Christie Victims A to Z (nearly!) Quiz

Answer: Kings Abbot

Roger was stabbed. This is perhaps one of Poirot's most famous cases - discounting 'Murder on the Orient Express' and 'Death on the Nile'.

Answer: Devon

Blore died from a blow to the head. One by one, the guests are systematically murdered, in different ways. 'And Then There Were None' is known by other names. It is a very famous Christie novel with no main detective.

Answer: On a train

'Murder is Easy', is also known as 'Easy to Kill'. Miss Pinkerton is also known as Miss Fullerton, in some books. Harry was drowned before the book began. He was not well liked, although he was the local innkeeper.

Answer: Charles Windlesham

This is another famous Poirot case, 'Death on the Nile'. Poirot is on holiday, but murder is not far away. Linnet is one of three victims, she was shot.

Answer: Study

This is also known as 'Thirteen at Dinner' and is a Poirot novel. Lord Edgeware was stabbed. He was married to Jane Wilkinson, but he refused to give her a divorce, so she could marry the Duke of Merton.

Answer: Banker

"Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie
When the pie was opened, the birds began to sing
Wasn't that a dainty dish to set before a King?"
This mystery novel was based on the famous nursery rhyme. Rex died from taxine poisoning. Rex, of course, means "King". Miss Marple investigates when one of her former maids dies.

Answer: Irish

Mickey was shot. This is a Miss Marple novel. She comes to stay at Bertram's Hotel, where she stayed as a child. She is concerned, as the hotel doesn't seem to have changed since she was last there. But there are things going on in the background.

Answer: Truth

Miss Marple reads that Jason Rafiel, the millionaire - who she met in 'A Caribbean Mystery' - has died. But before he died, he set her a little problem - to clear the name of his son, who is in jail for murdering his girlfriend.

Answer: Strychnine poisoning

Emily is unique, as she became Agatha Christie's very first murder victim. It was also Hercule Poirot's first published case.

Answer: A bottle of pills

The pills, for high blood pressure, were placed in the dead man's room so that his death would appear to be as a result of this, when in fact he was poisoned. Victoria was stabbed. Miss Jane Marple is holidaying in the Caribbean. Another guest tells her that he will show her a picture of a murderer. But before he does so, he dies.

Answer: Josephine Turner

Miss Marple investigates when the body of a beautiful girl is found in her friend's library, at Gossington Hall. Another body is also found in a burnt out car.

Answer: Enderby Hall

'After the Funeral' is also known as 'Funerals are Fatal'. It was also made into a film 'Murder at the Gallop', featuring Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple. However, the original novel features Hercule Poirot. Cora was killed with a hatchet. Miss Gilchrist was sent wedding cake laced with arsenic and almost died.

Answer: Chipping Cleghorn

In the local newspaper, there is an advertisement that there will be at murder at Little Paddocks, the home of Miss Letitia Blacklock, at 6.30 pm. Friends are welcome to attend. Miss Marple investigates the case.

Answer: Singapore

'Hickory Dickory Dock' is also known as 'Hickory Dickory Death'. Mrs Nicoletis died of morphine poisoning. Poirot's secretary, the efficient Miss Lemon, seems distracted from her work. She explains that strange things have been going on at a student hostel, where her sister works.

Answer: Bill Eversleigh

Prince Michael was shot. This was Superintendent Battle's first published case. Anthony Cade helps him.

Answer: Leahampton

Vanda was shot through the head. This is a Tommy and Tuppence Beresford mystery. They eventually adopt the victim's child. Betty Sprot becomes Betty Beresford.

Answer: 12

This is probably one of Hercule Poirot's most well known novels. The Orient Express is stranded in a snowdrift. And there is a murder on board.

Answer: Nicotine poisoning

'Three Act Tragedy' is also known as 'Murder in Three Acts'. The actor, Charles Cartwright, hosts a dinner party, where a mild-mannered Reverend is murdered. There are three deaths in the Poirot novel.

Answer: Gull Point

This is also known as 'Come and be Killed' and is another Superintendent Battle mystery. A husband brings his second wife to stay with his guardian's wife, but unfortunately, his first wife is also there. The husband gets along well with his first wife, but his second wife is jealous of her. Lady Tressilian was battered to death, in her bed.

Answer: Actress

This is also known as 'Blood Will Tell'. Laura was strangled. This is a Poirot novel. An old charwoman has been murdered and her lodger has been arrested. But neither Poirot nor Superintendent Spence is convinced that he did it.

Answer: The Lusitania

Marguerite (or Rita) died after consuming a dose of chloral. This was Tommy and Tuppence Beresford's first novel. They are going to get married at the end of the book.

Answer: 6.30 am

Gerald dies of an overdose of choral. This book takes us back to Chimneys, the stately home that featured in 'The Secret of Chimneys'. We are re-introduced to several characters, including Superintendent Battle

Answer: Curtain

This is another unique book, as Agatha Christie killed off one of her most popular characters. X is also killed...but by whom?

Answer: Egypt

There are a lot of murders in this book, set in ancient Egypt. He is killed when he is impaled on an arrow.

Answer: Tennyson

Ella died when prussic acid was put in her atomiser. There is a grand fête at Gossington Hall, which is now owned by Marina Gregg, the famous actress, and her husband. But murder isn't far away.
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