Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

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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. Curran, John (2011). Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0062065445. Dame Agatha Christie & Sir Max Mallowan". Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme. Archived from the original on 29 May 2020 . Retrieved 20 May 2020.

Books:Agatha Christie: The Queen of the Maze". Time. 26 January 1976. Archived from the original on 22 October 2015 . Retrieved 4 October 2020. Result of world's favourite Christie global vote". Agatha Christie. 22 December 2015 . Retrieved 23 June 2023. Agatha's Greenway". National Trust. Archived from the original on 16 April 2020 . Retrieved 30 April 2020. Christie often stayed at Abney Hall in Cheshire, which was owned by her brother-in-law, James Watts. She based at least two of her stories on the hall: the short story The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, and the novel After the Funeral. Abney Hall became Agatha's greatest inspiration for country-house life, with all the servants and grandeur which have been woven into her plots.When Agatha Christie died on 12 January 1976, she was known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime, unrivalled as the best-selling novelist of all time with two billion books sold in more than 100 languages. Though she kept her private life a mystery, for some years Agatha had secretly written her autobiography, and when it was published after her death, millions of her fans agreed - this was her best story! Brantley, Ben (26 January 2012). "London Theater Journal: Comfortably Mousetrapped". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 30 September 2019 . Retrieved 26 January 2012.

The original Gone Girl: Agatha Christie's mysterious disappearance". The Independent . Retrieved 17 September 2022. Acocella, Joan. "Queen of Crime". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 23 September 2020 . Retrieved 29 April 2020.Life and career [ edit ] Childhood and adolescence: 1890–1907 [ edit ] Portrait of Christie entitled Lost in Reverie, by Douglas John Connah, 1894

As I have said, I welcomed new ideas; in fact my motto might have been established by then as ‘Try anything once’." 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. In August 1926, Archie asked Agatha for a divorce. He had fallen in love with Nancy Neele, a friend of Major Belcher. [14] :173–74 On 3 December 1926, the pair quarrelled after Archie announced his plan to spend the weekend with friends, unaccompanied by his wife. Late that evening, Christie disappeared from their home in Sunningdale. The following morning, her car, a Morris Cowley, was discovered at Newlands Corner in Surrey, parked above a chalk quarry with an expired driving licence and clothes inside. [37] [38] It was feared that she might have drowned herself in the Silent Pool, a nearby beauty spot. [39] The ABC Murders Begins on BBC One on Boxing Day at 9pm". BBC Media Centre. 15 December 2018. Archived from the original on 19 December 2018 . Retrieved 20 December 2018. St. Marys Cholsey – Agatha Christie". St Marys Cholsey. Archived from the original on 23 September 2020 . Retrieved 18 April 2020.BBC Radio 4 Extra – Hercule Poirot – Episode guide". BBC. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021 . Retrieved 5 May 2020.

Mallowan, who remarried in 1977, died in 1978 and was buried next to Christie. [82] Estate and subsequent ownership of works [ edit ] Birth Certificate. General Register Office for England and Wales, 1890 September Quarter, Newton Abbot, volume 5b, p. 151. [Christie's forenames were not registered.] Prichard, Mathew (2012). The Grand Tour: Around The World With The Queen Of Mystery. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 978-0-06-219122-9.Lubelski, Amy (March–April 2002). "Museums: In the Field with Agatha Christie". Archaeology. Vol.55, no.2 . Retrieved 28 April 2020. Sorry, Harry Potter – it is Danielle Steel who casts the greatest spell over UK library readers". inews. 23 November 2018. Archived from the original on 1 March 2021 . Retrieved 3 October 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. Mallowan, Agatha Christie (1977), Agatha Christie: An Autobiography, New York City: Dodd, Mead & Co, ISBN 0-396-07516-9 .