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Morgan, Janet P. (1984). Agatha Christie: A Biography. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-216330-9. Retrieved 8 March 2015. The original Gone Girl: Agatha Christie's mysterious disappearance". The Independent . Retrieved 17 September 2022. In 1922, the Christies joined an around-the-world promotional tour for the British Empire Exhibition, led by Major Ernest Belcher. Leaving their daughter with Agatha's mother and sister, in 10 months they travelled to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, and Canada. [4] :86–103 [32] They learned to surf prone in South Africa; then, in Waikiki, they were among the first Britons to surf standing up, and extended their time there by three months to practise. [33] [34] She is remembered at the British Surfing Museum as having said about surfing, " Oh it was heaven! Nothing like rushing through the water at what seems to you a speed of about two hundred miles an hour. It is one of the most perfect physical pleasures I have known." [35]

Agatha Christie – British Red Cross". British Red Cross. Archived from the original on 25 October 2019 . Retrieved 26 October 2019. The Witness for the Prosecution". BBC One. Archived from the original on 12 September 2020 . Retrieved 18 April 2020. Agatha Christie began riding surfboards standing up at Waikiki - Museum of British Surfing". 24 March 2019 . Retrieved 1 September 2022.Agatha Christie mysteries are still raking in the cash a century on". marketplace.org. 28 September 2020. Archived from the original on 24 January 2021 . Retrieved 12 March 2021.

Christie's authorised biographer includes an account of specialist psychiatric treatment following Christie's disappearance, but the information was obtained second or third hand after her death. [4] :148–49,159 Curran, John (2009). Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-200652-3. a b c d e Gerald, Michael C. (1993). The Poisonous Pen of Agatha Christie. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-76535-5. Most biographers give Christie's mother's place of birth as Belfast but do not provide sources. Current primary evidence, including census entries (place of birth Dublin), her baptism record (Dublin), and her father's service record and regimental history (when her father was in Dublin), indicates she was almost certainly born in Dublin in the first quarter of 1854. [8] [9] [10] 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] :32–33

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Curran, John. "75 facts about Christie". The Home of Agatha Christie. Agatha Christie Limited. Retrieved 21 July 2017. New faces on Sgt Pepper album cover for artist Peter Blake's 80th birthday". The Guardian. 13 November 2016. Archived from the original on 5 November 2016 . Retrieved 13 November 2016. Axmaker, Sean. "Agatha". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on 14 January 2018 . Retrieved 17 June 2017.

and then there were 75 facts about the queen of crime agatha christie". gamesindustry. 24 October 2005. Archived from the original on 1 May 2021 . Retrieved 1 October 2020.Thallium poisoning in fact and in fiction". The Pharmaceutical Journal. 277: 648. 25 November 2006. Archived from the original on 6 September 2019 . Retrieved 6 September 2019. Many of the settings for Christie's books were inspired by her archaeological fieldwork in the Middle East; this is reflected in the detail with which she describes them–for instance, the temple of Abu Simbel as depicted in Death on the Nile–while the settings for They Came to Baghdad were places she and Mallowan had recently stayed. [4] :212,283–84 Similarly, she drew upon her knowledge of daily life on a dig throughout Murder in Mesopotamia. [123] :269 Archaeologists and experts in Middle Eastern cultures and artefacts featured in her works include Dr Eric Leidner in Murder in Mesopotamia and Signor Richetti in Death on the Nile. [200] :187,226–27 Wagstaff, Vanessa; Poole, Stephen (2004), Agatha Christie: A Reader's Companion, Aurum Press, p. 14, ISBN 1-84513-015-4 Thompson, Laura (2008), Agatha Christie: An English Mystery, London: Headline Review, p. 277, 301. ISBN 978-0-7553-1488-1 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.

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.John Curran author". HarperCollinsPublishers. 2020. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020 . Retrieved 11 April 2020. For information on Christie's book originally titled Ten Little Niggers, see And Then There Were None. BBC One plans lots more Agatha Christie". BBC News. 24 August 2016. Archived from the original on 23 January 2021 . Retrieved 24 June 2020. 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. Simpson, Craig (25 March 2023). "Agatha Christie classics latest to be rewritten for modern sensitivities". The Telegraph . Retrieved 29 March 2023.