"researchers have suggested that Christie may have begun to suffer from Alzheimer's disease or other dementia. Dame Agatha Christie died on 12 January 1976 at age 85 from natural causes at her home Winterbrook House which was located in Winterbrook, Wallingford, Oxfordshire. At the time of her death Winterbrook was still a part of the parish of Cholsey. She is buried in the nearby churchyard of St Mary's, Cholsey, having chosen the plot for their final resting place with her husband Sir Max some ten years before she died. The simple funeral service was attended by about 20 newspaper and"
"Agatha Christie bibliography Agatha Christie (1890–1976) was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. Although she wrote six romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, her reputation rests on the 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections that she wrote under her own name, which have sold over two billion copies—an amount only surpassed by the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare. Her works contain several regular characters with whom the public became familiar, including Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, Parker Pyne and Harley Quin. Christie wrote more Poirot stories than any of the others,"
"Archie Christie Archibald Christie, (30 September 1889 – 20 December 1962) was a British businessman and military officer. He was the first husband of mystery writer Dame Agatha Christie. They wed in 1914 and divorced in 1928. During that period Agatha wrote some of the most renowned detective novels. They separated in 1927 after a major rift due to his infidelity and obtained a divorce the following year. Shortly after this, Christie married Nancy Neele, and the couple lived quietly for the rest of their lives. Christie became a successful businessman and was invited to be on the boards of"
"her on her own or as a member of a group. The definitive study of Agatha Christie's stage plays is ""Curtain Up: Agatha Christie, A Life in Theatre"" by Julius Green. Agatha Christie bibliography Agatha Christie (1890–1976) was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. Although she wrote six romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, her reputation rests on the 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections that she wrote under her own name, which have sold over two billion copies—an amount only surpassed by the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare. Her works contain several regular"
"TV reporters, some having travelled from as far away as South America. Thirty wreaths adorned Dame Agatha's grave, including one from the cast of her long-running play ""The Mousetrap"" and one sent 'on behalf of the multitude of grateful readers' by the Ulverscroft Large Print Book Publishers. She was survived by her only child, Rosalind Hicks (1919–2004), and only grandson, Mathew Prichard. Her husband, Max, died in 1978, aged 74, after having remarried in 1977. He was interred next to Agatha Christie. Christie had set up a private company, Agatha Christie Limited, to hold the rights to her works, and"
"to a large country house near Godalming called Juniper Hill on Hydon Heath. Christie continued to play golf at Sunningdale Golf Club. Nancy died in 1958 at the age of 58, and Christie died four years later. Archie Christie Archibald Christie, (30 September 1889 – 20 December 1962) was a British businessman and military officer. He was the first husband of mystery writer Dame Agatha Christie. They wed in 1914 and divorced in 1928. During that period Agatha wrote some of the most renowned detective novels. They separated in 1927 after a major rift due to his infidelity and obtained"
"by Agatha Christie. As the one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, he appeared in 33 novels, one play (""Black Coffee""), and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975. The stories are throughout the Hercule Poirot’s whole life in the UK, which he first appeared in ""The Mysterious Affair at Styles"" (published in 1920) and died in ""Curtain"" (published in 1975), which is Agatha Christie’s last work. August 6, 1975, The New York Times published the obituary of Poirot’s death and the cover of the newly published novel on the front page. ""Le Chevalier"" C. Auguste"
"Agatha (film) Agatha is a 1979 British drama thriller film directed by Michael Apted, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Dustin Hoffman and Timothy Dalton, and written by Kathleen Tynan. The ""Technovision"" film focuses on renowned crime writer Agatha Christie's famous 11-day disappearance in 1926. The film opens as Agatha Christie (Vanessa Redgrave) gets a silver cup engraved for her husband Archie (Timothy Dalton), who receives the gift with utter disdain. The couple walks to a publicity event for Agatha's new novel, ""The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"". They are tailed into the venue by American reporter Wally Stanton (Dustin Hoffman). The next morning,"
"Adelaide Phillpotts Mary Adelaide Eden Ross (née Phillpotts, 23 April 1896 – 4 June 1993) was an English novelist, poet and playwright. She married at the age of 55 leaving behind her father who had controlled their incestuous relationship. Phillpotts was born in Ealing, London and went to a local boarding school and then to Grassendale School in Southbourne, Dorset. Later she studied social care at Bedford College. As a 12-year-old girl she looked up to her slightly older Torquay neighbour Agatha Miller (later known to the world as Agatha Christie). Her father, the successful and prolific writer Eden Phillpotts,"
"gave the film two and a half stars out of four and told readers that the relationship between Christie and the American journalist ""isn't real. It's never for a moment deeply felt -- it's just deeply acted."" Agatha (film) Agatha is a 1979 British drama thriller film directed by Michael Apted, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Dustin Hoffman and Timothy Dalton, and written by Kathleen Tynan. The ""Technovision"" film focuses on renowned crime writer Agatha Christie's famous 11-day disappearance in 1926. The film opens as Agatha Christie (Vanessa Redgrave) gets a silver cup engraved for her husband Archie (Timothy Dalton), who receives"
"is Christie's daughter, Rosalind Hicks (1919–2004) who was the daughter of her first marriage to Archibald Christie (1890–1962) and Agatha Christie's only child. Rosalind was eleven years of age at the time of the publication of this book. The Murder at the Vicarage The Murder at the Vicarage is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1930 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition"
"was the predominant mode of crime writing. Agatha Christie is not only the most famous Golden Age writer, but also considered one of the most famous authors of all genres of all time. At the time of her death in 1976, “she was the best-selling novelist in history.” Many of the most popular books of the Golden Age were written by Agatha Christie. She produced long series of books featuring detective characters like Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, amongst others. Her use of basing her stories on complex puzzles, “combined with her stereotyped characters and picturesque middle-class settings”, is credited"
"Twenties"" and ""the Thirties"". Symons notes that Philip Van Doren Stern's article, ""The Case of the Corpse in the Blind Alley"" (1941) ""could serve ... as an obituary for the Golden Age."" Many of the authors of the Golden Age were British: Margery Allingham (1904–1966), Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher (1887-1969), Anthony Berkeley (aka Francis Iles, 1893–1971), G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), Dame Agatha Christie (1890–1976), Freeman Wills Crofts (1879–1957), R. Austin Freeman (1862–1943), Joseph Jefferson Farjeon (1883–1955), Michael Innes (1906–1993), Msgr. Ronald Knox (1888-1957), E.C.R. Lorac (1894-1958), Philip MacDonald (1900–1980), John Rhode (1884-1964), Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957), Josephine Tey (1896–1952), Anne Hocking (1890–1966),"
"of premium hi-fi equipment. A refurbishment of the Old Swan and its 136 rooms was finalised in 2006. In December 1926 the author Agatha Christie suddenly disappeared from her home. She was missing for a total of eleven days, during which the police conducted a major manhunt, and there was speculation that she had committed suicide. The disappearance even drew other crime writers Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Dorothy L Sayers into the search, Conan Doyle's interest in the occult prompting to take one of Christie's gloves to a medium. After about ten days (having checked into the Swan Hydropathic"
"down the book until one learns the true solution of the mystery."" Lord Edgware Dies Lord Edgware Dies is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in September 1933 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year under the title of Thirteen at Dinner. Before its book publication, the novel was serialised in six issues (March–August 1933) of ""The American Magazine"" as ""13 For Dinner"". The novel features Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp. An American actress married to Lord"
"Agatha Christie (1890–1976), Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957), and many more. Some of them were American, but with a British touch. By that time certain conventions and clichés had been established which limited any surprises on the part of the reader to the twists and turns within the plot and of course to the identity of the murderer. The majority of novels of that era were whodunnits, and several authors excelled, after successfully leading their readers on the wrong track, in convincingly revealing to them the least likely suspect as the real villain of the story. What is more, they had"
"herself (Dame Peggy Ashcroft) murdered one of her fictional-turned-real characters, Poirot. The heroine of Liar-Soft's visual novel """" (2008), Mary Clarissa Christie, is based on the real-life Christie. Christie features as a character in Gaylord Larsen's ""Dorothy and Agatha"" and ""The London Blitz Murders"" by Max Allan Collins. A fictionalized account of Christie's disappearance is the central theme of a Korean musical, ""Agatha"". A young Agatha Christie is depicted in the Spanish historical television series ""Grand Hotel"" (2011). Aiding the local detectives, Agatha finds inspiration to write her new novel. Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (née"
"Abney Hall. Christie issued a statement to the press saying that his wife was suffering from a nervous disorder and that she had complete loss of memory. The 1979 dramatic film ""Agatha"" was based on this event with Agatha and Archie portrayed by Vanessa Redgrave and Timothy Dalton. After this, the couple separated. Agatha went to live in a flat in London, and Christie remained at Styles so that he could sell it. In 1928, Christie married Nancy Neele in St George's, Hanover Square, with just a few close friends present at the ceremony. Nancy Neele was ten years younger"
"around 1959 she had transferred her 278-acre home, Greenway Estate, to her daughter Rosalind. In 1968, when Christie was almost 80 years old, she sold a 51% stake in Agatha Christie Limited (and therefore the works it owned) to Booker Books (better known as Booker Author's Division), a subsidiary of the food and transport conglomerate Booker-McConnell (now Booker Group), the founder of the Booker Prize for literature, which later increased its stake to 64%. Agatha Christie Limited remains the owner of the worldwide rights for over 80 of Christie's novels and short stories, 19 plays, and nearly 40 TV films."
"Appointment with Death (play) Appointment with Death is a 1945 play by crime writer Agatha Christie. It is based on her 1938 novel of the same name. Christie is silent on the writing of both the book and the play in her autobiography. Her biography states that she started writing the play in a burst of enthusiasm after being involved in the preparations for ""Murder on the Nile"" which was being presented by her actor friend Francis L. Sullivan. The writing was completed by March 1944 and preparations were made towards the end of the year for an opening in"
"the first of many writers called, by their publishers, ""America's Agatha Christie,"" few of which had as little in common with 'Dame Agatha in matters of plotting, characterization, or even type of story.' She wrote a total of 59 novels, the last published in 1988, shortly before her 89th birthday. Eight of her novels were adapted as movies, beginning in 1935 with ""While the Patient Slept."" The last adaptation, based on the book ""Hasty Wedding"", was the movie ""Three's a Crowd"", released in 1945. Sarah Keate, though popular as the protagonist of Eberhart's first five novels, proved to be the"
"Agatha Christie Memorial The Agatha Christie Memorial is a memorial to author and playwright Agatha Christie, located at the intersection of Cranbourn Street and Great Newport Street by St Martin's Cross near Covent Garden, in London, United Kingdom. It is located in the heart of London's theatre district. This was chosen to pay homage to Christie's contribution to theatre: her murder mystery play ""The Mousetrap"" is the world's longest-running show, and she was the first female playwright to have three plays performing simultaneously in the West End. The memorial depicts a book with Christie at its centre. It is about"
"Sleeping Murder Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple's Last Case is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1976 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed for £3.50 and the US edition for $7.95. The book features Miss Marple. It was the last Christie novel, published posthumously, although not the last one Christie wrote featuring Miss Marple. The story is set in the 1930s, though written during the Second World War. She aids a young couple who"
"Margaret Rutherford Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford, (11 May 1892 – 22 May 1972) was a British character actress of stage, television and film, probably best known for her later career as Agatha Christie's character Miss Marple. She first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noël Coward's ""Blithe Spirit"", and Oscar Wilde's ""The Importance of Being Earnest"". She won the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for her role as The Duchess of Brighton in ""The V.I.P.s"" (1963). Rutherford was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1961 and a Dame"
"the home of author Agatha Christie and her husband Max Mallowan from 1934 until her death in 1976 and his in 1978. It is believed that she based the fictional home of her fictional character Miss Marple called Danemead, which was in the village of St. Mary Mead on Winterbrook House. The house is still a private residence and forms part of the Agatha Christie Trail. [[File:Flint House - geograph.org.uk - 918424.jpg|thumb|Flint house]] Flint house is owned by Wallingford Town Council and is the current home of the Wallingford Museum. The frame may date back to the late 15th century"
"the house; the English were of all kinds"". Christie published relatively few non-fiction works: Often referred to as the ""Queen of Crime"" or ""Queen of Mystery"", Agatha Christie is the world's best-selling mystery writer and is considered a master of suspense, plotting, and characterisation. Some critics, however, have regarded Christie's plotting as superior to her skill with other literary elements. Novelist Raymond Chandler criticised her in his essay ""The Simple Art of Murder"", and American literary critic Edmund Wilson was dismissive of Christie and the detective fiction genre generally in his ""New Yorker"" essay, ""Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?"""
"as a paperback by Samuel French Ltd on 29 June 1956, priced at four shillings. It was first published in hardback in ""The Mousetrap and Other Plays"" by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1978 () and in the UK by Harper Collins in 1993 (). Appointment with Death (play) Appointment with Death is a 1945 play by crime writer Agatha Christie. It is based on her 1938 novel of the same name. Christie is silent on the writing of both the book and the play in her autobiography. Her biography states that she started writing the play in a burst"
"November 2012, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of ""The Mousetrap"". On the memorial appear some titles of her most popular books and plays, in English, and in some of the many languages into which Christie's work has been translated. The titles included were chosen in a competition among her fans. The details of the inscriptions can be seen on the official website. Agatha Christie Memorial The Agatha Christie Memorial is a memorial to author and playwright Agatha Christie, located at the intersection of Cranbourn Street and Great Newport Street by St Martin's Cross near Covent Garden, in London, United Kingdom."
"Death Comes as the End Death Comes as the End is a historical mystery novel by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in October 1944 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in March of the following year. The US Edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6). It is the only one of Christie's novels not to be set in the 20th century, and - unusually for her - also features no European characters. Instead, the novel is set in Thebes in 2000 BC, a"
"the archaeologist Max Mallowan and his wife Agatha Christie. He was in service with Mallowan during WWII. Glanville was the source and inspiration for at least two of Christie's works, the historic mystery"" Death Comes as the End"", and a play, ""Akhnaton"". Both of these works are set in ancient Egypt, and Christie herself acknowledged in her that neither of these works would have been possible without Glanville. This is by no means a complete list. Publication date unknown: Glanville S.R.K. and Faulkner, R. O., Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in The British Museum II: Wooden Model Boats. Trustees of The"
"on 25 November 1952, and is still running after more than 27,000 performances. In 1955, Christie was the first recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's highest honour, the Grand Master Award. Later the same year, ""Witness for the Prosecution"" received an Edgar Award by the MWA for Best Play. In 2013, ""The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"" was voted the best crime novel ever by 600 fellow writers of the Crime Writers' Association. On 15 September 2015, coinciding with her 125th birthday, ""And Then There Were None"" was named the ""World's Favourite Christie"" in a vote sponsored by the author's"
"Lord Edgware Dies Lord Edgware Dies is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in September 1933 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year under the title of Thirteen at Dinner. Before its book publication, the novel was serialised in six issues (March–August 1933) of ""The American Magazine"" as ""13 For Dinner"". The novel features Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp. An American actress married to Lord Edgware asks Poirot to aid her in getting a divorce from her"
"of Agatha Christie born Sept 1890 died Jan 1976. There is no record of her visiting but her step grandmother (Margaret West) owned Fraryhurst until 1909. An electoral ward in the same name exists. The ward includes West Thorney with at the 2011 census a total population of 7,448. Chichester Harbour, a Site of Special Scientific Interest is partly within the parish. This is a wetland of international importance,a Special Protection Area for wild birds and a Special Area of Conservation. The harbour is of particular importance for wintering wildfowl and waders of which five species reach numbers which are"