Agatha Christie books

Order the books Agatha Christie wrote by the year each was first published. You place all 32 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

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release years and dates
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How the Agatha Christie books timeline game works

The cards are Agatha Christie books, title only, and you order them by year of first publication. One book opens the timeline with its year visible. Each new card goes into the gap you choose among the books already placed. Pick well and its year is shown; pick wrong and the book still lands in its real place, costing one of three lives.

Christie published at a steady clip for her whole career, so the gaps are small and there are few big jumps to lean on. Poirot, Miss Marple, thrillers and standalones are spread throughout, so the detective won't date a book for you. Her peak years are especially crowded, and the late books are the ones few people can place.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 32 cards you might be dealt, with 4 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • The Mysterious Affair at Styles
  • Murder on the Links
  • The Man in the Brown Suit
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
  • The Big Four
  • The Mystery of the Blue Train
  • The Murder at the Vicarage
  • Murder on the Orient Express
  • Three Act Tragedy
  • Death in the Clouds
  • The A.B.C. Murders
  • Murder in Mesopotamia
  • Cards on the Table
  • Death on the Nile
  • Hercule Poirot's Christmas
  • Appointment with Death
  • And Then There Were None
  • Sad Cypress
  • Evil Under the Sun
  • The Body in the Library
  • Five Little Pigs
  • Crooked House
  • A Murder Is Announced
  • After the Funeral
  • 4.50 from Paddington
  • Cat Among the Pigeons
  • Elephants Can Remember
  • Curtain

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