Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

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Knights Bachelor". The London Gazette. No.Supplement: 44600. 31 May 1968. p.6300. Archived from the original on 1 February 2020 . Retrieved 18 April 2020.

The Agatha Christie Trust For Children was established in 1969, [77] and shortly after Christie's death a charitable memorial fund was set up to "help two causes that she favoured: old people and young children". [78]Christie published a few non-fiction works. Come, Tell Me How You Live, about working on an archaeological dig, was drawn from her life with Mallowan. The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery is a collection of correspondence from her 1922 Grand Tour of the British Empire, including South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. Agatha Christie: An Autobiography was published posthumously in 1977 and adjudged the Best Critical/Biographical Work at the 1978 Edgar Awards. [147] Titles [ edit ]

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 BBC One plans lots more Agatha Christie". BBC News. 24 August 2016. Archived from the original on 23 January 2021 . Retrieved 24 June 2020. Reflecting on the period in her autobiography, Christie wrote, "So, after illness, came sorrow, despair and heartbreak. There is no need to dwell on it." [12] :340 Life with Agatha Christie [ edit ] The British Empire Exhibition Tour. From left to right– Archie Christie, Major Belcher, Mr Bates (secretary) and Agatha. The Committee on which Agatha and Nancy Neele were both members The Treasure Island Exhibit that was organised by Agatha Christie and Nancy Neele In the 1950s, "the theatre... engaged much of Agatha's attention." [138] She next adapted her short radio play into The Mousetrap, which premiered in the West End in 1952, produced by Peter Saunders and starring Richard Attenborough as the original Detective Sergeant Trotter. [136] Her expectations for the play were not high; she believed it would run no more than eight months. [12] :500 The Mousetrap has long since made theatrical history as the world's longest-running play, staging its 27,500th performance in September 2018. [136] [139] [140] [141] The play temporarily closed in March 2020, when all UK theatres shut due to the coronavirus pandemic, [142] [143] before it re-opened on 17 May 2021. [144]Axmaker, Sean. "Agatha". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on 14 January 2018 . Retrieved 17 June 2017. Curran, John (2009). Agatha Christie's Secret Notebook Vaughan, Susan (25 January 2018). "Dame Agatha and Her Orient Express". Maine Crime Writers. Archived from the original on 13 June 2018 . Retrieved 20 March 2019.

Some of Christie's fictional portrayals have explored and offered accounts of her disappearance in 1926. The film Agatha (1979), with Vanessa Redgrave, has Christie sneaking away to plan revenge against her husband; Christie's heirs sued unsuccessfully to prevent the film's distribution. [203] The Doctor Who episode " The Unicorn and the Wasp" (17 May 2008) stars Fenella Woolgar as Christie, and explains her disappearance as being connected to aliens. The film Agatha and the Truth of Murder (2018) sends her undercover to solve the murder of Florence Nightingale's goddaughter, Florence Nightingale Shore. A fictionalised account of Christie's disappearance is also the central theme of a Korean musical, Agatha. [204] The Christie Affair, a Christie-like mystery story of love and revenge by author Nina de Gramont, was a 2022 novel loosely based on Christie's disappearance. [205] Colonel Archibald Christie CMG DSO (30 September 1889– 20 December 1962) was a British businessman and military officer. He was the first husband of mystery writer Dame Agatha Christie; they married in 1914 and divorced in 1928. They separated in 1927 after a major rift due to his infidelity and obtained a divorce the following year. During that period Agatha wrote some of her most renowned detective novels. Shortly after the divorce, Christie married Nancy Neele, and the couple lived quietly for the rest of their lives. Christie became a successful businessman and was invited to be on the board of directors of several major companies. The House of Dreams". agathachristie.com. Archived from the original on 25 May 2014 . Retrieved 27 June 2020. Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. ref no 5892: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April 1948 As Michael C. Gerald puts it, her "activities as a hospital dispenser during both World Wars not only supported the war effort but also provided her with an appreciation of drugs as therapeutic agents and poisons ... These hospital experiences were also likely responsible for the prominent role physicians, nurses, and pharmacists play in her stories." [124] :viii There were to be many medical practitioners, pharmacists, and scientists, naïve or suspicious, in Christie's cast of characters; featuring in Murder in Mesopotamia, Cards on the Table, The Pale Horse, and Mrs. McGinty's Dead, among many others. [124]

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Christie's familial relationship to Margaret Miller (née West) was complex. As well as being Christie's maternal great-aunt, Miller was Christie's father's step-mother as well as Christie's mother's foster mother and step-mother-in-law–hence the appellation "Auntie-Grannie". a b Marriage Register. St Peter's Church, Bayswater [Notting Hill], Middlesex, 1878, No. 399, p. 200. Christie used inspiration from her stay at the Old Cataract Hotel on the banks of the River Nile in Aswan, Egypt for her 1937 novel Death on the Nile World-famous Author Agatha Christie and The Mysterious Story of Her Lost 11 Days". Pera Palace Hotel. 19 September 2018. Archived from the original on 6 August 2020 . Retrieved 2 May 2020.