Bantam Books Agatha Christie Collection (2025)

• MissQuin

  January 2014

  I don't know the answer to the question, but I wish to welcome you to the site!

• The_Rickster_33

  January 2014

  Hi Alex,

  I have been looking to complete the entire collection myself, and after some extensive research and help from some friends, I have come across a list of books from this collection. There are some missing (that I have discovered), but the entire works are there, including the alternate titles. I can send you the file if you'd like. I believe there are 125 books in total, a set of bookends and a medallion. The 125 includes alternate titles and all publications, which includes same titles, but different years and the engagement diaries/calendars.

  Best of luck on your search,

  Ricky

• AlexBarry Wisconsin, United States

  January 2014

  Hello Rickster and thanks for the offer of help. I finally did come up with some information on my own, which amounted to a list of 113 titles and 12 alternate titles, so it would seem your list and mine match numerically. As it happens, I need to find and purchase something like 16 volumes to complete my collection, exclusive of the alternate titles which I'll not go after. There are some sellers on eBay and elsewhere who seem to have ready supplies of most of the titles I need, at usually modest prices. I propose to gradually add to my collection as opportunity presents. I wish you well with your similar quest!

• MelGard79 New Jersey, United States

  February 2014

  @the_rickster_33 would you please send me the file with the list of all 125 books? I believe I only need 5 more to complete the set, but would like to be sure. Thank youMelissa

• MaryMartinez

  February 2014

  I would be very appreciative if someone could send me a complete list of all of the 125 books. I have most of them, but there may be some I still need. Since I do not what all the titles are, I may be missing some.

  Thanks for any help you can give me.
  Mary

• JulieNichols

  February 2014

  Hello

  I am also new to this website and also would really appreciate a list of the 125 books in this collection. Like others before me, I am not sure which I am missing!

  Thank you,

  Julie

• katrina.poston.9

  March 2014

  I don't have a list. However, my aunt passed away recently and I now have about 65 of these. If anyone is interested in purchasing a particular title, please let me know. She NEVER read them. They were for display only and are like brand new.

• AlexBarry Wisconsin, United States

  March 2014

  Mary, Julie and Katrina, I have what I believe to be a definitive list of titles in the series. 113 originals and 12 re-titled versions of some of the same stories. I have them in an Excel spreadsheet, which can be sorted into alphabetical or chronological order. If any of you would still like a copy, please message me privately with an email address and I'll be delighted to send it to you.

  Katrina, there are half a dozen or so titles I still need. I'll send you a message with my list, in case any are among your Auntie's collection and you'd like to negotiate a sale. Thank you!

• Laura Ann

  March 2014

  Hello Fellow Christie Fans!

  I, too, have a collection of these Bantam Books. I remember seeing an ad for the series in a magazine when they were new, but they weren't in my budget at the time and I sadly had to pass. Luckily, I was able to pick up a set on Craigslist quite cheaply a few years ago. (Slightly musty unfortunately, but you can't have everything.) I'm really surprised to learn that there are so many titles in this series! I own 83 of these books and had been under the impression that I was missing four (The Harlequin Tea St, The Unexpected Guest, Star Over Bethlehem, and Black Coffee), but it sounds like there are still others. How many Mary Westmacott books are there? (I own Absent in the Spring) How many are short story collections that contain repeats? (By the way, The Listerdale Mystery and The Hound of Death are both short stories included in "The Golden Ball and Other Stories.") Personally, I only need one copy of a book with multiple titles. Also, I'm not going to bother with Black Coffee because I thought it was dreadful, clearly not written by Christie.

  My one complaint with the Bantam editions is that they often exclude the Cast of Characters in the front. I always found those to be helpful. But it's so nice to have a matched set, and whenever I am in the mood to read any particular book of Dame Agatha's, it is right there at my fingertips.

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• AlexBarry Wisconsin, United States

  March 2014

  Hi Laura Ann, and welcome to the discussion! If you have 83 volumes, I believe you have the majority of the titles. Many of the volumes, as pointed out, are retitled editions of the same books, and 12 others are actually reissues by the Literary Express imprint. It's a bit of a muddle trying to figure out exactly what one needs to assure a complete collection, but I daresay you're well on the way.

  As I mentioned above, I managed to put together a spreadsheet of the volumes, and it also references the alternate titles and the reissued editions. You're welcome to it if you care to message me with contact information.

  I can't say right offhand how many are short story collections, but as you know, many are. I've had some success in sorting through everything by searching titles on Wikipedia, where a pretty authoritative body of information is available. I believe with Absent in the Spring you have the only Mary Westmacott title in the collection.

  Funny what you say about Black Coffee. It must be an exceptionally scarce title in the collection, because I have seen it rarely available for purchase, and always at exceedingly high prices.

  I agree that inclusion of the cast of characters would be a benefit. I do not know if Dame Agatha's other publishers did that consistently, or indeed if she wrote such a list for each book, but every now and then one gets a cast roster at the beginning of a story, but most times not. Also I find it odd that I have found one volume so far that included footnoted translations of Messr Poirot's French words and phrases, but that one book was certainly the exception to the rule.

• Laura Ann

  March 2014

  Hi Alex,

  I would love a copy of the spreadsheet--I will send you a message.

  Perhaps I am remembering Cast of Characters as being more common than they actually were. I just looked at a couple of my old paperback editions and none of them have one.

  You just jogged my memory about the footnoted translations. I do remember seeing that before, but as you say, that was not the norm. When I first started reading Christie, I hadn't taken French yet and I remember always being frustrated by the French phrases, but later I did take French in college, partly so that I could understand those passages! It turned out that they really aren't integral to the story, but they do add some color and character.

  I have been methodically rereading all of Christie's books, even the ones that aren't my favorites (such as Passenger to Frankfort) and am enjoying reacquainting myself with stories long forgotten.

• cindy.kennedy.10420

  April 2014 edited April 2014

  I too would like the spreadsheet of the complete list but I'm new to this and don't know how to access your email. I recently purchased a set of 73 of these books and would like to know what I need to finish the collection. Thanks for any help you can give me.

  I just figured out how to send you a message which I just did. Thanks

• AlexBarry Wisconsin, United States

  April 2014

  Hello again everyone. Some members here have requested a copy of my spreadsheet, which I'm delighted to share. So far Laura Ann, Cindy.Kennedy and a third member have all privately contacted my inbox here and left an email address. If anyone else is interested in the list, please do the same, and as soon as I find your message I'll dispatch the list to you.

• AmyW

  May 2014

  Hi. Does anyone know if the Bantam collection included these four titles:

  Poirot's Early Cases

  Spider's Web

  The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

  The Floating Admiral

  Istarted witha list of hercomplete anthology because I didn't know whatall Bantam hadprinted. My listhas 118 titles of which26 are alternate titles, so 92 books - excludingthe duplicate UK vs US titles. Of that 92, I have 88 and I'm trying to figure outif the other4 (above) were released by Bantam or not. (My list of 118excludes the Engagement books, it's just Christie's works, including her Autobiography.)

  Thank you.

• shifra.shomron

  May 2014

  @Laura_Ann, that is brilliant that your book had footnoted translations of the French expressions. I've never taken French and only figured out a few of those... what publisher did that?

• AlexBarry Wisconsin, United States

  May 2014

  AmyW, by my reckoning, the Bantam collection does include The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, but I do not believe the other three titles you mention are in the anthology collection, at least by those titles.

• AmyW

  May 2014

  Thank you!

• Felix the Cat

  June 2014

  I tried to

  AlexBarry said:

  If any of you would still like an Excel spreadsheet copy [Bantam Books Agatha Christie Collection], please message me . . .

  I'd like to get the list, but whenever I try to send a message to anyone here . . .the email ends up in my INBOX. . . not in the SENT (if something like that exist here) . . .

• sharon.bryan.739

  June 2014

  All I can say about the Bantam Collection is that I bought them--one at a time--back in the 1980s and I believe into the 1990s on the installment plan. I have a total of 85 books in my collection, and at one time I had the daily diary, too. I was under the impression that I purchased the entire collection. I have no repeats published under different titles.

• matt.oatten

  July 2014

  Dear Alex,

  I would love to get the excel sheet that you have but I am not sure how to send messages on here. I need to get that list somehow please.

• RickAzziz Georgia, United States

  August 2014

  Alex and AmyW

  Hi. I am new to this site, but an old fan. Like AmyW, I have 88 books inmy Bantam leatherette collection, which includes the 66 mystery books, the 14 shortcollections published in the US, and 8 other books (3 plays: 'Black Coffee','Akhnaton: a Play in Three Acts', and 'The Unexpected Guest'; a book of 'Poems'; twobooks under her full name as Agatha Christie Mallowan: 'Star Over Bethlehemand other stories', and 'Come, Tell Me How You Live'; one as Mary Westmacott: 'Absentin the Spring', and her 'Autobiography'). Have the bookends, but none of the dailyplanners (and not sure need/want them). Don’t have any repeats (but as I ammissing 'Murder in the Mews' which was published in the UK, am missing the story “TheGreat Theft”).

  Like Matt I would like to get copies of yourspreadsheets listing all the books published in the Bantam Mystery Collectionthat you know of. Presumably the larger list will include books published in theUK and territories under different names, and story collections that overlapwith those published in the US. Triedcontacting you both directly thru the site but doesn't look like I was successful.

  Thanks!

  Rick

• gregory nassif st. john

  August 2014

  is it possible to get a copy of the excel spreadsheet of the 125 titles of the bantam blue/leatherette agatha christie collection?

• MUSICMAN1974

  October 2014

  I am looking to obtain about 17 titles to complete my daughter's collection of the Mystery Collection. Would be glad to email someone with the titles I am seeking or tips as to where to look. I know that some occasionally pop up on Amazon but would like to get the others for her as a holiday gift this year.
  

• AmyW

  October 2014

  Musicman1974 - There are tons on ebay and Half.com but also check your local Craigslist.

• AmyW

  October 2014 edited October 2014

  Rick Azziz, if it will let me I will post it here in pieces:

  NO. YEAR MYBANTAM TITLE ALTERNATE PUBLISHED TITLE(S)

  11920 The Mysterious Affair atStyles X

  2 1922 The Secret Adversary X

  3 1923 Murder on the Links X

  4 1924 Poirot Investigates X

  5 1924 The Man in the Brown Suit Mystery of the MillHouse

  6 1925 Poems X

  7 1925 The Secret of Chimneys X

  8 1926 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd X

  9 1927 The Big Four X

  10 1928 The Mystery of the Blue Train X

  11 1929 Partners in Crime X

  12 1929 The Seven Dials Mystery X

  13 1930 Black Coffee X

  14 1930 The Murder in the Vicarage X

  15 1930 The Mysterious Mr. Quin X

  16* 1931 TheFloating Admiral X

  17 1931 The Sittaford Mystery The MurderAt Hazelmoor

  18 1932 Peril at End House X

  19 1932 The Tuesday Club Murders The Thirteen Problems

  20 1933 Thirteen At Dinner Lord Edgware Dies

  * #16 - I don't have this one, she wrote it but it doesn't seem to be included in the Bantam collection

• AmyW

  October 2014

  NO. YEAR MYBANTAM TITLE ALTERNATEPUBLISHED TITLES

  21 1934 Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective Parker PyneInvestigates

  22 1934 Murder on the Orient Express Murder on the Calais Coach

  23 1934 Why Didn't They Ask Evans The Boomerang Clue

  24 1935 Death In The Air Death in the Clouds

  25 1935 Murder In Three Acts Three-ActTragedy

  26 1936 Cardson the Table X

  27 1936 Murderin Mesopotamia X

  28 1936 The ABC Murders X

  29 1937 Akhnaton X

  30 1937 DeadMan's Mirror Murderin the Mews

  31 1937 Death on the Nile X

  32 1937 Poirot Loses a Client DumbWitness

  33 1938 A Holiday for Murder HerculesPoirot's Christmas

  34 1938 Appointment with Death X

  35 1939 And Then There Were None Ten Little Indians / Ten Little Niggers

  36 1939 Easy to Kill Murder isEasy

  37 1939 The Regatta Mystery X

  38 1940 Sad Cypress X

  39 1940 The Patriotic Murders One, Two,Buckle My Shoe

  40 1941 Evil Under the Sun X

• AmyW

  October 2014

  NO. YEAR MYBANTAM TITLE ALTERNATEPUBLISHED TITLES

  41 1941 Nor M? X

  42 1942 The Body in the Library X

  43 1943 Murder In Retrospect X

  44 1943 The Moving Finger X

  45 1944 Absent in the Spring X

  46 1944 Towards Zero X

  47 1945 Death Comes At The End X

  48 1945 Remembered Death Sparkling Cyanide

  49 1946 Come, Tell Me How You Live X

  50 1946 The Hollow Murder AfterHours

  51 1947 The Labours of Hercules X

  52 1948 There Is a Tide... Taken at the Flood

  53 1948 Witness for the Prosecution and OtherStories X

  54 1949 Crooked House X

  55 1950 A Murder is Announced X

  56 1950 ThreeBlind Mice TheMousetrap and Other Stories

  57 1951 The Underdog and Other Stories X

  58 1951 They Came to Baghdad X

  59 1952 Mrs. McGinty's Dead X

  60 1952 Murder with Mirrors They Do ItWith Mirrors

• AmyW

  October 2014 edited October 2014

  NO. YEAR MYBANTAM TITLE ALTERNATEPUBLISHED TITLES

  61 1953 A Pocket Full of Rye X

  62 1953 Funerals are Fatal Afterthe Funeral

  63 1954 So Many Steps to Death Destination Unknown

  64* 1954 Spider’s Web X

  65 1955 Hickory Dickory Death X

  66 1956 Dead Man's Folly X

  67 1957 What Mrs. McGillicuty Saw 4:50 from Paddington

  68 1958 Ordeal by Innocence X

  69 1958 The Unexpected Guest X

  70 1959 Cat Among the Pigeons X

  71* 1960 The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding X

  72 1961 Double Sin and Other Stories X

  73 1961 The Pale Horse X

  74 1962 The Mirror Crack'd The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

  75 1963 The Clocks X

  76 1964 A Caribbean Mystery X

  77 1965 At Bertram's Hotel X

  78 1965 Star Over Bethlehem & Other Stories X

  79 1966 Third Girl X

  80 1967 Endless Night X

  *# 64 & 71 -I don't have these, she wrote them but they don't seem to be included in the Bantam collection

• AmyW

  October 2014 edited October 2014

  NO. YEAR MYBANTAM TITLE ALTERNATEPUBLISHED TITLES

  81 1968 By the Pricking of my Thumbs X

  82 1969 Halloween Party X

  83 1970 Passenger to Frankfurt X

  84 1971 Nemesis X

  85 1971 The Golden Ball and Other Stories X

  86 1972 Elephants Can Remember X

  87 1973 Postern of Fate X

  88* 1974 Poirot's Early Cases X

  89 1975 Curtain: Poirot's Last Case X

  90 1976 Sleeping Murder Miss Marple's Final Cases

  91 1977 An Autobiography X

  92 1977 The Harlequin Tea Set X

  * #88 -I don't have this one, she wrote it but it doesn't seem to be included in the Bantam collection

  Sorry for taking up all the page space but this should help clear things up! The dates listed should be the original published dates and the alternate titles are most often the original British title.

• Denhdo California, United States

  November 2014

  I would like a copy of the complete Bantam Book collection. If someone has that spreadsheet, please email it to [emailprotected]. Thanks!

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