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Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

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**Agatha Christie**

Born:	15 September 1890(1890-09-15) Torquay, Devon, England
Died:	12 January 1976 (aged 85) Cholsey, Oxfordshire, England
Occupation:	Novelist
Genres:	Murder mystery, Crime fiction
Literary movement:	Golden Age of Detective Fiction
Influences:	Edgar Allan Poe Anna Katherine Green Sir Arthur Conan Doyle GK Chesterton
Website:	agathachristie.com

Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), mainly known as Agatha Christie, was an English crime fiction writer. She also wrote romance novels under the name Mary Westmacott, but is chiefly remembered for her 66 detective novels. Her work with these novels, particularly featuring detectives Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple, have given her the title the 'Queen of Crime' and made her one of the most important and innovative writers in the development of the genre.

Christie has been called — by the Guinness Book of World Records, among others — the best-selling writer of books of all time, and the best-selling writer of any kind second only to William Shakespeare. An estimated one billion copies of her novels have been sold in English, and another billion in 103 other languages.^[1] As an example of her broad appeal, she is the all-time best-selling author in France, with over 40 million copies sold in French (as of 2003) versus 22 million for Emile Zola, the nearest contender.

Her stage play, The Mousetrap, holds the record for the longest run ever in London, opening at the Ambassadors Theatre on 25 November 1952, and as of 2007 is still running after more than 20,000 performances. In 1955, Christie was the first recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's highest honor, the Grand Master Award, and in the same year, Witness for the Prosecution was given an Edgar Award by the MWA, for Best Play. Most of her books and short stories have been filmed, some many times over (Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, 4.50 From Paddington), and many have been adapted for television, radio, video games and comics.

In 1998, the control of the rights to most of the literary works of Agatha Christie passed to the company Chorion, when it purchased a majority 64% share in Agatha Christie Limited.^[2]

Biography

A plaque from the Agatha Christie Mile at Torre Abbey in Torquay.

Agatha Christie was born as Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in Torquay, Devon, to an American father and an English mother. She never held or claimed United States citizenship. Her father was Frederick Miller, a rich American stockbroker, and her mother was Clara Boehmer, a British aristocrat. Christie had a sister, Margaret Frary Miller (1879–1950), called Madge, eleven years her senior, and a brother, Louis Montant Miller (1880–1929), called Monty, ten years older than Christie. Her father died when she was very young. Her mother resorted to teaching her at home, encouraging her to write at a very young age. At the age of 16 she went to a school in Paris to study singing and piano.

Her first marriage, an unhappy one, was in 1914 to Colonel Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. The couple had one daughter, Rosalind Hicks, and divorced in 1928.

During World War I she worked at a hospital and then a pharmacy, a job that influenced her work; many of the murders in her books are carried out with poison. (See also cyanide, ricin, and thallium.)

On 8 December 1926, while living in Sunningdale in Berkshire, she disappeared for ten days, causing great interest in the press. Her car was found in a chalk pit in Newland's Corner, Surrey. She was eventually found staying at the Swan Hydro (now the Old Swan hotel) in Harrogate under the name of the woman with whom her husband had recently admitted to having an affair. She claimed to have suffered a nervous breakdown and a fugue state caused by the death of her mother and her husband's infidelity. Opinions are still divided as to whether this was a publicity stunt. Public sentiment at the time was negative, with many feeling that an alleged publicity stunt had cost the taxpayers a substantial amount of money. A 1979 film, Agatha, starring Vanessa Redgrave as Christie, recounted a fictionalised version of the disappearance. Other media accounts of this event exist; it was featured on a segment of Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story, for example.

In 1930, Christie married a Roman Catholic (despite her divorce and her Anglican faith), the archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan. Mallowan was 14 years younger than Christie, and his travels with her contributed background to several of her novels set in the Middle East. Their marriage was happy in the early years, and endured despite Mallowan's many affairs in later life, notably with Barbara Parker, whom he married in 1977, the year after Christie's death. Other novels (such as And Then There Were None) were set in and around Torquay, Devon, where she was born. Christie's 1934 novel, Murder on the Orient Express was written in the Pera Palas hotel in Istanbul, Turkey, the southern terminus of the railroad. The hotel maintains Christie's room as a memorial to the author. The Greenway Estate in Devon, acquired by the couple as a summer residence in 1938, is now in the care of the National Trust. 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 which is in the story collection of the same name and the novel After the Funeral. "Abney became Agatha's greatest inspiration for country-house life, with all the servants and grandeur which have been woven into her plots. The descriptions of the fictional Styles, Chimneys, Stoneygates and the other houses in her stories are mostly Abney in various forms."^[3]

Agatha Christie's room at the Pera Palas hotel where she wrote Murder on the Orient Express.

In 1971 she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Agatha Christie died on 12 January 1976, at age 85, from natural causes, at Winterbrook House in the north of Cholsey parish, adjoining Wallingford in Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire). She is buried in the nearby St Mary's Churchyard in Cholsey.

Christie's only child, Rosalind Hicks, died on 28 October 2004, also aged 85, from natural causes. Christie's grandson, Mathew Prichard, now owns the copyright to his grandmother's works.

Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple

Agatha Christie's first novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles was published in 1920 and introduced the long-running character detective Hercule Poirot, who appeared in 30 of Christie's novels and 50 short stories.

Her other well known character, Miss Marple, was introduced in The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930, and was based on Christie's grandmother.

During World War II, Christie wrote two novels intended as the last cases of these two great detectives, Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple, respectively. They were Curtain, in which Poirot is killed, and Sleeping Murder. Both books were sealed in a bank vault for over thirty years, and were released for publication by Christie only at the end of her life, when she realised that she could not write any more novels. These publications came on the heels of the success of the film version of Murder on the Orient Express in 1974.

Like Arthur Conan Doyle, Christie was to become increasingly tired of her detective, Poirot. In fact, by the end of the 1930s, Christie confided to her diary that she was finding Poirot “insufferable”, and by the 1960s she felt that he was an "an ego-centric creep". However, unlike Conan Doyle, Christie resisted the temptation to kill her detective off while he was still popular. She saw herself as an entertainer whose job was to produce what the public liked, and what the public liked was Poirot.

In contrast, Christie was fond of Miss Marple. However it is interesting to note that the Belgian detective’s titles outnumber the Marple titles by more than two to one.

Poirot is the only fictional character to have been given an obituary in The New York Times, following the publication of Curtain in 1975.

Following the great success of Curtain, Christie gave permission for the release of Sleeping Murder sometime in 1976, but died in January 1976 before the book could be released. This may explain some of the inconsistencies in the book with the rest of the Marple series — for example, Colonel Arthur Bantry, husband of Miss Marple's friend, Dolly, is still alive and well in Sleeping Murder (which, like Curtain, was written in the 1940s) despite the fact he is noted as having died in books that were written after but published before the posthumous release of Sleeping Murder in 1976—such as, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side. It may be that Christie simply did not have time to revise the manuscript before she died. Miss Marple fared better than Poirot, since after solving the mystery in Sleeping Murder, she returns home to her regular life in Saint Mary Mead.

On an edition of Desert Island Discs in 2007, Brian Aldiss recounted how Agatha Christie told him that she wrote her books up to the last chapter, and then decided who the most unlikely suspect was. She would then go back and make the necessary changes to "frame" that person. [2]

In popular culture

Christie has been portrayed on a number of occasions in film and television.

The first occasion was the 1979 Agatha when Vanessa Redgrave played the part.
Hilda Gobbi played the part in a 1980 Hungarian film, Kojak Budapesten.
Peggy Ashcroft played the part in a 1986 TV play, Murder by the Book in which Ian Holm appeared as Poirot.
Esme Lambert played the part in the Unreasonable Doubt episode of The Dead Zone, transmitted on July 14, 2002.
Olivia Williams played the part in a BBC television programme entitled Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures which, like Agatha, revolved around the 1926 disappearance. It was transmitted on September 22, 2004.
Aya Sugimoto played the part in an episode of a Japanese television series called Hyakunin no Ijin in 2006.
On 10 August 2007, it was announced that Christie, played by actress Fenella Woolgar, would appear as a character in the 2008 season of the science fiction TV series Doctor Who.
Michelle Trout will play the part in a US film, Lives and Deaths of the Poets, which is due for release in 2009.

List of works

Novels

Year published	Title	Detectives
1920	The Mysterious Affair at Styles	Hercule Poirot Arthur Hastings Chief Inspector Japp
1922	The Secret Adversary	Tommy and Tuppence
1923	The Murder on the Links	Hercule Poirot Arthur Hastings
1924	The Man in the Brown Suit	Anne Beddingfeld Colonel Race
1925	The Secret of Chimneys	Superintendent Battle
1926	The Murder of Roger Ackroyd	Hercule Poirot
1927	The Big Four	Hercule Poirot Arthur Hastings Chief Inspector Japp
1928	The Mystery of the Blue Train	Hercule Poirot
1929	The Seven Dials Mystery	Bill Eversleigh Superintendent Battle
1930	The Murder at the Vicarage	Miss Marple
1931	The Sittaford Mystery also Murder at Hazelmoor	Hercule Poirot
1932	Peril at End House	Hercule Poirot Arthur Hastings Chief Inspector Japp
1933	Lord Edgware Dies also Thirteen at Dinner	Hercule Poirot Arthur Hastings Chief Inspector Japp
1934	Murder on the Orient Express also Murder on the Calais Coach	Hercule Poirot
1934	Why Didn't They Ask Evans? also The Boomerang Clue
1935	Three Act Tragedy also Murder in Three Acts	Hercule Poirot
1935	Death in the Clouds also Death in the Air	Hercule Poirot Chief Inspector Japp
1936	The A.B.C. Murders also The Alphabet Murders	Hercule Poirot Arthur Hastings Chief Inspector Japp
1936	Murder in Mesopotamia	Hercule Poirot
1936	Cards on the Table	Hercule Poirot Colonel Race Superintendent Battle Ariadne Oliver
1937	Dumb Witness also Poirot Loses a Client also Mystery at Littlegreen House also Murder at Littlegreen House	Hercule Poirot Arthur Hastings
1937	Death on the Nile	Hercule Poirot Colonel Race
1938	Appointment with Death	Hercule Poirot
1938	Hercule Poirot's Christmas also Murder for Christmas also A Holiday for Murder	Hercule Poirot
1939	Murder is Easy also Easy to Kill	Superintendent Battle
1939	And Then There Were None also Ten Little Indians also Ten Little Niggers
1940	Sad Cypress	Hercule Poirot
1940	One, Two, Buckle My Shoe also An Overdose of Death also The Patriotic Murders	Hercule Poirot Chief Inspector Japp
1941	Evil Under the Sun	Hercule Poirot
1941	N or M?	Tommy and Tuppence
1942	The Body in the Library	Miss Marple
1942	Five Little Pigs also Murder in Retrospect	Hercule Poirot
1942	The Moving Finger also The Case of the Moving Finger	Miss Marple
1944	Towards Zero also Come and Be Hanged	Superintendent Battle Inspector James Leach
1944	Death Comes as the End
1945	Sparkling Cyanide also Remembered Death	Colonel Race
1946	The Hollow also Murder After Hours	Hercule Poirot
1948	Taken at the Flood also There is a Tide	Hercule Poirot
1949	Crooked House	Charles Hayward
1950	A Murder is Announced	Miss Marple
1951	They Came to Baghdad
1952	Mrs McGinty's Dead also Blood Will Tell	Hercule Poirot Ariadne Oliver
1952	They Do It with Mirrors also Murder with Mirrors	Miss Marple
1953	After the Funeral also Funerals are Fatal also Murder at the Gallop	Hercule Poirot
1953	A Pocket Full of Rye	Miss Marple
1954	Destination Unknown also So Many Steps to Death
1955	Hickory Dickory Dock also Hickory Dickory Death	Hercule Poirot
1956	Dead Man's Folly	Hercule Poirot Ariadne Oliver
1957	4.50 from Paddington also What Mrs. McGillycuddy Saw also Murder She Said	Miss Marple
1958	Ordeal by Innocence
1959	Cat Among the Pigeons	Hercule Poirot
1961	The Pale Horse	Inspector Lejeune Ariadne Oliver
1962	The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side also The Mirror Crack'd	Miss Marple
1963	The Clocks	Hercule Poirot
1964	A Caribbean Mystery	Miss Marple
1965	At Bertram's Hotel	Miss Marple
1966	Third Girl	Hercule Poirot Ariadne Oliver
1967	Endless Night
1968	By the Pricking of My Thumbs	Tommy and Tuppence
1969	Hallowe'en Party	Hercule Poirot Ariadne Oliver
1970	Passenger to Frankfurt
1971	Nemesis	Miss Marple
1972	Elephants Can Remember	Hercule Poirot Ariadne Oliver
1973	Postern of Fate final Tommy and Tuppence last novel Christie wrote	Tommy and Tuppence
1975	Curtain Poirot's last case, written four decades earlier	Hercule Poirot Arthur Hastings
1976	Sleeping Murder Miss Marple's last case, written four decades earlier	Miss Marple

Collections of Short Stories

1924 Poirot Investigates (short stories: eleven in the UK, fourteen in the US)
1929 Partners in Crime (fifteen short stories; featuring Tommy and Tuppence)
1930 The Mysterious Mr. Quin (twelve short stories; introducing Mr. Harley Quin)
1932 The Thirteen Problems (thirteen short mysteries; featuring Miss Marple, also known as The Tuesday Club Murders)
1933 The Hound of Death (twelve short mysteries - UK only)
1934 The Listerdale mystery (twelve short mysteries - UK only)
1934 Parker Pyne Investigates (twelve short mysteries; introducing Parker Pyne and Ariadne Oliver, also known as Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective)
1937 Murder in the Mews (four short stories; featuring Hercule Poirot, also known as Dead Man's Mirror)
1939 Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (nine short stories - US only)
1947 The Labours of Hercules (twelve short mysteries; featuring Hercule Poirot)
1948 The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (eleven short stories - US only)
1950 Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (nine short stories - US only)
1951 The Under Dog and Other Stories (nine short stories - US only)
1960 The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (six short stories - UK only)
1961 Double Sin and Other Stories (eight short stories - US only)
1971 The Golden Ball and Other Stories (fifteen short stories - US only)
1974 Poirot's Early Cases (eighteen short mysteries)
1979 Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories (eight short stories - UK only)
1991 Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (eight short stories - UK only)
1997 The Harlequin Tea Set (nine short stories - US only)
1997 While the Light Lasts and Other Stories (nine short stories - UK only)

Co-authored works

1930 Behind The Screen written together with Hugh Walpole, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley, E. C. Bentley and Ronald Knox of the Detection Club. Published in 1983 in The Scoop and Behind The Screen.
1931 The Scoop written together with Dorothy L. Sayers, E. C. Bentley, Anthony Berkeley, Freeman Wills Crofts and Clemence Dane of the Detection Club. Published in 1983 in The Scoop and Behind The Screen.
1931 The Floating Admiral written together with G. K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers and certain other members of the Detection Club.

Plays adapted into novels by Charles Osborne

1998 Black Coffee
1999 The Unexpected Guest
2000 Spider's Web

Works written as Mary Westmacott

1930 Giant's Bread
1934 Unfinished Portrait
1944 Absent in the Spring
1948 The Rose and the Yew Tree
1952 A Daughter's a Daughter
1956 The Burden

Plays

1930 Black Coffee
1937 or 1939 A Daughter's a Daughter (never performed)
1943 And Then There Were None
1945 Appointment with Death
1946 Murder on the Nile/Hidden Horizon
1951 The Hollow
1952 The Mousetrap
1953 Witness for the Prosecution
1954 Spider's Web
1958 Verdict
1958 The Unexpected Guest
1960 Go Back for Murder
1962 Rule of Three
1972 Fiddler's Three (originally written as Fiddler's Five. Never published. The final play she wrote)
1973 Aknaton (written in 1937)

Radio Plays

1937 Yellow Iris
1947 Three Blind Mice Christie's celebrated stage play 'The Mousetrap' was based on this radio play.
1948 Butter In a Lordly Dish
1960 Personal Call (A BBC Radio recording of this play is known to exist)

Television Plays

1937 Wasp's Nest

Nonfiction

1946 Come Tell Me How You Live
1977 Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

Other published works

1925 The Road of Dreams (Poetry)
1965 Star Over Bethlehem and other stories (Christmas stories and poems for children)
1973 Poems

Other works based on Christie's books and plays

Plays adapted by other authors

1928 Alibi (dramatized from her novel by Michael Morton)
1936 Love from a Stranger (play) (dramatized by Frank Vosper from her short story Philomel Cottage)
1940 Peril at End House(dramatized from her novel by Arnold Ridley)
1949 Murder at the Vicarage (dramatized from her novel by Moie Charles and Barbara Toy)
1956 Towards Zero (dramatized from her novel by Gerard Verner)
1977 Murder at the Vicarage(dramatized from her novel by Leslie Darbon)
1981 Cards on the Table (dramatized from her novel by Leslie Darbon)
1992 Problem at Pollensa Bay
1993 Murder is Easy
2005 And Then There Were None

Movie Adaptions

1928 The Passing of Mr. Quinn
1929 Die Abenteurer GmbH based on The Secret Adversary
1931 Alibi
1931 Black Coffee
1934 Lord Edgware Dies
1937 Love from a Stranger (Film)
1945 And Then There Were None
1947 Love from a Stranger (Film)
1957 Witness for the Prosecution
1960 The Spider's Web
1962 Murder, She Said (Based on 4.50 From Paddington)
1963 Murder at the Gallop (Based on After the Funeral)
1964 Murder Most Foul (Based on Mrs. McGinty's Dead)
1964 Murder Ahoy! (An original movie not based on any of the books, though it borrows some of the elements of They Do It with Mirrors)
1966 Ten Little Indians
1966 The Alphabet Murders (Based on The ABC Murders)
1972 Endless Night
1974 Murder on the Orient Express
1975 Ten Little Indians
1978 Death on the Nile
1980 The Mirror Crack'd
1982 Evil Under the Sun
1984 Ordeal by Innocence
1988 Appointment with Death
1987 Desyat Negrityat(Ten Little Niggers)
1989 Ten Little Indians

Miss Marple Murder films with Margaret Rutherford

v • d • e

Films

Murder, She Said | Murder at the Gallop | Murder Most Foul | Murder Ahoy!
Cameo: The Alphabet Murders

Based on the Agatha Christie novels

4.50 from Paddington | After the Funeral | Mrs. McGinty's Dead

Cast

Margaret Rutherford | Stringer Davis | Bud Tingwell

Crew

George Pollock | Ron Goodwin

Television Adaptations

1938 Love from a Stranger (TV)
1947 Love from a Stranger (TV)
1949 Ten Little Indians
1959 Ten Little Indians
1970 Murder at the Vicarage
1980 Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
1982 Spider's Web
1982 The Seven Dials Mystery
1982 The Agatha Christie Hour
1982 Murder is Easy
1982 The Witness for the Prosecution
1983 The Secret Adversary
1983 Partners in Crime
1983 A Caribbean Mystery
1983 Sparkling Cyanide
1984 The Body in the Library
1985 Murder with Mirrors
1985 The Moving Finger
1985 A Murder Is Announced
1985 A Pocket Full of Rye
1985 Thirteen at Dinner
1986 Dead Man's Folly
1986 Murder in Three Acts
1986 Murder at the Vicarage
1987 Sleeping Murder
1987 At Bertram's Hotel
1987 Nemesis
1987 4.50 from Paddington
1989 The Man in the Brown Suit
1989 A Caribbean Mystery
1991 They Do It with Mirrors
1992 The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
1997 The Pale Horse
2001 Murder on the Orient Express
2003 Sparkling Cyanide
2004 The Body in the Library
2004 Murder at the Vicarage
2004 Appointment with Death
2005 A Murder is Announced
2005 Sleeping Murder
2006 The Moving Finger
2006 By the Pricking of My Thumbs
2006 The Sittaford Mystery
2007 Hercule Poirot's Christmas (A French film adaptation)
2007 Towards Zero
2007 Nemesis
2007 At Bertram's Hotel
2007 Ordeal by Innocence

Agatha Christie's Poirot television series

Episodes include:

1990 Peril at End House
1990 The Mysterious Affair at Styles
1994 Hercule Poirot's Christmas
1995 Murder on the Links
1995 Hickory Dickory Dock
1996 Dumb Witness
2000 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
2000 Lord Edgware Dies
2001 Evil Under the Sun
2001 Murder in Mesopotamia
2004 Five Little Pigs
2004 Death on the Nile
2004 Sad Cypress
2004 The Hollow
2005 The Mystery of the Blue Train
2005 Cards on the Table
2005 Taken at the Flood
2006 After the Funeral

Comics

HarperCollins began issuing a series of comic strip adaptations of Christie's work on July 16, 2007.

2007 Murder on the Orient Express Adapted by Francois Riviere, Illustrated by Solidor (Jean-François Miniac).
2007 Murder on the Links Adapted by Francois Riviere, Illustrated by Marc Piskic
2007 Death on the Nile Adapted by Francois Riviere, Illustrated by Solidor ( Jean-François Miniac).
2007 The Mystery of the Blue Train Adapted and illustrated by Marc Piskic
2007 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Adapted and illustrated by Bruno Lachard
2007 The Secret of Chimneys Adapted by Francois Riviere, Illustrated by Laurence Suhner

Video games

1988 The Scoop (published by Spinnaker Software and Telarium)
2005 Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None
2006 Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express
2007 Death on the Nile "I-Spy" hidden-object game
2007 Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun (announced)

Unpublished material

Eugenia and Eugenics (stage play)
Snow Upon the Desert (romantic novel)
The Greenshore Folly (detective novella, featuring Hercule Poirot, expanded into the novel Dead Man's Folly)
Personal Call (supernatural radio play, featuring Inspector Narracott - a recording is in the British National Sound Archive)
The Woman and the Kenite (horror) An Italian translation is available on the internet La moglie del Kenita
Butter in a Lordly Dish (horror/detective radio play, adapted from The Woman and the Kenite)
The Green Gate (supernatural)
The War Bride (romantic/supernatural)
The Case of the Dog's Ball (short story, featuring Poirot, expanded to the novel Dumb Witness and related to the short story How Does your Garden Grow?)
Stronger than Death (supernatural)
Being So Very Wilful (romantic)
The Last Seance (stage play)
Someone at the Window (detective stage play, adapted from the short story The Dead Harlequin)

Animation

In 2004, the Japanese broadcasting company Nippon Housou Kyoukai turned Poirot and Marple into animated characters in the anime series Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple, introducing Mabel West (daughter of Miss Marple's mystery-writer nephew Raymond West, a canonical Christie character) and her duck Oliver as new characters.

References

^ http://uk.agathachristie.com/site/about_christie/queen_of_crime.php
^ [1]
^ Agatha Christie: A Readers Companion - Vanessa Wagstaff and Stephen Poole, Aurum Press Ltd. 2004. Page 14. ISBN 1 84513 015 4.

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v • d • e Works by Agatha Christie
Detectives:	Hercule Poirot • Miss Marple • Tommy and Tuppence • Ariadne Oliver • Arthur Hastings • Superintendent Battle • Chief Inspector Japp • Parker Pyne
Novels:	The Mysterious Affair at Styles • The Secret Adversary • Murder on the Links • The Man in the Brown Suit • The Secret of Chimneys • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd • The Big Four • The Mystery of the Blue Train • The Seven Dials Mystery • The Murder at the Vicarage • The Sittaford Mystery • Peril at End House • Lord Edgware Dies • Murder on the Orient Express • Three Act Tragedy • Why Didn't They Ask Evans? • Death in the Clouds • The A.B.C. Murders • Murder in Mesopotamia • Cards on the Table • Dumb Witness • Death on the Nile • Appointment with Death • Hercule Poirot's Christmas • Murder is Easy • And Then There Were None • Sad Cypress • One, Two, Buckle My Shoe • Evil Under the Sun • N or M? • The Body in the Library • Five Little Pigs • The Moving Finger • Towards Zero • Death Comes as the End • Sparkling Cyanide • The Hollow • Taken at the Flood • Crooked House • A Murder is Announced • They Came to Baghdad • Mrs McGinty's Dead • They Do It with Mirrors • After the Funeral • A Pocket Full of Rye • Destination Unknown • Hickory Dickory Dock • Dead Man's Folly • 4.50 From Paddington • Ordeal by Innocence • Cat Among the Pigeons • The Pale Horse • The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side • The Clocks • A Caribbean Mystery • At Bertram's Hotel • Third Girl • Endless Night • By the Pricking of My Thumbs • Hallowe'en Party • Passenger to Frankfurt • Nemesis • Elephants Can Remember • Postern of Fate • Curtain • Sleeping Murder
As Mary Westmacott:	Giant's Bread • Unfinished Portrait • Absent in the Spring • The Rose and the Yew Tree • A Daughter's a Daughter • The Burden
Short story collections:	Poirot Investigates • Partners in Crime • The Mysterious Mr. Quin • The Thirteen Problems • The Hound of Death • The Listerdale Mystery • Parker Pyne Investigates • Murder in the Mews • The Regatta Mystery • The Labours of Hercules • The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories • Three Blind Mice and Other Stories • The Under Dog and Other Stories • The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding • Double Sin and Other Stories • The Golden Ball and Other Stories • Poirot's Early Cases • Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories • Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories • The Harlequin Tea Set • While the Light Lasts and Other Stories
Plays:	Black Coffee • And Then There Were None • Appointment with Death • Murder on the Nile/Hidden Horizon • The Hollow • The Mousetrap • Witness for the Prosecution • Verdict • Rule of Three • Fiddlers Three • Akhnaton
Radio (and Television) Plays:	Three Blind Mice • Butter In a Lordly Dish
Other Published Works:	The Road of Dreams

Persondata
NAME	Christie, Agatha Mary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lady Mallowan
SHORT DESCRIPTION	British author
DATE OF BIRTH	15 September 1890(1890-09-15)
PLACE OF BIRTH	Torquay, Devon, England
DATE OF DEATH	12 January 1976
PLACE OF DEATH	Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England

This biographical information was gathered from the Agatha_Christie page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project.

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