Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

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In late February 2014, media reports stated that the BBC had acquired exclusive TV rights to Christie's works in the UK (previously associated with ITV) and made plans with Acorn's co-operation to air new productions for the 125th anniversary of Christie's birth in 2015. [99] As part of that deal, the BBC broadcast Partners in Crime [100] and And Then There Were None, [101] both in 2015. [102] Subsequent productions have included The Witness for the Prosecution [103] but plans to televise Ordeal by Innocence at Christmas 2017 were delayed because of controversy surrounding one of the cast members. [104] The three-part adaptation aired in April 2018. [105] A three-part adaptation of The A.B.C. Murders starring John Malkovich and Rupert Grint began filming in June 2018 and was first broadcast in December 2018. [106] [107] A two-part adaptation of The Pale Horse was broadcast on BBC1 in February 2020. [108] Death Comes as the End will be the next BBC adaptation. [109] For the 1931 digging season at Nineveh, Christie bought a writing table to continue her own work; in the early 1950s, she paid to add a small writing room to the team's house at Nimrud. [14] :301 [30] :244 She also devoted time and effort each season in "making herself useful by photographing, cleaning, and recording finds; and restoring ceramics, which she especially enjoyed". [199] [31] :20–21 She also provided funds for the expeditions. [14] :414 Result of world's favourite Christie global vote". Agatha Christie. 22 December 2015 . Retrieved 23 June 2023. Christie's Life: 1925–1928 A Difficult Start". The Home of Agatha Christie. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015 . Retrieved 12 February 2017. Thompson, Laura (2008), Agatha Christie: An English Mystery, London: Headline Review, p. 277, 301. ISBN 978-0-7553-1488-1

Many of Christie's works from 1940 onward have titles drawn from literature, with the original context of the title typically printed as an epigraph. [148] BBC One plans lots more Agatha Christie". BBC News. 24 August 2016. Archived from the original on 23 January 2021 . Retrieved 24 June 2020.With Christie... we are dealing not so much with a literary figure as with a broad cultural phenomenon, like Barbie or the Beatles." Birth Certificate. General Register Office for England and Wales, 1879 March Quarter, Newton Abbot, volume 5b, p. 162. Agatha Christie: 'Queen of Crime' Is a Gentlewoman". Los Angeles Times. 8 March 1970. p.60, quoted in Gerald (1993), p. 4. The original Gone Girl: Agatha Christie's mysterious disappearance". The Independent . Retrieved 17 September 2022. Wagstaff, Vanessa; Poole, Stephen (2004), Agatha Christie: A Reader's Companion, Aurum Press, p. 14, ISBN 1-84513-015-4

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 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] Agatha Christie Graphic Novels Series". goodreads. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021 . Retrieved 5 May 2020.

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