Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

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Flood, Alison (15 September 2016). "New Agatha Christie stamps deliver hidden clues". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 6 August 2020 . Retrieved 10 April 2020. Books:Agatha Christie: The Queen of the Maze". Time. 26 January 1976. Archived from the original on 22 October 2015 . Retrieved 4 October 2020. Phukan, Vikram (4 December 2018). "Everyone loves an old-fashioned murder mystery". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 20 May 2021 . Retrieved 29 August 2020. In 2013, the Christie family supported the release of a new Poirot story, The Monogram Murders, written by British author Sophie Hannah. [116] Hannah later published three more Poirot mysteries, Closed Casket in 2016, The Mystery of Three Quarters in 2018., [117] [118] and The Killings at Kingfisher Hill in 2020. Christie's familial relationship to Margaret Miller (née West) was complex. 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".

Crime writer Agatha Christie dies". bbc. 12 January 1976. Archived from the original on 12 January 2021 . Retrieved 30 September 2020. Many of the settings for Christie's books were inspired by her archaeological fieldwork in the Middle East; this is reflected in the detail with which she describes them–for instance, the temple of Abu Simbel as depicted in Death on the Nile–while the settings for They Came to Baghdad were places she and Mallowan had recently stayed. [4] :212,283–84 Similarly, she drew upon her knowledge of daily life on a dig throughout Murder in Mesopotamia. [123] :269 Archaeologists and experts in Middle Eastern cultures and artefacts featured in her works include Dr Eric Leidner in Murder in Mesopotamia and Signor Richetti in Death on the Nile. [200] :187,226–27 BAFTA Awards Database". BAFTA.org. Archived from the original on 29 May 2013 . Retrieved 10 April 2020. Agatha Christie Graphic Novels Series". goodreads. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021 . Retrieved 5 May 2020.Professor of Pharmacology Michael C. Gerald noted that "in over half her novels, one or more victims are poisoned, albeit not always to the full satisfaction of the perpetrator." [124] :viii Guns, knives, garrottes, tripwires, blunt instruments, and even a hatchet were also used, but "Christie never resorted to elaborate mechanical or scientific means to explain her ingenuity," [125] :57 according to John Curran, author and literary adviser to the Christie estate. [126] Many of her clues are mundane objects: a calendar, a coffee cup, wax flowers, a beer bottle, a fireplace used during a heat wave. [123] :38 Agatha Christie: 'Queen of Crime' Is a Gentlewoman". Los Angeles Times. 8 March 1970. p.60, quoted in Gerald (1993), p. 4.

Curran, John (2009). Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-200652-3. Larsen, Gaylord (1990). Dorothy and Agatha: A Mystery Novel. New York City; London: Dutton. ISBN 978-0-525-24865-1 . Retrieved 23 June 2020. The Monogram Murders". Agatha Christie.com. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015 . Retrieved 11 April 2015.The wooden counter in the foyer of St Martin's Theatre showing 22,461 performances of The Mousetrap (pictured in November 2006). Attendees often get their photo taken next to it. [136] Curran, John (2011). Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0062065445. Thompson, Laura (2008), Agatha Christie: An English Mystery, London: Headline Review, ISBN 978-0-7553-1488-1. Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan. Other authors claim Christie wrote Murder on the Orient Express whilst at a dig at Arpachiyah. [4] :206 [30] :111

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Why do we still love the 'cosy crime' of Agatha Christie?". The Independent. 14 September 2017. Archived from the original on 16 November 2019 . Retrieved 16 November 2019. Christie's mother, Clarissa Miller, died in April 1926. They had been exceptionally close, and the loss sent Christie into a deep depression. [14] :168–72 In August 1926, reports appeared in the press that Christie had gone to a village near Biarritz to recuperate from a "breakdown" caused by "overwork". [36] Disappearance: 1926 [ edit ] Daily Herald, 15 December 1926, announcing that Christie had been found. Missing for 11 days, she was found at the Swan Hydropathic Hotel in Harrogate, Yorkshire Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon, and was largely home-schooled. She was initially an unsuccessful writer with six consecutive rejections, but this changed in 1920 when The Mysterious Affair at Styles, featuring detective Hercule Poirot, was published. Her first husband was Archibald Christie; they married in 1914 and had one child before divorcing in 1928. Following the breakdown of her marriage and the death of her mother in 1926 she made international headlines by going missing for eleven days. During both World Wars, she served in hospital dispensaries, acquiring a thorough knowledge of the poisons that featured in many of her novels, short stories, and plays. Following her marriage to archaeologist Max Mallowan in 1930, she spent several months each year on digs in the Middle East and used her first-hand knowledge of this profession in her fiction.a b The Mystery of Agatha Christie – A Trip With David Suchet (Directed by Claire Lewins). Testimony Films (for ITV). Acocella, Joan. "Queen of Crime". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 23 September 2020 . Retrieved 29 April 2020.