A list of the Bantam Book collection of Agatha Christie stories.

Bantam Books, The Agatha Christie Mystery Collection.

Published between June 1982 and October 2000, by Dodd, Mead & Company of New York, and their subsidiary companies. The Black Leatherette collection was known as The Agatha Christie Mystery Collection, but there were some printed in a Blue Leatherette edition and although they all have the same imprint on the front cover, some are printed on the copyright page as Agatha Christie Hardcover Collection. If you feel the need to collect them all, the total collection consists of 101 books. The books were published as a new one each month, as can be seen by the ISBN details, however, the original series had only 92 novels in the collection. A further nine books were added to the collection when G.P. Putnam’s Sons published stories with the English titles. These books are not rare but were printed as part of a small print run. They also printed some of the original collection with a new ISBN. Somehow two titles in the original collection were given the same ISBN number, which is most unusual. Witness for the Prosecution was published as The Witness for the Prosecution, in Aug 1999, having two additional short stories. I am still researching for some missing information, but I am confident that this is the definitive list and hope it is of interest.

If you have any data that can be used to update the list please email me. In the list, there are 20 USA titles of which 9 are UK duplicates. The USA titles are denoted with a ‘*’, duplicates have a corresponding UK list number. The Mary Westmacott book is identified with ‘**’. The collection includes two plays, two books of poetry and the Christie autobiography.

The list has been updated with the help of Peter Scott 09/09/2018, GKCfan 04/12/2018 and Daisy … 15/12/2018

I have set the list out in two parts which highlight the different ISBN and print dates.

	Book Title	Print date	ISBN #
1	A CARIBBEAN MYSTERY	May-85	0-553-30532-3
2	A HOLIDAY FOR MURDER *	Aug-85	0-553-35035-8
3	A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED	Jan-86	0-553-35040-4
4	A POCKET FULL OF RYE	Apr-86	0-553-35044-7
5	ABSENT IN THE SPRING **	Jun-92	0-553-35082-X
6	AKHNATON (Play)	May-96	0-553-35102-8
7	AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (NON-FICTION)	Nov-90	0-553-35081-1
8	AND THEN THERE WERE NONE	Feb-83	0-553-35000-5
9	APPOINTMENT WITH DEATH	Jul-87	0-553-35062-5
10	AT BERTRAM'S HOTEL	Aug-87	0-553-35063-3
11	BY THE PRICKING OF MY THUMBS	Oct-84	0-553-35021-8
12	CARDS ON THE TABLE	Nov-84	0-553-35025-5
13	CAT AMONG THE PIGEONS	Mar-84	0-553-35014-5
14	COME, TELL ME HOW YOU LIVE	Nov-85	0-553-35049-8
15	CROOKED HOUSE	Dec-86	0-553-35054-4
16	CURTAIN	Dec-84	0-553-35026-9
17	DEAD MAN'S FOLLY	Sep-88	0-553-35078-1
18	DEAD MAN'S MIRROR * (#37)	May-98	0-553-3507-9
19	DEATH COMES AS THE END	Feb-84	0-553-35013-7
20	DEATH IN THE AIR *	Jun-86	0-553-35047-1
21	DEATH ON THE NILE	May-83	0-553-35003-X
22	DOUBLE SIN AND OTHER STORIES	Feb-87	0-553-35057-9
23	DUMB WITNESS	Jun-85	0-553-35098-6
24	EASY TO KILL *	Jan-87	0-553-35055-2
25	ELEPHANTS CAN REMEMBER	Jun-84	0-553-35017-X
26	ENDLESS NIGHT	Dec-85	0-553-35039-0
27	EVIL UNDER THE SUN	Nov-83	0-553-35010-2
28	FUNERALS ARE FATAL * (#93)	May-84	0-553-35016-1
29	HALLOWE'EN PARTY	Sep-84	0-553-35020-X
30	HICKORY DICKORY DEATH * (#98)	Jan-84	0-553-35012-9
31	LORD EDGWARE DIES	96	0-553-35009-4
32	MR. PARKER PYNE, DETECTIVE *	Jun-82	0-553-35061-7
33	MRS. MCGINTY'S DEAD	Apr-87	0-553-35059-5
34	MURDER AT HAZELMOOR * (#80)	Nov-84	0-553-35024-2
35	MURDER IN MESOPOTAMIA	Mar-85	0-553-35029-3
36	MURDER IN RETROSPECT * (#97)	Nov-85	0-553-35038-2
37	MURDER IN THE MEWS	1997	0-553-35093-5
38	MURDER IN THREE ACTS * (#87)	Jan-88	0-553-35069-2
39	MURDER ON THE LINKS	Oct-85	0-553-35037-4
40	MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS	Jan-83	0-553-03000-0
41	MURDER WITH MIRRORS *	Apr-85	0-553-35027-7
42	N OR M?	Apr-88	0-553-35072-2
43	NEMESIS	Oct-84	0-553-35022-6
44	ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE	Nov-87	0-553-35067-6
45	PARTNERS IN CRIME	Oct-83	0-553-35008-0
46	PASSENGER TO FRANKFURT	Jun-88	0-553-35075-7
47	PERIL AT END HOUSE	Apr-88	0-553-35073-0
48	POEMS	Oct-96	0-553-35103-6
49	POIROT INVESTIGATES	Apr-85	0-553-35031-5
50	POIROT LOSES A CLIENT * (#23)	Jun-85	0-553-35033-1
51	POSTERN OF FATE	Jan-87	0-553-35056-0
52	REMEMBERED DEATH *	Mar-85	0-553-35030-7
53	SAD CYPRESS	Nov-84	0-553-35023-4
54	SLEEPING MURDER	Sep-85	0-553-35036-6
55	SO MANY STEPS TO DEATH * (#96)	Oct-86	0-553-35052-8
56	STAR OVER BETHLEHEM (Poems)	Oct-96	0-553-35104-4
57	TAKEN AT THE FLOOD	Nov-87	0-553-35066-8
58	THE A.B.C. MURDERS	Apr-83	0-553-35002-1
59	THE BIG FOUR	Feb-86	0-553-35041-2
60	THE BODY IN THE LIBRARY	Mar-87	0-553-35058-7
61	THE CLOCKS	Mar-88	0-553-35071-4
62	THE GOLDEN BALL AND OTHER STORIES	Oct-87	0-553-35065-X
63	THE HARLEQUIN TEA SET	Feb-98	0-553-35010-2
64	THE HOLLOW	Aug-86	0-553-35050-1
65	THE LABORS OF HERCULES	Aug-84	0-553-35019-6
66	THE MAN IN THE BROWN SUIT	Aug-88	0-553-35077-3
67	THE MIRROR CRACK'D *	Apr-84	0-553-35015-3
68	THE MOVING FINGER	Oct-83	0-553-35009-9
69	THE MURDER AT THE VICARAGE	Aug-83	0-553-35006-4
70	THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD	Mar-83	0-553-35001-3
71	THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES	Jun-83	0-553-35004-8
72	THE MYSTERIOUS MR. QUIN	Mar-86	0-553-35043-9
73	THE MYSTERY OF THE BLUE TRAIN	Dec-85	0-553-35068-4
74	THE PALE HORSE	May-86	0-553-35046-3
75	THE PATRIOTIC MURDERS *	Mar-86	0-553-35042-0
76	THE REGATTA MYSTERY AND OTHER STORIES	Nov-86	0-553-35079-X
77	THE SECRET ADVERSARY	May-85	0-553-35028-5
78	THE SECRET OF CHIMNEYS	Sep-87	0-553-35064-1
79	THE SEVEN DIALS MYSTERY	Nov-86	0-553-35051-X
80	THE SITTAFORD MYSTERY	Nov-84	0-553-35024-2
81	THE TUESDAY CLUB MURDERS * (#100)	Jul-86	0-553-35048-X
82	THE UNDERDOG AND OTHER STORIES	Feb-88	0-553-35070-6
83	THERE IS A TIDE * (#57)	Nov-87	0-553-35066-8
84	THEY CAME TO BAGHDAD	Jul-85	0-553-35034-X
85	THIRD GIRL	May-87	0-553-35060-9
86	THIRTEEN AT DINNER * (#31)	Jul-88	0-553-35076-5
87	THREE ACT TRAGEDY	Jan-88	0-553-35069-2
88	THREE BLIND MICE AND OTHER STORIES	Sep-88	0-553-35080-3
89	TOWARDS ZERO	Dec-83	0-553-35011-0
90	WHAT MRS. MCGILLICUDDY SAW! *	Jul-84	0-553-35018-8
91	WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK EVANS?	Jul-83	0-553-35005-6
92	WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION	Apr-89	0-553-35007-2

Book Title Print date ISBN # 93 AFTER THE FUNERAL Oct-00 1-58165-153-8 94 BLACK COFFEE Sep-98 1-58165-078-7 95 DEATH IN THE CLOUDS Mar-00 1-58165-130-9 96 DESTINATION UNKNOWN 1-58165-129-5 97 FIVE LITTLE PIGS Mar-98 1-58165-016-7 98 HICKORY DICKORY DOCK Oct-00 1-58165-152-X 99 SPARKLING CYANIDE Mar-98 1-58165-015-9 100 THE THIRTEEN PROBLEMS May-00 1-58165-133-3 101 THE UNEXPECTED GUEST Sep-99  1-58165-110-4

A book titled The Agatha Christie Engagement Diary was published in April 1996, but as it is not a story it is not included in the list.