Christie's obituary in The Times notes that "she never cared much for the cinema, or for wireless and television.

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Christie mocked this insight in her foreword to Cards on the Table: "Spot the person least likely to have committed the crime and in nine times out of ten your task is finished. Her husband was presented with a knighthood in 1968 for his archaeological work, and Agatha was promoted to Dame Commander in 1971. Thirty wreaths adorned Christie's grave, including one from the cast of her long-running play The Mousetrap and one sent "on behalf of the multitude of grateful readers" by the Ulverscroft Large Print Book Publishers. Scotland–Statutory Register of Marriages, 685/04 0938, 11 September 1930, District of St Giles, Edinburgh. Christie reworked the ending for Lombard and Vera to be innocent of the crimes of which they were accused, survive, and fall in love with each other.

Following the publication of the 1975 novel Curtain, Poirot's obituary appeared on the front page of The New York Times. The company first performed a stage adaptation of the novel in August 1944 under the UK title of the novel, with Christie credited as the dramatist. In 1928, Christie left England and took the (Simplon) Orient Express to Istanbul and then to Baghdad. Both of the original US publications changed the title from that originally used in the UK, due to the offensiveness of the word in American culture, where it was more widely perceived as a racially loaded ethnic slur or insult compared to the contemporaneous culture in the United Kingdom. Come, Tell Me How You Live, about working on an archaeological dig, was drawn from her life with Mallowan.

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Many of her clues are mundane objects: a calendar, a coffee cup, wax flowers, a beer bottle, a fireplace used during a heat wave. Following the breakdown of her marriage and the death of her mother in 1926 she made international headlines by going missing for eleven days. She followed this up with adaptations of her detective novels: And Then There Were None in 1943, Appointment with Death in 1945, and The Hollow in 1951.The first of her own stage works was Black Coffee, which received good reviews when it opened in the West End in late 1930. Eight people arrive on a small, isolated island off the Devon coast, each having received an unexpected personal invitation. Her daughter authorised the publication of Curtain in 1975, [4] :375 and Sleeping Murder was published posthumously in 1976. Arsenic, aconite, strychnine, digitalis, nicotine, thallium, and other substances were used to dispatch victims in the ensuing decades.

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UK editions continued to use the original title until the current definitive title appeared with a reprint of the 1963 Fontana Paperback in 1985. S. Eliot's Four Quartets), Postern of Fate (from James Elroy Flecker's "Gates of Damascus"), Endless Night (from William Blake's " Auguries of Innocence"), N or M? Her war service ended in September 1918 when Archie was reassigned to London, and they rented a flat in St. In addition to Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, Christie also created amateur detectives Thomas (Tommy) Beresford and his wife, Prudence "Tuppence" née Cowley, who appear in four novels and one collection of short stories published between 1922 and 1974.

Her novel And Then There Were None is one of the top-selling books of all time, with approximately 100 million copies sold. Reitz, Caroline (2006), "Christie, Agatha", The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, Oxford University Press, doi: 10. A lawyer who helped set this up is also killed during this time, but on the mainland and outside of the story. 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.