X-Nico

34 unusual facts about Agatha Christie


A Catalogue of Crime

However, there are fifty-one entries for the prolific Agatha Christie.

Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

The book was supposedly started on 2 April 1950 at the expedition house at Nimrud where she was working on the excavation of that ancient city with her second husband, the archaeologist Max Mallowan.

Agatha Christie's Miss Marple

Miss Marple, the 1984-1992 BBC adaptations featuring Joan Hickson.

Agatha Christie's Marple, the 2004-present ITV adaptations featuring Geraldine McEwan and Julia McKenzie.

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime

The series' original run was immediately preceded by transmission on 9 October 1983 of the same production team's adaptation of Christie's second novel The Secret Adversary, which also starred Annis and Warwick in the same roles and which acted as an introduction for viewers to Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime.

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime is a 1983 British television series based on the short stories of the same name by Agatha Christie.

Balikh River

European travellers of the 19th century noted the presence of archaeological remains in the Balikh Valley, but the first investigations were not carried out until 1938, when the English archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan (husband of author Agatha Christie) spent six weeks investigating five archaeological sites dating from the seventh to the second millennium BCE.

Calabar bean

Mrs. Barbara Franklin was poisoned by the Calabar bean in Curtain, the last novel both for the author Agatha Christie and her fictional detective Hercule Poirot.

Cherchez la femme

Also the phrase was used twice by the character Daphne Castle played by Maggie Smith in the 1982 film adaptation of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under The Sun' whilst advising Hercule Poirot which of her hotel guests to question regarding the murder of Arlena Stewart.

Chupi Chupi Aashey

Though the credits list Mitra as the story writer, Chupi Chupi Aashey was adapted from Agatha Christie's radio play and short story Three Blind Mice and stage play The Mousetrap.

Collins Crime Club

The real reason for the success of the club probably lies in the authors that it had on its list, topped by the best-selling crime writer of all time, Agatha Christie.

Daniel Lapaine

He also starred in the 2000 television miniseries The 10th Kingdom as Prince Wendell White, ruler of the 4th Kingdom, and played Tim Allerton in the 2004 Agatha Christie's Poirot episode Death on the Nile.

David Arch

Arch toured with Paul McCartney in support of his Memory Almost Full album, and has contributed to the soundtracks of The Queen, the film Harry Potter series, Bridget Jones's Diary, Agatha Christie's Poirot, Foyle's War and The King's Speech.

David Renwick

He has also written for 'straight' television drama, contributing episodes to ITV's famous adaptations of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot mysteries, starring David Suchet.

Death, Deceit and Destiny Aboard the Orient Express

There are also some minor but obvious parallels to the 1974 film Murder on the Orient Express, which is based on an Agatha Christie novel.

DreamCatcher Interactive

The Adventure Company brand label under DreamCatcher has released many adventure game series' including series' based on Agatha Christie novels.

Ezzat Negahban

He was also a good friend of British archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, former widower of Agatha Christie.

Fulton Opera House

The Fulton Opera House is home to its own actor's company, which stages seven theatrical productions per year including plays (Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, 2007) and musicals (Oliver!, 2006), some of which are world premier originals (critically acclaimed Lightning Rod, 2005).

Gaylord Larsen

He is well known for his fictional murder mystery Dorothy and Agatha, incorporating the well-known mystery novelists Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie as title characters, where Sayers must solve a crime when a man is murdered in her dining room.

George Gallaccio

George Gallaccio (born 23 December 1938) is a British television producer, whose most prominent work was as producer of the BBC programme Miss Marple, based on the novels by Agatha Christie.

Gerald Verner

He also wrote stage plays included adaptations of Peter Cheyney’s "The Urgent Hangman" into "Meet Mr. Callaghan" (1952) and the Agatha Christie thriller "Towards Zero" (1956).

It's Never Too Late for Now

However, in true Agatha Christie fashion she deduces that there was more to the night than there first seemed.

Lawrence E. Spivak

Spivak published inexpensive digest-sized paperback editions, often abridged, of works by authors including Margery Allingham, Agatha Christie, Erle Stanley Gardner, Dashiell Hammett, Ellery Queen, Georges Simenon, Rex Stout and Cornell Woolrich.

Luxury trains

Since the dawn of the age of luxury trains, the most famous and revered luxury train is perhaps the legendary Orient Express immortalized by Agatha Christie in her book “Murder on the Orient Express”.

Major characters in The Railway Series

Pip and Emma are also the names of two siblings characters in the Agatha Christie novel A Murder is Announced.

Martin Fido

Aside from his many true crime books he has also written illustrated biographies of Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Rudyard Kipling and Oscar Wilde, and books on Agatha Christie, and Sherlock Holmes.

Mignon G. Eberhart

The year after her first novel was published, Agatha Christie followed her lead and introduced another female detective, Jane Marple.

Partners in Crime

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime, a 1980s TV series based on the short story collection

Sea tractor

The Burgh Island sea tractor also appears as the method of transport between the mainland and the island in Evil Under the Sun (2001 film) TV series of ITV's Agatha Christie's Poirot.

Stephen Glanville

Both of these works are set in ancient Mesopotamia, and Christie herself acknowledged in her autobiography that neither of these works would have been possible without Glanville.

Steve Delaney

But he put the character to one side for several years, during which he worked as an actor, appearing in television in dramas such as Juliet Bravo, The Flying Lady, Casualty, The Bill, All Creatures Great and Small and Agatha Christie's Poirot.

Tamanna House

The series is a similar version of the popular mysteries of Agatha Christie's novels.

The Library of St. John the Beheaded

The Library is located in Holborn between the Church of St Giles, London and the Seven Dials district, which was also used as a setting for crime stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie as it was one of London’s ancient ‘rookeries’, tightly packed slums of poverty and lawlessness.

Wells Coates

The building was compared to the exterior of an ocean liner by the novelist Agatha Christie, who lived there for a time, so clean and striking was the design.


Arnos Grove tube station

The station building appears as "Marble Hill" underground station in the episode "Wasps' Nest" of the Agatha Christie's Poirot TV series with David Suchet as Hercule Poirot.

BR Standard Class 5 73050

As such, it has appeared in the television adaptations of Agatha Christie's The Mystery of the Blue Train and Murder on the Orient Express, disguised to appear as a continental locomotive, and featured in the music video for Big Country's Fields of Fire.

Cards on the Table

ITV adapted the story into a television programme in the series Agatha Christie's Poirot starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot and Zoë Wanamaker as Ariadne Oliver, which aired in the US on A&E Network in December 2005 and, in the UK, on ITV1 in March 2006.

Chimneys novels

The Chimneys novels were two light-hearted thrillers by Agatha Christie, The Secret of Chimneys (1925) and The Seven Dials Mystery (1929).

Clarice Lispector

She began to paint and intensified her activity as a translator, publishing translations of Agatha Christie, Oscar Wilde, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Crossroads to Crime

Having been impressed by his performance in a West End production of the Agatha Christie murder mystery The Mousetrap, Anderson cast actor Anthony Oliver in the leading role of Police Constable Don Ross.

Daisy Beaumont

Beaumont's other television work includes a variety of shows, among others The Border, EastEnders, Hotel Babylon, A Touch of Cloth, Agatha Christie's Poirot, Mumbai Calling and The Bill as well as a small movie role in Shanghai Nights, which also starred Jackie Chan.

Detection Club

The Detection Club was formed in 1930 by a group of British mystery writers, including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ronald Knox, Freeman Wills Crofts, Arthur Morrison, John Rhode, Jessie Rickard, Baroness Emma Orczy, R. Austin Freeman, G.D.H. Cole, Margaret Cole, E.C. Bentley, Henry Wade, and H.C. Bailey.

Digitoxin

Digitoxin is used as the murder weapon in Agatha Christie's Appointment with Death, Elizabeth Peters' Die For Love and CSI, season 9, episode 19: "The Descent of Man".

Dover Street

Other guests have included Napoleon III, Theodore Roosevelt (at the time of his marriage), Rudyard Kipling and Agatha Christie (her book At Bertram's Hotel is based on Brown's).

Emma Griffiths Malin

She starred in the 2009 Agatha Christie's Marple television film They Do It with Mirrors as Gina Elsworth and the 2004 Agatha Christie's Poirot television film Death on the Nile as Jacqueline de Bellefort, and appeared in the film House of Boys (2009), which also features Layke Anderson, Stephen Fry and Udo Kier.

Enquire Within Upon Everything

Agatha Christie used Enquire Within About Everything as an important clue in the Hercule Poirot detective novel, Hallowe'en Party.

Ferdinand Kingsley

In 2013, Kingsley played the part of murdered Jewish anarchist Joshua Bloom in the BBC period crime drama Ripper Street, and filmed prominent roles in Agatha Christie's Poirot: Elephants Can Remember, the BBC's feature film The Whale, and Universal Pictures' 2014 feature Dracula Untold.

Jan Struther

In a possibly apocryphal story by fellow panelist Oscar Levant, her appearances on the show stopped abruptly after she answered a question by referring to Agatha Christie's book Ten Little Niggers, which was the original British title of the book Ten Little Indians (later retitled And Then There Were None).

Jock Campbell, Baron Campbell of Eskan

Bookers later acquired the copyrights of other well-known authors, including novelists Agatha Christie, Dennis Wheatley, Georgette Heyer and the playwrights Robert Bolt and Harold Pinter.

Leonard Woolley

Agatha Christie's novel, Murder in Mesopotamia, was inspired by the discovery of the royal tombs.

Miss Otis Regrets

The 2007 television adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel, Marple Mystery: At Bertram's Hotel, opens with the hotel desk clerk repeating the full "Miss Otis Regrets" line to a Mr. Porter on the telephone.

Nether Wallop

Dane Cottage in Five Bells Lane, Nether Wallop was used as Miss Marple's home in the village of St. Mary Mead for the BBC adaptations, played by British actress Joan Hickson of the Agatha Christie Miss Marple novels.

Pat Bottrill

She was awarded the MBE in the 1997 New Year Honours list for services to nursing and health care, and was awarded an RCN Award of Merit in 1995, and was Chair of RCN Council until August 2002 when she was pressured to resign after making a purportedly "inappropriate and offensive" remark at a meeting when she used the term "10 Little Niggers", the original title of Agatha Christie's very atypical murder mystery, And Then There Were None.

Poirot Investigates

All of the stories contained in Poirot Investigates have been adapted as episodes in the ITV television series Agatha Christie's Poirot with David Suchet in the role of Poirot, Hugh Fraser as Hastings, Philip Jackson as Japp and Pauline Moran as Miss Lemon.

Shear Madness

The Boston production is sometimes described as the longest-running or second-longest-running non-musical play in the world, although various non-musical plays have run for longer: Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap in London since 1952, Eugène Ionesco's The Bald Soprano in Paris since 1957, and Israel Horovitz's Line in New York City since 1974.

Susan Wooldridge

She also appeared in many US/British TV productions, such as Dame Agatha Christie's mystery, Dead Man's Folly (1986) which starred Sir Peter Ustinov, Jean Stapleton, Tim Pigott-Smith, and Constance Cummings.

Tamzin Malleson

She originally played Alison Dangerfield in Series 3 and 4 of the BBC drama Dangerfield, before going on to play one of the starring roles (Penny Neville) in the Channel 4 comedy, Teachers, for three of the programme's four series, and she starred in one of ITV's Poirot adaptations, "Evil Under The Sun."

The Floating Admiral

The twelve chapters of the story were each written by a different author, in the following sequence: Canon Victor Whitechurch, G. D. H. Cole and Margaret Cole, Henry Wade, Agatha Christie, John Rhode, Milward Kennedy, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ronald Knox, Freeman Wills Crofts, Edgar Jepson, Clemence Dane and Anthony Berkeley.

The Mystery of the Blue Train

The novel was televised in 2006 as a special episode of the series Agatha Christie's Poirot, and was aired by ITV on 1 January starring David Suchet as Poirot, Roger Lloyd Pack as Inspector Caux, James D'Arcy as Derek Ketterling, Lindsay Duncan as Lady Tamplin, Alice Eve as Lennox and Elliott Gould as Rufus Van Aldin.

The Princess and the Cabbie

One day she meets literary cab driver, Joe Holiday (Robert Desiderio), who references Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, Albert Einstein, Gustave Flaubert and Agatha Christie.

Third Girl

A TV adaptation by Peter Flannery for the series Agatha Christie's Poirot starring David Suchet as Poirot and Zoë Wanamaker as Ariadne Oliver was filmed in April and May 2008.

Tokatlıyan Hotels

The Tokatlıyan Hotel is mentioned in many literary works such as Orhan Pamuk's The Black Book and Agatha Christie's Parker Pyne Investigates and Murder on the Orient Express.