Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born on 15September 1890, into a wealthy upper middle class family in Torquay, Devon. Christie included stereotyped descriptions of characters in her work, especially before 1945 (when such attitudes were more commonly expressed publicly), particularly in regard to Italians, Jews, and non-Europeans. Boehmer's death registration states he died at age 49 from bronchitis after retiring from the army, [11] but Christie and her biographers have consistently claimed he was killed in a riding accident while still a serving officer. The book is the world's best-selling mystery, and with over 100 million copies sold is one of the best-selling books of all time. Christie features as a character in Gaylord Larsen's Dorothy and Agatha and The London Blitz Murders by Max Allan Collins.

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The 1930 novel The Invisible Host by Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning has a plot that strongly matches that of Christie's later novel, including a recorded voice announcing to the guests that their sins will be visited upon them by death. List:The most borrowed library books and authors in UK 2011–2012 Children's library borrowing continues to increase". She next adapted her short radio play into The Mousetrap, which premiered in the West End in 1952, produced by Peter Saunders and starring Richard Attenborough as the original Detective Sergeant Trotter. Historical records of the 91st Argyllshire Highlanders, now the 1st Battalion Princess Louise's Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, containing an account of the Regiment in 1794, and of its subsequent services to 1881. The television series Miss Marple (1984–1992), with Joan Hickson as "the BBC's peerless Miss Marple", adapted all 12 Marple novels.Since I do not want my faithful readers to fling away this book in disgust, I prefer to warn them beforehand that this is not that kind of book. The American television program Unsolved Mysteries devoted a segment to her famous disappearance, with Agatha portrayed by actress Tessa Pritchard.

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Christie drew on her experience of international train travel when writing her 1934 novel Murder on the Orient Express. viii There were to be many medical practitioners, pharmacists, and scientists, naïve or suspicious, in Christie's cast of characters; featuring in Murder in Mesopotamia, Cards on the Table, The Pale Horse, and Mrs. As well as being Christie's maternal great-aunt, Miller was Christie's father's step-mother as well as Christie's mother's foster mother and step-mother-in-law–hence the appellation "Auntie-Grannie".Dr Armstrong confirms that there was no cyanide in the other drinks and says that Marston must have dosed himself. Changes similar to those in the British edition in the 1980s were made to the German novel in 2003, [n 1] after 2002 protests in Hanover against a stage version using the old title. The television adaptation Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989–2013), with David Suchet in the title role, ran for 70 episodes over 13 series.