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Following Agatha Christie's death in 1976, Rosalind and Christie's husband inherited most of the £106,683 (equivalent to £969,873 in 2023) she had 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 ...
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.
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,
Ashfield in Torquay, Devon was the childhood home of Agatha Christie. She lived there from her birth until the time of her marriage, and intermittently thereafter. She reluctantly sold it in 1940; in 1962 it was demolished and replaced with a small estate of houses. A blue plaque marks the top left corner of the two-acre property which was ...
AGATHA Christie (1890-1976) wrote over 66 mystery novels and 14 collections of short stories, as well as several plays. She is one of the best-selling fiction writers of all time.
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 ...
Audible has set a star-studded voice cast for an adaptation of Agatha Christie’s debut novel “The Mysterious Affair at Styles,” including Peter Dinklage, Jessica Gunning and Himesh Patel.
Agatha Christie is the undisputed queen of mystery, and this Midwinter Murder collection brings together her best winter-themed whodunits. The subtitle calls them "Fireside Tales" and we couldn't ...