The ABC Murders
To James Watts
One of my most sympathetic friends
UK
Collins, London, Jan. 1936
Dairy Express, Nov.28-Dec.12 1935
US
Dodd Mead, New York, Feb. 1936
Cosmopolitan, Nov. 1935

Plot

There's a serial killer on the loose. His macabre calling-card: to leave the ABC Railway Guide beside each victim's body. But if A is for Alice Ascher, bludgeoned to death in Andover, and B is for Betty Bernard, strangled with her belt on the beach at Bexhill, then who will victim C be?
Hercule Poirot is intrigued by this murderer's mind. Something just doesn't ring true about a psychopath who lays his clues so carefully.

Contents

1. The Letter
2. (Not from Captain Hastings' Personal Narrative)
3. Andover
4. Mrs Ascher
5. Mary Drower
6. The Scene of the Crime
7. Mr Partridge and Mr Riddell
8. The Second Letter
9. The Bexhill-on-Sea Murder
10. The Barnards
11. Megan Barnard
12. Donald Fraser
13. A Conference
14. The Third Letter
15. Sir Carmichael Clarke
16. (Not from Captain Hastings' Personal Narrative)
17. Marking Time
18. Poirot Makes a Speech
19. By Way of Sweden
20. Lady Clarke
21. Description of a Murderer
22. (Not from Captain Hastings' Personal Narrative)
23. September 11th. Doncaster
24. (Not from Captain Hastings' Personal Narrative)
25. (Not from Captain Hastings' Personal Narrative)
26. (Not from Captain Hastings' Personal Narrative)
27. The Doncaster Murder
28. (Not from Captain Hastings' Personal Narrative)
29. At Scotland Yard
30. (Not from Captain Hastings' Personal Narrative)
31. Hercule Poirot Asks Questions
32. And Catch a Fox
33. Alexander Bonaparte Cust
34. Poirot Explains
35. Finale

Characters

Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings, Alice Ascher, Franz Ascher, Mary Drower, Elizabeth "Betty" Barnard, Megan Barnard, Donald "Don" Fraser, Sir Carmichael Clarke, Lady Charlotte Clarke, Franklin Clarke, Thora Grey, George Earlsfield, Alexander Bonaparte Cust, Dr. Thompson, Insp. Crome, Chief Insp. James Japp

Colonel Anderson, Insp. Wells, Dr. Kerr, Superintendent Carter, Capstick, Insp. Glen, Insp. Kelsey, Sergeant Jacobs, Jameson, Colonel Jerome, Mary Stroud, Strange, Bert Smith, Roger Emmanuel Downes, Deveril, Police Constable Dover, Tom, Tom Hartigan, James Partridge, Mr. Barnard, Geoffrey Parnell, Harry, Milly Higley, Mrs. Fowler, Briggs, Sam Baker, Ball, Lily Marbury, Mrs. Marbury, Miss Merrion, Insp. Rice, Mr. Leadbetter, Albert Riddell, Katherine Royal, Miss Rose, Dick Willows, Curdie, George, Platt, Edie, Mabel Homer, Capper, Mr. Court, Mr. Brunskill, Sir Lionel, Stoneman, Dr. Logan, Hill, Lord Trenchard, Lucas, Maynard, Cole

Films & TV

The Alphabet Murders, US, 1965
Film list
The ABC Murders, ITV/UK, 1992
Agahta Christie's POIROT IV
ABC satsujin-jiken, NHK/JP, 2004
Meitantei POIROT to MARPLE
ABC satsujin-jiken, JP, 2005
TV drama list
Les meurtres ABC, FR, 2009
Les petits meurtres d'Agatha Christie Saison 1
Grandmaster, India, 2012
Film list

UK/US covers

Collins / HarperCollins

Collins, 1936 1st edition; ♦Bevis Benneworth
Collins, 1937
White Circle
White Circle
White Circle, 1958
Colins, Crime Club, 1962
Fontana, 1962; ♦Sheldon Goldberg
Fontana, 1965
Fontana, 1967; ♦Lauralee(ManorBooks)
Fontana, 1970; ca: Tom Adams*
Fontana, 13th 1984; ♦Sheldon Goldberg
Fontana, 1988
HarperCollins, 1995/PB, 1998/HB
HarperCollins, 1996; Diamond Anniversary edition.
HarperCollins, 2001
Collins
HarperCollins, 2006; Facsimile edition; ISBN:978-0007234431
HarperCollins, 2007; Masterpiece edition
William Morrow Paperbacks, 2011; ISBN:978-0062073587
Center Point Large Print, 2011
Harper, 2013
HarperCollins, 2013; ISBN:978-0007527533
HarperCollins, 2018; Special edition; ISBN:978-0008310226
HarperCollins, 2018; TV tie-in edition
HarperCollins, 2018; TV tie-in edition; ISBN:978-0008308209
William Morrow Paperbacks, 2019; TV tie-in edition; ISBN:978-0062930484
HarperLuxe, 2019; Large Print edition; ISBN:978-0062879721

Dodd,Mead

Dodd,Mead, 1936 1st edition
Dodd,Mead,

Pocket Books

Pocket(88), 1941
Pocket(2088), 1955
Pocket, 1963
Pocket, 1966
Pocket(50438), 1968
Pocket, 1970
Pocket
?
Pocket, 1971; ca: Tom Adams*
Pocket
Pocket, 1974
Pocket, 1986 62nd

Penguin

Penguin, 1948
Penguin, 1952
Penguin Book/CD-Rom for Pack, 2010

Berkley

Berkley, 1998
Berkley
Berkley, 1991
Berkley, 2005

Pan

Pan, 7th, 1979
Pan(GP95), 1958; ca: Jack Keay

others
Putnam, Winterbrook edition, 1985
Albatross, 1937
Tower Books, 1945
G.K.Hall, 1988
Black Dog & Leventhal; ♦Svetlana Andjelic
Planet Three Publishing, 2002

Magazine

Cosmopolitan, November, 1935

Audio


Game


Western Europe covers

ABC contre Poirot

French index

Le Masque (#263) 1938

Le Masque, 1950
Le Masque, 1964
Le Masque, 1980
Le Masque, 1984
Le Masque, 2000
Masque Christie, 2007 fac similé
Masque Christie, 2011
Le Masque

Club des Masques (#296) 1976

Club des Masques, 1977
Club des Masques, 1982
Club des Masques, 2001

Le Livre de Poche (#1703) 1966

Le Livre de Poche, 1966
Le Livre de Poche, 1987
Le Livre de Poche, 1988
Le Livre de Poche
Le Livre de Poche, 2006
Le Livre de Poche, 2009

Le Livre de Poche jeunesse (#67) 1982

Le Livre de Poche jeunesse, 1982
Le Livre de Poche jeunesse
Le Livre de Poche jeunesse, 1999
Le Livre de Poche jeunesse, 2003
Le Livre de Poche jeunesse
Le Livre de Poche Jeunesse, 2014

others

Hachette, 2005
Grand Format Christie, 1999
Edito-Service S.A., 1978

ABC mysterie / Het ABC-mysterie

Dutch index

Sijthoff, 1962
Sijthoff, 1969
Sijthoff, 1974; ♦Eric Gellaerts
Sijthoff, 1974
Sijthoff, 1974
Sijthoff, 1979
Sijthoff, 1983
Sijthoff, 1988; ca: Karel Dekker
Luitingh-Sijthoff/Poema, 1992
Pantheon, 2014
HLN, 2015
Overamstel Uitgevers, 2015
Grote Letter Bibliotheek, 2017

Die Morde des Herrn ABC / ABC-Fahrplan / ABC-Morde

German index

Scherz(170), 1963
Scherz(170), 1972
Scherz(170), 1976
Scherz, 1981
Scherz(750), 1981
Scherz(750), 1991
Scherz
Scherz, 1994
Scherz, 1994
Scherz
Scherz, 1997
Scherz, 1997; ▶ Art
Bertelsmann, 1976
Weltbild, 1995
Fischer, 2007
Weldbild, 2003
Hachette, 2008
Atlantik, 2014
Filmprogramm
Filmprogramm

Audio


Northern Europe covers

ABC-morden

Swedish index

Bonniers, 1938
Bonniers, 1951
Zebra, 1967
Delfinserien, 1968; ca: Per Åhlin
Bonniers, 1982
Bonniers, 1985
Bonniers, 1987
Bonniers, 1998
Bonniers, 2001
Bonniers, 2006
Storstilsbiblioteket, 2003
EB: Bookmark, 2014

ABC mordene

Danish index

Hasselbalchs, 1938
Carit Andersen, 196?
Carit Andersen(#3), 1960
Forum, 1984
Rosenkilde & Bahnhof, 2013 (ebook)
Peter Asschenfeldts nye Forlag, 1998

Audio


Mord etter alfabetet

Norwegian index

Aschehoug, ; ♦Sheldon Goldberg
Aschehoug, 1972; ♦Erik Artell
Aschehoug, 1978
Aschehoug, 1987
Aschehoug, 1995
Aschehoug, 1988
Aschehoug, 2010

Aikataulukon arvoitus

Finnish index

WSOY, 1938; ca: Eeli Jaatinen
WSOY/Riksin Sarja 30 (100 mk), 1952; ca: Eeli Jaatinen
WSOY, 1978
WSOY, 1980
WSOY/SAPO, 1989
Loisto, 2009
WSOY/Bon-pokkarit, 2016

Audio


ABC-leyndarmálið

Icelandic index


ABC mõrvad

Estonian index

Kupar, 1993

Žmogžudystė pagal abėcėlę / ABC žmogžudystės / Detektyvo ABC

Lithuanian index

Mintis, 1993
Spindulys, 1991

Southern Europe covers

La serie infernale

Italian index

I libri gialli (#173), 1937
I capolavori dei gialli Mondadori (#218), 1963
I Classici del Giallo (#476), 1985
Mondadori, 1989
I Classici del Giallo (#665), 1992; ca: Carlo Jacono
Mondadori: Oscar scrittori moderni, 1995
Mondadori: Oscar scrittori moderni, 2002
Hachette Fascicoli, 2002
Mondadori: Oscar junior, 2015
Corriere della Sera
Mondadori: ebook, 2015

Los asesinatos del ABC / El misterio de la guía de Ferrocarriles

Spanish index

Biblioteca Oro, 1941
Biblioteca Oro, 1952
Biblioteca Oro, 1958; ♦Pablo Ramirez Jr.
Biblioteca Oro(#144), 1958
Biblioteca Oro(#144), 1959
Biblioteca Oro, 1979; ♦Sheldon Goldberg
Molino, 1987
Planeta, 1993
Círculo de Lectores, 1994
Molino, 2002
Molino, 2003; ISBN:978-8427298026
Círculo de Lectores, 2004
RBA, 2010
RBA (EPUB, 2013)
RBA, 2014
Createspace Independent Pub, 2016; ISBN:978-1537741727
Espasa, 2018; ISBN:978-8467053647
Planeta

Assassinats per ordre alfabètic

La Llar del Llibre, 1991
Columna, 1996

Os Crimes ABC / Os Crimes do ABC / O ABC do Crime / Mensagens Sinistras

Portuguese index

Os Crimes ABC

Nova Fronteira, 1979
Círculo do Livro, 1987
Record, 1987
Record, 1996
L&PM, 2009
Nova Fronteira, 2015
♦Gabriel Paschoal

Os Crimes do ABC

ASA(#43), 2007
Colecção Vampiro(#167)
RBA

Os ABC do Crime


Mensagens Sinistras

Companhia Editora Nacional, 1949

Η υπογραφή του δολοφόνου (Φόνοι σε αλφαβητική σειρά)

Greek index

ΛΥΧΝΑΡΙ
ΛΥΧΝΑΡΙ
ΕΡΜΕΙΑΣ
ΛΥΧΝΑΡΙ(A174), 2003

ABC / АБЦ убиства / ABC ubistva / Ubistva po abecedi

former Yugoslavia index

Kosmos (Beograd): Zelena Biblioteka(34), 1959; ♦Svetlana Andjelic
Beograd : Narodna knjiga Alfa, 1997
Narodna knjiga & Politika (Beograd), 2006; ♦Svetlana Andjelic
Nova knjiga, 2015
Mladinska knjiga, 2016

Ubojstva po abecedi

former Yugoslavia index

Globus (Zagreb), 1976; ♦Svetlana Andjelic

Umori po abecedi

former Yugoslavia index

Mladinska knjiga (Ljubljana), 1993
Mladinska knjiga (Ljubljana), 2005; ♦Svetlana Andjelic

Ubojstva po abecedi

former Yugoslavia index

Азбучните убиства

former Yugoslavia index

ЃУРЃА, 2009; ♦Svetlana Andjelic

Eastern Europe covers

Vraždy podľa abecedy

Slovak index

Smena, 1965
Zelená knižnica, 2013

Vraždy podle abecedy

Czech index

Odeon, 1970
Knižní klub, 1993
Knižní klub, 2000
Knižní klub, 2009

Audio


Az ABC-gyilkosságok / Poirot és az A.B.C.

Hungarian index

Európa Könyvkiadó, 1975; ♦Czibóka Tamas
Európa Könyvkiadó, 1991; ♦Czibóka Tamas
Európa Könyvkiadó, 2000; ♦Czibóka Tamas
Európa Könyvkiadó, 2007; ♦Horváth Tamás
Európa Könyvkiadó, 2010; ♦Horváth Tamás
Európa Könyvkiadó, 2012
Helikon, 2017

Азбучни убийства / Азбучните убийства / Азбучни убийства

Bulgarian index

библиотека Лъч, 1968
Абагар, 1994
Epa(#1), 2006
Epa, 2018

A.B.C.

Polish index

Czytelnik, 1961
Dolnośląskie, 1997
Hachette(#12), 2001
Wydawnictwo Spes, 2002
Prószyński i s-ka, 2005
Dolnośląskie, 2005
Dolnośląskie, 2009
Dolnośląskie, 2010
Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, Agatha Christie Kolekcja Kryminałów(#2), 2014
Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, 2015

Audio


Crimele A.B.C. / Ucigaşul ABC

Romanian index

Excelsior-Multi Press, 1992
RAO, 2009
RAO, 2012
RAO, 2015

Убивства за абеткою / Вбивства за алфавітом

Книжный Клуб, 2018

Убийства по алфавиту / Убийство по алфавиту / В алфавитном порядке / Убийство в алфавитном порядке

Russian index

Киров, 1990
Интербук, 1990
Курьер, 1990
Вся Москва, 1990
Экология, 1991
Международный книжный дом, 1997; ♦Sheldon Goldberg
АСТ
АСТ, 2004
АСТ, 2004
Эксмо, 2010
Эксмо, 2011
Эксмо, 2013
Эксмо, 2016
Эксмо, 2018
Эксмо, 2019
Hachette, 2016

Middle East & Asian covers

მკვლელობა ანბანის მიხედვით

Cinayet Alfabesi / Dilsiz Tanık

Turkish index

Ak, 1963
Altın, 1971
Altın, 1973
Altın, 1984
Altın, 2000
Altın, 2005
Altın, 2018

תעלומת האלפא ביתא

Hebrew index


جرائم الأبجدية ⁄ جرائم الحروف الهجائية ⁄ أبجدية القتلى ⁄ القاتل الخفي ⁄ الجرائم الأبجدية

Arabic index

أبجدية القتلى
Jarir Reader, 2012
القاتل الخفي
الجرائم الأبجدية
---
1999
القاتل الخفي
الدار العربية للعلوم ناشرون
2003

قتل به ترتیب الفبا ⁄ الفباي جنايت ⁄ قتل به ترتيب حروف الفبا ⁄ جنايت الفبايي ⁄ الفبا و جنايت ⁄ قتلهای الفبایی

A.P. = anno Persico (Persian year); Persian index

قتلهای الفبایی
Hermes books, A.P.1392
مهر, A.P.1372
فكر روز, A.P.1374
افشار, A.P.1373

(Hindi) ABC मर्डर्स / (Malayalam) എ ബി സി നരഹത്യകൾ / (Marathi) द एबीसी मर्डर्स

(Hindi) *Harper Hindi, 2014
(Malayalam) D C Books, 2013
(Marathi) Padmagandha Prakashan, 2014

ABC මිනීමැරුම්


Mengenal si Pembunuh / Pembunuhan ABC

Indonesian index

Mengenal si Pembunuh, Pocket Books Ind
Gramedia, 1988
Gramedia, 1993
Gramedia, 2012
Gramedia, 2017

ฆาตกรรม เอ.บี.ซี ⁄ ฆาตกรรมวิปริต ⁄ เอบีซีฆาตกรรม

Thai index

ฆาตกรรมวิปริต, ---, 2542; ♦Rattanachai Lueangwongngam
♦Rattanachai Lueangwongngam
ฆาตกรรมวิปริต, TSG Publishing, 2547
เอบีซีฆาตกรรม, ซิลเวอร์ เซอร์เคิล, 2531
ฆาตกรรมวิปริต, ---,
ฆาตกรรมวิปริต, สร้างสรรค์บุ๊คส์, 2548(2005); ♦Ratakorn
ฆาตกรรมวิปริต, (ePUB), 2013
ฆาตกรรม เอ.บี.ซี, แพรวสำนักพิมพ์, 2015
♦Rattanachai Lueangwongngam
ฆาตกรรมวิปริต, น้องใหม่, 2533
สร้างสรรค์บุ๊คส์

CHUỖI ÁN MẠNG A.B.C

Vietnamese index

Nxb Văn hóa Thông tin, 2015

ABC謀殺案 / ABC怪案 / ABC系列谋杀案 / ABC殺人案 / ABC谋杀案

Chinese index

ABC謀殺案

遠景出版, 1982
風雲時代, 1987
遠景出版, 1988
遠景, 1992
遠流 2002
遠流出版, 2010

ABC怪案

聯廣圖書, 1985

ABC系列谋杀案

农村读物出版社, 1987

ABC殺人案

大衆書局, 1992

ABC谋杀案

华文出版社, 1993
贵州人民出版社, 1998
人民文学出版社 2006; ♦Tang Li
人民文学出版社, 2009
新星出版社(阿加莎·克里斯蒂侦探作品集8), 2013

english

外文出版社, 1994
外文出版社, 1996

ABC殺人事件

Japanese index

日本公論社, 1935
萩原星文館, 1936 (Box)
大日本雄弁会講談社, 1956
ハヤカワ・ポケットミステリ, 1957
東京創元社, 1957
創元推理文庫, 1959
創元推理文庫, 1959, 1971(33th)
創元推理文庫, 1959, 1994(100th)
新潮文庫, 1960, 1976(8th)
角川文庫, 1962,
角川文庫, 1962, 1977(29th)
角川文庫, 1962, 1966(10th); ▶ Art
講談社文庫, 1974
ハヤカワ・ミステリ文庫, 1987, 1992(11th); ca: Hiroshi Manabe
クリスティー文庫, 2003

for junior

旺文社/中二ライブラリー, 1960
偕成社, 1962
旺文社/中一ポケット・ミステリー, 1963
あかね書房, 1966
あかね書房, 1973
文研出版, 1977
ポプラ社文庫, 1986
偕成社文庫, 1990, 1996(18th)
青い鳥文庫, 2000
岩崎書店, 2000
岩崎書店, 2000
ポプラ社文庫, 2004
汐文社, 2004
汐文社, 2004
ポプラ・ポケット文庫, 2005
クリスティー・ジュニア・ミステリ, 2008; ISBN:978-4152089205

comic

NHK Publishing, 2004
小学館ビッグコミックス, 2015
小学館ビッグコミックス, 2015
小学館ビッグコミックス, 2016
小学館ビッグコミックス, 2016
小学館(My First Big SPECIAL), 2016

english

ルビーブックス, 2000
IBC Publishing, 2014

audio book


ABC살인사건

Korean index

정부/ABC살인사건, 아카데미, 1983
공문사, 1988
자유시대사, 1989
해문출판사, 1990
일신서적출판사, 1991
금하출판사, 1992
금하출판, 1993
자유문학사, 1993
1993
해문, 1994
금성출판사, 1996
해문출판사, 1999
해문출판사, 1999
해문출판사: 애거서 크리스티 추리문학 베스트(4), 2002
동서문화사, 2003; ca: Tom Adams*
황금가지: 애거서 크리스티 전집(44), 2007
황금가지, 2013

other languages

  • [Armenian] Սպաննություններ այբբենական կարգով / Spanutyunner aybbenakan kargov, Garun, 1995
  • [Malay] Pembunuhan ABC, Federal Publications, 2003
  • [Sinhalese] A B C Minee Marum, Sarasavi Publishers, 2015