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.

More indirectly, Christie ’ s famous character of Hercule Poirot can be compared to an archaeologist in his detailed scrutiny of all facts both large and small.

Holtorf ’ s description of the archaeologist as a detective is very similar to Christie ’ s Poirot who is hugely observant and is very careful to look at the small details as they often impart the most information.

Many of Christie ’ s detective characters show some archaeological traits through their careful attention to clues and artifacts alike.

Miss Marple, another of Christie ’ s most famous characters, shares these characteristics of careful deduction though the attention paid to the small clues.

Christie ’ s life within the archaeological world not only shaped her settings and characters for her books but also in the issues she highlights.

Many of Christie ’ s books and short stories both set in the Middle East and back in England have a decidedly otherworldly influence in which religious sects, sacrifices, ceremony, and seances play a part.

This theme was greater strengthened by Christie ’ s time spent in the Middle East where she was consistently surrounded by the religious temples and spiritual history of the towns and cities they were excavating in Mallowan ’ s archaeological work.

The large amount of travel done by Christie and Mallowan has not only made for a great writing theme, as shown in her famous novel: The Murder on the Orient Express, but also tied into the idea of archaeology as an adventure that has become so important in today ’ s popular culture as described by Cornelius Holtorf in his book Archaeology is a Brand.

Christie wrote little of Poirot ’ s childhood though in Three Act Tragedy she writes that he comes from a large family with little wealth.

* John H. Coles & Howard E. Walker, Postal Cancellations of the Ottoman Empire ( Christie ’ s-Robson Lowe, London-1995 ).

When Ellis died, the painting went for sale at Christie ’ s in London in 1876, where it was bought by the Bond Street art dealer William Agnew for the then astronomical sum of 10, 000 guineas.

In 1980, Masterpiece gained a sister series, Mystery !, featuring a mix of contemporary and classic British detective and crime series, such as The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Agatha Christie ’ s Miss Marple and Touching Evil.

That same year, Haunch of Venison, a contemporary art gallery which since 2002 had successfully conducted back-room sales of secondary-market works by major artists such as Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol, and Damien Hirst from its locations in London and Zürich, became a subsidiary of Christie ’ s International plc.

As of 2012, Impressionist works, which dominated the market during the 1980s boom, have been replaced by contemporary art as Christie ’ s top category.

* On June 22, 2012 George Washington ‘ s personal annotated copy of the “ Acts Passed at a Congress of the United States of America ” from 1789, which includes The Constitution of the United States and a draft of the Bill of Rights, was sold at Christie ’ s for a record $ 9, 826, 500, with fees the final cost, to The Mount Vernon Ladies ' Association.

Christie ’ s clients who buy and sell works of art often request real estate services.

* J. Herbert, Inside Christie ’ s, London, 1990 ( ISBN 978-0340430439 )

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1989: American premiere of Jean-Baptiste Lully ’ s Atys with Théâtre National de l ’ Opéra de Paris features BAM debut of William Christie & Les Arts Florissants

* In Agatha Christie ( writing as Mary Westmacott )' s Absent in the Spring, Joan Scudamore is stranded at a Rest House in Tell Abu Hamid for days and wishes for a game of Halma to pass the time.

In six stories, Christie allows the murderer to escape justice ( and in the case of the last three, implicitly almost approves of their crimes ); these are The Witness for the Prosecution, Five Little Pigs, The Man in the Brown Suit, Murder on the Orient Express, Curtain and The Unexpected Guest.

The novelist Raymond Chandler criticised her in his essay, " The Simple Art of Murder ", and the American literary critic Edmund Wilson was dismissive of Christie and the detective fiction genre generally in his New Yorker essay, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

In the 1986 TV play, Murder by the Book, Christie herself ( Dame Peggy Ashcroft ) murdered one of her fictional-turned-real characters, Poirot.

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

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

The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.

Christie also used material from her fictional creation, spinster Caroline Sheppard, who appeared in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

Christie wrote a concluding novel to her Marple series, Sleeping Murder, in 1940.

American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.

Likewise, most Agatha Christie books ( Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None being the exceptions ) cause Cardassians great difficulty, as, whilst the idea that a high-ranking person is killed in mysterious circumstances appeals, they cannot understand why only one person is guilty.

* January 12 – Agatha Christie, English writer ( Murder On The Orient Express ) ( b. 1890 )

:* 1928: Alibi adapted from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

:* 1932: The Fatal Alibi adapted from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

:* 1932: The Fatal Alibi adapted from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

With her health stable, she traveled to England to film the Agatha Christie mystery Murder with Mirrors ( 1985 ).

In the early 1980s Tutin also appeared in the made-for-television film Murder with Mirrors ( based on an Agatha Christie novel ) along with Helen Hayes and Bette Davis.

During the same year, he voiced Poirot in the adventure game Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express.

* Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express ( video game ) ( 2006 )

Murder, She Wrote was never pitched as an American version of the Agatha Christie character Miss Marple, contrary to rumors.

* Murder on the Orient Express ( 1934 ) by Agatha Christie is one of the best known stories related to the Orient Express.

* Murder on the Orient Express ( 1974 ), ( 2001 ) and ( 2010 ): Film adaptations of the Agatha Christie novel.

* The Adventure Company developed a point-and-click adventure based on Agatha Christie's novel, Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express.

Some were more unorthodox, such as a year's supply of beer, while the same short breaks away – an Agatha Christie Murder Weekend, a stay at a health spa or a canal holiday – were won on the show for many years.