52 Books: Agatha Christie Perpetual Challenge

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I've been thinking for quite some time that I would like to reread (and read for the first time a couple that I've missed) the mysteries of Agatha Christie. This year I'm going to commit to Robin's Agatha Christie Perpetual Challenge over at 52 Books. It's a low-pressure, on-going challenge that simply asks the challenger to read three novels per year. I'm going to try to read them in chronological order. I am modifying the original challenge a bit--I will only be reading Christie's work and only mysteries. I most definitely will NOT be reading Sophie Hannah's version of Poirot and it is unlikely that I will read those by Charles Osbourne. If his novelizations of Christie's actual work are readily available to me, then I might. But I do not consider them part of my commitment for the challenge.

2019
1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1/18/19)
2. The Secret Adversary (1/25/19)
3. Murder on the Links  (3/9/19)
Commitment Complete! Still Reading.
4. The Man in the Brown Suit  (4/13/19)
5. Poirot Investigates  (5/12/19)
6. The Secret of Chimneys  (6/6/19)

2020
7. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1/9/20)
8. The Big Four (2/27/20)
9. The Mystery of the Blue Train (3/1/20)
Commitment Complete! Still Reading.
10. The Clocks [audio version--out of order] (6/12/20)
11. The Seven Dials Mystery (6/14/20) 
12. Partners in Crime (6/24/20)
13. The Mysterious Mr. Quin (7/6/20)

14. Murder at the Vicarage (8/17/20)

15. Death on the Nile [audio version--out of order] (8/25/20)

16. The ABC Murders [out of order] (8/25/20)

17. Peril at End House (11/19/20)

18. The Sittaford Mystery (11/29/20)

19. Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories (12/3/20) [This covers The Thirteen Problems Collection--which I don't have.]

20. Thirteen at Dinner (12/18/220)

21. The Hound of Death (12/20/20)

2021

22. The Floating Admiral [Agatha Christie & the Detection Club] (1/17/21)

[list at challenge site also includes Ask a Policeman by Detection Club--but Agatha Christie did not contribute to that one, so I'm not rereading at this time.]

23. Murder in the Calais Coach [aka Murder on the Orient Express] (1/30/21)

Commitment Complete! Still Reading.

24. The Listerdale Mystery (2/7/21)

25. The Boomerang Clue [aka Why Didn't They Ask Evans?] (2/21/21)

26. Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective (3/8/21)

27. Murder in 3 Acts [aka Three Act Tragedy] (3/25/21)

28. Death in the Clouds (3/21/21)

29. Murder in Mesopotamia (5/26/21)

30. Evil Under the Sun (8/10/21)

31. Funerals Are Fatal [aka After the Funeral] (8/14/21)

32. The Patriotic Murders [aka One, Two, Buckle My Shoe] (8/17/21)

33. Cards on the Table (8/22/21)

34. Dumb Witness (9/9/21)

35. The Regatta Mystery (9/13/21) 

36. Appointment with Death (12/31/21)

37. "The Incredible Theft" (12/31/21)

2022

38. Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1/1/22)

39. Easy to Kill (1/7/22)

40. And Then There Were None (1/9/22)

Commitment Complete! Still Reading 

41. Sad Cypress (2/16/22)

42. Death Comes as the End (9/18/22)

43. N or M? (9/24/22)

44. Five Little Pigs (9/24/22)

45. The Pale Horse (10/31/22)

46. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (11/8/22)

2023

47. The Body in the Library (2/28/23)

48. The Moving Finger (3/1/23)

49. Towards Zero (3/5/23)

Commitment Complete!

50. A Murder Is Announced (3/17/23)

51. Cat Among the Pigeons (9/16/23)

52. Nemesis (9/25/23) [out of order]

2024

53.  The Hollow [aka Murder After Hours] (2/26/24)

54. There Is a Tide [aka Taken at the Flood] (1/14/24]

56.

Agatha Christie/Charles Osborne
The Unexpected Guest (10/17/19)