| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | FICTION $200: Agatha Christie set part of this 1937 mystery at the Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan Death on the Nile |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | SHORT STORIES $400: Agatha Christie's "The Tuesday Club Murders" features 13 tales of this sleuth & her friends sharing crime stories Miss Marple |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | LITERARY TOWNS & CITIES $1200: A writer becomes infatuated with a boy & his family in 1912's "Death in Venice" by this author (Thomas) Mann |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | I'VE SEEN HER TYPE BEFORE $400: In addition to cranking out mystery novels, she wrote "The Mousetrap", which ran nonstop in London for over 60 years Agatha Christie |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | BOOK DEDICATIONS $800: She dedicated 1946's "The Hollow" to "Larry & Danae, with apologies for using their swimming pool as the scene of a murder" Agatha Christie |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | AGATHA ALL ALONG $200: At one point in this Agatha Christie book, the Karnak is anchored at Abu Simbel Death on the Nile |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | AGATHA ALL ALONG $400: Agatha Christie brought this brilliant Belgian to life in "The Mysterious Affair at Styles", her debut novel Hercule Poirot |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | AGATHA ALL ALONG $600: Though her first name is Jane, the Agatha Christie detective is usually just called this Miss Marple |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $400: "An Elusive Woman" is the subtitle of a biography of this mystery writer, born a proper Victorian but later an avid surfer Agatha Christie |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | BEFORE & AFTER FEMALE DUOS $400: Prolific British mystery author & supermodel who's mom to Alexa Agatha Christie Brinkley |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | SOLVE THE MYSTERY TITLE $1600: Agatha Christie:
"Murder in" this ancient region Mesopotamia |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | THE OED QUOTES $1600: Works by her are quoted under "cup of tea", "grey cells" & "motive" (Agatha) Christie |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | A CHRISTIE MYSTERY $400: (Hugh Laurie presents the clue.) A train that was snowbound in Turkey for 10 days in 1929 & the 1932 kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby helped inspire the plot of this, one of Agatha Christie's greatest novels Murder on the Orient Express |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | A CHRISTIE MYSTERY $1200: (Lucy Boynton presents the clue.) Agatha Christie wrote 12 novels & 20 short stories featuring this woman & regretted making her so old at the outset; she would have been well over 100 by the time Christie finished writing about her Miss Marple |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | WRITERS DO RIGHT $200: This British mystery maven described thallium poisoning so well in a book, a nurse recognized the symptoms in a child Agatha Christie |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | A SWEET READ $800: Agatha Christie's "Adventure of the Christmas Pudding" finds this Belgian embroiled in murder Hercule Poirot |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | DETECTIVE FICTION $800: "The Secret Adversary" was one of her many mysteries with detectives Tommy & Tuppence Beresford Agatha Christie |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | ALLUSIVE TITLES $1600: This Shakespeare play provided Agatha Christie with "by the pricking of my thumbs" Macbeth |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | A WRITER'S LIFE $200: Born 1890, was a merchant of "murder" & "death", named a dame in 1971, & then there was none of her in 1976 Agatha Christie |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | GOATS (GREATEST OF ALL TIME) $800: These 2 Agatha Christie characters made a list of "The 30 Greatest Literary Detectives of All Time" Hercule Poirot & Jane Marple |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | WRITERS GO WAY BACK $600: This British dame sets the mystery in "Death Comes as the End" in Egypt way back in 2000 B.C. Agatha Christie |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | HER FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL $800: 1920:
"The Mysterious Affair at Styles" Agatha Christie |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | UNTRUE DETECTIVE $200: This Agatha Christie detective has a secretary named Miss Lemon who is so efficient she is "nearly the perfect machine" Hercule Poirot |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | LITERARY LADIES $400: 1944's "Absent in the Spring" is one of the non-mystery novels she wrote under the name Mary Westmacott (Agatha) Christie |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | BOOKS OF MYSTERY $1600: What a dame! This British woman wrote more than 60 novels, including "By the Pricking of My Thumbs" Agatha Christie |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | HOTELS $1600: Agatha Christie stayed at the Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan & used it as a setting in this 1937 mystery Death on the Nile |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | THEATER $400: In London, this Agatha Christie play has been ensnaring theatergoers for 67 years The Mousetrap |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | ALL KINDS OF BOOKS $2000: The first Agatha Christie novel featuring Miss Marple was "Murder at" this type of religious residence the vicarage |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | AGATHA CHRISTIE BOOK TITLES $200: "____ on the Nile" death |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | AGATHA CHRISTIE BOOK TITLES $400: "And Then There Were ____" none |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | AGATHA CHRISTIE BOOK TITLES $600: "The ____ of Roger Ackroyd" murder |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | AGATHA CHRISTIE BOOK TITLES $800: "____ Under the Sun" evil |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | AGATHA CHRISTIE BOOK TITLES $1000: "The ____ in the Library" The Body in the Library |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | A BIT O' BRIT LIT $200: An alternate title of this Agatha Christie mystery was "Murder in the Calais Coach" Murder on the Orient Express |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | "TEN"TERTAINMENT $800: In the U.S. this Agatha Christie mystery was known as "And Then There Were None" Ten Little Indians |
| #7744, aired 2018-04-19 | WORLD PLAYS $800: This author's murder mystery "The Mousetrap" has been performed in London for 65 straight years Agatha Christie |
| #7705, aired 2018-02-23 | PICTURE THE WRITER $400: There's nothing like a dame, particularly this dame surrounded by her mystery novels Agatha Christie |
| #7668, aired 2018-01-03 | NOVELS WITHIN NOVELS $2,500 (Daily Double): She created fictional mystery writer Ariadne Oliver, author of "The Affair of the Second Goldfish" Agatha Christie |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | WORDS WITH ENEMIES $1000: Agatha Christie & Philip Roth both have books called this, a word from myth for a formidable opponent Nemesis |
| #7589, aired 2017-09-14 | THE ORIENT EXPRESS $800: As well as a mystery novel, she wrote a short story set on the Express, "Have You Got Everything You Want?" Agatha Christie |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | LITERARY SPOILER ALERT! $2000: In this Agatha Christie tale, one by one, 9 criminals who had previously escaped justice meet their fate Ten Little Indians (or And Then There Were None) |
| #7511, aired 2017-04-17 | BODY PART TITLES $200: "The Moving Finger" was Agatha Christie's fourth mystery featuring this elderly amateur sleuth Miss Marple |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | PICK YOUR POISON $400: Agatha Christie taught us it smells like bitter almonds:
cyanide,
nicotine,
opium cyanide |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: Her book "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding & Other Stories" featured Miss Jane Marple & Hercule Poirot (Agatha) Christie |
| #7413, aired 2016-11-30 | SHORT STORIES $400: In Agatha Christie's "The Tuesday Club Murders", this detective & her friends gather to swap tales Miss Marple |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | VERY CLEVER $800: The browser ploy with this Agatha Christie-esque name keeps users at a website by disabling the back button a mouse trap |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES $400: A true story of how a train got stuck in snow for days inspired Agatha Christie to write this mystery Murder on the Orient Express |
| #7311, aired 2016-05-30 | FEMALE BOOK CHARACTERS $800: "Sleeping Murder" is billed as the last case of this Agatha Christie character Miss Marple |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: Starring Detective Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's 1st murder mystery was titled "The Mysterious Affair at" this estate Styles |
| #7184, aired 2015-12-03 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: OBITUARIES $200: Obituary subjects are real people, but this Belgian detective created by Agatha Christie merited a Page 1 obit in 1975 (Hercule) Poirot |
| #7180, aired 2015-11-27 | FEMALE NOVELISTS $200: She wrote 6 romance novels under the pen name Mary Westmacott but is better known for her many mysteries Agatha Christie |
| #7108, aired 2015-07-08 | AN AGATHA CHRISTIE MYSTERY $400: "The Mirror Crack'd" was dedicated to Margaret Rutherford, who played this sleuth on film Miss Marple |
| #7108, aired 2015-07-08 | AN AGATHA CHRISTIE MYSTERY $800: The Temple of Abu Simbel is one of the stops on a cruise in this 1937 mystery Death on the Nile |
| #7108, aired 2015-07-08 | AN AGATHA CHRISTIE MYSTERY $1200: Agatha adapted her 1947 radio story "Three Blind Mice" into this long-running stage play The Mousetrap |
| #7108, aired 2015-07-08 | AN AGATHA CHRISTIE MYSTERY $1,600 (Daily Double): In this 1934 novel the solution to the murder is revealed in a dining car Murder on the Orient Express |
| #7108, aired 2015-07-08 | AN AGATHA CHRISTIE MYSTERY $2000: This title object "falls" in the 1975 novel that kills off Hercule Poirot Curtain (curtains accepted) |
| #7073, aired 2015-05-20 | THAT MOVIE TITLE IS LEGAL $2000: Marlene Dietrich is called as this, the title of a film based on a play by Agatha Christie Witness for the Prosecution |
| #7048, aired 2015-04-15 | WOMEN ON A PEDESTAL $200: It's no mystery--this novelist is honored in London's West End (Agatha) Christie |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1000: Sharing the nickname "The Queen of Crime" are Agatha Christie & this author of the Adam Dalgliesh mysteries P.D. James |
| #7007, aired 2015-02-17 | BOOK BUILDING $1200: Agatha Christie's "Murder at the Vicarage" introduced this spinster sleuth Miss Marple |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | BLUNT FORCE DRAMA $400: After hearing this children's rhyme in an Agatha Christie play, William Blore dies from a bashed head "Ten Little Indians" |
| #6934, aired 2014-11-06 | PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY $400: A collection of short stories, her "Miss Marple's Final Cases" was published in 1979 Agatha Christie |
| #6849, aired 2014-05-29 | SHORT STORIES $800: Agatha Christie's collection "Thirteen for Luck" includes 3 stories about this spinster Miss Marple |
| #6813, aired 2014-04-09 | YOUR OWN 2 "Y"S $1200: It precedes "of the Spanish Chest" in the title of an Agatha Christie story that's not about Penelope Cruz Mystery |
| #6758, aired 2014-01-22 | LITERATURE CATS WOULD LOVE $400: This Agatha Christie play that features Detective Sergeant Trotter is something most cats would love to have The Mousetrap |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | SOLVE THE MYSTERY TITLE $800: Agatha Christie's
"The Mirror ____ from Side to Side" Crack'd |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | NOVEL NARRATORS $400: We find out a surprise about the narrator at the end of her 1926 mystery "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" Agatha Christie |
| #6681, aired 2013-10-07 | INTERNATIONAL MEN OF MYSTERY $1600: Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot is a refugee from Germany's World War I invasion of this country Belgium |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | LITERARY SECOND BANANAS $1200: This Agatha Christie sleuth is fond of his chronicler Arthur Hastings but thinks he's a bit of an imbecile Hercule Poirot |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | GEOGRAPHIC TITLES $400: Agatha Christie: "Death on the _____" Nile |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: This Agatha Christie detective lives in the cozy English village of St. Mary Mead Miss Marple |
| #6492, aired 2012-12-04 | WORLD AUTHORS $400: In the 1920s this Brit bought a house that she named "Styles", after her novel "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" (Agatha) Christie |
| #6420, aired 2012-07-13 | AGATHA CHRISTIE BOOKS $200: This crime "at the Vicarage" Murder |
| #6420, aired 2012-07-13 | AGATHA CHRISTIE BOOKS $400: "And Then There Were" this many None |
| #6420, aired 2012-07-13 | AGATHA CHRISTIE BOOKS $600: This object "Crack'd from Side to Side" The Mirror |
| #6420, aired 2012-07-13 | AGATHA CHRISTIE BOOKS $800: "The Body in" this room of the house the library |
| #6420, aired 2012-07-13 | AGATHA CHRISTIE BOOKS $1000: "Cat Among" these birds the pigeon |
| #6380, aired 2012-05-18 | "A.C." $400: Here's a mystery: she wrote romantic novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott Agatha Christie |
| #6349, aired 2012-04-05 | MURDER, SHE WROTE $400: "The Murder at the Vicarage"
(1930) Agatha Christie |
| #6295, aired 2012-01-20 | FAMOUS WOMEN $1200: She's seen here, perhaps contemplating a creative homicide Agatha Christie |
| #6222, aired 2011-10-11 | SHE CREATED HIM $1000: Hercule Poirot Agatha Christie |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $200: Published posthumously, "Sleeping Murder" was her last novel to feature miss Jane Marple Agatha Christie |
| #6079, aired 2011-02-03 | CHICKS DIG ME $800: This mystery author & her archaeologist hubby dug in hopes of finding the lost Syrian city of Urkesh Agatha Christie |
| #5972, aired 2010-07-27 | I LOVE A MYSTERY $1200: This Agatha Christie spinster first appeared in print in the 1926 short story "The Tuesday Night Club" Miss Marple |
| #5936, aired 2010-06-07 | LITERARY DEDICATIONS $200: She dedicated the murder mystery "Hallowe'en Party" to fellow Brit P.G. Wodehouse Agatha Christie |
| #5934, aired 2010-06-03 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: This 1937 Agatha Christie novel is set on the steamer Karnak as it cruises down an African river Death on the Nile |
| #5893, aired 2010-04-07 | DRAWN-OUT DRAMAS $1200: With over 20,000 performances, the longest-running show in London's West End is this Agatha Christie play The Mousetrap |
| #5843, aired 2010-01-27 | MYSTERY FICTION $800: In 1953 she adapted her short story "Witness for the Prosecution" for the London stage (Agatha) Christie |
| #5831, aired 2010-01-11 | THE '30s WEREN'T ALL DEPRESSING $400: In April 1930 the first 3 mysteries involving her were published & became an instant success Nancy Drew |
| #5773, aired 2009-10-21 | GRANDMA $800: Thanks, Grandma! This British lady gave her 9-year-old grandson the rights to her play "The Mousetrap" Agatha Christie |
| #5770, aired 2009-10-16 | "LAST" NOVELS $800: "Curtain" by Agatha Christie is subtitled "Poirot's" this Last Case |
| #5735, aired 2009-07-10 | THE NIFTY 1930s $2,600 (Daily Double): Agatha Christie set Hercule Poirot afloat on a boat called the Karnak in this exotic 1937 novel Death on the Nile |
| #5677, aired 2009-04-21 | THE BUTLER DID IT $400: Butler Thomas Rogers, as well as his wife, are murdered in her novel "And Then There Were None" Agatha Christie |
| #5643, aired 2009-03-04 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: "Curtain: Poirot's last case" was supposed to be published after her death but was released during her lifetime Agatha Christie |
| #5604, aired 2009-01-08 | GEORGES THE BELGIAN WAFFLER $1600: For Georges, when it comes to Belgian detectives of literature, it's this Agatha Christie guy or... that's kinda it (Hercule) Poirot |
| #5525, aired 2008-09-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Hmm... a murderer has somehow escaped from a locked room in her 1938 mystery "Hercule Poirot's Christmas" Agatha Christie |
| #5513, aired 2008-07-23 | STORIED HOTELS $800: She often stayed at Brown's Hotel in London, & it's said that it inspired her mystery novel "At Bertram's Hotel" Agatha Christie |
| #5490, aired 2008-06-20 | AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS $1200: In "The Big Four", Agatha Christie gave him a mysterious "twin brother" named Achille Hercule Poirot |
| #5481, aired 2008-06-09 | BOOKS OF THE '70s $200: This prolific British mystery writer's last published novel was 1976's "Sleeping Murder" Agatha Christie |
| #5440, aired 2008-04-11 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $2000: In 1964's "From Doon with Death", she introduced Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford Ruth Rendell |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: It was curtains for Hercule Poirot in her 1975 mystery "Curtain" Agatha Christie |
| #5404, aired 2008-02-21 | THEM LITERATURE TYPE FACTS $1000: It's no mystery that she was born in 1890 in Devon, England, wrote 67 novels under this name & 6 as Mary Westmacott Agatha Christie |
| #5342, aired 2007-11-27 | FIRST NAMES $800: This first name of Miss Marple's creator comes from a word that means "good" Agatha |
| #5233, aired 2007-05-16 | FAMOUS NICKNAMES $600: Jan. 12, 1976 news could say, "The Queen is dead!"--this mystery writer called the "Queen of Crime" Agatha Christie |
| #5148, aired 2007-01-17 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: She described "And Then There Were None" as "a better piece of craftsmanship than anything else" she wrote Agatha Christie |
| #5113, aired 2006-11-29 | HE SAID, SHE SAID $200: In "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" she wrote, "Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend" Agatha Christie |
| #5097, aired 2006-11-07 | GET YOUR LITERARY FACTS STRAIGHT $400: Agatha Christie:
"Death On The Nile";
Thomas Mann:
"Death In" this city Venice |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $1200: It's no mystery that this Englishwoman wrote romantic fiction under the pen name Mary Westmacott Agatha Christie |
| #4985, aired 2006-04-21 | TITLES FROM SHAKESPEARE $1600: This long-running Agatha Christie drama references the play-within-a-play in "Hamlet" The Mousetrap (A Mousetrap accepted) |
| #4981, aired 2006-04-17 | MYSTERY HISTORY $2000: Agatha Christie was staying in Aswan when she wrote this 1937 mystery about a young woman's murder Death on the Nile |
| #4911, aired 2006-01-09 | BRING OUT YOUR DEAD $400: She sold more than 100 million books before her non-mysterious Jan. 12, 1976 death in Wallingford, England Agatha Christie |
| #4893, aired 2005-12-14 | ARSENIC $600: A case of arsenic poisoning is deftly solved in this author's 1932 story "The Tuesday Night Club" Agatha Christie |
| #4792, aired 2005-06-07 | MOVIE LOCATIONS $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a ship in Egypt.) The 1978 movie of this Agatha Christie mystery was partly filmed here in Egypt Death on the Nile |
| #4788, aired 2005-06-01 | UNREAL ESTATE $2,000 (Daily Double): A weekend party at a mansion called Chimneys turns deadly in her 1925 novel "The Secret Of Chimneys" Agatha Christie |
| #4747, aired 2005-04-05 | THEATRE $1200: The setting for this Agatha Christie play is Monkswell Manor during a snowstorm Mousetrap |
| #4615, aired 2004-10-01 | ENGLISH LIT $200: Published in 1976, her last Miss Marple case, "Sleeping Murder", was actually written during WWII (Agatha) Christie |
| #4600, aired 2004-09-10 | DETECTIVE FICTION $800: She also created the detectives Tuppence & Tommy Beresford Agatha Christie |
| #4573, aired 2004-06-23 | MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING $200: Completes the title of the 1939 book by Agatha Christie "And Then There Were..." None |
| #4553, aired 2004-05-26 | 1990 $600: In gardening news, a pink climber was named for this mystery author to celebrate her centenary Agatha Christie |
| #4548, aired 2004-05-19 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): Agatha Christie called a man in this job "the best husband... the older she gets, the more interested he is" an archaeologist |
| #4502, aired 2004-03-16 | STORIED HOTELS $200: Hercule Poirot sups at the Savoy in this woman's novel "Lord Edgware Dies" Agatha Christie |
| #4438, aired 2003-12-17 | ENGLISHWOMEN $800: When her sister complained she couldn't find a good, puzzling murder mystery, she set out to write one Agatha Christie |
| #4287, aired 2003-04-01 | CEREMONIES $1600: These ancient religious rites that include the Eleusinian ones sound like they were created by Agatha Christie mysteries |
| #4258, aired 2003-02-19 | DINNER THEATER $200: A fine cheese selection is laid out for this Agatha Christie mystery play that debuted in 1952 The Mousetrap |
| #4246, aired 2003-02-03 | SHORT STORIES $1600: Miss Marple & her friends meet once a week to solve mysteries in "The Tuesday Club Murders" by this author Agatha Christie |
| #4209, aired 2002-12-12 | AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS $200: She introduced Hercule Poirot in her first novel, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" Agatha Christie |
| #4183, aired 2002-11-06 | HOW NOVEL $600: Agatha Christie mystery in which an heiress is murdered on an Egyptian cruise "Death on the Nile" |
| #4096, aired 2002-05-27 | KILLER MUSICALS $1000: The murder mystery musical "Something's Afoot" parodies the plot of this author's "Ten Little Indians" Agatha Christie |
| #4091, aired 2002-05-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: This prolific British mystery writer's last published novel was 1976's "Sleeping Murder" Agatha Christie |
| #4066, aired 2002-04-15 | A CHRISTIE MYSTERY $200: An American businessman is murdered on a snowbound train in this 1934 Agatha Christie mystery Murder on the Orient Express |
| #4066, aired 2002-04-15 | A CHRISTIE MYSTERY $400: Agatha regretted making this spinster sleuth so old in her first cases -- she'd have been about 110 in "Nemesis" Miss Marple |
| #4066, aired 2002-04-15 | A CHRISTIE MYSTERY $1000: Agatha Christie adapted her short radio play "Three Blind Mice" into this long-running play The Mousetrap |
| #4041, aired 2002-03-11 | THE FICTION FILE $600: Don't let anyone spoil it by giving you the ending of her book "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" Dame Agatha Christie |
| #3995, aired 2002-01-04 | THEATRE CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $200: Title device "sprung" by Agatha Christie (9) Mousetrap |
| #3992, aired 2002-01-01 | FAMOUS MOUSTACHES $800: Mais oui, a carefully waxed moustache is a prominent facial feature of this Agatha Christie detective Hercule Poirot |
| #3965, aired 2001-11-23 | ALL LIT UP $1,000 (Daily Double): Name shared by a Shakespearean play-within-a-play & a long-running Agatha Christie play that premiered in 1952 The Mousetrap |
| #3948, aired 2001-10-31 | INSPIRED CHARACTERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Some of her books feature her alter ego Ariadne Oliver, creator of a fictional Finnish detective Agatha Christie |
| #3919, aired 2001-09-20 | WHO DUNNIT? $100: "Murder on the Orient Express" Agatha Christie |
| #3892, aired 2001-07-03 | COMMUNITY THEATER $200: Miss Marple dramatically solves this author's "Murder at the Vicarage" Agatha Christie |
| #3830, aired 2001-04-06 | IT'S A MYSTERY $100: "Spider's Web" in 2000 was the third adaptation of one of her plays into a novel Agatha Christie |
| #3743, aired 2000-12-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: This author of "A Cry in the Night" & "We'll Meet Again" is known as the queen of suspense Mary Higgins Clark |
| #3661, aired 2000-07-03 | LET GEORGES DO IT $400: If Georges Nagelmackers hadn't set up this railroad line in 1883, we'd have 1 less Agatha Christie novel Orient Express |
| #3654, aired 2000-06-22 | PEN NAMES $200: Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller used this married name as a pen name, even after divorcing her first husband Agatha Christie |
| #3520, aired 1999-12-17 | JANES ADDICTION $600: She's an Agatha Christie detective Miss Jane Marple |
| #3518, aired 1999-12-15 | FICTIONAL DETECTIVES $500: The first detective created by Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot |
| #3422, aired 1999-06-22 | FAMOUS LASTS $500: This author's last puvblished novel using her first major character was "Curtain: Hercule Poirot's Last Case" Agatha Christie |
| #3369, aired 1999-04-08 | BRIT LIT $200: She dedicated her book "The Mirror Crack'd" to Margaret Rutherford, who played Miss Marple in several films Agatha Christie |
| #3304, aired 1999-01-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $500: Miss Marple creator once married to Billy Joel Agatha Christie Brinkley |
| #3285, aired 1998-12-11 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $200: Agatha Christie's mysteries solved by this detective were often chronicled by his sidekick Arthur Hastings Hercule Poirot |
| #3269, aired 1998-11-19 | NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: This play by Agatha Christie that opened in 1952 is still running; they'll never build a better one The Mousetrap |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | MURDER, SHE WROTE $200: This crafter of murder mysteries seen here caused a mystery herself by vanishing for 10 days in 1926 Agatha Christie |
| #3241, aired 1998-10-12 | AUTHORS $200: "Sleeping Murder", her last Miss Jane Marple novel, was published posthumously in 1976 Agatha Christie |
| #3206, aired 1998-07-06 | SAINTS' DAYS $300: It's no mystery Christie & Sayers celebrated these 2 saints on February 5 & 6 Agatha & Dorothy |
| #3147, aired 1998-04-14 | OLD YORK $500: These medieval plays, none by Agatha Christie, are performed in a cycle at York every 4 years Mystery plays |
| #3131, aired 1998-03-23 | "NONE" $100: This Agatha Christie mystery was also published as "Ten Little Indians" And Then There were None |
| #3017, aired 1997-10-14 | FICTIONAL DETECTIVES $200: She said WWI Belgian refugees influenced her characterization of Hercule Poirot Agatha Christie |
| #2963, aired 1997-06-18 | AUTHORS $400: She gave her share of the film rights to "Witness For The Prosecution" to her daughter Rosalind Agatha Christie |
| #2951, aired 1997-06-02 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: "The Mirror Crack'd" is one of several of her novels to feature Miss Jane Marple Agatha Christie |
| #2922, aired 1997-04-22 | DRAMA $400: Still running in London after 44 years, this Agatha Christie play is set at Monkswell Manor in a snowstorm The Mousetrap |
| #2886, aired 1997-03-03 | AUTHORS $100: In 1930, 2 years after divorcing Archibald Christie, she married archaeologist Max Mallowan Agatha Christie |
| #2861, aired 1997-01-27 | BRITISH AUTHORS $200: She introduced Hercule Poirot in her very first novel, "The Mysterious Affair At Styles" Agatha Christie |
| #2856, aired 1997-01-20 | WOMEN NOVELISTS $1,100 (Daily Double): She hopes to conclude her alphabet mysteries with "Z" around the year 2015 Sue Grafton |
| #2855, aired 1997-01-17 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $200: This Belgian created by Agatha Christie became a sleuth after retiring from the police force Hercule Poirot |
| #2812, aired 1996-11-19 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $400: Agatha Christie wrote, "I believe a speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound" Hercule Poirot |
| #2706, aired 1996-05-13 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $300: Her mysteries include "Murder in Mesopotamia", "Murder at Hazelmoor" & "Murder on the Orient Express" Agatha Christie |
| #2697, aired 1996-04-30 | DRAMA $200: Agatha Christie based this drama on her own radio play "Three Blind Mice" The Mousetrap |
| #2668, aired 1996-03-20 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $400: Agatha Christie's famous detective Hercule Poirot hails from this country Belgium |
| #2624, aired 1996-01-18 | AUTHORS $600: In 1971 this novelist was named Dame Commander in the Order of the British Empire Agatha Christie |
| #2608, aired 1995-12-27 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $200: Hercule Poirot is at the dentist's office at the beginning of her novel "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" Agatha Christie |
| #2582, aired 1995-11-21 | NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS $100: She based her 1945 play "Appointment With Death" on her mystery novel of the same name Agatha Christie |
| #2545, aired 1995-09-29 | NOTABLE WOMEN $200: As a teenager this grande dame of mystery authors studied singing in Paris Agatha Christie |
| #2531, aired 1995-09-11 | MYSTERIES $200: Her daughter Carol Higgins Clark published her first mystery in 1992 Mary Higgins Clark |
| #2510, aired 1995-06-30 | WOMEN AUTHORS $200: She wrote "The Mystery of the Blue Train" as well as "Murder on the Orient Express" Agatha Christie |
| #2504, aired 1995-06-22 | WOMEN AUTHORS $200: She thought she'd ruined her novel "The Hollow" by putting in Poirot, so she cut him out of the play Agatha Christie |
| #2417, aired 1995-02-21 | WOMEN AUTHORS $200: She was born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in Torquay, England in 1890 Agatha Christie |
| #2412, aired 1995-02-14 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: In her 1975 novel "Curtain", detective Hercule Poirot, dies Agatha Christie |
| #2389, aired 1995-01-12 | WOMEN AUTHORS $200: She introduced Miss Jane Marple in her 1930 novel "Murder at the Vicarage" Agatha Christie |
| #2381, aired 1995-01-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $200: She said, "Miss Marple insinuated herself so quietly into my life that I hardly noticed her arrival" Agatha Christie |
| #2354, aired 1994-11-24 | SHORT STORIES $100: In 1961, she published "Thirteen for Luck", a selection of mystery stories for young readers Agatha Christie |
| #2341, aired 1994-11-07 | ENGLISH LIT. $300: This Miss Marple creator was one of the 1st authors to be published in a Penguin paperback Agatha Christie |
| #2296, aired 1994-09-05 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $800: She wrote several novels, including "The Burden", under the "Mysterious" pseudonym Mary Westmacott Agatha Christie |
| #2290, aired 1994-07-15 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $400: Chapter 1 of this Agatha Christie novel is titled "An Important Passenger on the Taurus Express" Murder on the Orient Express |
| #2272, aired 1994-06-21 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $400: The "Final Cases" of this Agatha Christie heroine was published in 1979 Miss Marple |
| #2219, aired 1994-04-07 | THEATRE $200: The 1993 British play "Murder Is Easy" was adapted from a 1939 story by this woman Agatha Christie |
| #2188, aired 1994-02-23 | WOMEN AUTHORS $600: She never wanted Miss Marple & Hercule Poirot to meet because she was "sure they would not enjoy it at all" Agatha Christie |
| #2167, aired 1994-01-25 | QUEENLY NICKNAMES $400: This dame was the "queen of crime" Agatha Christie |
| #2154, aired 1994-01-06 | THE BRITISH THEATRE $200: "Alibi", the first play based on an Agatha Christie novel, featured Charles Laughton as this detective Hercule Poirot |
| #2140, aired 1993-12-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Her book "Death on the Nile" opens outside the Cataract Hotel at Aswan Agatha Christie |
| #2117, aired 1993-11-16 | PLAYS $100: Much of her play "Murder on the Nile" takes place by the temple of Abu Simbel Agatha Christie |
| #2095, aired 1993-10-15 | MYSTERIES $200: She honeymooned on the Orient Express with her second husband before she wrote "Murder on the Orient Express" Agatha Christie |
| #2060, aired 1993-07-16 | MYSTERIES $200: Captain Hastings relates to the exploits of Hercule Poirot in her "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" Agatha Christie |
| #2025, aired 1993-05-28 | PRIVATE EYES $400: This Belgian known for using his little grey cells was created by Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot |
| #2011, aired 1993-05-10 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: In 1971 this author of "The Mousetrap" was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire Agatha Christie |
| #1992, aired 1993-04-13 | MYSTERIES $600: The title of her novel "The Mirror Crack'd" is a quote from Tennyson's poem "The Lady of Shalott" Agatha Christie |
| #1979, aired 1993-03-25 | AWARDS $500: In 1955 she won the first Edgar Allan Poe Grand Master Award Agatha Christie |
| #1975, aired 1993-03-19 | WOMEN WRITERS $600: She began her first novel, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles", while working at a hospital during WWI Agatha Christie |
| #1916, aired 1992-12-28 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: "'H' is for Homicide" is her 8th novel featuring female detective Kinsey Millhone Sue Grafton |
| #1903, aired 1992-12-09 | SPY FICTION $800: Tommy Beresford is assigned to track down 2 German agents in her 1941 novel "N or M?" Agatha Christie |
| #1902, aired 1992-12-08 | PEOPLE $500: In 1991 this British mystery author whose books include "Devices and Desires" was made a baroness P.D. James |
| #1892, aired 1992-11-24 | COURTROOM DRAMAS $600: In his final film role, Tyrone Power stood trial for killing a widow in this Agatha Christie drama Witness for the Prosecution |
| #1887, aired 1992-11-17 | MYSTERIES $300: Her book, "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd", was inspired partly by a suggestion from Lord Mountbatten Agatha Christie |
| #1867, aired 1992-10-20 | FICTIONAL DETECTIVES $400: This spinster sleuth was loosely based on Agatha Christie's own grandmother Miss Marple |
| #1831, aired 1992-07-13 | IDENTITY CRISIS $400: Female writer whose brief disappearance in 1926 was blamed on amnesia—what a "mystery" Agatha Christie |
| #1738, aired 1992-03-04 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Her character Hercule Poirot retired from the Belgian police in 1904 & became an amateur sleuth Agatha Christie |
| #1705, aired 1992-01-17 | MYSTERIES $200: She wrote "Murder with Mirrors" & "The Mirror Crack'd" Agatha Christie |
| #1613, aired 1991-09-11 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $100: The alternate title of her "Murder on the Orient Express" is "Murder on the Calais Coach" Agatha Christie |
| #1587, aired 1991-06-25 | PLAYWRIGHTS $200: She wrote "Witness for the Prosecution" as well as "The Mousetrap" Agatha Christie |
| #1581, aired 1991-06-17 | NAME THE AUTHOR $400: "Murder at the Vicarage" Agatha Christie |
| #1571, aired 1991-06-03 | THE 1970's $400: In 1975, Agatha Christie killed off this mustachioed detective in "Curtain" (Hercule) Poirot |
| #1544, aired 1991-04-25 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: She once said, "Give me a decent bottle of poison and I'll construct the perfect crime" (Agatha) Christie |
| #1524, aired 1991-03-28 | LITERARY SETTINGS $1000: In this Agatha Christie novel, 10 guests are enticed to a mysterious house party on Indian Island And Then There Were None* (Ten Little Indians**) |
| #1485, aired 1991-02-01 | MYSTERIES $200: The murders in "A Pocketful of Rye" by Agatha Christie are based on this nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence" |
| #1419, aired 1990-11-01 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: She wrote "Murder in Mesopotamia" after visiting the region with her archaeologist husband Agatha Christie |
| #1400, aired 1990-10-05 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): After Shakespeare she's the most widely translated English author Agatha Christie |
| #1391, aired 1990-09-24 | AUTHORS $200: "The Mysterious Affair at Styles", which introduced detective Hercule Poirot was this author's first novel Agatha Christie |
| #1382, aired 1990-09-11 | THEATRE $400: The first of her books to be dramatized was "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" which became the play "Alibi" Agatha Christie |
| #1346, aired 1990-06-11 | AGATHA CHRISTIE $200: The novel in which Mr. Ratchett is stabbed on a train -- 12 times "Murder on the Orient Express" |
| #1346, aired 1990-06-11 | AGATHA CHRISTIE $400: Dame Agatha thought this play might run for 8 months; it opened in 1952 & it's still running The Mousetrap |
| #1346, aired 1990-06-11 | AGATHA CHRISTIE $600: Much of this book takes place aboard the S.S. Karnak during an Egyptian cruise "Death on the Nile" |
| #1346, aired 1990-06-11 | AGATHA CHRISTIE $800: Christie said this female detective always expected the worst of everyone, & was usually right Miss Marple |
| #1346, aired 1990-06-11 | AGATHA CHRISTIE $1000: Many people wanted her to change the surprise ending of this '53 courtroom drama, but she refused Witness for the Prosecution |
| #1279, aired 1990-03-08 | PEN NAMES $600: We don't know why this dame sometimes wrote under the name Mary Westmacott; it's a mystery to us Agatha Christie |
| #1195, aired 1989-11-10 | THEATER $400: The original cast of this Agatha Christie play featured Richard Attenborough as a detective, not a rodent The Mousetrap |
| #1189, aired 1989-11-02 | MODERN NOVELS $400: This beloved detective made her final appearance in Agatha Christie's "Sleeping Murder" Miss Marple |
| #1168, aired 1989-10-04 | MYSTERIES $100: The alternate title of this 1934 Agatha Christie novel is "Murder in the Calais Coach" Murder on the Orient Express |
| #1126, aired 1989-06-26 | MYSTERIES $200: The 1926 novel "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" made this mystery author world famous Agatha Christie |
| #1117, aired 1989-06-13 | MOVIES IN TV GUIDE $200: "Egyptian locations enhance this star-studded Agatha Christie whodunit" Death on the Nile |
| #1077, aired 1989-04-18 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): This 1934 Agatha Christie novel opens on a winter's morning at a train station in Syria Murder on the Orient Express |
| #1060, aired 1989-03-24 | FICTION $400: She may have been a "dame", but you'd never say that about her famous character Miss Jane Marple Agatha Christie |
| #1046, aired 1989-03-06 | THEATER $1,600 (Daily Double): This Agatha Christie play opens with the music of "3 Blind Mice" followed by a piercing scream The Mousetrap |
| #872, aired 1988-05-24 | MOVIE AUTHORS $600: Her mysterious disappearance in 1926 inspired a 1979 film starring Vanessa Redgrave Agatha Christie |
| #866, aired 1988-05-16 | "TEN" MOVIES $400: Nursery rhyme title of 2 remakes of the Agatha Christie classic "And Then There Were None" Ten Little Indians |
| #840, aired 1988-04-08 | ACTRESSES $1000: Ruta Lee played Tyrone Power's secret lover in this 1957 film based on a play by Agatha Christie Witness for the Prosecution |
| #782, aired 1988-01-19 | AFRICA ON FILM $200: In film of Agatha Christie's book, Angela Lansbury & Mia Farrow both found "Death on" this river the Nile |
| #732, aired 1987-11-10 | GREAT DAMES $200: In 1952, she sprang her "Mousetrap" Agatha Christie |
| #715, aired 1987-10-16 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Guinness calls her the top-selling woman crime writer of all time Agatha Christie |
| #701, aired 1987-09-28 | FICTIONAL DETECTIVES $400: The Ency. of Mystery & Detection says she was loosely based on Agatha Christie's grandmother Miss Marple |
| #660, aired 1987-06-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $100: "Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend" she wrote in her 1st Hercule Poirot novel Agatha Christie |
| #551, aired 1987-01-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Agatha Christie's 1st novel, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles", introduced this Belgian detective (Hercule) Poirot |
| #524, aired 1986-12-11 | 20th C. AUTHORS $600: In her very 1st book, she introduced Hercule Poirot Agatha Christie |
| #371, aired 1986-02-10 | THE LONGEST $400: Longest continuous run of any show is London performance of "The Mousetrap" by this author Agatha Christie |
| #336, aired 1985-12-23 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Queen of mysteries who also wrote "straight" novels under the name Mary Westmacott Agatha Christie |
| #324, aired 1985-12-05 | THE '70s $1000: In 1975 Agatha Christie killed off the hero in this final, appropriately titled, Hercule Poirot novel Curtain |
| #9, aired 1984-09-20 | MYSTERIES $400: She's Agatha Christie's ageless amateur detective Miss (Jane) Marple |
