Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

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In late February 2014, media reports stated that the BBC had acquired exclusive TV rights to Christie's works in the UK (previously associated with ITV) and made plans with Acorn's co-operation to air new productions for the 125th anniversary of Christie's birth in 2015. [99] As part of that deal, the BBC broadcast Partners in Crime [100] and And Then There Were None, [101] both in 2015. [102] Subsequent productions have included The Witness for the Prosecution [103] but plans to televise Ordeal by Innocence at Christmas 2017 were delayed because of controversy surrounding one of the cast members. [104] The three-part adaptation aired in April 2018. [105] A three-part adaptation of The A.B.C. Murders starring John Malkovich and Rupert Grint began filming in June 2018 and was first broadcast in December 2018. [106] [107] A two-part adaptation of The Pale Horse was broadcast on BBC1 in February 2020. [108] Death Comes as the End will be the next BBC adaptation. [109] Dame Agatha Christie & Sir Max Mallowan". Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme. Archived from the original on 29 May 2020 . Retrieved 20 May 2020. Archibald Christie was born in 1889 in Peshawar in The British Raj, now Pakistan. His father, also called Archibald Christie, was in the Indian Civil Service. It is said that he was a judge; however, his death notice in The Law Times journal described him as a barrister. [1] His mother was Ellen Ruth "Peg" Coates, who is often mentioned in her daughter-in-law (Agatha)'s autobiography. Peg was born in Portumna, Ireland in 1862. Her father was Dr Samuel Coates (died 1879). [2] Her brother was in the Indian Medical Service, and she was staying with him when she met Archibald Christie (senior), [3] who was thirteen years older than she was. In 1888, at the age of 26, she married him. [4] The couple had two sons, Archie and Campbell.

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 Ulverscroft Large-print Edition, (2 volumes) Hardcover, 611 pp (Volume 1) and 535 (Volume 2), ISBN 0-7089-0255-3 (Both volumes) Christie's books have also been adapted for BBC Radio, a video game series, and graphic novels. [193] [194] [195] [196] Interests and influences [ edit ] Pharmacology [ edit ]

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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

Yurdan, Marilyn (2010). Oxfordshire Graves and Gravestones. Stroud: The History Press. ISBN 978-0752452579. Donnelly, Matt (29 July 2021). "Star-Studded Searchlight Murder Mystery 'See How They Run' Reveals Full Cast, First Look Image". Variety . Retrieved 11 June 2023. Prichard, Matthew & Agatha Christie (17 January 2013). "The Grand Tour: Letters and photographs from the British Empire Expedition 1922" (Kindle Locations 257–258). HarperCollins Publishers. Kindle Edition.Christie Mallowan, Agatha (1990) [1946]. Come, Tell Me How You Live. London: Fontana Books. ISBN 0-00-637594-4. Data for financial year ending 05 April 2018 – The Agatha Christie Trust For Children". Registered Charities in England and Wales. Archived from the original on 15 August 2020 . Retrieved 7 November 2019. Jacqueline Wilson most loaned author". bbc. 12 February 2010. Archived from the original on 25 January 2021 . Retrieved 3 October 2020.

The Mystery of Three Quarters". HarperCollins Publishers. 2020. Archived from the original on 13 August 2018 . Retrieved 29 April 2020. Christie was a renowned playwright as well, with works like The Hollow (1951) and Verdict (1958). Her play The Mousetrap opened in 1952 at the Ambassador Theatre and—at more than 8,800 showings during 21 years—holds the record for the longest unbroken run in a London theater. Additionally, several of Christie's works have become popular movies, including Murder on the Orient Express (1974) and Death on the Nile (1978). Agatha Christie began riding surfboards standing up at Waikiki - Museum of British Surfing". 24 March 2019 . Retrieved 1 September 2022.Christie never wrote a novel or short story featuring both Poirot and Miss Marple. [30] :375 In a recording discovered and released in 2008, Christie revealed the reason for this: "Hercule Poirot, a complete egoist, would not like being taught his business or having suggestions made to him by an elderly spinster lady. Hercule Poirot–a professional sleuth–would not be at home at all in Miss Marple's world." [112] James, P.D. (2009). Talking About Detective Fiction. Random House. ISBN 978-0-307-39882-6. Archived from the original on 19 November 2016 . Retrieved 4 April 2016. The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.

Mallowan, who remarried in 1977, died in 1978 and was buried next to Christie. [82] Estate and subsequent ownership of works [ edit ] Crime writer Agatha Christie dies". bbc. 12 January 1976. Archived from the original on 12 January 2021 . Retrieved 30 September 2020.Best Known For: Agatha Christie was a mystery writer who was one of the world's top-selling authors with works like 'Murder on the Orient Express' and 'The Mystery of the Blue Train.' Marie Benedict". LibraryReads. Archived from the original on 19 October 2022 . Retrieved 30 May 2022. 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. Opinions on this episode, both at the time and retrospectively, fall into two camps: either Christie experienced a genuine loss of memory, or she was faking it. One (male) journalist even suggested that she had deliberately set out to frame her husband for murder. Worsley is firmly of the belief that Christie suffered an episode of mental illness (what would now be called a dissociative fugue state), and here her sympathy for her subject is at its fiercest: “The great injustice of Agatha Christie’s life was not that her husband betrayed her while she was mourning her mother. Nor was it even the mental distress. It was the fact that she was shamed for her illness in the national newspapers in such a public way that people ever since have suspected her of duplicity and lies.” The later Marple novels ‘all express Agatha’s view of a Britain that has gone wrong’ Dame Agatha's private pleasures were gardening–she won local prizes for horticulture–and buying furniture for her various houses. She was a shy person: she disliked public appearances, but she was friendly and sharp-witted to meet. By inclination as well as breeding, she belonged to the English upper middle class. She wrote about, and for, people like herself. That was an essential part of her charm. [3] Death and estate [ edit ] Death and burial [ edit ] Christie's gravestone at St Mary's Church, Cholsey, Oxfordshire