Resources

Primary Resources

• Christie, Agatha.  An Autobiography.  New York: HarperCollins, 1977.
• Christie, Agatha.  The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories.  New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 1997.
• Christie, Agatha.  Murder on the Orient Express.  London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1934.
• Christie, Agatha. The Mysterious Affair at Styles.  London: The Bodley Head, 1921.
• Christie, Agatha.  The Mysterious Mr. Quin.  New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 1930.
• Christie, Agatha.  The Thirteen Problems.  London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1932.
• Christie, Agatha.  The Under Dog and Other Stories.  New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 1951.
• Curran, John.  Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks.  New York: Harper, 2009.
• Fido, Martin. The World of Agatha Christie.  London: Carlton, 1999.
• Harkup, Kathryn.  A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie.  Bloomsbury Sigma, 2015.
• Holgate, Mike.  Agatha Christie’s True Crime Inspirations. Gloucestershire: The History Press, 2010.
• Hurdle, Judith. The Getaway Guide to Agatha Christie’s England. Oakland: RDR Books, 1999.
• Morgan, Janet.  Agatha Christie: A Biography.  London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017.
• Osborne, Charles.  The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie.  London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1999.
• The Mystery of Agatha Christie.  Directed by Clare Lewins. 2014. PBS Direct. DVD.
• The New Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie.  Edited by Dick Riley and Pam McAllister.  New York: Ungar, 1979.
• Thompson, Laura.  Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life.  New York: Pegasus Books, 2018.

Additional Resources

• Adam, Alison. A History of Forensic Science: British Beginnings in the Twentieth Century. London: Routledge, 2016.
• Adam, Alison. “Sir Sydney Smith and the development of police forensic laboratories.” Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Accessed June 27, 2021. https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/sir-sydney-smith-and-development-police-forensic-laboratories
• “Alfred Lucas working in Tutankhamun’s tomb, 1923.” Wikimedia Commons. Accessed June 27, 2021. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Lucas_working_in_Tutankhamun%27s_tomb,_1923.png
• American Chemical Society. “Analytical Chemistry.” Accessed June 27, 2021. https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/careers/chemical-sciences/areas/analytical-chemistry.html
• Bailey, Penny. “Before DNA: 20th-century forensics.” Phys.org. Accessed June 27, 2021. https://phys.org/news/2011-09-dna-20th-century-forensics.html
• Barnes-Svarney, Patricia and Thomas E. Svarney. The Handy Forensic Science Answer Book. Detroit: Visible Ink, 2019.
• “Battle of the Marne: 6-10 September 1914.”  BBC History.  Accessed April 14, 2018. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/battle_marne.shtml
• Bell, Suzanne. Forensic Science: An Introduction to Scientific and Investigative Techniques, Fifth Edition. New York: CRC Press, 2019.
• “Billie Carleton.”  Unsolved Murders.  Accessed February 28, 2021.  http://www.unsolved-murders.co.uk/murder-content.php?key=3275&termRef=Billie%20Carleton
• “Billie Carleton (née Florence Lenora Stewart).”  National Portrait Gallery.  Accessed February 12, 2021.  https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp50656/billie-carleton-nee-florence-lenora-stewart
• Biondi, Alberto, et al.  Harlequin syndrome.  Images in Cardiothoracic Surgery.  2009;88(1):304.
• Cahill Jr., Richard T.  Hauptmann’s Ladder: A Step-by-Step Analysis of the Lindbergh Kidnapping.  Kent: The Kent State University Press, 2014.
• Canadian Society of Forensic Science. “What is Forensic Science.” Accessed June 27, 2021. https://www.csfs.ca/student-zone/student-zone/
• “Cesare Lombroso.” Wikimedia Commons. Accessed June 27, 2021. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cesare_Lombroso._Photogravure._Wellcome_V0026740_(cropped).jpg
• Chandler, Tracy.  “History and Origin of Pierrot the Clown.”  Just Posh Masks.  Accessed February 12, 2021.  https://www.justposhmasks.com/blog/history-of-pierrot/
• “The Clapham Crime.” Ballymena Observer. 18 Jan 1911.
• Cornett, Doug.  “Big Picture, Small Picture: Context for Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express.”  Ploughshares at Emerson College.  Accessed November 04, 2019.  http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/big-picture-small-picture-context-for-agatha-christies-murder-on-the-orient-express/
• Couttie, Bob.  “My First Murder – The Blue Anchor Scandal.”  All Things Crime.  Accessed May 29, 2018.  http://allthingscrimeblog.com/2013/06/04/my-first-murder-the-blue-anchor-scandal/
• “Crippen Case.” Westminster Gazette. 10 Sep 1910.
• “Crime Detection.” Linlithgowshire Gazette. 30 Sep 1938.
• Crossman, Edward C. Science Turns Detective. Scientific American. 1927;136(1):18-21.
• “Cyanide, inability to smell.”  Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man.  Accessed September 2, 2020.
• Devon, Brent.  “About Torquay – History.”  Torquay Now.  Accessed April 14, 2018.  http://www.torquaynow.co.uk/Torquay-History.html
• Donnelly, Marea.  “Real-life mystery behind Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express.”  The Daily Telegraph.  Accessed November 04, 2019.  https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/reallife-mystery-behind-agatha-christies-murder-on-the-orient-express/news-story/32ca22fb0467c9a5e27d612a3a7ae763
• “Dreyfus Drama.” The Daily Telegraph. 17 Aug 1899.
• “Dr Thomas Neill Cream.”  Casebook.  Accessed May 29, 2018.  http://www.casebook.org/suspects/cream.html
• Dyer, Chris. “Little Miss Marple! ‘Extremely rare’ photos reveal legendary crime writer Agatha Christie as a playful child at her Devon family home from 1895 to 1898.” Daily Mail. Accessed June 27, 2021. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7210173/Extremely-rare-photos-reveal-crime-writer-Agatha-Christie-child-Devon-family-home.html
• Egan, Timothy.  “Woman convicted of killing 2 in drug tampering.”  The New York Times.  Accessed September 2, 2020.  https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/10/us/woman-convicted-of-killing-2-in-drug-tampering.html
• Escobar, Natalie.  “What Was the Inspiration for ‘The Murder on the Orient Express’?”  Smithsonian Magazine.  Accessed November 04, 2019.  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-was-inspiration-murder-orient-express-180967305/
• “Find an inmate.”  Federal Bureau of Prisons.  Accessed September 2, 2020.  https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/
• Giles, Eugene, et al.  “Hydrogen cyanide and phenylthiocarbamide sensitivity, mid-phalangeal hair and color blindness in Yucatan, Mexico.”  American Journal of Physical Anthropology.  1968;28(2):203-12.
• Glick, Jaimie B, et al.  Improved management of harlequin ichthyosis with advances in neonatal intensive care.  Pediatrics.  2017;139(1):e20161003; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2016-1003
• Gopnik, Adam. “Trial of the Century.” The New Yorker. Accessed June 27, 2021. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/09/28/trial-of-the-century#editorsnote
• Govan, Chloe. “In the Criminal-Catching Footsteps of Alphonse Bertillon.” France Today. Accessed June 27, 2021. https://www.francetoday.com/learn/history/
  in-the-criminal-catching-footsteps-of-alphonse-bertillon/
• Harkup, Kathryn. “The Christmas poisoner who murdered by the book…”  The Guardian.  Accessed September 2, 2020.  https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2015/dec/24/agatha-christie-christmas-poisoner-murdered-by-the-book 
• Heard, Kennon, et al.  Mechanisms of acute cocaine toxicity.  The Open Pharmacology Journal.  2008;2(9):70-78.
• “Henry Classification System.” Physical, Electrical, Digital. Accessed June 27, 2021. https://kimon.hosting.nyu.edu/physical-electrical-digital/items/show/1177
• “How does litmus paper work?”  Indigo Instruments.  Accessed September 2, 2020.  https://blog.indigoinstruments.com/litmus-paper-test/
• Hull, Alfred John.  Surgery in War.  Forgotten Books, 2017.
• “Institute of Chemistry.” The Daily Telegraph. 23 Nov 1907.
• Kelsell, David P., et al.  Mutations in ABCA12 underlie the severe congenital skin disease harlequin ichthyosis.  The American Journal of Human Genetics.  2005;76:784-803.
• Lance, JW, et al.  Harlequin syndrome: the sudden onset of unilateral flushing and sweating.  Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.  1988;51:635-642.
• Little, Becky. “What Type of Criminal Are You? 19th-Century Doctors Claimed to Know by Your Face.” History. Accessed June 27, 2021. https://www.history.com/news/born-criminal-theory-criminology
• Lodish, Harvey, et al.  Molecular Cell Biology, Sixth Edition.  New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 2008.
• McFadden, Robert.  “Poison deaths bring U.S warning on Tylenol use.”  The New York Times.  Accessed September 2, 2020.  https://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/02/us/poison-deaths-bring-us-warning-on-tylenol-use.html
• McKay, Sinclair. “Demanding Scotland Yard detective tests and how they learn to understand the criminal mind.” i. Accessed June 27, 2021. https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/scotland-yard-detective-tests-criminal-mind-learning-skills-aptitude-general-knowledge-356487
• National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences.  “Harlequin syndrome.”  Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center.  Accessed February 28, 2021.  https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/8610/harlequin-syndrome
• National Center for Biotechnology Information. “PubChem Compound Summary for CID 446220, Cocaine” PubChem, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Cocaine. Accessed 28 February, 2021.
• National Organization for Rare Disorders.  “Harlequin ichthyosis.”  Rare Disease Database.  Accessed February 28, 2021.  https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/ichthyosis-harlequin-type/
• Neitz, Jay and Maureen Neitz.  The genetics of normal and defective color vision.  Vision Research.  2011;51(7):633-651.
• O’Leary, Michael E. and Jules C. Hancox.  Role of voltage-gated sodium, potassium, and calcium channels in the development of cocaine-associated cardiac arrhythmias.  British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.  2009;65(5):427-442.
• “Potassium bromide.”  Wikipedia.  Accessed May 29, 2018.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_bromide
• “Pierrot.”  Wikipedia.  Accessed February 12, 2021.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierrot
• Rajpopat, Shefali, et al.  Harlequin ichthyosis: a review of clinical and molecular findings in 45 cases.  Archives of Dermatology.  2011;147(6):681-686.
• Schrager, Adam J.  The Sixteenth Rail.  Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum, 2013.
• “Science and Industry.” The Birmingham Daily Post. 02 Dec 1916.
• “Science v. Crime.” The Leeds Mercury. 11 Apr 1935.
• Shiel Jr., William C.  “Medical Definition of Daltonism.”  MedicineNet.  Accessed February 28, 2021.  https://www.medicinenet.com/daltonism/definition.htm
• “Stella Maudine Nickell.”  Murderpedia.  Accessed September 2, 2020.  https://murderpedia.org/female.N/n/nickell-stella.htm
• “Supplement to the London Gazette.”  The London Gazette.  September 1, 1914.   Accessed February 28, 2021.  https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28887/data.pdf
• Tang, Judy, et al.  Harlequin colour change: unilateral erythema in a newborn.  Canadian Medical Association Journal.  2010;182(17):E801.
• “The Billie Carleton Exhibition.”  The Museum of Drugs.  Accessed February 12, 2021.  http://www.museumofdrugs.com/billiecarleton.html
• “The Coming of Mr. Quin.”  The Home of Agatha Christie.  Accessed February 28, 2021.  https://www.agathachristie.com/stories/the-coming-of-mr-quin
• “The Ghost of Alfred Jones.”  The Blue Anchor.  Accessed May 29, 2018.  http://theblueanchorbyfleet.co.uk/ghost-of-alfred-jones/
• “The Mysterious Mr. Quin.”  Wikipedia.  Accessed February 28, 2021.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Mr_Quin
• “The Mystery of the Yellow Room.” Wikipedia.  Accessed May 14, 2018.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_the_Yellow_Room
• “The Society.”  The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London.  Accessed April 14, 2018.  http://www.apothecaries.org/society
• Tryhorn, FG. Scientific Aids in Criminal Investigation. The Police Journal. 1936;9(1):33-41. doi:10.1177/0032258X3600900104
• Tryhorn, FG. Scientific Aids in Criminal Investigation. The Police Journal. 1936;9(3):303-317. doi:10.1177/0032258X3600900306
• Tryhorn, FG. Scientific Aids in Criminal Investigation. The Police Journal. 1937;10(3):271-281. doi:10.1177/0032258X3701000303
• Tryhorn, FG. Scientific Aids in Criminal Investigation. The Police Journal. 1938;11(2):161-171. doi:10.1177/0032258X3801100204
• Vahlquist, Anders, et al.  Congenital ichthyosis: an overview of current and emerging therapies.  Acta Dermato-Venereologica.  2008;88:4-14.
• Wakim, Suzanne and Mandeep Grewal.  “Muscle Contraction.”  LibreTexts.  Accessed February 28, 2021.  https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Human_Biology/Book%3A_Human_Biology_(Wakim_and_Grewal)/15%3A_Muscular_System/15.4%3A_Muscle_Contraction
• Widmaier, Eric, et al.  Vander’s Human Physiology, Eleventh Edition.  Boston: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2008.
• Young Kelly, et al. Anatomy & physiology.  XanEdu Publishing Inc, 2013.
• Zbrog, Matt. “A Quick History of Forensic Science: Fingerprints, DNA & Beyond.” Forensics Colleges. Accessed June 27, 2021. https://www.forensicscolleges.com/blog/history-of-forensics