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Colonel Archibald Christie CMG DSO (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 married in 1914 and divorced in 1928. They separated in 1927 after a major rift due to his infidelity and obtained a divorce the following year.
Mallowan gave an account of his work in his book Twenty-five Years Of Mesopotamian Discovery (1956) and his wife Agatha Christie described his work in Syria in her book Come, Tell Me How You Live (1946). [13] In 1954, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social ...
The film Agatha (1979), with Vanessa Redgrave, has Christie sneaking away to plan revenge against her husband; Christie's heirs sued unsuccessfully to prevent the film's distribution. [207] The Doctor Who episode " The Unicorn and the Wasp " (17 May 2008) stars Fenella Woolgar as Christie, and explains her disappearance as being connected to ...
Following Agatha Christie's death in 1976, Rosalind and Christie's husband inherited most of the £106,683 net (about £773,000 in 2019), which she left behind. [8] Rosalind also received 36% of Agatha Christie Limited and the copyrights to Christie’s play A Daughter’s a Daughter. Believing the main character was based on her, she remained ...
Come, Tell Me How You Live is a short book of autobiography and travel literature by crime writer Agatha Christie.It is one of only two books she wrote and had published under both of her married names of "Christie" and "Mallowan" (the other being Star Over Bethlehem and other stories) and was first published in the UK in November 1946 by William Collins and Sons and in the same year in the US ...
The book has some parallels to incidents and settings of a round-the-world work trip taken by Christie with her first husband Archie Christie and headed by his old teacher from Clifton College, Major E A Belcher, to promote the forthcoming 1924 British Empire Exhibition. The tour lasted from 20 January to 1 December 1922.
Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar is a 2019 British alternative history television drama film about crime writer Agatha Christie becoming embroiled in a real-life murder case during a trip to an archaeological dig in Iraq following her divorce. The film premiered on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom on 15 December 2019. [1]
Agatha Christie purchased the house in 1934, and died there in 1976. [1] The house was Grade II listed in 1986. [2] The blue plaque on Winterbrook House. There is a blue plaque on the house by the front door to mark the period of residency of Agatha Christie and her second husband Sir Max Mallowan.