Entah sejak kapan
aku mulai suka membaca novel karangan Agatha Christie ini. Mungkin sejak novel Agatha yang sering dipinjam sepupuku. Atau malah setelahnya. Setelah beberapa novelnya aku baca bersama kawan-kawan SMA-ku. Kalau
aku ingat-ingat, mungkin saja novel berjudul ‘One, Two, Buckle My Shoe’ atau yang berjudul ‘Cat among the Pigeons’ yang pertama kali aku
baca. Entahlah mana yang duluan. Aku
sudah agak lupa. Sudah lama sekali. Dari ke 39 judul yang
telah aku baca, yang paling ku senangi adalah ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’ dan ‘The Big Four’. Sangat mengesankan dan
tidak disangka-sangka.
Aku sangat suka pada gaya bahasa dan
kejutan-kejuatan yang disampaikan
oleh penulis. Tidak terduga. Aku sendiri memang suka dengan cerita
detektif dan cerita misterius yang tentunya masuk akal. Aku berupaya menerka siapa pelakunya tapi selalu
saja gagal. Benar-benar menakjubkan. Alur cerita dan penggambarannya yang
sangat menarik. Bahkan hingga lima halaman akhir dari novel tersebut aku masih
tidak tahu ke arah mana penyelesaiannya. Siapa pelakunya? Benar-benar hingga
halaman akhir barulah kita akan mengetahuinya.
No.
|
Judul
|
Tahun pembuatan
|
Tokoh Utama
|
1.
|
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
|
1920
|
Poirot
|
2.
|
The Secret Adversary
|
1922
|
Tommy & Tuppence
|
3.
|
Murder on the Links
|
1923
|
Poirot
|
4.
|
The Man in the Brown Suit
|
1924
|
Kolonel Race
|
5.
|
Poirot Investigates
|
1924
|
Poirot
|
6.
|
The Secret of Chimneys
|
1925
|
Inspektur Battle
|
7.
|
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
|
1926
|
Poirot
|
8.
|
The Big Four
|
1927
|
Poirot
|
9.
|
The Mystery of the Blue Train
|
1928
|
Poirot
|
10.
|
The Seven Dial Mystery
|
1929
|
|
11.
|
Partners in Crime
|
1929
|
Tommy & Tuppence
|
12.
|
The Murder at the Vicarage
|
1930
|
Miss Marple
|
13.
|
The Mysterious Mr. Quin
|
1930
|
Mr. Quin
|
14.
|
The Sittaford Mystery
|
1931
|
|
15.
|
Peril at End House
|
1932
|
Poirot
|
16.
|
The Thirteen Problems
|
1932
|
Miss Marple
|
17.
|
Lord Edgware Dies
|
1933
|
|
18.
|
The Hound of Death and Other
Stories
|
1933
|
Poirot
|
19.
|
Murder on the Orient Express
|
1934
|
Poirot
|
20.
|
The Listerdale Mystery
|
1934
|
|
21.
|
Why didn’t They Ask Evans?
|
1934
|
|
22.
|
Parker Pyne Investigates
|
1934
|
Parker Pyne
|
23.
|
Three-Act Tragedy
|
1934
|
Poirot
|
24.
|
Death in the Clouds
|
1935
|
Poirot
|
25.
|
The ABC Murders
|
1936
|
Poirot
|
26.
|
Murder Mesopotamia
|
1936
|
Poirot
|
27.
|
Cards on the Table
|
1936
|
Poirot
|
28.
|
Murder in the Mews
|
1937
|
Poirot
|
29.
|
Dumb Witness
|
1937
|
Poirot
|
30.
|
Death on the Nile
|
1937
|
Poirot
|
31.
|
Appointment with Death
|
1938
|
Poirot
|
32.
|
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
|
1939
|
Poirot
|
33.
|
Murder is Easy
|
1939
|
Inspektur Battle
|
34.
|
And then there were None
|
1939
|
|
35.
|
Sad Cypress
|
1940
|
Poirot
|
36.
|
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
|
1940
|
Poirot
|
37.
|
Evil Under the Sun
|
1941
|
Poirot
|
38.
|
N or M?
|
1941
|
Tommy & Tuppence
|
39.
|
The Body in the Library
|
1942
|
Miss Marple
|
40.
|
Five Little Pigs
|
1942
|
Poirot
|
41.
|
The Moving Finger
|
1943
|
Miss Marple
|
42.
|
Towards Zero
|
1944
|
Inspektur Battle
|
43.
|
Death Comes as the En
|
1945
|
|
44.
|
Sparkling Cyanide
|
1945
|
Kolonel Race
|
45.
|
The Hollow
|
1946
|
Poirot
|
46.
|
The Labours of Hercules
|
1947
|
Poirot
|
47.
|
Taken at the Flood
|
1948
|
Poirot
|
48.
|
The Crooked House
|
1949
|
|
49.
|
A Murder is Announced
|
1950
|
Miss Marple
|
50.
|
They Came to Baghdad
|
1951
|
|
51.
|
Mrs. McGinty’s Dead
|
1952
|
Poirot
|
52.
|
They Do it with Mirrors
|
1952
|
Miss Marple
|
53.
|
After the Funeral
|
1953
|
Poirot
|
54.
|
A Pocket Full of Rye
|
1953
|
Miss Marple
|
55.
|
Destination Unknown
|
1955
|
|
56.
|
Hickory Dickory Dock
|
1955
|
Poirot
|
57.
|
Dead Man’s Folly
|
1956
|
Poirot
|
58.
|
4:50 from Paddington
|
1957
|
Miss Marple
|
59.
|
Ordeal by Innocence
|
1958
|
|
60.
|
Cat among the Pigeons
|
1959
|
Poirot
|
61.
|
The Adventure of the Christmas
Pudding
|
1960
|
Poirot/Miss Marple
|
62.
|
The Pale Horse
|
1961
|
Ariadne Oliver
|
63.
|
The Mirror Crack’d from Side to
Side
|
1962
|
Miss Marple
|
64.
|
The Clocks
|
1963
|
Poirot
|
65.
|
A Caribbean Mystery
|
1964
|
Miss Marple
|
66.
|
At Bertram’s Hotel
|
1965
|
Miss Marple
|
67.
|
Third Girl
|
1966
|
Poirot
|
68.
|
Endless Night
|
1967
|
|
69.
|
By the Pricking of my Thumbs
|
1968
|
Tommy & Tuppence
|
70.
|
Hallowe’en Party
|
1969
|
Poirot
|
71.
|
Passenger to Frankfurt : an
Extravaganza
|
1970
|
|
72.
|
Nemesis
|
1971
|
Miss Marple
|
73.
|
Elephants Can Remember
|
1972
|
Poirot
|
74.
|
Postern of Fate
|
1973
|
Tommy & Tuppence
|
75.
|
Poirot’s Early Cases
|
1974
|
Poirot
|
76.
|
Curtain : Poirot’s Last Case
|
1975
|
Poirot
|
77.
|
Sleeping Murder
|
1976
|
Miss Marple
|
78.
|
Miss Marple’s Final Cases
|
1979
|
Miss Marple
|
79.
|
Problem at Pollensa Bay
|
1991
|
Parker Pyne/Poirot/Mr. Quin
|
80.
|
While the Light Lasts
|
1997
|
Nah,
itulah ke-80 buku karangan Agatha Christie yang ingin aku baca keseluruhannya.
Bagi kamu yang juga suka sama karangan-karangan Agatha Christie, mungkin ini
bisa jadi referensi atau juga target sama seperti aku. Hehe :)
aku baru punya 70an.
BalasHapus