots of Gold | (1928) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Motive v. Opportunity | (1928) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Thumb Mark of St. Peter | (1928) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Blue Geranium | (1929) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Herb of Death | (1930) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Miss Marple Tells a Story | (1934) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Case of the Caretaker | (1941) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Strange Jest | (1941) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Tape-Measure Murder | (1941) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Case of the Perfect Maid | (1942) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Sanctuary | (1954) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Greenshaw's Folly | (1956) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
A Christmas Tragedy | (2013) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Publication Order of Miss Marple Collections
The Thirteen Problems | (1932) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
13 Clues for Miss Marple | (1966) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Miss Marple's Final Cases | (1979) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories | (1985) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Miss Marple Short Stories | (2005) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Publication Order of Tommy and Tuppence Books
The Secret Adversary | (1922) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Partners in Crime | (1929) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
N or M? | (1941) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
By the Pricking of My Thumbs | (1968) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Postern of Fate | (1973) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Publication Order of Tommy & Tuppence Short Stories/Novellas
A Fairy in the Flat | (1929) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Affair of the Pink Pearl | (1929) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Man in the Mist | (1977) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The House of Lurking Death | (1995) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger | (2012) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Finessing the King | (2012) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Blindman's Buff | (2013) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Gentleman Dressed in Newspaper | (2013) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
A Pot of Tea | (2013) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Crackler | (2013) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Clergyman's Daughter/The Red House | (2013) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Ambassador's Boots | (2013) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Publication Order of Superintendent Battle Books
The Secret of Chimneys | (1925) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Seven Dials Mystery | (1929) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Cards on the Table | (1936) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Murder is Easy / Easy To Kill | (1939) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Towards Zero | (1944) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Publication Order of Colonel Race Books
The Man in the Brown Suit | (1924) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Cards on the Table | (1936) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Death on the Nile | (1937) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Sparkling Cyanide / Remembered Death | (1944) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Publication Order of Harley Quin Books
The Mysterious Mr. Quin | (1930) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Publication Order of Harley Quin Short Stories/Novellas
The Coming of Mr. Quin | (1924) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Shadow on the Glass | (1924) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Sign in the Sky | (1925) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
At the 'Bells and Motley' | (1926) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Soul of the Croupier | (1927) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The World's End | (1927) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Voice in the Dark | (1927) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Face of Helen | (1927) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Harlequin's Lane | (1927) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Dead Harlequin | (1929) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Man from the Sea | (1929) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Bird with the Broken Wing | (1930) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Love Detectives | (1993) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Publication Order of Parker Pyne Short Stories/Novellas
The Case of the Discontented Soldier | (1932) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Case of the City Clerk | (1932) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Case of the Distressed Lady | (1932) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Case of the Discontented Husband | (1932) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife | (1932) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The House at Shiraz | (1933) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Have You Got Everything You Want? | (1933) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Gate of Baghdad | (1933) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Oracle at Delphi | (1933) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Pearl of Price | (1933) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Case of the Rich Woman | (1934) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Giant Bread (As:Mary Westmacott) | (1930) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Sittaford Mystery / The Murder at Hazelmoor | (1931) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Unfinished Portrait (As:Mary Westmacott) | (1934) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? / The Boomerang Clue | (1934) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
And Then There Were None / Ten Little Indians | (1939) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Absent in the Spring (As:Mary Westmacott) | (1944) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Death Comes as the End | (1944) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Rose And The Yew Tree (As:Mary Westmacott) | (1947) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Crooked House | (1949) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
They Came to Baghdad | (1951) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
A Daughter's a Daughter (As: Mary Westmacott) | (1952) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Destination Unknown / So Many Steps to Death | (1954) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Burden (As:Mary Westmacott) | (1956) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Ordeal by Innocence | (1958) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Pale Horse | (1961) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Endless Night | (1967) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
13 at Dinner | (1969) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Passenger to Frankfurt | (1970) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Unexpected Guest (With: Charles Osborne) | (1999) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Accident | (1923) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Actress | (1923) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Red Signal | (1924) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Mystery of the Blue Jar | (1924) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl | (1924) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Philomel Cottage | (1924) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Wireless | (1925) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Within a Wall | (1925) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The House of Dreams | (1926) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Magnolia Blossom | (1926) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Lonely God | (1926) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Rajah's Emerald | (1926) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Edge | (1927) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Sing a Song of Sixpence | (1929) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Manx Gold | (1930) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Fourth Man | (1933) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Gipsy | (1933) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Manhood of Edward Robinson | (1934) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Three Blind Mice: A Novella | (1948) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Dressmaker's Doll | (1958) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Water Bus | (1965) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Jane in Search of a Job | (1974) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Girl in the Train | (1993) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
S.O.S. | (2013) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Lamp | (2013) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Call of Wings | (2013) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael | (2013) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
A Fruitful Sunday | (2013) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Swan Song | (2013) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Naughty Donkey | (2013) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
In the Cool of the Evening | (2013) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Island | (2013) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
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Publication Order of Plays
The Mousetrap | (1952) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Spider's Web | (1954) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Verdict | (1958) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Rats | (1962) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
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Publication Order of Anthologies
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror | (1931) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Floating Admiral | (1931) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Ask a Policeman | (1933) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Six Against the Yard | (1937) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
World's Great Mystery Stories | (1943) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction | (1948) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Nero Wolfe Mystery Magazine Volume 1 Number 1, January 1954 | (1954) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine July 1958 | (1958) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Nine Detective Stories | (1964) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Daring Detectives | (1969) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Women Writing | (1979) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Ghosts That Haunt You | (1980) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Seventeenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories | (1981) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Eighth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories | (1982) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Scoop and Behind the Screen | (1983) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Web She Weaves | (1983) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Murder in the Dark | (1983) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Spooky Tales | (1984) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Witches' Brew | (1984) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Handle with Care: Frightening Stories | (1985) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
English Country House Murders | (1988) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
English Crime Stories of Today | (1993) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Murder British Style | (1993) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Murder Intercontinental | (1996) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Win, Lose or Die | (1996) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Murder to Music | (1997) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Law and Order | (1997) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 | (1999) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Death Cruise: Crime Stories on the Open Seas | (1999) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Oxford Book of Detective Stories | (2000) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
A Century of British Mystery and Suspense | (2000) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Malice Domestic 9 | (2000) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Crime Never Pays | (2001) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Murder On The Railways | (2003) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction | (2004) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Books to Die For | (2012) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Bodies from the Library | (2019) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
The Agatha Christie Collection: 41 Works | (2020) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
Marple: Twelve New Mysteries | (2022) | Amazon.com | Amazon.fr |
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Notes: Agatha Christie novels have often been released under one or two other titles. For the most part, we have listed the original title (also the title the book is being sold under).
The novels Giant’s Bread, Unfinished Portrait, Absent in the Spring, The Rose and the Yew Tree, A Daughter’s a Daughter and The Burden are romance novels that Christie wrote under the pen name of Mary Westmacott. We have included them in the publication order along with Christie’s other standalone novels. Star Over Bethlehem and Other Stories is published as by Agatha Christie Mallowan.
The Monogram Murders is an authorized Hercule Poirot novel, written by Sophie Hannah.
When multiple recurring characters appear in an Agatha Christie novel, we have listed them under both characters.
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Agatha Christie Synopsis: In And Then There Were None, ten people are tricked into coming to an island. Despite the fact that nobody other than the ten are on the island, they are all picked off and murdered one by one. The novel has been adapted countless times as Ten Little Indians.
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6 Responses to “Order of Agatha Christie Books”
Angel: 5 years ago
Just a question if anyone knows. What are the differences between the “Publication Order of Hercule Poirot Books” and the “Publication Order of Hercule Poirot Collections”? The collection is like 4 books containg all the other individual stories (i.e like the comics that first publish issues and after that they publish one big collection book with all the issues of that cycle)? Reply
Graeme: 5 years ago
From looking at it it may be a mistake on our part – the “collections” may belong in the short story collections section. I’ve flagged that and will look at it next week. Reply
RollyPoley: 7 years ago
My mom gave me Murder for Christmas when I was in Grade School and lo these many years later I am still hooked on Agatha Christie. I have the leather bound Bantam Books Christie collection – one signed by David Suchet. He was playing in Amadeus in NYC and I caught him outside for a photo and autograph. I might add this was before Smart Phones! Reply
Okterp: 10 years ago
Agatha Christie also wrote a rarely mentioned mystery “Ahknaton” published in 1973. Under a pseudonym she wrote a few romances but I do not remember her pseudonym nor the books. Reply
Deoraide: 10 years ago
The pseudonym used by Agatha Christie was Mary Westmacott.
A web search will give you the full listing of books written by her under that name. Reply
Brando: 13 years ago
After watching the David Suchet “Poirot” series, I decided to start reading Agatha Christie. I went to the library and took out every book of hers I could find. They were all very much worth the reads mostly due to the character interaction (rather than the mysteries themselves). I find Poirot hilarious, although I wouldn’t recommend The Big Four as he turns into sort of a “Bizzaro World” James Bond. I also enjoy some of her standalone mysteries like And Then There Were None and Endless Night. Classic reads! Reply