Young Agatha Christie

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Husband and wife Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning were newspaper journalists in New Orleans when they co-wrote their first mystery novel, The Invisible Host. It begins with eight guests invited to a penthouse by telegram, where they are then told over the radio that they will all soon be dead. “Do not doubt me, my friends; you shall all be dead before morning.” Published in the US in 1930, and adapted for the stage that year, it went on to be filmed as The Ninth Guest. Upon publication of the first book edition it was reviewed by The Times Literary Supplement in its edition of 26 January 1922, which described it as "a whirl of thrilling adventures". It stated that the characters of Tommy and Tuppence were "refreshingly original" and praised the fact that the "identity of the arch-criminal, the elusive "Mr Brown", is cleverly concealed to the very end". [4] The atmosphere of the book is admirable and the story will be read with avidity by all. Undoubtedly the book is a success." — East Anglian Daily Times. [7] But Christie was oblivious. Life was much better now. “As Mrs Neele,” she said later, “I was very happy and contented.” The couple acquired the Greenway Estate in Devon as a summer residence in 1938; [14] :310 it was given to the National Trust in 2000. [63] Christie frequently stayed at Abney Hall, Cheshire, which was owned by her brother-in-law, James Watts, and based at least two stories there: a short story, " The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding", in the story collection of the same name and the novel After the Funeral. [12] :126 [14] :43 One Christie compendium notes that "Abney became Agatha's greatest inspiration for country-house life, with all its servants and grandeur being woven into her plots. The descriptions of the fictional Chimneys, Stonygates, and other houses in her stories are mostly Abney Hall in various forms." [64] Blue plaque at 58 Sheffield Terrace, Holland Park, London Winterbrook House, Winterbrook, Oxfordshire. Her final home, Christie lived here with her husband from 1934 until her death in 1976.

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a b c d e Curran, John (2009). Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-200652-3. a b "Interview with Max Mallowan". BBC. Archived from the original on 27 July 2017 . Retrieved 21 July 2017.John Cooper; B.A. Pyke (1994). Detective Fiction – the collector's guide (Seconded.). Scholar Press. pp.82, 86. ISBN 0-85967-991-8. Agatha Christie 'one of Britain's first stand-up surfers' ". The Daily Telegraph. 29 July 2011. Archived from the original on 29 July 2011 . Retrieved 30 July 2011.

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Wagstaff, Vanessa; Poole, Stephen (2004), Agatha Christie: A Reader's Companion, Aurum Press, p. 14, ISBN 1-84513-015-4 Christie's obituary in The Times notes that "she never cared much for the cinema, or for wireless and television." Further, a b c d e Gerald, Michael C. (1993). The Poisonous Pen of Agatha Christie. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-76535-5.

It is strange,” she said, that “the railway authorities there did not recall me, as I was covered with mud and I had smeared blood on my face from a cut on my hand.” Data for financial year ending 05 April 2018 – The Agatha Christie Trust For Children". Registered Charities in England and Wales. Archived from the original on 15 August 2020 . Retrieved 7 November 2019. The book introduces the characters of Tommy and Tuppence who feature in three other Christie novels and one collection of short stories; the five Tommy and Tuppence books span Agatha Christie's writing career. The Great War is over, and jobs are scarce. Childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley meet and agree to start their own business as The Young Adventurers. They are hired for a job that leads them both to many dangerous situations, meeting allies as well, including an American millionaire in search of his cousin.