RESOURCES
The books, articles, films and more that Mark and Gray have explored whilst researching this project
Key titles - Agatha Christie in the 1960s
Agatha Christie - Cat Among the Pigeons (Novel, 1959)
Agatha Christie - The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and a Selection of Entrees (Short stories, 1960)(Includes 'The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, or The Theft of the Royal Ruby', and 'The Mystery of the Spanish Chest', both rewritten for this collection)
Agatha Christie - Go Back for Murder (Play, adaptation of Five Little Pigs, 1960)
Agatha Christie - The Pale Horse (Novel, 1961)
Agatha Christie – The Rule of Three (Three one-act plays, 1962), comprises 'The Rats', 'Afternoon at the Seaside' and 'The Patient'
Agatha Christie - The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side (Novel, 1962)
Agatha Christie - The Clocks (Novel, 1963)
Agatha Christie - A Caribbean Mystery (Novel, 1964)
Agatha Christie Mallowan - Star Over Bethlehem and other stories (Short stories and poems, 1965)
Agatha Christie - At Bertram’s Hotel (Novel, 1965)
Agatha Christie - Third Girl (Novel, 1966)
Agatha Christie - Endless Night (Novel, 1967)
Agatha Christie - By the Pricking of my Thumbs (Novel, 1968)
Agatha Christie - Hallowe’en Party (Novel, 1969)
Agatha Christie - Passenger to Frankfurt (Novel, 1970)
Agatha Christie - 'The Harlequin Tea Set' (Short story, 1971) included in the UK in While The Light Lasts and other stories (1997)
Agatha Christie – An Autobiography (1977)
Agatha Christie - Miss Perry (Unperformed/unpublished)
Non-fiction titles about Agatha Christie
Mark Aldridge – Agatha Christie on Screen (2016)
Mark Aldridge – Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World (2020)
Mark Aldridge – Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness (2024)
Mark Aldridge - 'I Read My Dickens': Agatha Christie's Unproduced Film Adaptation of Bleak House (2023)
J C Bernthal – Queering Agatha Christie (2016)
John Curran - Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks (2010) & Agatha Christie’s Murder in the Making (2011), collected as Agatha Christie’s Complete Secret Notebooks (2016)
Julius Green - Curtain Up, or Agatha Christie: A Life in Theatre (2015, revised ed. 2018)
Kathryn Harkup - A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie (2015)
Anne Hart – The Life and Times of Hercule Poirot (1990)
Anne Hart – The Life and Times of Miss Marple (1985)
Alison Light - Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars (1991)
Max Mallowan - Mallowan's Memoirs: Agatha and the Archaeologist (1977)
Janet Morgan – Agatha Christie: A Biography (1984; 2017)
Charles Osborne - The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie (1979)
Karen Pierce - Recipes for Murder: 66 Dishes that Celebrate the Mysteries of Agatha Christie (2023)
Tison Pugh - Understanding Agatha Christie (2023)
G C Ramsey - Agatha Christie: Mistress of Mystery (1967)
Laura Thompson – Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life (2007, revised ed. 2020)
Carla Valentine – Murder Isn’t Easy: The Forensics of Agatha Christie (2021)
Lucy Worsley – Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman (2022)
Other non-fiction titles
Paul Baker - Fabulosa: The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language (2019)
Paul Baker - Outrageous! The Story of Section 28 and Britain's Battle for LGBT Education (2022)
David Burke – The Lawn Road Flats: Spies, Artists and Writers (2014)
Humphrey Carpenter - That Was Satire That Was (2009)
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring (1962)
Alex Cox - I Am (Not) A Number: Decoding The Prisoner (2017)
Preeti Dhillon - The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for change in the United Kingdom (2023)
Peter Doggett - Growing Up: Sex in the Sixties (2021)
Michael Dobbs - One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (2008)
Ruth Franklin - Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (2016)
Jeremy Gavron - A Woman on the Edge of Time (2017)
Alex Grant - Sex, Spies and Scandal: The John Vassall Affair (2024)
Jonathon Green - All Dressed Up (1999)
Jonathon Green - Days in the Life (1998)
Barbara Blake Hannah - Growing Out: Black Hair and Black Pride in the Swinging Sixties (2022)
Katja Hoyer - Beyond the Wall: East Germany 1949-1990 (2023)
John Higgs - Love and Let Die: Bond, Beatles and the British Psyche (2022)
Greg Jenner - Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen (2020)
David Kynaston - A Northern Wind: Britain 1962-1965 (2023)
Julie McDowell – Attack Warning Red! How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War (2023)
Chris Megson (ed.) - Modern British Playwriting: The 1970s (2012)
Joe Moran - Armchair Nation (2013)
Lisa Morton - Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween (2012)
Steve Nicholson (ed.) - Modern British Playwrighting: The 1960s (2012)
Juliet Nicholson – Frostquake: The frozen winter of 1962 and how Britain emerged a different country (2021)
Joe Orton, The Orton Diaries, edited by John Lahr (1986)
Serhii Plokhy – Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (2021)
Nicholas Rogers - Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night (2002)
Edward W. Said - On Late Style (2006)
Dominic Sandbrook - Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles (2005)
Dominic Sandbrook – White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties 1964-1970 (2009)
Sathnam Sanghera - Empireland (2021)
Sathnam Sanghera - Empireworld (2024)
Nicholas Shakespeare – Ian Fleming: The Complete Man (2023)
Anne Stevenson - Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath (1989)
Clair Wills - Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain (2017)
Vladislav Zubok - The First Cold War: 1945-1991 (2025)
Other novels
James Baldwin - Another Country (1962)
J.G. Ballard - High Rise (1975)
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange (1962)
John le Carré - Call for the Dead (1961)
John le Carré - A Murder of Quality (1962)
John le Carré - A Small Town in Germany (1968)
John Cheever - Bullet Park (1969)
Charles Dickens - Bleak House (1852-3)
Graham Greene - Our Man in Havana (1958)
Shirley Jackson - The Bird's Nest (1954)
Shirley Jackson - The Sundial (1958)
Shirley Jackson – We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962)
D H Lawrence - Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928; 1960)
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
Daphne duMaurier - Rebecca (1938)
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar (1963)
Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things (1997)
Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
Muriel Spark - The Public Image (1968)
Rosemary Tonks - The Bloater (1968)
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
Charles Webb - The Graduate (1963)
Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road (1961)
Other plays and poems
Alan Bennett - Forty Years On (1968)
Lorraine Hansberry - A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
Phillip Larkin - Annus Mirabilis (1974)
Sylvia Plath - Crossing the Water (published/collected posthumously in 1971 but written in the 1950s and 1960s)
Alfred Tennyson - The Lady of Shallot (1832; 1842)
John Wells - Death Beat (Music by Alexis Weissenberg, based on Christie's Hickory Dickory Dock)(Unperformed/unpublished)
Film/TV
Rear Window (Film, 1954)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents/The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV, 1955-65)
Spider's Web (Film, 1960)
Psycho (Film, 1960)
Danger Man (TV, 1960-68)
Coronation Street (TV, 1960- )
Murder She Said (Film, 1961)
The Avengers (TV, 1961-69)
Hercule Poirot: The Disappearance of Mr Davenham [sic] (TV pilot, 1962)
Dr. No (Film, 1962)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Film, 1962)
Murder at the Gallop (Film, 1963)
From Russia With Love (Film, 1963)
Doctor Who (TV, 1963- )
Murder Most Foul (Film, 1964)
Goldfinger (Film, 1964)
Murder Ahoy (Film, 1964)
Crossroads (TV, 1964-88; 2001-3)
The Alphabet Murders (Film, 1965)
Thunderball (Film, 1965)
And Then There Were None (Film, 1965)
Blow-Up (Film, 1966)
Cathy Come Home (TV, 1966)
To Sir, with Love (Film, 1967)
You Only Live Twice (Film, 1967)
The Graduate (Film, 1967)
The Prisoner (TV, 1967-68)
Rosemary's Baby (Film, 1968)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Film, 1969)
A Clockwork Orange (Film, 1971)
Endless Night (Film, 1972)
Halloween (Film, 1978)
A Caribbean Mystery (TV, 1983)
Miss Marple (TV, 1984-1992)
Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV, 1989-2013)
The Pale Horse (TV, 1997)
Sylvia (Film, 2003)
Agatha Christie's Marple (TV, 2004-2013)
Mad Men (TV, 2007-2015)
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story (TV, 2008)
The Pale Horse (TV, 2020)
Murder is Easy (TV, 2023)
Podcasts
After Dark, History Hit
Agatha Christie In Devon, International Agatha Christie Festival
All About Agatha, Kemper Donovan and Catherine Brobeck
Backlisted, Backlisted
The Bechdel Cast, iHeart
Betwixt the Sheets, History Hit
Dan Snow's History Hit, History Hit
History Extra, BBC History Magazine
In Our Time, BBC Radio 4
The Labours of Hercule, Adam and Frankie
Lolilta podcast, iHeart
The National Archives podcast, the National Archives
The Rest is History, Goalhanger Podcasts
Shedunnit, Caroline Crampton
Tea & Murder, Rebecca Thandi
You're Dead to Me, BBC Radio 4
You're Wrong About, You're Wrong About
Archives
The BBC Written Archives Centre, Caversham
The British Library, London
The Christie Archive Trust, UK
HarperCollins Archive, Glasgow
Hughes Massie Archive, University of Exeter
The Library of Congress, Washington DC
The Margaret Herrick Archive, Los Angeles
Exhibitions
Colour Revolution at the Ashmolean, Oxford, 2023-4
Murder by the Book at University Library, Cambridge, 2024
Re/Sisters at the Barbican, London, 2023-4
Women in Revolt! at the Tate Britain, London, 2023-4