AN AMERICAN TRIBUTE TO AGATHA CHRISTIE

The Classic Years 1920s
This collection is a work in progress and designed to aid fellow Christie fans in reviewing first editions of Christie's work published in the United States. The following is a list and graphic of Agatha Christie's works (except omnibus story collections) published in the USA by Dodd, Mead except where noted, with number of pages and price on dust jacket.
+ Denotes publication in the U.S. precedes U.K. publication (occurs twenty times)

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles 1920 (Lane) Poirot, Hastings & Japp, 296 pp. $2.00 + (Jacket is from the Grosset & Dunlap reprint--the same cover art as the original)
The Secret Adversary 1922 Tommy & Tuppence, 330 pp. $1.75 (Facsimile dust jacket available from www.facsimiledustjackets.com)

Murder On the Links 1923 Poirot & Hastings, 298 pp. $1.75 + (Jacket is from the Grosset & Dunlap reprint--assumed to be the same cover art as the Dodd first)

The Man in the Brown Suit 1924 Colonel Race, 275 pp.$2.00 (Jacket is from the second Dodd, Mead edition--assumed to be the same cover art as the first)

Poirot Investigates 1924 Short stories. Poirot, Hastings & Japp, 282 pp $2.00 (Has anyone seen the dust jacket of this book?)

The Secret of Chimneys 1925 Battle, 310 pp.$2.00 (Jacket is from the Grosset & Dunlap reprint--assumed to be the same cover art as the Dodd first)

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, June 19, 1926, Poirot, 306 pp. $2.00

The Big Four 1927 Poirot, Hastings & Japp, 276 pp. $2.00

The Mystery of the Blue Train 1928 Poirot, 306 pp. $2.00

The Seven Dials Mystery 1929 Battle, 310 pp. $2.00

Partners in Crime 1929 Short stories. Tommy & Tuppence, 277 pp. $2.00 + 

Best English Detective Stories of 1928,  edited by Father Ronald Knox and H. Harrington (Horace Liveright) 1929, 420 pp. $2.50.  The first appearance of Miss Jane Marple in the short story The Tuesday Night Club 

 
 
 

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