Bantam Books Agatha Christie Collection
AlexBarry
Wisconsin, United States
Hello! Greetings from a new member here, looking forward to future interaction with a world-wide group of fellow aficionados. To begin, I'd like to ask a question. Some time ago I came across a large collection of the well-known Bantam imprint (black leatherette hard covers, issued to member subscriptions). Over the years I have been fortunate to acquire additional volumes here and there and have added to the original trove until I now have a total of 74 volumes. I have them proudly displayed on the top two shelves of my best bookcase, in their order of publication. Now and then I select the next unread volume in chronological order and begin a new adventure. What I seek to find out is if anyone knows the absolute, definitive, comprehensive and indisputable number of volumes published by Bantam for their collection, and what titles are represented. I have researched this matter myself, and have referred to one such list, purported to be accurate, but found that I have on my shelves no fewer than 5 titles not even included on said list (Star Over Bethlehem, Akhnaton, Three Blind Mice, Cards on the Table, and The Harlequin Teaset). On the other hand, I find many other titles named in Miss Christie's publication history (such as The Hound of Death, The Listerdale Mystery, et al) that do not seem to appear in the catalog of Bantam publications.
Thus I find myself rather confused. Of course, I wish to add to my collection until I have every volume published in the Bantam series, but I seem to need the help of an expert. If anyone in the forum here can provide me with a really, really, REALLY exhaustive and complete listing of the Bantam editions, please do let me know. Thanks SO much!
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Thanks for any help you can give me.
Mary
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
I started with a list of her complete anthology because I didn't know what all Bantam had printed. My list has 118 titles of which 26 are alternate titles, so 92 books - excluding the duplicate UK vs US titles. Of that 92, I have 88 and I'm trying to figure out if the other 4 (above) were released by Bantam or not. (My list of 118 excludes the Engagement books, it's just Christie's works, including her Autobiography.)
Thank you.
Alex and AmyW
Hi. I am new to this site, but an old fan. Like AmyW, I have 88 books in my Bantam leatherette collection, which includes the 66 mystery books, the 14 short collections 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'; two books under her full name as Agatha Christie Mallowan: 'Star Over Bethlehem and other stories', and 'Come, Tell Me How You Live'; one as Mary Westmacott: 'Absent in the Spring', and her 'Autobiography'). Have the bookends, but none of the daily planners (and not sure need/want them). Don’t have any repeats (but as I am missing 'Murder in the Mews' which was published in the UK, am missing the story “The Great Theft”).
Like Matt I would like to get copies of your spreadsheets listing all the books published in the Bantam Mystery Collection that you know of. Presumably the larger list will include books published in the UK and territories under different names, and story collections that overlap with those published in the US. Tried contacting you both directly thru the site but doesn't look like I was successful.
Thanks!
Rick
NO. YEAR MY BANTAM TITLE ALTERNATE PUBLISHED TITLE(S)
1 1920 The Mysterious Affair at Styles 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 Mill House
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 The Floating Admiral X
17 1931 The Sittaford Mystery The Murder At 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
NO. YEAR MY BANTAM TITLE ALTERNATE PUBLISHED TITLES
21 1934 Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective Parker Pyne Investigates
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-Act Tragedy
26 1936 Cards on the Table X
27 1936 Murder in Mesopotamia X
28 1936 The ABC Murders X
29 1937 Akhnaton X
30 1937 Dead Man's Mirror Murder in the Mews
31 1937 Death on the Nile X
32 1937 Poirot Loses a Client Dumb Witness
33 1938 A Holiday for Murder Hercules Poirot'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 is Easy
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
NO. YEAR MY BANTAM TITLE ALTERNATE PUBLISHED TITLES
41 1941 N or 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 After Hours
51 1947 The Labours of Hercules X
52 1948 There Is a Tide... Taken at the Flood
53 1948 Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories X
54 1949 Crooked House X
55 1950 A Murder is Announced X
56 1950 Three Blind Mice The Mousetrap 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 It With Mirrors
NO. YEAR MY BANTAM TITLE ALTERNATE PUBLISHED TITLES
61 1953 A Pocket Full of Rye X
62 1953 Funerals are Fatal After the 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
NO. YEAR MY BANTAM TITLE ALTERNATE PUBLISHED 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.