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Sinodun Players". Sinodun Players. Archived from the original on 10 February 2018 . Retrieved 9 February 2018. Agatha's Greenway". National Trust. Archived from the original on 16 April 2020 . Retrieved 30 April 2020. And then, in the railway carriage, there’s the watchful presence of Christie herself, unnoticed. Yes, she was easy to overlook, as is the case with nearly any woman past middle age. But she deliberately played on the fact that she seemed so ordinary. It was a public image she carefully crafted to conceal her real self. Hogan, Michael (15 December 2019). "Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar review – A cut-price Christie for Christmas is still quite a treat". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on 6 January 2020 . Retrieved 29 April 2020. Christie developed her storytelling techniques during what has been called the "Golden Age" of detective fiction. [119] Author Dilys Winn called Christie "the doyenne of Coziness", a sub-genre which "featured a small village setting, a hero with faintly aristocratic family connections, a plethora of red herrings and a tendency to commit homicide with sterling silver letter openers and poisons imported from Paraguay". [120] At the end, in a Christie hallmark, the detective usually gathers the surviving suspects into one room, explains the course of their deductive reasoning, and reveals the guilty party; but there are exceptions where it is left to the guilty party to explain all (such as And Then There Were None and Endless Night). [121] [122]

Lask, Thomas (6 August 1975). "Hercule Poirot Is Dead; Famed Belgian Detective". The New York Times. US. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017 . Retrieved 16 October 2020. Debruge, Peter (2 November 2017). "Film Review: 'Murder on the Orient Express' ". Variety. Archived from the original on 24 April 2020 . Retrieved 10 April 2020. But by December 1926, her marriage to Archie Christie was in trouble. She herself, she later wrote, was “at the beginning of a nervous breakdown”. The couple had moved to a grand 12-bedroom house in Sunningdale, Berkshire, which they named Styles, but Archie was often absent and Agatha was increasingly unhappy there. The death of her beloved mother, and Archie’s unsympathetic response (he didn’t even go to the funeral), had strained their relationship almost to breaking point when Archie confessed that he was in love with someone else – a young woman called Nancy Neele – and wanted a divorce. 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 aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap Thompson, Laura (2008), Agatha Christie: An English Mystery, London: Headline Review, ISBN 978-0-7553-1488-1

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She was tired; she was in deep distress. At last, she put into action a vague plan that had occupied her thoughts for the previous 24 hours.

In 1946, Christie said of herself: "My chief dislikes are crowds, loud noises, gramophones and cinemas. I dislike the taste of alcohol and do not like smoking. I do like sun, sea, flowers, travelling, strange foods, sports, concerts, theatres, pianos, and doing embroidery." [76] Simpson, Craig (25 March 2023). "Agatha Christie classics latest to be rewritten for modern sensitivities". The Telegraph . Retrieved 29 March 2023. Mezel, Kathy (2007). "Spinsters, Surveillance, and Speech: The Case of Miss Marple, Miss Mole, and Miss Jekyll". The Journal of Modern Literature. 30 (2): 103–20. doi: 10.2979/JML.2007.30.2.103. JSTOR 4619330. S2CID 162411534. Christie is one of the most-borrowed authors in UK libraries. [172] [173] [174] [175] She is also the UK's best-selling spoken-book author. In 2002, 117,696 Christie audiobooks were sold, in comparison to 97,755 for J. K. Rowling, 78,770 for Roald Dahl and 75,841 for J. R. R. Tolkien. [176] [177] In 2015, the Christie estate claimed And Then There Were None was "the best-selling crime novel of all time", [178] with approximately 100 million sales, also making it one of the highest-selling books of all time. [132] [179] More than two million copies of her books were sold in English in 2020. [180] Legacy [ edit ] Commemorative blue plaque in the West End marking The Mousetrap as the world's longest-running play In August 1926, Archie asked Agatha for a divorce. He had fallen in love with Nancy Neele, a friend of Major Belcher. [14] :173–74 On 3 December 1926, the pair quarrelled after Archie announced his plan to spend the weekend with friends, unaccompanied by his wife. Late that evening, Christie disappeared from their home in Sunningdale. The following morning, her car, a Morris Cowley, was discovered at Newlands Corner in Surrey, parked above a chalk quarry with an expired driving licence and clothes inside. [37] [38] It was feared that she might have drowned herself in the Silent Pool, a nearby beauty spot. [39]Jacqueline Wilson most loaned author". bbc. 12 February 2010. Archived from the original on 25 January 2021 . Retrieved 3 October 2020. The original Gone Girl: Agatha Christie's mysterious disappearance". The Independent . Retrieved 17 September 2022.

The Monogram Murders". Agatha Christie.com. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015 . Retrieved 11 April 2015. Prichard, Mathew (2012). The Grand Tour: Around The World With The Queen Of Mystery. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 978-0-06-219122-9. Chandler, Raymond (1950). "The Simple Art of Murder: An Essay". The Simple Art of Murder. Houghton Mifflin Company. Archived from the original on 21 October 2020 . Retrieved 4 May 2020.a b "An interview with Sophie Hannah". The Home of Agatha Christie. 22 August 2016. Archived from the original on 31 August 2019 . Retrieved 29 April 2020. Larsen, Gaylord (1990). Dorothy and Agatha: A Mystery Novel. New York City; London: Dutton. ISBN 978-0-525-24865-1 . Retrieved 23 June 2020. Miss Jane Marple was introduced in a series of short stories that began publication in December 1927 and were subsequently collected under the title The Thirteen Problems. [14] :278 Marple was a genteel, elderly spinster who solved crimes using analogies to English village life. [30] :47,74–76 Christie said, "Miss Marple was not in any way a picture of my grandmother; she was far more fussy and spinsterish than my grandmother ever was", but her autobiography establishes a firm connection between the fictional character and Christie's step-grandmother Margaret Miller ("Auntie-Grannie") [i] and her "Ealing cronies". [12] :422–23 [112] Both Marple and Miller "always expected the worst of everyone and everything, and were, with almost frightening accuracy, usually proved right". [12] :422 Marple appeared in 12 novels and 20 stories. Mallowan, who remarried in 1977, died in 1978 and was buried next to Christie. [82] Estate and subsequent ownership of works [ edit ] Sweney, Mark (29 February 2012). "Acorn Media buys stake in Agatha Christie estate". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 14 May 2014 . Retrieved 16 March 2012.

Thomas, W. G., Murder in Mesopotamia: Agatha Christie and Archaeology, archived from the original on 14 April 2013 . BBC Radio 4 Extra – Hercule Poirot – Episode guide". BBC. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021 . Retrieved 5 May 2020. Agatha Christie 'one of Britain's first stand-up surfers' ". The Daily Telegraph. 29 July 2011. Archived from the original on 29 July 2011 . Retrieved 30 July 2011. At 18, Christie wrote her first short story, "The House of Beauty", while recovering in bed from an illness. It consisted of about 6,000 words about "madness and dreams", subjects of fascination for her. Her biographer Janet Morgan has commented that, despite "infelicities of style", the story was "compelling". [4] :48–49 (The story became an early version of her story "The House of Dreams".) [24] Other stories followed, most of them illustrating her interest in spiritualism and the paranormal. These included " The Call of Wings" and "The Little Lonely God". Magazines rejected all her early submissions, made under pseudonyms (including Mac Miller, Nathaniel Miller, and Sydney West); some submissions were later revised and published under her real name, often with new titles. [4] :49–50 Christie as a young woman, 1910s By 1901, her father's health had deteriorated, because of what he believed were heart problems. [14] :33 Fred died in November 1901 from pneumonia and chronic kidney disease. [23] Christie later said that her father's death when she was 11 marked the end of her childhood. [4] :32–33Devlin, Kate (4 April 2009). "Agatha Christie 'had Alzheimer's disease when she wrote final novels' ". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 8 April 2009 . Retrieved 28 August 2009. a b "Interview with Max Mallowan". BBC. Archived from the original on 27 July 2017 . Retrieved 21 July 2017. a b c Thorpe, Vanessa (15 October 2006). "Christie's most famous mystery solved at last". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 5 October 2013 . Retrieved 21 May 2013. Morgan, Janet P. (1984). Agatha Christie: A Biography. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-216330-9. Retrieved 8 March 2015.