Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

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a b Palmer, Scott (1993). The Films of Agatha Christie. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd. ISBN 0-7134-7205-7. This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater. Sir Peter Blake's new Beatles' Sgt Pepper's album cover". BBC. 13 November 2016. Archived from the original on 3 January 2017 . Retrieved 21 July 2018. Death Certificate. General Register Office for England and Wales, 1869 June Quarter, Westbourne, volume 02B, p. 230. Curran, John. "75 facts about Christie". The Home of Agatha Christie. Agatha Christie Limited. Archived from the original on 29 July 2017 . Retrieved 21 July 2017.Professor of Pharmacology Michael C. Gerald noted that "in over half her novels, one or more victims are poisoned, albeit not always to the full satisfaction of the perpetrator." [124] :viii Guns, knives, garrottes, tripwires, blunt instruments, and even a hatchet were also used, but "Christie never resorted to elaborate mechanical or scientific means to explain her ingenuity," [125] :57 according to John Curran, author and literary adviser to the Christie estate. [126] Many of her clues are mundane objects: a calendar, a coffee cup, wax flowers, a beer bottle, a fireplace used during a heat wave. [123] :38

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. Hopkins, Lisa (2016). "Who Owns the Wood? Appropriating A Midsummer Night's Dream". In Hopkins, L. (ed.). Shakespearean Allusion in Crime Fiction. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. pp.63–103. ISBN 978-1137538741. James, P.D. (2009). Talking About Detective Fiction. Random House. ISBN 978-0-307-39882-6. Archived from the original on 19 November 2016 . Retrieved 4 April 2016. The youngest of three children of the Miller family. The Millers had two other children: Margaret Frary Miller (1879–1950), called Madge, who was eleven years Agatha's senior, and Louis Montant Miller (1880–1929), called Monty, ten years older than Agatha.

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