Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

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On 14December 1926, she was located at the Swan Hydropathic Hotel in Harrogate, Yorkshire, 184 miles (296km) north of her home in Sunningdale, registered as "Mrs Tressa [d] Neele" (the surname of her husband's lover) from "Capetown[ sic] S. That same evening Agatha disappeared from her home, leaving behind a letter for her secretary saying that she was going to Yorkshire. I found it very interesting that she didn’t really consider writing to be her career so much as a bit of a hobby that happened to pay the bills. Christie died peacefully on 12January 1976 at age 85 from natural causes at her home at Winterbrook House. Her second husband, Max Mallowan, was an archaeologist and having met him on a dig she later continued to accompany him quite often to other excavation sites in the region.

A fictionalised account of Christie's disappearance is also the central theme of a Korean musical, Agatha.

John Emsley, "The poison prescribed by Agatha Christie" Archived 25 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine, The Independent, 20 July 1992. Boehmer's death registration states he died at age 49 from bronchitis after retiring from the army, [11] but Christie and her biographers have consistently claimed he was killed in a riding accident while still a serving officer.

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. In 1928, Christie left England and took the (Simplon) Orient Express to Istanbul and then to Baghdad. It’s true that some of Christie’s books contain racist and antisemitic caricatures offensive to modern readers, though whether that’s evidence of inner darkness rather than simply the inevitable product of her background is debatable. The narrative was then completed on 11 October 1965 at one of the Mallowans' homes, Winterbrook House in Wallingford, Berkshire where Christie's death occurred eleven years later. While it may offer little in the way of startling revelations, where Worsley’s book excels is in bringing a broader historical perspective to Christie’s life and work, and her enthusiasm is infectious.Purists may cavil at some of the subjects or locales, but taken as a whole, this highly enjoyable collection illustrates Worsley’s conclusion: “Although Miss Marple stories are often described as cosy crime, this is a bold, dark, troubling view of the world. 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. Hannah later published three more Poirot mysteries, Closed Casket in 2016, The Mystery of Three Quarters in 2018.