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Agatha Christie (1890–1976) was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. Her reputation rests on 66 detective novels and 15 short-story collections that have sold over two billion copies, an amount surpassed only by the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare. [1]
The Agatha Christie Trust For Children was established in 1969, [80] and shortly after Christie's death a charitable memorial fund was set up to "help two causes that she favoured: old people and young children". [81] Christie's obituary in The Times notes that "she never cared much for the cinema, or for wireless and television." Further,
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Agatha Christie was a truly prodigious writer who turned out 73 novels and 28 short story collections, alongside plays, poems and autobiographical works. Best known for her crime stories, she invented a string of colourful and eccentric characters, including Hercule Poirot , Miss Marple , Parker Pyne , Harley Quin and Tommy and Tuppence Beresford .
In Agatha Christie's mystery novels, several characters cross over different sagas, creating a fictional universe in which most of her stories are set. This article has one table to summarize the novels with characters who occur in other Christie novels; the table is titled Crossovers by Christie. There is brief mention of characters crossing ...
Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 – September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie. [1] Rinehart published her first mystery novel, The Circular Staircase, in 1908, which introduced the "had I but known" narrative style.
In the 1940s, she had appeared on stage in an Agatha Christie play, Appointment with Death, which was seen by Christie who wrote in a note to her, "I hope one day you will play my dear Miss Marple". [26] She portrayed a maid in the 1937 film, Love from a Stranger, which starred Ann Harding and Basil Rathbone, another Agatha Christie play ...