Agatha Christie Statistics

Agatha Christie book sales statistics

• Agatha Christie is the best-selling fiction author of all time
• Christie is estimated to have sold more than 2 billion copies of her books
• And Then There Were None is one of only 6 books to have sold more than 100 million copies
• Christie is the most translated author in the world – there are over 7,000 (7,263) versions of her books in 103 different languages
• Christie’s play, The Mousetrap, ran consecutively from 1952 to 2020 when the production had to shut down due to Covid-19
• The play has been performed more than 27,500 times
• Only The Bible and the works of William Shakespeare have sold more copies than Agatha Christie’s books

How many books has Agatha Christie written?

• Agatha Christie’s works total 130 publications
• This includes 74 novels – 66 of which were detective novels
• 28 collections of short stories with a total of 164 short stories
• 3 poems
• 16 stage plays
• 7 plays for BBC TV and Radio
• 2 autobiographies

#	Title	Published	Page Count	Audiobook length	Series
1	The Mysterious Affair at Styles	1920	296	6 hrs and 16 mins	Hercule Poirot
2	The Secret Adversary	1922	316	7 hrs and 48 mins	Tommy and Tuppence
3	The Murder on the Links	1923	298	8 hrs and 8 mins	Hercule Poirot
4	The Man in the Brown Suit	1924	312	7 hrs and 44 mins	Colonel Race
5	The Secret of Chimneys	1925	199	7 hrs and 48 mins	Superintendent Battle
6	The Murder of Roger Ackroyd	1926	312	6 hrs and 54 mins	Hercule Poirot
7	The Big Four	1927	160	5 hrs and 33 mins	Hercule Poirot
8	The Mystery of the Blue Train	1928	320	7 hrs and 5 mins	Hercule Poirot
9	The Seven Dials Mystery	1929	304	7 hrs and 46 mins	Superintendent Battle
10	The Murder at the Vicarage	1930	256	8 hrs and 12 min	Miss Marple
11	Giant’s Bread	1930	448	11 hrs and 3 mins	Mary Westmacott
12	The Floating Admiral	1932	233	10 hrs and 20 mins	–
13	The Sittaford Mystery	1931	224	6 hrs and 36 mins	–
14	Peril at End House	1932	240	5 hrs and 46 mins	Hercule Poirot
15	Lord Edgware Dies	1933	228	6 hrs and 31 mins	Hercule Poirot
16	Murder on the Orient Express	1934	243	6 hrs and 37 mins	Hercule Poirot
17	Unfinished Portrait	1934	162	8 hrs and 15 mins	Mary Westmacott
18	Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?	1935	224	7 hrs and 12 mins	–
19	Three Act Tragedy	1934	199	5 hrs and 47 mins	Hercule Poirot
20	Death in the Clouds	1935	352	6 hrs and 18 mins	Hercule Poirot
21	The A.B.C. Murders	1936	272	6 hrs	Hercule Poirot
22	Murder in Mesopotamia	1936	272	6 hrs and 55 mins	Hercule Poirot
23	Cards on the Table	1937	286	6 hrs	Hercule Poirot
24	Dumb Witness	1937	302	7 hrs and 19 mins	Hercule Poirot
25	Death on the Nile	1938	288	7 hrs and 59 mins	Hercule Poirot
26	Appointment with Death	1938	224	5 hrs and 57 mins	Hercule Poirot
27	Hercule Poirot’s Christmas	1939	354	6 hrs and 8 mins	Hercule Poirot
28	Murder Is Easy	1939	324	6 hrs and 57 mins	Superintendent Battle
29	And Then There Were None	1941	272	6 hrs and 1 min	–
30	Sad Cypress	1940	256	6 hrs and 1 min	Hercule Poirot
31	One, Two, Buckle My Shoe	1941	322	5 hrs and 20 mins	Hercule Poirot
32	Evil Under the Sun	1941	275	6 hrs and 25 mins	Hercule Poirot
33	N or M?	1941	289	5 hrs and 41 mins	Tommy and Tuppence
34	The Body in the Library	1942	224	5 hrs and 21 mins	Miss Marple
35	Five Little Pigs	1942	185	6 hrs and 40 mins	Hercule Poirot
36	The Moving Finger	1942	320	6 hrs and 23 mins	Miss Marple
37	Towards Zero	1944	106	13 hrs and 20 mins	Superintendent Battle
38	Absent in the Spring	1944	192	6 hrs and 25 mins	Mary Westmacott
39	Death Comes as the End	1944	223	7 hrs and 11 mins	–
40	Sparkling Cyanide	1945	355	6 hrs and 31 mins	Colonel Race
41	The Hollow	1946	320	7 hrs and 11 mins	Hercule Poirot
42	Taken at the Flood	1948	352	6 hrs and 17 mins	Hercule Poirot
43	The Rose and the Yew Tree	1948	224	7 hrs and 10 mins	Mary Westmacott
44	Crooked House	1949	256	5 hrs and 45 mins	–
45	A Murder Is Announced	1950	256	8 hrs and 56 mins	Miss Marple
46	They Came to Baghdad	1951	256	7 hrs and 43 mins	–
47	Mrs McGinty’s Dead	1952	289	6 hrs and 8 mins	Hercule Poirot
48	They Do It with Mirrors	1952	187	6 hrs and 35 mins	Miss Marple
49	A Daughter’s a Daughter	1963	267	6 hrs and 36 mins	Mary Westmacott
50	After the Funeral	1953	213	6 hrs and 55 mins	Hercule Poirot
51	A Pocket Full of Rye	1954	257	6 hrs and 51 mins	Miss Marple
52	Destination Unknown	1955	192	6 hrs and 43 mins	–
53	Hickory Dickory Dock	1955	198	6 hrs and 3 mins	Hercule Poirot
54	Dead Man’s Folly	1956	240	6 hrs and 2 mins	Hercule Poirot
55	The Burden	1963	320	7 hrs and 6 mins	Mary Westmacott
56	4.50 from Paddington	1957	185	8 hrs and 8 mins	Miss Marple
57	Ordeal by Innocence	1959	256	7 hrs and 5 mins	–
58	Cat Among the Pigeons	1960	256	6 hrs and 45 mins	Hercule Poirot
59	The Pale Horse	1962	275	6 hrs and 43 mins	–
60	The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side	1963	224	8 hrs and 26 mins	Miss Marple
61	The Clocks	1964	320	7 hrs and 14 mins	Hercule Poirot
62	A Caribbean Mystery	1965	242	6 hrs and 37 mins	Miss Marple
63	At Bertram’s Hotel	1965	273	6 hrs and 44 mins	Miss Marple
64	Third Girl	1967	280	6 hrs and 59 mins	Hercule Poirot
65	Endless Night	1968	256	6 hrs and 14 mins	Mystery novel
66	By the Pricking of My Thumbs	1968	256	6 hrs and 59 mins	Tommy and Tuppence
67	Hallowe’en Party	1969	272	6 hrs and 27 mins	Hercule Poirot
68	Passenger to Frankfurt	1970	256	6 hrs and 57 mins	–
69	Nemesis	1971	256	9 hrs and 2 mins	Miss Marple
70	Elephants Can Remember	1972	240	5 hrs and 36 mins	Hercule Poirot
71	Postern of Fate	1973	337	7 hrs and 14 mins	Tommy and Tuppence
72	Curtain	1975	224	5 hrs and 42 mins	Hercule Poirot
73	Sleeping Murder	1976	224	6 hrs and 17 mins	Miss Marple
74	Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly	2013	161	–	Hercule Poirot

What Agatha Christie books have been adapted to TV and Movies?

• There have been 48 film adaptations of Agatha Christie’s books
• The first Christie film was The Passing of Mr. Quinn in 1928
• The most recent was Death on the Nile, released in 2022
• Poirot and Miss Marple both had long-running TV series in the UK
• Agatha Christie’s Marple ran from 2004 – 2013 
• There were 6 seasons and a total of 23 episodes
• Agatha Christie’s Poirot ran from 1989 – 2013
• It ran for 13 seasons and 70 episodes
• Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express generated $149 million at the box office

Agatha Christie’s life

• Christie was born in 1890
• She died in 1976 and the age of 85
• Christie was homeschooled and read a lot from an early age
• Agatha Christie first married in 1914
• In 1926, Christie’s husband asked her for a divorce. The same night she disappeared
• Christie wasn’t found for 11 days. The disappearance created news headlines around the world and still intrigues people to this day
• Christie married her second husband in 1930 and they stayed together until her death