Adaptations of Agatha Christie

Lists of adaptations of the works of Agatha Christie:

Film

Year	Title	Story based on	Character	Country	Notes
1928	The Passing of Mr. Quinn	The Coming of Mr Quin	Dr. Alec Portal		First Christie film adaptation
1929	Die Abenteurer G.m.b.H.	The Secret Adversary	Names changed	German	First foreign Christie film adaptation; names changed from the novel.
1931	Alibi	The stage play Alibi and the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd	Hercule Poirot		First Christie film adaptation to feature Hercule Poirot
1931	Black Coffee	Black Coffee	Hercule Poirot
1932	Le Coffret de Laque	Black Coffee	Hercule Poirot	France	Adaptation of Black Coffee
1934	Lord Edgware Dies	Thirteen at Dinner	Hercule Poirot
1937	Love from a Stranger	The stage play Love from a Stranger and the short story Philomel Cottage	Names changed		Released in the US as A Night of Terror
1945	And Then There Were None	The stage play And Then There Were None and the novel And Then There Were None	Names changed		First Christie film adaptation of And Then There Were None
1947	Love from a Stranger	The stage play Love from a Stranger and the short story Philomel Cottage	Cecily Harrington		Released in the UK as A Stranger Walked In
1957	Witness for the Prosecution	The stage play Witness for the Prosecution and the short story The Witness for the Prosecution	Leonard Vole
1960	The Spider's Web	Spider's Web	Hailsham-Brown
1960	Chupi Chupi Aashey	The Mousetrap and Three Blind Mice (radio play and short story)	Names changed	India	Uncredited adaptation possibly the only notable film version of the celebrated play. ^{[citation needed]}
1961	Murder, She Said	4.50 from Paddington	Miss Marple		First Christie film adaptation to feature Miss Marple
1963	Murder at the Gallop	After the Funeral	Miss Marple		The original Novel features Hercule Poirot instead of Miss Marple
1964	Murder Most Foul	Mrs McGinty's Dead	Miss Marple		The original Novel features Hercule Poirot instead of Miss Marple
1964	Murder Ahoy!	None	Miss Marple		An original film, not based on any book, although it borrows some elements of They Do It with Mirrors
1965	Ten Little Indians	The stage play And Then There Were None and the novel And Then There Were None	Names changed
1965	Gumnaam	And Then There Were None	Names changed	India	Uncredited adaptation
1965	The Alphabet Murders	The A.B.C. Murders	Hercule Poirot
1970	Nadu Iravil	And Then There Were None	Names changed	India	Uncredited adaptation in Tamil
1972	Endless Night	Endless Night	Michael Rogers
1973	Dhund	The Unexpected Guest	Names changed	India	Dhund (translation: Fog) produced and directed by B. R. Chopra
1974	Murder on the Orient Express	Murder on the Orient Express	Hercule Poirot
1974	And Then There Were None	The stage play And Then There Were None and the novel And Then There Were None	Names changed		Released in the US as Ten Little Indians
1978	Death on the Nile	The stage play Murder on the Nile and the novel Death on the Nile	Hercule Poirot
1980	The Mirror Crack'd	The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side	Miss Marple
1982	Evil Under the Sun	Evil Under the Sun	Hercule Poirot
1983	Secret of the Blackbirds (Russian: Тайна "Чёрных дроздов")	The novel A Pocket Full of Rye	Names changed	Soviet Union
1985	Ordeal by Innocence	Ordeal by Innocence	Arthur Calgary
1987	Desyat Negrityat (= Ten Little Niggers) (Russian: Десять негритят)	The stage play And Then There Were None and the novel And Then There Were None	Lawrence Wargrave	Soviet Union
1988	Appointment with Death	The stage play Appointment with Death and the novel Appointment with Death	Hercule Poirot
1989	Ten Little Indians	The stage play And Then There Were None and the novel And Then There Were None	Lawrence Wargrave
1989	Zagadka Endhausa (Russian: Загадка Эндхауза)	Peril at End House	Hercule Poirot	Soviet Union
1990	Myshelovka (Russian: Мышеловка)	The stage play The Mousetrap	Sergeant Trotter	Soviet Union
1995	Innocent Lies	Towards Zero	Names changed		Loose adaptation of Towards Zero after scripts issue.
2003	Shubho Mahurat	The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side	Names changed	India (Bengali)	Loosely based on Miss Marple Novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
2004	Mindhunters	n/a	Names changed		Very loose adaptation of The stage play And Then There Were None and the novel And Then There Were None
2005	Mon petit doigt m'a dit...	By the Pricking of My Thumbs	Prudence Beresford	France
2007	L'Heure zéro	Towards Zero	Names changed	France
2008	Le crime est notre affaire	4.50 from Paddington	Prudence Beresford	France	The adaptation replaces Miss Marple with Prudence Beresford.
2008	Le Grand Alibi	The Hollow	Names changed	France	Poirot does not appear in the adaptation.
2011	Aduthathu	The stage play And Then There Were None and the novel And Then There Were None	Names changed	India (Tamil)
2012	Grandmaster	The A.B.C. Murders	Names changed	India (Malayalam)
2012	Associés contre le crime	The Case of the Missing Lady	Prudence Beresford	France
2015	Aatagara	The stage play And Then There Were None and the novel And Then There Were None	Names changed	India (Kannada)
2016	Chorabali	Cards on the Table	Names changed	Bangladesh (Bengali)
2017	Murder on the Orient Express	Murder on the Orient Express	Hercule Poirot
2017	Crooked House	Crooked House	Charles Hayward
2022	Death on the Nile	Death on the Nile	Hercule Poirot		A sequel to 2017's Murder on the Orient Express.
2023	A Haunting in Venice	Hallowe'en Party	Hercule Poirot		A sequel to 2022's Death on the Nile.

Television

1938 Love from a Stranger (Based on the stage play of the same name from the short story Philomel Cottage)
1947 Love from a Stranger
1949 Ten Little Indians
1955 Spider's Web (Based on the stage play of the same name)
1956 Spider's Web
1959 Ten Little Indians
1980 Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
1981 The Seven Dials Mystery
1982 Spider's Web
1982 The Agatha Christie Hour
1982 Murder Is Easy
1982 The Witness for the Prosecution
1983 The Secret Adversary
1983 Partners in Crime
1983 A Caribbean Mystery
1983 Sparkling Cyanide
1985 Murder with Mirrors
1985 Thirteen at Dinner
1986 Dead Man's Folly
1986 Murder in Three Acts
1989 The Man in the Brown Suit
1996 The Pale Horse
2001 Murder on the Orient Express
2003 Sparkling Cyanide
2006 Hercule Poirot's Christmas (A French film adaptation)
2015 Partners in Crime
2015 And Then There Were None
2016 The Witness for the Prosecution
2018 Ordeal by Innocence
2018 The ABC Murders
2018 Ms. Ma, Nemesis
2020 The Pale Horse
2022 Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
2023 Murder Is Easy

Miss Marple television series

Episodes of the television series Miss Marple include:

1984 The Body in the Library
1985 The Moving Finger
1985 A Murder Is Announced
1985 A Pocket Full of Rye
1986 The Murder at the Vicarage
1987 Sleeping Murder
1987 At Bertram's Hotel
1987 Nemesis
1987 4.50 from Paddington
1989 A Caribbean Mystery
1991 They Do It with Mirrors
1992 The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

Agatha Christie's Marple television series

Episodes of the television series Agatha Christie's Marple include:

2004 The Body in the Library
2004 The Murder at the Vicarage
2004 4.50 from Paddington
2005 A Murder Is Announced
2005 Sleeping Murder
2006 The Moving Finger
2006 By the Pricking of My Thumbs
2006 The Sittaford Mystery
2007 Towards Zero
2007 Nemesis
2007 At Bertram's Hotel
2007 Ordeal by Innocence
2009 A Pocket Full of Rye
2009 Murder Is Easy
2009 They Do It with Mirrors
2010 The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
2010 The Secret of Chimneys
2010 The Blue Geranium
2011 Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
2010 The Pale Horse
2013 A Caribbean Mystery
2013 Greenshaw's Folly
2013 Endless Night

Agatha Christie's Poirot television series

Episodes of the television series Agatha Christie's Poirot include:

1989 The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
1989 Murder in the Mews
1989 The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly
1989 Four and Twenty Blackbirds
1989 The Third Floor Flat
1989 Triangle at Rhodes
1989 Problem at Sea
1989 The Incredible Theft
1989 The King of Clubs
1989 The Dream
1990 Peril at End House
1990 The Veiled Lady
1990 The Lost Mine
1990 The Cornish Mystery
1990 The Disappearance of Mr. Davenhiem
1990 Double Sin
1990 The Adventure of the Cheap Flat
1990 The Kidnapped Prime Minister
1990 The Adventure of the Western Star
1990 The Mysterious Affair at Styles
1991 How Does Your Garden Grow?
1991 The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
1991 The Plymouth Express
1991 Wasps' Nest
1991 The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor
1991 The Double Clue
1991 The Mystery of the Spanish Chest
1991 The Theft of the Royal Ruby
1991 The Affair at the Victory Ball
1991 The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge
1992 The ABC Murders
1992 Death in the Clouds
1992 One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
1993 The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb
1993 The Under dog
1993 The Yellow Iris
1993 The Case of the Missing Will
1993 The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman
1993 The Chocolate Box
1993 Dead Man's Mirror
1993 The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan
1995 Hercule Poirot's Christmas
1995 Hickory Dickory Dock
1996 Murder on the Links
1996 Dumb Witness
2000 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
2000 Lord Edgware Dies
2001 Evil Under the Sun
2002 Murder in Mesopotamia
2003 Five Little Pigs
2003 Sad Cypress
2004 Death on the Nile
2004 The Hollow
2006 The Mystery of the Blue Train
2006 Cards on the Table
2006 After the Funeral
2006 Taken at the Flood
2008 Mrs. McGinty's Dead
2008 Cat Among the Pigeons
2008 Third Girl
2009 Appointment with Death
2010 Three Act Tragedy
2010 Hallowe'en Party
2010 Murder on the Orient Express
2011 The Clocks
2013 Elephants Can Remember
2013 The Big Four
2013 Dead Man's Folly
2013 The Labours of Hercules
2013 Curtain

Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie television series

The French-language television series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie adapted thirty-six of Christie's works of detective fiction. It included a four-part mini-series set in 1930s France (2006) and a distinct two-series run with Series One also set in 1930s France (2009–2012, 11 episodes) and Series Two set in mid-1950s to 1960s France (2013–2020, 27 episodes).

BBC Radio

Many of Christie's novels have been adapted for BBC Radio over the course of several years.^[1] The most prominent productions were the dramatisations of the Poirot and Miss Marple stories:

Poirot

(Starring John Moffatt as Poirot, unless otherwise stated)

The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Murder on the Links
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Mystery of the Blue Train (* Maurice Denham as Poirot)
Peril at End House
Lord Edgware Dies (aka Thirteen at Dinner)
Murder in Mesopotamia
Murder on the Orient Express
Three Act Tragedy
Death in the Clouds
The A.B.C. Murders
Dumb Witness
Cards on the Table
Death on the Nile
Appointment with Death
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (* Peter Sallis as Poirot)
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
Sad Cypress
Evil Under the Sun
Five Little Pigs
Taken at the Flood
Mrs McGinty's Dead
After the Funeral
Dead Man's Folly
Hallowe'en Party
Elephants Can Remember

Miss Marple

(Starring June Whitfield as Miss Marple)

Notable others

Endless Night

Starring Jonathan Forbes as Mike and Lizzy Watts as Ellie

Towards Zero

Starring Hugh Bonneville as Nevile and Marcia Warren as Lady Tresselian

The Sittaford Mystery

Starring Melinda Walker as Emily Trefusis, Stephen Tompkinson as Charles Enderby, John Moffatt as Mr. Rycroft and Geoffrey Whitehead as Inspector Narracott

And Then There Were None

Geoffrey Whitehead as Justice Wargrave, Lyndsey Marshal as Vera Claythorne, Alex Wyndham as Philip Lombard, John Rowe as Dr. Armstrong, and Joanna Monro as Emily Brent

Sparkling Cyanide

Starring Naomi Frederick as Iris and Amanda Drew as Ruth

Ordeal by Innocence

Starring Mark Umbers as Arthur Calgary and Jacqueline Defferary as Gwenda

Graphic novels

Euro Comics India began issuing a series of graphic novel adaptations of Christie's work in 2007.

2007 The Murder on the Links. Adapted by François Rivière, illustrated by Marc Piskic
2007 Murder on the Orient Express. Adapted by François Rivière, illustrated by Solidor (Jean-François Miniac).
2007 Death on the Nile. Adapted by Francois Riviere, illustrated by Solidor (Jean-François Miniac)
2007 The Secret of Chimneys. Adapted by François Rivière, illustrated by Laurence Suhner
2007 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Adapted and illustrated by Bruno Lachard
2007 The Mystery of the Blue Train. Adapted and illustrated by Marc Piskic
2007 The Man in the Brown Suit. Adapted and illustrated by Alain Paillou
2007 The Big Four. Adapted by Hichot and illustrated by Bairi
2007 The Secret Adversary. Adapted by François Rivière and illustrated by Frank Leclercq
2007 The Murder at the Vicarage. Adapted and illustrated by "Norma"
2007 Murder in Mesopotamia. Adapted by François Rivière and illustrated by Chandre
2007 And Then There Were None. Adapted by François Rivière and illustrated by Frank Leclercq
2007 Endless Night. Adapted by Francois Rivière and illustrated by Frank Leclercq
2008 Ordeal by Innocence. Adapted and illustrated by Chandre
2008 Hallowe'en Party. Adapted and illustrated by Chandre
2008 Peril at End House Adapted by Thierry Jollet and illustrated by Didier Quella-Guyot
2009 Dumb Witness Adapted and illustrated by "Marek"
2010 Cards on the Table Adapted and illustrated by Frank Leclercq
2010 Five Little Pigs Adapted by Miceal O'Griafa, David Charrier
2012 Dead Man's Folly Adapted and illustrated by Marek
2013 Evil Under the Sun Adapted by Thierry Jollet and illustrated by Didier Quella-Guyot

Video games

1988: The Scoop (published by Spinnaker Software and Telarium) (PC)
2005: Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None (PC and Wii).
2006: Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express (PC)
2007: Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile (I-Spy hidden-object game) (PC)
2007: Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun (PC and Wii)
2008: Agatha Christie: Peril at End House (I-Spy hidden-object game)
2009: Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders (DS)
2009: Agatha Christie: Dead Man's Folly (I-Spy hidden-object game) (PC)
2010: Agatha Christie 4:50 from Paddington (I-Spy hidden-object game) (PC)
2016: Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders (PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One)
2021: Agatha Christie – Hercule Poirot: The First Cases (PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One)
2023: Agatha Christie – Hercule Poirot: The London Case (PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S)
2023: Agatha Christie – Murder on the Orient Express (PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S)

Animation

In 2004, the Japanese broadcasting company Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai turned Poirot and Marple into animated characters in the anime series Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple, introducing Mabel West (daughter of Miss Marple's mystery-writer nephew Raymond West, a canonical Christie character) and her duck Oliver as new characters.