Almost all of Agatha Christie's books are whodunits, focusing on the British middle and upper classes.

Some of these have explored and offered accounts of Christie's disappearance in 1926, including the 1979 film Agatha ( with Vanessa Redgrave, where she sneaks away to plan revenge against her husband ) and the Doctor Who episode " The Unicorn and the Wasp " ( with Fenella Woolgar, her disappearance being the result of her suffering a temporary breakdown due to a brief psychic link being formed between her and an alien ).

The detective novelist Ariadne Oliver is Agatha Christie's humorous self-caricature.

In The Agatha Christie Hour, she was portrayed by British actress Angela Easterling, while in Agatha Christie's Poirot, she was portrayed by Pauline Moran.

In Agatha Christie's Poirot, Japp was portrayed by Philip Jackson.

In Agatha Christie's Poirot, George is played by actor David Yelland.

David Suchet has starred as the eponymous detective in Agatha Christie's Poirot in the ITV series since 1989.

In 2004, NHK ( Japanese public TV network ) produced a 39 episode anime series titled Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple, as well as a manga series under the same title released in 2005.

Jane Marple, usually referred to as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in twelve of Agatha Christie's crime novels and in twenty short stories.

In 1983, Estonian stage and film actress Ita Ever starred in the Russian language film adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel A Pocket Full of Rye ( using the Russian edition's translated title, The Secret of the Blackbirds ) as the character of Miss Marple.

Beginning in 2004, ITV broadcast a series of adaptations of Agatha Christie's books under the title Agatha Christie's Marple, usually referred to as Marple.

From 2004 to 2005, Japanese TV network NHK produced a 39 episode anime series titled Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple, which features both Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.

The same joke-translation is mentioned in Agatha Christie's Evil Under the Sun by Patrick Redfern to Hercule Poirot – a prank which inadvertently gives Poirot the answer to the murder.

* 1952 – Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London later becoming the longest continuously-running play in history.

Agatha Christie's numerous mystery novels often referenced Scotland Yard, most notably in her Hercule Poirot series.

In Agatha Christie's Poirot series of books, Poirot often has a tisane and accounts this as being the reason why his " little grey cells " are superior to others.

* November 6 – Agatha Christie's mystery novel And Then There Were None is published in book form in the United States.

Agatha Christie's book Ten Little Niggers was first published in London in 1939 and continued to appear under that title until the early 1980s, when it became And Then There Were None.

In addition, Ten Little Niggers ( 1939 ) was the original British title of Agatha Christie's novel And Then There Were None, which has also been known by the alternate title Ten Little Indians.

During this period, one of his high-profile film roles was as Agatha Christie's Belgian master detective Hercule Poirot in the 1974 film Murder On The Orient Express.

In Agatha Christie's, " Appointment with Death " ( 1938 ), the mysterious and enigmatic Petra is the setting for a murder mystery featuring Hercule Poirot.

* Agatha Lekapene, who married Romanos Argyros ; their grandson was Emperor Romanos III.

Matthew Prichard, the grandson of Agatha Christie, criticized Wikipedia for giving away spoilers in the play " The Mousetrap ".

Mathew Prichard himself, grandson of Agatha Christie, was quoted by Télérama as calling it the best TV adaptation he had seen.

Christie has also been parodied on screen, such as in the film Murder by Indecision, which featured the character " Agatha Crispy ".

He has been known to use Agatha Christie novels as crime-solving reference guides.

In a half-hour radio drama, Butter in a Lordly Dish ( 1948 ), Agatha Christie has her protagonist drug a lawyer's coffee ; after revealing her true identity, she hammers a nail into his head.

The Sandman Special # 1 implies that Morpheus is one and the same as the Greek deity of that name ( in DC comics continuity, another version of this god, clearly not Dream, appears in George Pérez's Wonder Woman # 11 ( December 1987 ) — what relation this figure, an old man dressed in purple vaguely resembling Agatha Harkness, has to this aspect of Dream is unclear ).

Aunt Agatha has been described as " the best image of the dialoguing philosopher ".

* The term " Aunt Agatha " has come to mean a " formidable aunt " or, more generally, " any older woman of fearsome disposition ".

The area has some remarkable architecture, such as the Isokon building in Lawn Road, a Grade I listed experiment in collective housing, once home to Agatha Christie, Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson and Walter Gropius.

Agatha Christie's Poirot is a British television drama that has aired on ITV since 1989.

Although strongly influenced by Carr and Agatha Christie, he has a unique writing style featuring original plots and puzzles.

After hearing the news of her son's engagement, Agatha, with her butler's help, gets Finley drunk and tricks him not only into revealing that he bribed Petree, and that he has him safely hidden away at his isolated lodge.

Of course, the gift of bamboozlement, with which Agatha Christie was born, remains, and has never been seen to better advantage than in this close, diverting and largely analytical problem.

Charles Osborne: " Cards on the Table is one of Agatha Christie's finest and most original pieces of crime fiction: even though the murderer is, as the author has promised, one of the four bridge players, the ending is positively brilliant and a complete surprise.

Agatha Christie has recently developed two further tricks: one is, as of the juggler who keeps on dropping things, to leave a clue hanging out for several chapters, apparently unremarked by her little detective though seized on by us, and then to tuck it back again as unimportant.

But here we come to a problem that Agatha Christie has not yet solved, for cleverness over the long length easily becomes exhausting, and too many clues tend to cancel each other out, as far as reader interest is concerned.

Such a tale is told of Saint Agatha ; Jacobus de Voragine has pagans in Catania repairing to the relics of St. Agatha to supernaturally repel an eruption of Mount Etna:

Hastings has been portrayed on film and television by several actors, including Robert Morley in The Alphabet Murders ( 1965 ); Jonathan Cecil in three TV films-Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ), Dead Man's Folly ( 1986 ), and Murder in Three Acts ( 1986 ); and most notably, Hugh Fraser, who has portrayed Hastings alongside David Suchet's Poirot in 41 of the 49 episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot broadcast up until 2003.

Like those of Miss Lemon and Arthur Hastings, the role of Inspector Japp in Poirot's career has been exaggerated by adaptations of Christie's original novels ; specifically by the TV series Agatha Christie's Poirot, where these characters are often introduced into stories that did not originally feature them.

Formerly the home of the late crime writer Agatha Christie, this has stunning views across the river, and the house and gardens are now owned by the National Trust and are open to the public.

Zoë Wanamaker has played Ariadne Oliver in four television episodes of the series Agatha Christie's Poirot, starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot.