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Harley Quin was "easily the most unorthodox" of Christie's fictional detectives. [31] :70 Inspired by Christie's affection for the figures from the Harlequinade, the semi-supernatural Quin always works with an elderly, conventional man called Satterthwaite. The pair appear in 14 short stories, 12 of which were collected in 1930 as The Mysterious Mr. Quin. [30] :78,80 [135] Mallowan described these tales as "detection in a fanciful vein, touching on the fairy story, a natural product of Agatha's peculiar imagination". [30] :80 Satterthwaite also appears in a novel, Three Act Tragedy, and a short story, " Dead Man's Mirror", both of which feature Poirot. [30] :81 Curran, John. "75 facts about Christie". The Home of Agatha Christie. Agatha Christie Limited. Retrieved 21 July 2017. 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. Christie's obituary in The Times notes that "she never cared much for the cinema, or for wireless and television." Further, a b Mills, Selina (15 September 2008). "Dusty clues to Christie unearthed". BBC News. Archived from the original on 28 March 2012 . Retrieved 29 April 2020.

Donnelly, Matt (29 July 2021). "Star-Studded Searchlight Murder Mystery 'See How They Run' Reveals Full Cast, First Look Image". Variety . Retrieved 11 June 2023. a b Palmer, Scott (1993). The Films of Agatha Christie. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd. ISBN 0-7134-7205-7. Books:Agatha Christie: The Queen of the Maze". Time. 26 January 1976. Archived from the original on 22 October 2015 . Retrieved 4 October 2020. Dame Agatha's private pleasures were gardening–she won local prizes for horticulture–and buying furniture for her various houses. She was a shy person: she disliked public appearances, but she was friendly and sharp-witted to meet. By inclination as well as breeding, she belonged to the English upper middle class. She wrote about, and for, people like herself. That was an essential part of her charm. [3] Death and estate [ edit ] Death and burial [ edit ] Christie's gravestone at St Mary's Church, Cholsey, Oxfordshire

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In 1946, Christie said of herself: "My chief dislikes are crowds, loud noises, gramophones and cinemas. I dislike the taste of alcohol and do not like smoking. I do like sun, sea, flowers, travelling, strange foods, sports, concerts, theatres, pianos, and doing embroidery." [76]

That evening, Christie came down to dinner in a proper evening dress, with a new “fancy scarf”. Hotel staff would report that “she has made a number of friends”. She played billiards and even sang aloud. Miss Corbett, the hotel’s entertainment hostess, spotted that “Mrs Neele” still had the price – 75 shillings – pinned to her new shawl. “Is that all you are worth?” asked one of the guests. “I think I am worth more than that,” was her answer. Agatha Christie's real-life mystery at the Silent Pool". BBC News. 17 September 2010 . Retrieved 10 November 2022. So what should we believe? Christie reported that on that Saturday morning, while the police were investigating her abandoned car, she had “lost her memory”. With the help of a psychotherapist, she would later begin to put together a narrative of the movements she had blanked out. “I remember arriving at a big railway station,” she recalled, eventually, “and being surprised to learn it was Waterloo.” 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]

Kastan, David Scott (2006). The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Vol.1. Oxford University Press. p.467. ISBN 978-0-19-516921-8. Sova, Dawn B (1996). Agatha Christie A to Z: The Essential Reference to Her Life & Writings. New York City: Facts On File, Inc. ISBN 0-8160-3018-9. a b c d Moss, Stephen (21 November 2012). "The Mousetrap at 60: Why is this the world's longest-running play?". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 10 August 2020 . Retrieved 8 April 2020.

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As Michael C. Gerald puts it, her "activities as a hospital dispenser during both World Wars not only supported the war effort but also provided her with an appreciation of drugs as therapeutic agents and poisons ... These hospital experiences were also likely responsible for the prominent role physicians, nurses, and pharmacists play in her stories." [124] :viii There were to be many medical practitioners, pharmacists, and scientists, naïve or suspicious, in Christie's cast of characters; featuring in Murder in Mesopotamia, Cards on the Table, The Pale Horse, and Mrs. McGinty's Dead, among many others. [124] a b Flood, Alison (2 September 2015). "And Then There Were None declared world's favourite Agatha Christie novel". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 30 July 2017 . Retrieved 16 May 2017. Wilson, Edmund (14 October 1944). "Why Do People Read Detective Stories?". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 10 August 2020 . Retrieved 4 May 2020. All-star cast announced for new BBC One Agatha Christie thriller The ABC Murders". BBC. 24 May 2018. Archived from the original on 12 November 2018 . Retrieved 11 January 2019.

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Bernthal, J. C. (2016). Queering Agatha Christie: Revisiting the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Springer. pp.1–24. ISBN 978-3-319-33533-9. Archived from the original on 1 August 2020 . Retrieved 31 December 2020. Morgan, Janet P. (1984). Agatha Christie: A Biography. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-216330-9. Retrieved 8 March 2015. The other Westmacott titles are: Unfinished Portrait (1934), Absent in the Spring (1944), The Rose and the Yew Tree (1948), A Daughter's a Daughter (1952), and The Burden (1956).