a b "Obituary. Dame Agatha Christie". The Times. 13 January 1976. p.16. 'My father,' she [Christie] recalled, 'was a gentleman of substance, and never did a handsturn in his life, and he was a most agreeable man.' Life and career [ edit ] Childhood and adolescence: 1890–1907 [ edit ] Portrait of Christie entitled Lost in Reverie, by Douglas John Connah, 1894 The word " nigger" was already racially offensive in the United States by the start of the 20th century, and therefore the book's first US edition (1940) and first serialization changed the title to And Then There Were None and removed all references to the word from the book, as did the 1945 motion picture (except that the first US edition retained ' nigger in the woodpile' in Chapter 2 Part VII and Chapter 7 Part III). Sensitivity to the original title of the novel was remarked by Sadie Stein in 2016, commenting on a BBC mini series with the title And Then There Were None, where she noted that "even in 1939, this title was considered too offensive for American publication." [26] In general, "Christie’s work is not known for its racial sensitivity, and by modern standards her oeuvre is rife with casual Orientalism." [26] The original title was based on a rhyme from minstrel shows and children's games. Stein quotes Alison Light as to the power of the original name of the island in the novel, Nigger Island, "to conjure up a thrilling 'otherness', a place where revelations about the 'dark side' of the English would be appropriate". [27] Light goes on to say that "Christie's location [the island] is both more domesticated and privatised, taking for granted the construction of racial fears woven into psychic life as early as the nursery." [27] Speaking of the "widely known" 1945 film, Stein added that "we’re merely faced with fantastic amounts of violence, and a rhyme so macabre and distressing one doesn't hear it now outside of the Agatha Christie context." [26] She felt that the original title of the novel in the UK, seen now, "jars, viscerally". [26] Best-selling crime novel [ edit ] Alongside the photo, taken in her gym after her return home from hospital, Rebekah wrote: "Happy Days, time to glam the boot up." Christie was a lifelong, "quietly devout" [4] :183 member of the Church of England, attended church regularly, and kept her mother's copy of The Imitation of Christ by her bedside. [14] :30,290 After her divorce, she stopped taking the sacrament of communion. [14] :263

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The BBC broadcast Ten Little Niggers (1947), adapted by Ayton Whitaker, first aired as a Monday Matinee on the BBC Home Service on 27 December 1947 and as Saturday Night Theatre on the BBC Light Programme on 29 December. [48] a b "The Mousetrap". Mousetrap Productions Limited. Archived from the original on 7 September 2015 . Retrieved 9 September 2015. Christie, Agatha (1980). The Mysterious Affair at Styles; Ten Little Niggers; Dumb Witness. Sydney: Lansdowne Press. ISBN 0-7018-1453-5. Late use of the original title in an Australian edition. Poirot Investigates (14)—also includes "The Veiled Lady", "The Lost Mine", and "The Chocolate Box" [17]Unpublished. Written in the 1920s and discovered by Julius Green in the Christie archive while doing research for Curtain Up. [42] [43] Achra Abid Zghar (1974, translation: Ten Little Slaves), a Télé Liban TV series directed by Jean Fayyad, adapted for television by Latifeh Moultaka

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a b c d British National Bibliography for 1985. British Library. 1986. ISBN 0-7123-1035-5 . Retrieved 21 April 2019. Agatha Christie – British Red Cross". British Red Cross. Archived from the original on 25 October 2019 . Retrieved 26 October 2019. There are 14 US collections, excluding Poirot's Early Cases, since all of its eighteen stories appeared in earlier collections, and The Last Séance: Tales of the Supernatural, which includes only one previously unavailable Christie story.

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a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Christie, Agatha (1977). Agatha Christie: An Autobiography. New York City: Dodd, Mead & Company. ISBN 0-396-07516-9. Mrs Christie Found in a Yorkshire Spa". The New York Times. 15 December 1926. p.1. Archived from the original on 13 November 2013 . Retrieved 16 September 2009.

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a b "American Tribute to Agatha Christie: The Classic Years 1940–1944". J S Marcum. May 2004 . Retrieved 16 October 2018. Broadcast works [ edit ] Blue plaque, at her former residence, 58 Sheffield Terrace, Kensington, London In September 2015, a public vote identified And Then There Were None—as the public's favourite Christie novel; the book was the writer's favourite, and the one she found most difficult to write. [9] a b Light, Alison (1991). Forever England: Femininity, Literature, and Conservatism Between the Wars. Routledge. p.99. ISBN 0-415-01661-4. Birth Certificate. General Register Office for England and Wales, 1879 March Quarter, Newton Abbot, volume 5b, p. 162.Christie's works have been adapted for cinema and television. The first was the 1928 British film The Passing of Mr. Quin. Poirot's first film appearance was in 1931 in Alibi, which starred Austin Trevor as Christie's sleuth. [186] :14–18 Margaret Rutherford played Marple in a series of films released in the 1960s. Christie liked her acting, but considered the first film "pretty poor" and thought no better of the rest. [14] :430–31