Agatha Christie For Teens

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Hi
I would really appreciate any suggestions of Agatha Christie books for my 14 year old DD.
And any other murder mysteries!
Many thanks 😊

And Then There Were None is a good one (as is the history of its various titles over the years!)

Mine enjoy the Poirot books.

@ItsGoingTibiaK thanks for that iv added to that my wish list on Amazon, I might get that one for her stocking

Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce series is great. About an 11 yr old chemistry obsessed amateur sleuth solves a mysterious murder, think young Miss Marple!
They're not children's books despite the main character being a child though so you may want to give them the once over first.

Miss Marple is the best - The Body in the Library is the first one, I think, but Nemesis is the best one.

Another good standalone one is Murder Is Easy - not one of the main detectives but a good story. Murder on the Orient Express is great for Poirot.

My first ever Christie read as a teen was Murder on the Orient Express. I read it cover to cover in one sitting & was totally hooked from then on.

A really good Miss Marple is Sleeping Murder.

'The 4.50 from Paddington' is another.

The Mysterious Affair At Styles and the Pale Horse were my favourites as a teen. Also Sparkling Cyanide, Endless Night, By The Pricking of My Thumbs and Evil Under The Sun. Actually all of them...

When I was a teen I liked Poirot more than Miss Marple, who I didn't quite grasp.

Mary Higgins Clark

My favourite as a teen was the Miss Marple short story collection “The Blue Geranium & other stories”.

Also recommend the audio version read by the incomparable Joan Hickson.

I'd say any were great for teens. Robin Stevens has a series of detective novels - Murder Most Unladylike they are great books enjoyed at any age from 10+

My DD loved all the Miss Marple books at that age.

She has also enjoyed the No 1 ladies detective agency books.

Crooked house is a good one and is my 15 year old dd’s favourite, my favourites were always the Poirot ones.

Agree with Murder is easy too, another favourite of mine.

Some Christie standalones are quite good fun. The Man in the Brown Suit and They Came to Baghdad both have young women as the central character. Secret Adversary, the first Tommy and Tuppence book, is also quite good fun.

Dorothy L. Sayers is the other really big name in Golden Age crime fiction, but your DD might not be quite old enough yet. You could try her with The Nine Tailors, which is a standalone.

Some of Georgette Heyer's romances also have a mystery plot - The Talisman Ring, The Tollgate and The Reluctant Widow, for example. She also wrote murder mysteries set in her own time, not as good as Christie, imo.

Robin STevens' retro series is fun.

Josephine tey would be worth trying.

DD liked Sherlock Holmes.

I read quite a lot of Agatha Christies as a teen. I can't remember them all but one which stuck in my mind was The Mystery of the Blue Train.

I love them all but Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express are great reads.

@AndNoneForGretchenWieners
I love the Pale Horse. I’m hoping it’s going to be on tv the Christmas.
But in answer to the question I’d start with abc murders or death in the Nile or evil under the sun.

Mrs McGintys Dead and A Murder is Announced have been my favourites since my teens. Also recommend a Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie’s first novel and introduction to Poirot.

my 12 yo liked And Then There Were none, and Death Comes as the End. I quite like Christie, but they do need a warning regarding the racism and anti semitism.

She might like the Ngaio Marsh 'Alleyne' books too. They're mostly set in England, there's a few abroad, France, Italy and I think New Zealand. A clutch of constables is good.

Murder at the Vicarage is a good one to start with .

Cat among the pigeons is set in a boarding school and has teens as its protagonists. Poirot makes a late appearance! It is quite
A late Christie and quite modern!