The Italian titles of

This article is devoted to an analysis of the titles of the 66 novels written by Aga-tha Christie, with a special focus on their Italian translations. It is divided into twelve parts, each of which takes a specific title as a starting point to illustrate the main findings of the analysis in relation to aspects such as multiple titling, title form and structure, title functions and translation. Keywords Multiple titling, title form, title functions, title translation. In a literary career spanning almost six decades, from the 1920s to the 1970s, Aga-tha Christie wrote 66 novels and over 150 short stories. This article is about her novels and in particular about the titles of her novels, with a special, but not ex-clusive, focus on the titles of the Italian editions. For reasons explained below, the title corpus under consideration does not consist of 132 items (66 + 66), as might be expected, but of almost 180 items. The titles will be analysed along four main dimensions: as autonomous texts, i.e. with regard to their form and structure, a