Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

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Curran, John (2009). Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-200652-3. From 1971 to 1974, Christie's health began to fail, but she continued to write. Her last novel was Postern of Fate in 1973. [4] :368–72 [14] :477 Textual analysis suggested that Christie may have begun to develop Alzheimer's disease or other dementia at about this time. [74] [75] Personal qualities [ edit ] Christie at Schiphol Airport, 17 September 1964

About Agatha Christie". Agatha Christie Ltd. 2020. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015 . Retrieved 29 April 2020. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. For information on Christie's book originally titled Ten Little Niggers, see And Then There Were None. I think, myself, that one’s memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself." John Curran author". HarperCollinsPublishers. 2020. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020 . Retrieved 11 April 2020.a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Osborne, Charles (2001). The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie: A Biographical Companion to the Works of Agatha Christie. New York City: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-28130-7. a b "An interview with Sophie Hannah". The Home of Agatha Christie. 22 August 2016. Archived from the original on 31 August 2019 . Retrieved 29 April 2020. Main article: Agatha Christie bibliography Works of fiction [ edit ] Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple [ edit ] An early depiction of detective Hercule Poirot, from The American Magazine, March 1933

In the 1950s, "the theatre... engaged much of Agatha's attention." [138] She next adapted her short radio play into The Mousetrap, which premiered in the West End in 1952, produced by Peter Saunders and starring Richard Attenborough as the original Detective Sergeant Trotter. [136] Her expectations for the play were not high; she believed it would run no more than eight months. [12] :500 The Mousetrap has long since made theatrical history as the world's longest-running play, staging its 27,500th performance in September 2018. [136] [139] [140] [141] The play temporarily closed in March 2020, when all UK theatres shut due to the coronavirus pandemic, [142] [143] before it re-opened on 17 May 2021. [144] Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan. Marriage Certificate. Scotland–Statutory Register of Marriages, 685/04 0938, 11 September 1930, District of St Giles, Edinburgh.Where Are They Now?". Penguin. Archived from the original on 19 September 2020 . Retrieved 1 October 2020. Glancey, Jonathan (17 November 2001). "Forbidden pleasures". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021 . Retrieved 28 April 2020. Five record-breaking book facts for National Bookshop Day". Guinness World Records. 4 October 2018. Archived from the original on 9 May 2020 . Retrieved 28 April 2020. 78 crime novels have sold an estimated 2 billion copies in 44 languages Poirot investigates his last mystery at Greenway". NationalTrust.org.uk. Archived from the original on 29 June 2014 . Retrieved 28 April 2014.