Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

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Jones, Sam (29 July 2011). "Agatha Christie's Surfing Secret Revealed". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 15 December 2013 . Retrieved 30 July 2011. In January 1927, Christie, looking "very pale", sailed with her daughter and secretary to Las Palmas, Canary Islands, to "complete her convalescence", [54] returning three months later. [55] [f] Christie petitioned for divorce and was granted a decree nisi against her husband in April 1928, which was made absolute in October 1928. Archie married Nancy Neele a week later. [56] Christie retained custody of their daughter, Rosalind, and kept the Christie surname for her writing. [31] :21 [57] Lubelski, Amy (March–April 2002). "Museums: In the Field with Agatha Christie". Archaeology. Vol.55, no.2 . Retrieved 28 April 2020. 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."

a b The Mystery of Agatha Christie – A Trip With David Suchet (Directed by Claire Lewins). Testimony Films (for ITV). Partvonal (Hungary) named "Életem" (My Life) and translated to Hungarian by Tibor Kállai. 652 pp. ISBN 9789639644953 and the 2nd ed. Helikon (Hungary) 2021, 692 pp. ISBN 9789634796091 BBC One plans lots more Agatha Christie". BBC News. 24 August 2016. Archived from the original on 23 January 2021 . Retrieved 24 June 2020.

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In 1922, the Christies joined an around-the-world promotional tour for the British Empire Exhibition, led by Major Ernest Belcher. Leaving their daughter with Agatha's mother and sister, in 10 months they travelled to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, and Canada. [4] :86–103 [32] They learned to surf prone in South Africa; then, in Waikiki, they were among the first Britons to surf standing up, and extended their time there by three months to practise. [33] [34] She is remembered at the British Surfing Museum as having said about surfing, " Oh it was heaven! Nothing like rushing through the water at what seems to you a speed of about two hundred miles an hour. It is one of the most perfect physical pleasures I have known." [35] Brantley, Ben (26 January 2012). "London Theater Journal: Comfortably Mousetrapped". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 30 September 2019 . Retrieved 26 January 2012. James, P.D. (2009). Talking About Detective Fiction. Random House. ISBN 978-0-307-39882-6. Archived from the original on 19 November 2016 . Retrieved 4 April 2016. Birth Certificate. General Register Office for England and Wales, 1890 September Quarter, Newton Abbot, volume 5b, p. 151. [Christie's forenames were not registered.] By 1901, her father's health had deteriorated, because of what he believed were heart problems. [14] :33 Fred died in November 1901 from pneumonia and chronic kidney disease. [23] Christie later said that her father's death when she was 11 marked the end of her childhood. [4] :32–33

If you sat down with Agatha Christie and asked her about her life, this book would be the story she would tell. It is very convers crime fiction steals top slot in UK library loans". thegurdian. 5 February 2016. Archived from the original on 29 June 2020 . Retrieved 2 October 2020. Marie Benedict". LibraryReads. Archived from the original on 19 October 2022 . Retrieved 30 May 2022. Acocella, Joan. "Queen of Crime". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 23 September 2020 . Retrieved 29 April 2020. Agatha has traveled all over the world. She speaks of the special things that stand out for her at each place. Where has she traveled? Glance at the GR shelves on which I have placed this book.

Christie published a few non-fiction works. Come, Tell Me How You Live, about working on an archaeological dig, was drawn from her life with Mallowan. The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery is a collection of correspondence from her 1922 Grand Tour of the British Empire, including South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. Agatha Christie: An Autobiography was published posthumously in 1977 and adjudged the Best Critical/Biographical Work at the 1978 Edgar Awards. [147] Titles [ edit ] The Agatha Christie Trust For Children was established in 1969, [77] 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". [78] St. Marys Cholsey – Agatha Christie". St Marys Cholsey. Archived from the original on 23 September 2020 . Retrieved 18 April 2020. Bernthal, J.C. (2022). Agatha Christie: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. ISBN 9781476676203. Crime writer Agatha Christie dies". bbc. 12 January 1976. Archived from the original on 12 January 2021 . Retrieved 30 September 2020.

For the 1931 digging season at Nineveh, Christie bought a writing table to continue her own work; in the early 1950s, she paid to add a small writing room to the team's house at Nimrud. [14] :301 [30] :244 She also devoted time and effort each season in "making herself useful by photographing, cleaning, and recording finds; and restoring ceramics, which she especially enjoyed". [197] [31] :20–21 She also provided funds for the expeditions. [14] :414 Gerald, Michael C. (1993). The Poisonous Pen of Agatha Christie. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0292728646. Vervel, Marc (2022). " 'Mystery' Beyond Reason: Mr. Quin, a Revealer of the Powers of Fiction According to Agatha Christie?" (PDF). Clues: A Journal of Detection. 40 (2): 39-48 . Retrieved 18 April 2023.Harley Quin was "easily the most unorthodox" of Christie's fictional detectives. [31] :70 Inspired by Christie's affection for the figures from the Harlequinade, the semi-supernatural Quin always works with an elderly, conventional man called Satterthwaite. The pair appear in 14 short stories, 12 of which were collected in 1930 as The Mysterious Mr. Quin. [30] :78,80 [135] Mallowan described these tales as "detection in a fanciful vein, touching on the fairy story, a natural product of Agatha's peculiar imagination". [30] :80 Satterthwaite also appears in a novel, Three Act Tragedy, and a short story, " Dead Man's Mirror", both of which feature Poirot. [30] :81