He served as chairman of Christie's International P. L. C.

The auction house's subsidiary Christie's International Inc. held its first sale in the United States in 1977, 13 years later than Sotheby's.

Christie's International Real Estate is a wholly owned subsidiary of Christie's, and is the leading international network of real estate brokers dedicated to the marketing and sale of luxury properties.

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The record price for a Stubbs painting was set by the sale at auction of Gimcrack on Newmarket Heath, with a Trainer, a Stable-Lad, and a Jockey ( 1765 ) at Christie's International in London on July 5, 2011 for $ 36 million ( 22. 4 million pounds ).

" Collecting Phonographs and Gramaphones ", Christie's International Collectors Series, Mayflower Books, New York, 1980.

The picture was one of dozens from the collection of Gert Elfering that were sold at Christie's International in New York.

The plot is a spoof of the traditional country-house whodunit, familiar to mystery fiction fans from classics such as Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, a form also parodied for the stage in Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound.

The house where the story is set was based on Christie's Devon home, Greenway House on the Greenway Estate.

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 band's fashion-sense has been seminal ; Simeon Lipman, head of pop culture at Christie's auction house, has commented that " Led Zeppelin have had a big influence on fashion because the whole aura surrounding them is so cool, and people want a piece of that ".

The large auction houses, such as Sotheby's and Christie's maintain large online databases of art which they have auctioned or are auctioning.

Christie's works, particularly featuring detectives Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple, have given her the title the ' Queen of Crime ' and made her one of the most important and innovative writers in the development of the genre.

However, other sources note that James Christie rented auction rooms from 1762, and newspaper advertisements of Christie's sales dating from 1759 have also been traced.

The story is told in first person by Hastings and features many of the elements that have become icons of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, largely due to Christie's influence.

I have heard that this is Miss Christie's first book, and that she wrote it in response to a challenge.

The commercial, southern section of Humber Bay today retains only Christie's Biscuits bakery, as high-rise condo towers and clustered row housing have forced out virtually all other commercial / industrial employment uses.

But Miss Christie's story is distinguished from most of its class by its coherence, its reasonableness, and the fact that the characters live and move and have their being: the gossip-loving Caroline would be an acquisition to any novel.

But the wise reader, remembering other tales of Mrs. Christie's, will murmur to himself ' I trust her not ; odds on she is fooling me ,' and so will continue to a climax it is not ' odds on ' but a dead cert he will not have guessed.

The Tommy and Tuppence characters have been portrayed on television by James Warwick and Francesca Annis, first in the feature-length The Secret Adversary ( 1982 ), and then in the 10-episode hour-long series Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime ( 1983 ).

Many of the great fictional detectives have their Watson: Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, for example, is often accompanied by Captain Arthur Hastings.

To date, 32 films and dozens of television adaptations have been made based on Christie's novels alone.

His single canvases have fetched up to $ 2 million at a recent Christie's auction.

Lancelyn Green suspected that the Conan Doyle papers being auctioned at Christie's were part of a collection that Dame Jean Conan Doyle, the author's daughter, actually wanted the British Library to have.

Christie's inspiration for the motive may have come from an incident in the life of American film star Gene Tierney.

The Brabin Report pointed out that Christie's explanation of his gassing technique was not satisfactory because he would have been overpowered by the gas as well.

Christie's likely motive was that her continued presence would have drawn attention to Beryl's disappearance.

An apron said to have been worn by Lucile's secretary, Laura Francatelli, can be seen at the Maritime Museum in Liverpool, and her life-jacket was sold, along with correspondence about her experiences in the disaster, at Christie's, London, in 2007.

Fictional characters such as Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, P. G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster, Walt Disney's Scrooge McDuck, Jean de Brunhoff's Babar the Elephant, Jiggs from the comic strip Jiggs and Maggie, Rich Uncle Pennybags the iconic man from the Monopoly board game, the Sixth Doctor from Doctor Who and Bustopher Jones from the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats, among others, have been depicted as wearing spats.

Robert Barnard commented much later " The strategy of deception here is one that by this date ought to have been familiar to Christie's readers.

Maurice Richardson was not as impressed with Christie's efforts as usual in his 17 May 1942 review in The Observer when he concluded, " Ingenious, of course, but interest is rather diffuse and the red herrings have lost their phosphorescence.

This book has Miss Marple give voice to Agatha Christie's view on the death penalty when she remarks, " I am really very, very sorry that they have abolished capital punishment because I do feel that if there is anyone who ought to hang, it's Dr.

Philip John Stead concluded his review in the Times Literary Supplement of December 12, 1958, with, " The solution of Ordeal By Innocence is certainly not below the level of Mrs Christie's customary ingenuity, but the book lacks other qualities which her readers have come to expect.

Alongside Hercule Poirot, she is one of the most loved and famous of Christie's characters and has been portrayed numerous times on screen.

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.

They had been sent to Christie's for auction by Frenchman Florrent Tessier, who said he purchased the piece of paper at a street market stall in London for £ 10 in the early 1970s.

Christie's main London salesroom is on King Street in St. James's, where it has been based since 1823.

Hastings is today strongly associated with Poirot, partly because many of the early TV episodes " Agatha Christie's Poirot " were adaptations of the short stories, in most of which he appeared, or were stories into which he had been introduced in the course of adaptation ( e. g. Murder in the Mews ).

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.

John Christie's fondness for music led him to hold regular amateur opera evenings in this room, and it was at one of these in 1931 that he met his future wife, the Sussex-born Canadian soprano Audrey Mildmay, a singer with the Carl Rosa Opera company who had been engaged to add a touch of professionalism to the proceedings.

The self-caricature has also been used to discuss Christie's own follies in her earlier novels.

Sidmouth has been the setting for television shows, most recently an ITV adaptation of Agatha Christie's Marple in Summer 2005.

The FBI had been investigating auction practices in which it was revealed that collusion involving commission fixing between Christie's and Sotheby's was occurring.

Three years later, a new tenant in Christie's flat, Beresford Brown, found the bodies of three women ( Kathleen Maloney, Rita Nelson and Hectorina Maclennan ) hidden in the papered-over kitchen pantry, a recess immediately next to the wash house where Beryl and Geraldine Evans had been found.

The neck tie which had been used to strangle Geraldine, for example, was destroyed by the police prior to the discovery of Christie's crimes in 1953.

The novel has since been dramatised twice more: first with Joan Hickson as Miss Marple for the 1980s series, and then with Julia McKenzie for Agatha Christie's Marple.

His collection was sold after his death at a Christie's auction in 1839 and has been dispersed ever since.

Later that year Martel witnessed demonstrations of Soviet tank designs including the BT tank, which had been influenced by Christie's work.

Beryl and Geraldine Evans had alone been strangled, and their bodies were exhumed to be re-examined for Christie's trial.

Mithridatism has been used as a plot device in novels, films, video games, and TV shows including, among others, Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo, Nathaniel Hawthorne's " Rappaccini's Daughter ", Yoshiaki Kawajiri's Ninja Scroll, Dorothy Sayers's Strong Poison, Agatha Christie's Curtain, William Goldman's The Princess Bride ( and the movie of the same name ).

Later that year Martel witnessed demonstrations of Soviet tank designs including the BT tank, which had been influenced by Christie's work.