Christie occasionally inserted stereotyped descriptions of characters into her work, particularly before the end of the Second World War ( when such attitudes were more commonly expressed publicly ), and particularly in regard to Italians, Jews, and non-Europeans.

::::::::::::- Christie expressing her interest in archaeology, a passage from An Autobiography ( London, 1984 ), p. 389

::::::::::::- Christie wishing for an earlier exposure to Archaeology, a passage from An Autobiography ( 1984 ), p. 546

While accompanying Mallowan on countless archaeological trips ( spending up to 3 – 4 months at a time in Syria and Iraq at excavation sites at Ur, Ninevah, Tell Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud ), Christie not only wrote novels and short stories, but also contributed work to the archaeological sites, more specifically to the archaeological restoration and labeling of ancient exhibits which includes tasks such as cleaning and conserving delicate ivory pieces, reconstructing pottery, developing photos from early excavations which later led to taking photographs of the site and its findings, and taking field notes.

Beginning with Three Act Tragedy ( 1934 ), Christie had perfected during the inter-war years a sub-genre of Poirot novel in which the detective himself spent much of the first third of the novel on the periphery of events.

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.

The last film is not based on any Christie work but displays a few plot elements from They Do It With Mirrors ( viz., the ship is used as a reform school for wayward boys and one of the teachers uses them as a crime force ), and there is a kind of salute to The Mousetrap.

Local landmarks include the Christie Park, the Fountain ( a traffic junction in the town centre, although there has not been a working fountain there for some years ),

* Nemesis ( Agatha Christie novel ), a 1971 detective novel

), Agatha Christie and archaeolog ( London, The British Museum Press, 2001 )-Nineveh 5, Vessel Pottery 2900 BC ...

The original title of And Then There Were None ( 1939 ), by Agatha Christie.

* Vampire of the Mists ( September 1991 ), by Christie Golden, ( ISBN 1-56076-155-5 )

* Dance of the Dead ( June 1992 ), by Christie Golden, ( ISBN 1-56076-352-3 )

* The Enemy Within ( February 1994 ), by Christie Golden, ( ISBN 1-56076-887-8 )

With her first talking film, Anna Christie ( 1930 ), she received an Academy Award nomination.

", Anna Christie ( 1930 ), a film adaptation of the 1922 play by Eugene O ' Neill, provided her first speaking role.

* Garbo ( 2005 ), TCM, directed by silent film expert Kevin Brownlow, narrated by Julie Christie

She accepted roles in the television miniseries The Dark Secret of Harvest Home ( 1978 ) and the theatrical film Death on the Nile ( 1978 ), an Agatha Christie murder mystery.

His best-known plays include Anna Christie ( Pulitzer Prize 1922 ), Desire Under the Elms ( 1924 ), Strange Interlude ( Pulitzer Prize 1928 ), Mourning Becomes Electra ( 1931 ), and his only well-known comedy, Ah, Wilderness !, a wistful re-imagining of his youth as he wished it had been.

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.

Whilst working at the Institute, Childe took up residence at Lawn Road Flats near to Hampstead, an apartment block perhaps recommended to him by the popular crime fiction author Agatha Christie ( the wife of his colleague Max Mallowan ), who had lived there during the Second World War.

Nolte's solid work continued with Lorenzo's Oil ( 1992 ) opposite Susan Sarandon, Mulholland Falls ( 1996 ), and Afterglow ( 1997 ) for which his co-star Julie Christie received her third Academy Award nomination.

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.

To contrast with the more stereotyped descriptions, Christie often characterised the " foreigners " in such a way as to make the reader understand and sympathise with them ; this is particularly true of her Jewish characters, who are seldom actually criminals.

After four years of war-torn London, Christie hoped she can return some day to Syria, which she described as " gentle fertile country and its simple people, who know how to laugh and how to enjoy life ; who are idle and gay, and who have dignity, good manners, and a great sense of humor, and to whom death is not terrible.

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.

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 ’ s Murder in Mesopotamia is the most archaeologically influenced of all her novels as it is set in the Middle East at an archaeological dig site and associated expedition house.

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.

The heroine of Liar-Soft's 2008 visual novel Shikkoku no Sharnoth: What a Beautiful Tomorrow, Mary Clarissa Christie, is based on the real-life Christie.

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

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

In the later novels Christie often uses the word mountebank when Poirot is being assessed by other characters, showing that he has successfully passed himself off as a charlatan or fraud.

" Christie strongly implies that this " quiet retreat in the Ardennes " near Spa is the Poirot family home.

Christie is purposefully vague, as Poirot is thought to be elderly even in the early Poirot novels, and in An Autobiography she admitted that she already imagined him to be an old man in 1920.

Christie wrote that Poirot is a Roman Catholic, and gave her character a strong sense of Catholic morality later in works.

Again, Poirot is not reliable as a narrator of his personal history and there is no evidence that Christie sketched it out in any depth.

It is therefore better to assume that Christie provided no authoritative chronology for Poirot's retirement, but assumed that he could either be an active detective, a consulting detective or a retired detective as the needs of the immediate case required.

Whether this was a reflection of his age or of the fact that Christie was by now heartily sick of him it is difficult to assess.

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.

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.

Among the club's stars in 2004 were USA internationals Kristine Lilly, Christie Welsh, and Kate Markgraf ; they were coached by the legendary Pia Sundhage.