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St. Marys Cholsey – Agatha Christie". St Marys Cholsey. Archived from the original on 23 September 2020 . Retrieved 18 April 2020.

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 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. Mallowan, Agatha Christie (1977), Agatha Christie: An Autobiography, New York City: Dodd, Mead & Co, ISBN 0-396-07516-9 .Christie died peacefully on 12January 1976 at age 85 from natural causes at her home at Winterbrook House. [79] [80] Upon her death, two West End theatres–the St. Martin's, where The Mousetrap was playing, and the Savoy, which was home to a revival of Murder at the Vicarage–dimmed their outside lights in her honour. [30] :373 She was buried in the nearby churchyard of St Mary's, Cholsey, in a plot she had chosen with her husband 10 years previously. The simple funeral service was attended by about 20 newspaper and TV reporters, some having travelled from as far away as South America. 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. [81] Thomas, W. G., Murder in Mesopotamia: Agatha Christie and Archaeology, archived from the original on 14 April 2013 . Where Are They Now?". Penguin. Archived from the original on 19 September 2020 . Retrieved 1 October 2020. 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 Main article: Agatha Christie bibliography Works of fiction [ edit ] Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple [ edit ] An early depiction of detective Hercule Poirot, from The American Magazine, March 1933

Sinodun Players". Sinodun Players. Archived from the original on 10 February 2018 . Retrieved 9 February 2018. Christie did not limit herself to quaint English villages–the action might take place on a small island ( And Then There Were None), an aeroplane ( Death in the Clouds), a train ( Murder on the Orient Express), a steamship ( Death on the Nile), a smart London flat ( Cards on the Table), a resort in the West Indies ( A Caribbean Mystery), or an archaeological dig ( Murder in Mesopotamia)–but the circle of potential suspects is usually closed and intimate: family members, friends, servants, business associates, fellow travellers. [123] :37 Stereotyped characters abound (the femme fatale, the stolid policeman, the devoted servant, the dull colonel), but these may be subverted to stymie the reader; impersonations and secret alliances are always possible. [123] :58 There is always a motive–most often, money: "There are very few killers in Christie who enjoy murder for its own sake." [14] :379,396

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Harley Quin was "easily the most unorthodox" of Christie's fictional detectives. [31] :70 Inspired by Christie's affection for the figures from the Harlequinade, the semi-supernatural Quin always works with an elderly, conventional man called Satterthwaite. The pair appear in 14 short stories, 12 of which were collected in 1930 as The Mysterious Mr. Quin. [30] :78,80 [135] Mallowan described these tales as "detection in a fanciful vein, touching on the fairy story, a natural product of Agatha's peculiar imagination". [30] :80 Satterthwaite also appears in a novel, Three Act Tragedy, and a short story, " Dead Man's Mirror", both of which feature Poirot. [30] :81 Ella Creamer. " Agatha Christie statue takes seat on bench in Oxfordshire town". The Guardian, 11 September 2023. a b c Curran, John (2011). Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0062065445. 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. a b "1976: Crime writer Agatha Christie dies". BBC on this Day. 12 January 1976. Archived from the original on 12 January 2021 . Retrieved 30 October 2019.

The couple acquired the Greenway Estate in Devon as a summer residence in 1938; [14] :310 it was given to the National Trust in 2000. [63] Christie frequently stayed at Abney Hall, Cheshire, which was owned by her brother-in-law, James Watts, and based at least two stories there: a short story, " The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding", in the story collection of the same name and the novel After the Funeral. [12] :126 [14] :43 One Christie compendium notes that "Abney became Agatha's greatest inspiration for country-house life, with all its servants and grandeur being woven into her plots. The descriptions of the fictional Chimneys, Stonygates, and other houses in her stories are mostly Abney Hall in various forms." [64] Blue plaque at 58 Sheffield Terrace, Holland Park, London Winterbrook House, Winterbrook, Oxfordshire. Her final home, Christie lived here with her husband from 1934 until her death in 1976. The House of Dreams". agathachristie.com. Archived from the original on 25 May 2014 . Retrieved 27 June 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. a b c d e Curran, John (2009). Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-200652-3.Holtorf, Cornelius (2007), Archaeology is a Brand! The meaning of archaeology in contemporary popular culture, Oxford, England: Archaeopress, ISBN 978-1598741797 . Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE ( née Miller; 15September 1890– 12January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End since 1952. A writer during the " Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.