THERE'S ALWAYS PRICE TAG BY JAMES HADLEY CHASE | M.A RAHAT

AGATHA CHRISTIE

INTRODUCATION:

اگاتھا کرسٹی

اگاتھا کرسٹی دنیا کی سب سے مشہور اسرار مصنفہ ہیں۔ اس کی کتابوں کی انگریزی زبان میں ایک ارب سے زیادہ کاپیاں اور 44 غیر ملکی زبانوں میں ایک بلین کاپیاں فروخت ہو چکی ہیں۔ وہ کسی بھی زبان میں اب تک کی سب سے زیادہ شائع ہونے والی مصنفہ ہیں، جو صرف بائبل اور شیکسپیئر نے فروخت کی ہیں۔

اس کا تحریری کیریئر نصف صدی سے زیادہ پر محیط ہے، اس دوران اس نے 80 ناول اور مختصر کہانی کے مجموعے لکھے، ساتھ ہی 14 ڈرامے بھی لکھے، جن میں سے ایک، دی ماؤس ٹریپ، تاریخ کا سب سے طویل عرصے تک چلنے والا ڈرامہ ہے۔ اس کے تخلیق کردہ کرداروں میں سے دو، شاندار بیلجیئم ہرکیول پائروٹ اور ناقابل تلافی اور بے لگام مس مارپل، عالمی شہرت یافتہ جاسوس بن گئے۔ دونوں کو فیچر فلموں اور ٹی وی کے لیے بنائی گئی فلموں میں بڑے پیمانے پر ڈرامائی شکل دی گئی ہے۔

اگاتھا کرسٹی نے میری ویسٹ میکوٹ کے تخلص سے رومانوی ناول بھی لکھے۔ اس کے ساتھ ساتھ، اس نے چار غیر افسانوی کتابیں لکھیں جن میں ایک سوانح عمری اور بہت سی مہمات کا ایک دل لگی اکاؤنٹ ہے جو اس نے اپنے ماہر آثار قدیمہ کے شوہر، سر میکس مالون کے ساتھ شیئر کیں۔

                                        اگاتھا کرسٹی کا انتقال 1976 میں ہوا۔      

Hercule Poirot

1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
2. The Murder on the Links (1923)
3. Poirot Investigates (1924)
4. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
5. The Big Four (1927)
6. The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
7. Black Coffee (1930)
8. Peril at End House (1932)
9. Lord Edgware Dies (1933)
aka Thirteen at Dinner
10. Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
aka Murder in the Calais Coach
11. Three Act Tragedy (1934)
aka Murder in Three Acts
12. Death in the Clouds (1935)
aka Death in the Air
13. The ABC Murders (1936)
14. Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
15. Cards on the Table (1936)
16. Dumb Witness (1937)
aka Poirot Loses a Client
17. Death on the Nile (1937)
18. Murder in the Mews (1937)
19. Appointment with Death (1938)
20. Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1938)
aka A Holiday for Murder / Murder for Christmas
21. Sad Cypress (1940)
22. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1940)
aka An Overdose of Death / The Patriotic Murders
23. Evil Under the Sun (1941)
24. Five Little Pigs (1942)
aka Murder in Retrospect
25. The Hollow (1946)
aka Murder after Hours
26. The Labours of Hercules (1947)
27. Taken at the Flood (1948)
aka There Is a Tide
28. Mrs McGinty's Dead (1952)
aka Blood Will Tell
29. After the Funeral (1953)
aka Funerals Are Fatal
30. Hickory Dickory Dock (1955)
31. Dead Man's Folly (1956)
32. Cat Among the Pigeons (1959)
33. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960)
34. The Clocks (1963)
35. Third Girl (1966)
36. Hallowe'en Party (1969)
aka A Haunting in Venice
37. Elephants Can Remember (1972)
38. Poirot's Early Cases (1974)
aka Hercule Poirot's Early Cases
39. Curtain (1975)
The Underdog (1994)
The Complete Ariadne Oliver: Volume 2 (2005)
The Complete Ariadne Oliver (2005)
Hercule Poirot: the Complete Short Stories (2008)

 

Tommy and Tuppence

1. The Secret Adversary (1922)
2. Partners in Crime (1929)
3. N or M? (1941)
4. By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968)
5. Postern of Fate (1973)

Short Stories

The Adventure of the Cheap Flat (1923)
The Lemesurier Inheritance (1923)
The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge (1923)
The Adventure of the 'Western Star' (1924)
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb (1924)
The Case of the Missing Will (1924)
Philomel Cottage (2011)
Poirot and the Regatta Mystery (2011)
Sanctuary (2011)
Strange Jest (2011)
Tape Measure Murder (2011)
The Case of the Caretaker (2011)
The Case of the Missing Lady (2011)
The Case of the Perfect Maid (2011)
The Dead Harlequin (2011)
The Dream (2011)
The Gate of Baghdad (2011)
The House at Shiraz (2011)
The Man in the Mist (2011)
The Mystery of the Spanish Chest (2011)
The Rajah's Emerald (2011)
The Red Signal (2011)
The Second Gong (2011)
Yellow Iris (2011)
Mr Eastwood's Adventure (2012)
Finessing the King (2012)
Ingots of Gold (2012)
Jane in Search of a Job (2012)
Motive v. Opportunity (2012)
The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger (2012)
The Affair of the Pink Pearl (2012)
The Case of the Discontented Soldier (2012)
The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife (2012)
The Coming of Mr Quin (2012)
The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim (2012)
The Idol House of Astarte (2012)
The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan (2012)
The Kidnapped Prime Minister (2012)
The King of Clubs (2012)
The Manhood of Edward Robinson (2012)
The Mystery of the Blue Jar (2012)
The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl (2012)
The Plymouth Express (2012)
The Shadow on the Glass (2012)
The Thumb Mark of St Peter (2012)
The Tragedy of Marsdon Manor (2012)
A Christmas Tragedy (2013)
Greenshaw's Folly (2013)
Miss Marple Tells a Story (2013)
The Blue Geranium (2013)
The Companion (2013)
The Herb of Death (2013)
Double Sin (2013)
How Does Your Garden Grow? (2013)
Problem at Sea (2013)
The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly (2013)
The Adventure of the Clapham Cook (2013)
The Incredible Theft (2013)
The Market Basing Mystery (2013)
The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest (2013)
The Submarine Plans (2013)
The Third-Floor Flat (2013)
Wasps' Nest (2013)
A Fairy in the Flat (2013)
A Pot of Tea (2013)
Blindman's Buff (2013)
The Ambassador's Boots (2013)
The Clergyman's Daughter / The Red House (2013)
The Crackler (2013)
The Gentleman Dressed in Newspaper (2013)
The Unbreakable Alibi (2013)
Accident (2013)
In a Glass Darkly (2013)
S.O.S (2013)
Sing a Song of Sixpence (2013)
The Call of Wings (2013)
The Dressmaker's Doll (2013)
The Fourth Man (2013)
The Gipsy (2013)
The Lamp (2013)
The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael (2013)
Wireless (2013)
At the 'Bells and Motley' (2013)
Harlequin's Lane (2013)
Have You Got Everything You Want? (2013)
The Bird with the Broken Wing (2013)
The Case of the City Clerk (2013)
The Case of the Discontented Husband (2013)
The Case of the Distressed Lady (2013)
The Case of the Rich Woman (2013)
The Face of Helen (2013)
The Man from the Sea (2013)
The Oracle at Delphi (2013)
The Pearl of Price (2013)
The Regatta Mystery (2013)
The Sign in the Sky (2013)
The Soul of the Croupier (2013)
The Voice in the Dark (2013)
The World's End (2013)
A Fruitful Sunday (2013)
Magnolia Blossom (2013)
Manx Gold (2013)
Next to a Dog (2013)
Swan Song (2013)
The Actress (2013)
The Edge (2013)
The Girl in the Train (2013)
The House of Dreams (2013)
The Lonely God (2013)
Within a Wall (2013)
In the Cool of the Evening (2013)
Promotion in the Highest (2013)
The Island (2013)
The Naughty Donkey (2013)
The Water Bus (2013)
The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman (2014)
The Chocolate Box (2014)
The Veiled Lady (2014)
Christmas Adventure (2014)
Murder in the Mews (2014)
While the Lights Last (2014)
The Cornish Mystery (2014)
The Lost Mine (2014)
The Double Clue (2016)

Colonel Race

1. The Man in the Brown Suit (1924)
2. Death on the Nile (1937)
3. Sparkling Cyanide (1944) aka Remembered Death

Superintendent Battle

1. The Secret of Chimneys (1925)
2. The Seven Dials Mystery (1929)
3. Cards on the Table (1936)
4. Murder Is Easy (1939) aka Easy to Kill
5. Towards Zero (1944)

Miss Marple

1. The Murder at the Vicarage (1930)
Death By Drowning (1932)
The Thirteen Problems (1932) aka The Tuesday Club Murders
2. The Body in the Library (1942)
3. The Moving Finger (1942)
4. Sleeping Murder (1976)
5. A Murder Is Announced (1950)
6. They Do It with Mirrors (1952) aka Murder with Mirrors
7. A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)
8. 4.50 from Paddington (1957) aka What Mrs McGillicuddy Saw
9. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1961)
10. A Caribbean Mystery (1964)
11. At Bertram's Hotel (1965)
12. Nemesis (1971)
13 Clues for Miss Marple (1977)
Miss Marple's Final Cases (1979)
Miss Marple and Mystery (2008)

Quin and Satterthwaite

The Mysterious Mr Quin (1930)
The Love Detectives (1993)

Parker Pyne

Parker Pyne Investigates (1934) aka Mr. Parker Pyne: Detective

Novels

Giant's Bread (1930) (as by Mary Westmacott)
The Sittaford Mystery (1931) aka Murder at Hazelmoor
Unfinished Portrait (1934) (as by Mary Westmacott)
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1935) aka The Boomerang Clue
And then there were None (1939) aka Ten Little Indians
Absent in the Spring (1944) (as by Mary Westmacott)
Death Comes as the End (1944)
The Rose and the Yew Tree (1948) (as by Mary Westmacott)
Crooked House (1949)
They Came to Baghdad (1951)
A Daughter's a Daughter (1952) (as by Mary Westmacott)
Destination Unknown (1954) aka So Many Steps to Death
The Burden (1956) (as by Mary Westmacott)
Ordeal by Innocence (1958)
The Pale Horse (1961)
Endless Night (1967)
Passenger to Frankfurt (1970)
The Unexpected Guest (2008) (with Charles Osborne)

Collections

The Road of Dreams (poems) (1924)
The Hound of Death (1933)
The Sunningdale Mystery (1933)
The Listerdale Mystery (1934)
Star Over Bethlehem (1965) (as by Agatha Christie Mallowan)
The Golden Ball (1972)
Poems (poems) (1973)
The Mousetrap and Other Plays (1981)
Surprise! Surprise! (1983)
Miss Marple (1985)
Problem at Pollensa Bay (1992)
While the Light Lasts (1994)
The Harlequin Tea Set (1997)
Classic Detective Stories From a Suitcase of Suspense (1999) (with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jacques Futrelle, Frank Gruber and Stuart Palmer)
Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (2000)
The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (2004)
The Red Signal and Other Stories (2005)
Murders to Die For (2005)
Masterpieces in Miniature (2005)
Detectives and Young Adventurers (2008)
The Last Seance (2013)
Midwinter Murder (2020)
Midsummer Mysteries (2021)
A Deadly Affair (2022)
Marple (2022) (with Naomi Alderman, Leigh Bardugo, Alyssa Cole, Lucy Foley, Elly Griffiths, Natalie Haynes, Jean Kwok, Val McDermid, Karen M McManus, Dreda Say Mitchell, Kate Mosse and Ruth Ware)
Sinister Spring (2023)
Autumn Chills (2023)

Plays

The Mousetrap (1950) aka Three Blind Mice
Spider's Web (1956)
Verdict (1958)
Akhnaton (1973)

Novellas and Short Stories

The Million Dollar Bond Robbery (1924)

Non fiction

   Come, Tell Me How You Live (1975) (as by Agatha Christie Mallowan)

   Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime (1977) (with H R F Keating)

   An Autobiography (1977)

 

Other editions

  

The Second Crime Club Omnibus Volume (1932) (with A Fielding, John Rhode and Victor L Whitechurch)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles and the Secret Adversary (1988)
Bound to Talk (2002)
Seven Deadly Sins (2004)
Agatha Christie Crime Pack (2004)
The Early Years (2007)
The Mary Westmacott Collection Volume Two (2012) (as by Mary Westmacott)
The Murder on the Links / Murder on the Orient Express (2020)
Poirot Investigates / The Body in the Library (2020)
The Secret Adversary / And Then There Were None (2020)
The Man in the Brown Suit / Crooked House (2020)
The Secret of Chimneys / A Murder is Announced (2020)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd / The Hollow Bundle (2022)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles / Five Little Pigs Bundle (2022)
The Secret Adversary / N or M? (2022)
The Man in the Brown Suit / They Came to Baghdad Bundle (2022)
Murder on the Links / After the Funeral Bundle (2022)
Poirot Investigates / Murder in the Mews Bundle (2022)

Other Series

The Big Book of Detective Stories
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 2nd Series (1931)
The Mystery Book (1934)
The Great Book of Humour (1935)
The Great Book of Thrillers (1935)
The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936)
The 2nd Pan Book of Horror Stories (1960)
The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1966)
The 2nd Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1967)
Ten Tales of Detection (1967)
Daring Detectives (1969)
The 8th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1972)
The Hounds of Hell (1974)
The 17th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1981)
Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction (1983)
Witches' Brew (1984)
Realms of Darkness (1985)
Into the Mummy's Tomb (1989)
The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1998)

 The Double Clue (2016)

Short stories

Accident
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding [short story]
The Affair at the Bungalow
The Apples of the Hesperides
The Arcadian Deer
The Augean Stables
The Bloodstained Pavement
The Blue Geranium
The Call of Wings
The Capture of Cerberus
The Case of the Caretaker
The Case of the City Clerk
The Case of the Discontented Soldier
The Case of the Discontented Husband
The Case of the Distressed Lady
The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife
The Case of the Perfect Maid
A Christmas Tragedy
The Companion
The Cretan Bull
Dead Man's Mirror
Death on the Nile [short story]
The Dream
The Dressmaker's Doll
The Erymanthian Boar
The Flock of Geryon
The Four Suspects
Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds
The Fourth Man
A Fruitful Sunday
The Gate of Baghdad
The Gipsy
The Girdle of Hyppolita
The Girl in the Train
The Golden Ball [short story]
Greenshaw's Folly
The Gypsy
Have You Got Everything You Want?
The Herb of Death
The Horses of Diomedes
The House at Shiraz
The Idol House of Astarte
In a Glass Darkly
The Incredible Theft
Ingots of Gold
Jane in Search of a Job
The Last Seance
The Lernean Hydra
The Listerdale Mystery [short story]
The Manhood of Edward Robinson
Miss Marple Tells a Story
Motive v Opportunity
Mr Eastwood's Adventure
Murder in the Mews [short story]
The Mystery of the Blue Jar
The Mystery of the Spanish Chest
The Nemean Lion
The Oracle at Delphi
The Pearl of Price
Philomel Cottage
The Rajah's Emerald
The Red Signal
Sanctuary
Sing a Song of Sixpence
SOS
Srtrange Jest
The Stymphalean Birds
Swan Song
Tape-Measure Murder
The Thumb-Mark of St Peter
Triangle at Rhodes
The Tuesday Night Club
Wireless
The Witness for the Prosecution
The Adventure of the Clapham Cook (1923)
The Adventure of 'The Western Star' (1924)
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb (1924)
The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman (1924)
The Case of the Missing Will (1924)
The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim (1924)
The Hound of Death [short story] (1924)
The Jewel Robbery at the 'Grand Metropolitan' (1924)
The Kidnapped Prime Minister (1924)
The Lamp (1924)
The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge (1924)
The Tragedy of Marsdon Manor (1924)
The Under Dog (1929)
At the 'Bells and Motley' (1930)
The Bird with the Broken Wing (1930)
The Coming of Mr Quin (1930)
The Dead Harlequin (1930)
The Face of Helen (1930)
Harlequin's Lane (1930)
The Man from the Sea (1930)
The Shadow on the Glass (1930)
The Sign in the Sky (1930)
The Soul of the Croupier (1930)
The Voice in the Dark (1930)
The World's End (1930)
The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael (1933)

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