Plays
- 1930 Black Coffee (Novelised by Charles Osborne in 1998 as Black Coffee)
- 1943 And Then There Were None (Based on the 1939 novel Ten Little Indians)
- 1944 Murder on the Nile/Hidden Horizon (Based on the 1937 novel Death on the Nile)
- 1945 Appointment with Death (Based on the 1938 novel Appointment with Death)
- 1951 The Hollow (Based on the 1946 novel The Hollow)
- 1952 The Mousetrap (Based on the 1948 short story Three Blind Mice)
- 1953 Witness for the Prosecution (Based on the short story The Witness for the Prosecution)
- 1954 Spider's Web (Novelised by Charles Osborne in 2000 as Spider's Web)
- 1956 A Daughter's a Daughter (Written as a play in the late 1930s. Performed professionally once. Unpublished but turned into the 1952 Mary Westmacott novel A Daughter's a Daughter)
- 1956 Towards Zero (Based on the 1944 novel Towards Zero)
- 1958 Verdict
- 1958 The Unexpected Guest (Novelised by Charles Osborne in 1999 as The Unexpected Guest)
- 1960 Go Back for Murder (Based on the 1942 novel Five Little Pigs)
- 1962 Rule of Three (Comprising Afternoon at the Seaside, The Rats and The Patient)
- 1972 Fiddler's Three (Originally written as Fiddler's Five. Unpublished.)
- 1973 Akhnaton (Written in 1937)
- 2003 Chimneys (Written in 1931, but unperformed for 72 years. Based on the 1925 novel The Secret of Chimneys. Unpublished.)
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