Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

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Other authors claim Christie wrote Murder on the Orient Express whilst at a dig at Arpachiyah. [4] :206 [30] :111

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Christie's works have been adapted for cinema and television. The first was the 1928 British film The Passing of Mr. Quin. Poirot's first film appearance was in 1931 in Alibi, which starred Austin Trevor as Christie's sleuth. [186] :14–18 Margaret Rutherford played Marple in a series of films released in the 1960s. Christie liked her acting, but considered the first film "pretty poor" and thought no better of the rest. [14] :430–31 In 2015, marking the 125th anniversary of her birth date, 25 contemporary mystery writers and one publisher gave their views on Christie's works. Many of the authors had read Christie's novels first, before other mystery writers, in English or in their native language, influencing their own writing, and nearly all still viewed her as the "Queen of Crime" and creator of the plot twists used by mystery authors. Nearly all had one or more favourites among Christie's mysteries and found her books still good to read nearly 100 years after her first novel was published. Just one of the 25 authors held with Wilson's views. [163] Book sales [ edit ] Wiseman, Andreas (1 October 2019). "Fox & Kenneth Branagh's All-Star Agatha Christie Movie 'Death On The Nile' Begins Production In UK". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 2 October 2019 . Retrieved 1 November 2023.

Thompson, Laura (2008), Agatha Christie: An English Mystery, London: Headline Review, p. 277, 301. ISBN 978-0-7553-1488-1 Kastan, David Scott (2006). The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Vol.1. Oxford University Press. p.467. ISBN 978-0-19-516921-8.Knights Bachelor". The London Gazette. No.Supplement: 44600. 31 May 1968. p.6300. Archived from the original on 1 February 2020 . Retrieved 18 April 2020. Opinions on this episode, both at the time and retrospectively, fall into two camps: either Christie experienced a genuine loss of memory, or she was faking it. One (male) journalist even suggested that she had deliberately set out to frame her husband for murder. Worsley is firmly of the belief that Christie suffered an episode of mental illness (what would now be called a dissociative fugue state), and here her sympathy for her subject is at its fiercest: “The great injustice of Agatha Christie’s life was not that her husband betrayed her while she was mourning her mother. Nor was it even the mental distress. It was the fact that she was shamed for her illness in the national newspapers in such a public way that people ever since have suspected her of duplicity and lies.” The later Marple novels ‘all express Agatha’s view of a Britain that has gone wrong’