Agatha Christie
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Soft crime...comparisons of life in Kuala Lumpur with his own more orderly Singapore are insightful. Hercule Poirot in a turban? It's not in the Agatha Christie league but it's good in-flight fare that moves at a merry clip. 40 Great Walks in... In this article: Kuala Lumpur, Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie, Australia, Mackay, and Lord Howe Island |
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | 1 day ago
England's Devon and Cornwall: storied places, killer views
Lethal she was, and I was here on the English Riviera, hot on her trail. The undisputed "queen of mystery writers," Dame Agatha Christie, is the best-selling author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Each...
In this article: Cornwall, England, Torquay, National Trust, Charles Kingsley, and Clovelly
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Independent.co.uk - Gadgets & Tech | 2 days ago
Gamers in the US go crazy for www
...are drawing in and fear stalks the nights. Well, it does if the number of mystery games coming out on the DSis anything to go by. Agatha Christie's moustachioed creation Hercule Poirot is the star of 'The ABCMurders for DS' while her partner...
In this article: Hercule Poirot, James Patterson, Women's Murder Club, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and US
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scotsman.com - Entertainment | 2 days ago
Makars turn to the queen of crime mystery
...rely on the queen of crime to dish up a juicy story line. Just ask Sheila Clarke. Such is the theatre producer's affection for Agatha Christie's work, the Edinburgh Makars' have decided to focus their new festive show on Christie's...
In this article: The Hollow
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L.A. Times - Middle East | 2 days ago
'Terror in Mumbai'
..."Terror in Mumbai. " Written and directed by Dan Reed (whose resume includes documentary films, episodes of "Lewis" and "Agatha Christie: Poirot" and the Gillian Anderson feature "Closure"), it is very well made, but it is also the sort of...
In this article: Mumbai, HBO, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Ideology, Poirot, Newsweek, Lewis, and Gillian Anderson
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Independent.ie | 3 days ago
'Unfriend' named word of the year
...will heal itself if it fractures. AFTER 21 years playing super-sleuth Hercule Poirot, David Suchet returns with one of Agatha Christie's best-known works. Pair are fined for tossing pigeons A FOOD firm has launched an internet turkey...
In this article: Toast, Hercule Poirot, Facebook, David Suchet, Britain, and Serbia
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TIME | 4 days ago
Clearing House: London Museum Asks Public What to Pitch
...not everything in its collections are treasures hence, the artifact cull. Consider the boring old picnic basket known as the "Agatha Christie basket," which contains fragments of pottery of unknown origins. If it had belonged to the author,...
In this article: London Museum, Marsupial mole, Brandeis University, University College London, London, Intrinsic value, Lead poisoning, Dog, and Ambrose Fleming
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ChicagoNow | 4 days ago
Brian J. Smith steps into Anthony Hopkins role
Brian J. Smith of "Stargate Universe" plays Hector MacQueen in the new ITV production of Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express." Brian J. Smith is filming "Murder on the Orient Express." MGM photo Anyone who watches PBS'...
In this article: Hercule Poirot, David Suchet, PBS, ITV, Stargate Universe, and Anthony Hopkins
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Scotland on Sunday | November 05, 2009
Ferrari blasts FIA's Agatha Christie plot
...of former FIA president Max Mosley. "It (Formula One) could be seen as a parody of "Ten Little Indians," the detective novel by Agatha Christie, first published in England back in 1939, but the reality is much more serious," a...
In this article: Formula One, Ferrari, Max Mosley, Bridgestone, Honda, Lotus, Ayrton Senna, and Colin Chapman
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sportinglife | November 05, 2009
FERRARI BLAST 'AGATHA CHRISTIE PLOT'
...contract runs out at the end of next season. In a statement released on its website, Ferrari compared the sport to the Agatha Christie detective novel 'Ten Little Indians' in which the murderer is not exposed until after the other...
In this article: Ferrari, Formula 1, Bridgestone, Max Mosley, Toyota, Renault, BMW, and Honda
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The Michigan Daily | November 04, 2009
Aunt Agatha's Mystery Bookstore
...up a kind of sister store in Ann Arbor. As a great book town, Ann Arbor seemed a good fit for Aunt Agatha's Mystery Bookstore. Playing off of Agatha Christie's unofficial title as The Queen of Crime, the bookstore has an "Agatha" movie poster...
In this article: Steve Hamilton, Loren D. Estleman, Michigan, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington
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Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 12 January 1976), commonly known as Agatha Christie, was an English crime writer of novels, short stories and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. Her works, particularly those featuring detectives Hercule Poirot and 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 referred to by the Guinness Book of World Records as the best-selling writer of books of all time and the best-selling writer of any kind, along with William Shakespeare. Only the Bible is known to have outsold her collected sales of roughly four billion copies of novels. UNESCO states that she is currently the most translated individual author in the world with only the collective corporate works of Walt Disney Productions surpassing her. Christie's books have been translated into (at least) 56 languages.
In 1968 Booker Books, a subsidiary of the agri-industrial conglomerate Booker-McConnell, bought a 51 percent stake in Agatha Christie Limited, the private company that Christie had set up for tax purposes. Booker later increased its stake to 64 percent. In 1998, Booker sold its shares to Chorion, a company whose portfolio also includes the literary estates of Enid Blyton and Dennis Wheatley.
- Name At Birth:
- Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
- Also Known As:
- Mary Westmacott
- Birth Date:
- September 15, 1890
- Birthplace:
- Torquay, Devon, England
- Death Date:
- January 12, 1976
- Place of Death:
- Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England
- Nationality:
- British
- Spouse:
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- Max Mallowan (1930-1976)
- Archibald Christie (1914-1928)
- Occupation:
- Novelist
- Period:
- Golden Age of Detective Fiction
- Influenced By:
- Edgar Allan Poe, Anna Katherine Green, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton
- Influenced:
- Ruth Rendell, P. D. James, Robert Barnard
- Website:
- http://www.agathachristie.com
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