Amateur Sleuth: It would be quicker to list the Christie protagonists who aren't amateurs: Hercule Poirot (a former officer of the Belgian police, turned private detective) and Superintendent Battle (a police detective). In some cases the "bad boy" is the criminal, in others the girl sees sense, and in another a milquetoast character is advised not to tell the truth to his wife, who will love him all the more for thinking she managed to show him the error of his ways. All Girls Want Bad Boys: Repeatedly used, mentioned (and complained about) in-universe. Adjective Animal Alehouse: The titular Pale Horse in The Pale Horse. Adaptational Alternate Ending: Christie changed the endings of at least two of her novels when adapting them for the stage. Other works by Agatha Christie include examples of: Witness for the Prosecution (1953) note The 1957 film was based on Christie's 1953 play, in turn based on her 1925 short story. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1962). The Labours of Hercules (1947)(short story collection). Poirot Investigates (1924) (short story collection). There's even an anime Crossover of Poirot and Miss Marple. AGATHA CHRISTIE PALE HORSE SERIES
Most of the books in the main series have been televised, many filmed, some repeatedly. Note that Christie invented most of the above twist endings.įor a complete Christie bibliography, including novels, short stories, and stage plays, see this page.
The Secret Circle of Secrets are the good guys. The murder took place in the narrator's head only. The seemingly accidental victim was in fact the real target, and the apparently intended target was the murderer. The murderer didn't choose his victim at all. One of the victims was chosen randomly, despite the murderer being completely sane. The murder was a suicide with no ulterior motives, but someone else decided to frame another person for it to send them to the gallows. The murder was a suicide, arranged by the victim to look like a murder and thus posthumously condemn their enemy. The murder was just a ploy to accuse someone other of it and get them hanged. The initial victim was a distraction, and the major intended victim was one of those killed later. The murders looked like the work of an Ax-Crazy killer, but the murderer was not crazy. The guilty party was impersonating the detective. One of the sleuths (including the main detective!) investigating the mystery was guilty. The way too obvious suspect ( who will therefore, of course, turn out not to be the real killer, now will they? invoked) really was the killer after all. To drive home the point that the reader should suspect everybody, she would frequently make one of these characters the murderer. For example, Christie knew that there were certain characters, who by virtue of their role in the story, the reader would not suspect. Being well aware of the mystery conventions of the time, she was frequently able to subvert them for a Twist Ending. It is really indicative of her character that at the end of her play The Mousetrap, the viewers are specifically asked not to spoil the ending to outsiders - Christie possessed an uncanny ability to subvert the reader's expectations. Personality-wise, she was extremely introverted and secretive, sometimes probably even drawing amusement from it. (This matches a line from the final Poirot novel Curtain, in which it is stated that it has been "over twenty years" since the first adventure - the aforementioned Mysterious Affair at Styles, which came out in 1920 and was set during World War I.) 
Poirot and Marple both begin as elderly characters and over the course of Christie's 56-year career, age roughly 20 years at most.
Of Christie's series detectives, only the Beresfords age in real time. While most of the stories are nominally set in the year of publication, in practice they all take place in the time of the Genteel Interbellum Setting. Six of her novels, which are usually classed as Romances, were written under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. The latter were almost universally the most poorly received of Christie's works, while one of the former, And Then There Were None, is widely regarded as one of her best, even the best.
These ranged from traditional mysteries with one-shot detectives to Thrillers which placed more emphasis on action than detection.
Christie also wrote 16 novels which did not feature any of her series detectives.
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