One of Christie's notebooks contain references to Cover Her Face under ‘ Plans for Sept. 1947 ’ and ‘ Plans for Nov. 1948 ’, suggesting she was planning to re-read and revise the manuscript.

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

Christie's stories are also known for their taut atmosphere and strong psychological suspense, developed from the deliberately slow pace of her prose.

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.

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

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 ).

Vinkovci and its rail station are featured in Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express as the place where the Orient Express breaks down.

As of January 2009, Christie's had 85 offices ( not all are salesrooms ) in 43 countries, including New York City, Los Angeles, Paris, Geneva, Houston, Amsterdam, Moscow, Vienna, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Rome, South Korea, Milan, Madrid, Japan, China, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, Tel Aviv, Dubai, and Mexico City.

It is one of two of Christie's books that are in the public domain in the US ( the other being The Secret Adversary ).

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.

Further functions of Mrs Oliver are to enable Christie to discuss overtly the techniques of detective fiction, to contrast the more fanciful apparatuses employed by mystery authors with the apparent realism of her own plots, and to satirise Christie's own experiences and instincts as a writer.

After the Funeral is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1953 under the title of Funerals are Fatal and in UK by the Collins Crime Club on May 18 of the same year under Christie's original title.

Walter Christie's cap and other items are currently displayed at the Chalk Farm Hotel in Willingdon.

The Secret Adversary is one of only two of Christie's books that are in the public domain in the US ( the other being The Mysterious Affair at Styles ).

She and a hotel valet wait in a Paris Ritz suite for appraisers from Christie's who are preparing to auction her possessions.

N or M is unknown master Fifth Columnist concealed in person of some shabby genteel figure in Bournemouth boarding-house ... Christie's bright young couple, now middle-aged but active as ever, are nearly trapped.

Three Swedish auction houses are even older, and Sotheby's great rival in London and then New York, Christie's, dates back to 1759 or shortly after.

Goldscheider figures are nowadays very much sought after by collectors worldwide and reach astonishing prices at auctions such as Sotheby's, Christie's, Dorotheum and on ebay.

Among her television appearances are roles in Minder, The Life and Times of David Lloyd George, Van der Valk, Cracker, and Agatha Christie's Poirot.

And just as one accepts and swallows, without misgiving a green rose, knowing it to be sugar, so one can accept the improbabilities and the fantasy with which Mrs. Christie's stories are liberally sprinkled.

His solo career is described in David Christie's Doo Dah Diaries as are his current activities.

Based on an idea toyed with in Peril at End House ( chapter 9 ) – a clever and interesting one, but needing greater subtlety in the handling than Christie's style or characterisation will allow ( the characters here are in any case quite exceptionally pallid ).

The earliest versions of this narrative are much less detailed, recording only Christie's cannibalism and his methods of trapping prey.

Auctioned at Christie's in 1994, it is a Court mantua dating from 1750-1760, comprising two parts-an open robe with attached train and a petticoat.

John Davy Hayward in the Times Literary Supplement of July 10, 1937, whilst still approving of Christie's output, commented on some length at a what he felt was a central weakness of this book: " Who, in their senses, one feels, would use hammer and nails and varnish in the middle of the night within a few feet of an open door!

* In June 2001, Elton John sold 20 of his cars at Christie's, saying he didn't get the chance to drive them because he was out of the country so often.

< p > Christie's debut novel, from which she made £ 25 and John Lane made goodness knows how much.

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.

Boyd Neel had conducted the first music heard in the renovated Glyndebourne opera house in 1934, in private performances, at John Christie's invitation.

John Christie's original theatre was soon enlarged and improved many times after its initial construction.

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 ).

Another important architectural book was John Thorpes book of architecture, it was purchased at an auction held at Christie's on the 3 April 1810 and cost Soane twenty seven and half Guineas, the book contains nearly 300 plans and elevations of Elizabethan architecture & Jacobean architecture, mainly large mansions.

The one critic who was not so keen on the book was Christie's publisher, John Lane, who had wanted her to write another detective novel along the lines of The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

Also in 2012, the United States District Court for the Central District of California granted a joint motion by Christie's and Sotheby's to dismiss a class-action suit under the California Resale Royalty Act brought against them by artists Chuck Close and Laddie John Dill and the estates of artists Robert Graham and Sam Francis.

The following months saw him star as British Transport Police officer Mal Craig in the second series of BBC One's Five Days, Roman soldier Bothos in Neil Marshall's feature Centurion, stalking victim Jan Falkowski in U Be Dead, and Colonel John Arbuthnot in the Agatha Christie's Poirot adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express.

* Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime ( 1983 ) – " The Affair of the Pink Pearl " – John Rennie

In 1989, John Lennon's jukebox surfaced in an auction of Beatles memorabilia at Christie's, and was sold for £ 2, 500 ($ 4, 907 ) to Bristol-based music promoter John Midwinter.

* General John Gordon MacArthur, a fictional murder victim from Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None

John starred with her husband Geoffrey Beevers in an episode of Agatha Christie's Poirot titled " Problem at Sea " as Mr & Mrs Tolliver.

The Incident of the Dog's Ball was published in Britain in September 2009 in John Curran's Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years Of Mysteries.

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.

The original story surfaced in 2009 in Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks by John Curran.