Hercule Poirot and Lord Peter Whimsey ( the respective creations of Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers ) have retained Holmes' egotism but not his zest for life and eccentric habits.

His reading ranged from Agatha Christie to The Book Of Job and he had an insatiable interest in his fellow-creatures, while his letters were full of gossip about new politicians and old men of letters with whom he had been intimately thrown six decades before.

The world's best-selling mystery writer, and often referred to as the “ Queen of Crime ”, Agatha Christie is considered a master of suspense, plotting, and characterisation.

Many of the settings for Agatha Christie ’ s books were directly inspired by the many archaeological field seasons spent in the Middle East on the sites managed by her second husband Max Mallowan.

From 8 November 2001-24 March 2002, The British Museum had an exhibit named “ Agatha Christie and Archaeology: Mystery in Mesopotamia ”, which presented a fascinating look at the secret life of Agatha Christie and the influences of archaeology in her life and works.

In 1971 Agatha Christie was made a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

Several biographical programs have been made, such as the 2004 BBC television programme entitled Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures, in which she is portrayed by Olivia Williams, Anna Massey, and Bonnie Wright.

Christie features as a character in Gaylord Larsen's Dorothy and Agatha and The London Blitz Murders ' by Max Allan Collins.

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

Hercule Poirot (; ) is a fictional Belgian detective, created by Agatha Christie.

By 1930, Agatha Christie found Poirot " insufferable ", and by 1960 she felt that he was a " detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep ".

This is how Agatha Christie describes Poirot in The Murder on the Orient Express in the initial pages:

Like Agatha Christie, she isn't overly fond of the detective she is most famous for creating – in Ariadne's case the Finnish sleuth Sven Hjerson.

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.

On 22 February 1945, " speaking from London, Agatha Christie introduced the initial broadcast of the Poirot series via shortwave.

Agatha Christie attributed the inspiration for the character of Miss Marple to a number of sources: Miss Marple was " the sort of old lady who would have been rather like some of my grandmother's Ealing cronies – old ladies whom I have met in so many villages where I have gone to stay as a girl ".

When she made it, the results, starring Margaret Rutherford, were popular and successful light comedies, but were disappointing to Christie herself ; nevertheless, Agatha Christie dedicated the novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side to Rutherford.

In the 1940s, Joan 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 ".

The character of Jessica Fletcher is thought to be based on a combination of Miss Marple, Agatha Christie herself, and another Christie character, Ariadne Oliver, who often appears in the Hercule Poirot mysteries.

* Episode 25 Cleopatra / The Fall of the Roman Empire, Agatha Christie

Sub-types of mystery / detective fiction include ' cozy mysteries ' ( such as those of Agatha Christie ) or ' hard-boiled ' mysteries ( where the detective / private eye etc.

Christie even thought of placing a murder at the Club with Oliver being one of the suspects / detective but it came to nothing ( Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks, edited by John Curran ).

Although he had also previously adapted stories for Agatha Christie's Poirot, in 2002 he made a further move into writing " straight " drama, with the fantasy / horror-based Strange.

Her subsequent long-running West End hits include an all-star production of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband ( 1965 / 66, in which she played the villainous Mrs Cheveley ), W. Somerset Maugham's Lady Frederick ( 1970 ), Relative Values ( Noël Coward revival, 1973 ), and the thrillers Spider's Web ( 1955, written for her by Agatha Christie ), Signpost to Murder ( 1962 ), and Double Edge ( 1975 ).

Agatha has suppressed the Lucrezia imprint by use of her Heterodyne sigil locket, and Anevka / Lucrezia was last seen in the Great Hospital in Mechanicsburg attempting to take control of the Baron prior to the destruction of the hospital.

A construct first encountered by Agatha in the Nursery / School on Castle Wulfenbach, Von Pinn is revealed as the construct manufactured by the Heterodynes to care for their children, and was thought to have gone insane after " The Other " attacked Castle Heterodyne and killed the son of Bill and Lucrezia, Klaus Barry Heterodyne.

Agatha reached a peak of 60 mph ( 95 km / h ) on May 23, though the development of an eye feature suggests it could have been stronger.

Aggie may be a diminutive form of the given names Agnatha, Agamemnon, Agata / Agatha, Agnija, or Agnes.

The Moving Finger is detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in July 1942 and in UK by the Collins Crime Club in June 1943 The U. S. edition retailed at $ 2. 00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence ( 7 / 6 ).

* The 2009 Chinese film The Message is a thriller / mystery in the vein of a number of Agatha Christie novels.

from: 22 / 05 / 2004 till: 24 / 05 / 2004 color: TS text :" Agatha "

* 5: 00 p. m. PDT ( 00: 00 UTC May 22 ) – Tropical Storm Agatha reaches its peak intensity of 60 mph ( 95 km / h ).

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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.

* Jodi Sta Maria-Lacson / Desiree Del Valle — Veronica Saavedra / Agatha

Many of the best-known writers of whodunits in this period were British — notably Agatha Christie, Nicholas Blake, G. K. Chesterton, Christianna Brand, Edmund Crispin, Michael Innes, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gladys Mitchell, Josephine Tey.

They have sold the Agatha Christie estate to Acorn Media Group, the Noddy and Olivia properties to DreamWorks Classics ( formerly Classic Media, now a subsidiary of DreamWorks Animation ), Max and Ruby back to Nelvana, and the Dennis Wheatley, Margery Allingham, Nicolas Freeling and Edmund Crispin estates to The Rights House and PFD.

Detective Chief Inspector James Harold Japp is a fictional character who appears in several of Agatha Christie's novels featuring Hercule Poirot.

In 1929, he opened his own agency, Harold Ober Associates, — representing authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Agatha Christie, William Faulkner, Philip Wylie, Pearl Buck and Walter D. Edmonds and J. D.

While the section of the plot involving Harold " Ginger " Winship is left unchanged, and the seedy ex-butler who stole the Ganymede Club Book is still called Brinkley, and Runkle and Aunt Dahlia are absent from the plot ( the latter is replaced with Aunt Agatha, who plays no major role ).

Orderic makes a previously unknown sister Agatha the fiancée of Harold, and also of Alfonso VI of León and Castile.