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Superintendent Battle Books in Order

Superintendent Battle by Agatha Christie contains 4 books, published between 1925 and 1944. The first book is The Secret of Chimneys (1925) and the newest is Towards Zero (1944). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
4
Published
1925–1944
Confirmed
4 of 4 titles
Total pages
1,124 across 4 books
Reading time
19–28 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,124 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute.

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Superintendent Battle is Agatha Christie's police detective, and 4 novels carry him: The Secret of Chimneys (1925), The Seven Dials Mystery (1929), Murder is Easy, also published as Easy To Kill (1939), and Towards Zero (1944). The books are English detective fiction built on murder, conspiracy and investigation, several of them set around country manors. Nothing has been added to the sequence since 1944.

How many Superintendent Battle books are there?

Superintendent Battle has 4 books, released between 1925 and 1944.

Superintendent Battle Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 4 Superintendent Battle books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie, book 1 of the Superintendent Battle series (1925)
  2. Cover of The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie, book 2 of the Superintendent Battle series (1929)
  3. Cover of Murder is Easy / Easy To Kill by Agatha Christie, book 4 of the Superintendent Battle series (1939)
  4. Cover of Towards Zero by Agatha Christie, book 5 of the Superintendent Battle series (1944)
  1. 1
    The Secret of Chimneys1925 · 244 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1925244
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  2. 2
    The Seven Dials Mystery1929 · 375 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1929375
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  3. 4
    Murder is Easy / Easy To Kill1939 · 272 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1939272
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  4. 5
    Towards Zero1944 · 233 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1944233
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Is there a chronological order for Superintendent Battle?

No separate chronological order is on record for Superintendent Battle, because none of the book listings this catalogue draws on publishes one; the publication order above is the only order given.

Do you have to read Superintendent Battle books in order?

You should read the Superintendent Battle books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Superintendent Battle book also stands alone.

Where to start with Superintendent Battle

Start with The Secret of Chimneys (1925), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Superintendent Battle book?

Towards Zero (1944) is the newest Superintendent Battle book released so far.

Is there a new Superintendent Battle book coming?

No next Superintendent Battle book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Superintendent Battle at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Superintendent Battle title on record dates from 1944, 82 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Superintendent Battle books have appeared about one every 6 years on average.
Length
1,124 pages across all 4 books with a recorded length, a median of 258 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Superintendent Battle books, 2 of 4, were published in the 1920s.

What the Superintendent Battle books are about

All 4 Superintendent Battle books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: mystery & detective is tagged on 3 of 4. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

More books by Agatha Christie

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.

Other series by Agatha Christie

Each series linked below has its own reading-order page.