Of the characters in her books, Christie has often showcased the archaeologist and experts in Middle Eastern cultures and artifacts.

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 has also been portrayed fictionally.

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

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.

Often dismissed as an unreliable tradition, it has been studied with attention by modern scholars, in particular Neil Christie, who see in it a possible record of a formal invitation by the Byzantine state to settle in northern Italy as foederati, to help protect the region against the Franks, an arrangement that may have been disowned by Justin II after Narses ' removal.

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 ),

As Albert Meltzer and Stuart Christie stated in their book The Floodgates of Anarchy, anarchism has:

In women's play, Rhonda Rajsich ( USA ) has won the most US Open titles with four, one more than Christie Van Hees ( Canada ) with three.

He has been known to use Agatha Christie novels as crime-solving reference guides.

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.

The area has some remarkable architecture, such as the Isokon building in Lawn Road, a Grade I listed experiment in collective housing, once home to Agatha Christie, Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson and Walter Gropius.

In 1967, Time magazine said of her " What Julie Christie wears has more real impact on fashion than all the clothes of the ten best-dressed women combined.

Polley has said Christie liked the script but initially turned it down as she was ambivalent about acting.

Christie has been a longstanding supporter of Survival International, a British-based charity to support tribal peoples, and was named as its first ambassador in February 2008.

Agatha Christie's grandson Mathew has commented: " Personally, I regret very much that she Christie never saw David Suchet.

Although strongly influenced by Carr and Agatha Christie, he has a unique writing style featuring original plots and puzzles.

Of course, the gift of bamboozlement, with which Agatha Christie was born, remains, and has never been seen to better advantage than in this close, diverting and largely analytical problem.

It should perhaps be noted that Despard's given name has metamorphosed from " John " in Cards on the Table to " Hugh " in The Pale Horse, not the first time Christie apparently forgot the name of a character.

" Just as Christie attempts to make fun of their clothes ( which Romy and Michele designed and sewed ), classmate Lisa Luder ( Elaine Hendrix ), a former member of the A-Group who has since changed her ways and became an associate fashion editor for Vogue, announces her professional opinion that the outfits are actually very well-done.

Far from being the handsome jock he once was, he has now become an overweight alcoholic and is living a very poor, miserable life with Christie, and is doubtful the baby Christie is carrying is actually his.

As she calls out for Billy, Christie has her dress blown up by the chopper, which further humiliates her, much to Romy and Michele's amusement.

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.

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.

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 ".

Some authors have used so many proverbs that there have been entire books written cataloging their proverb usage, such as Charles Dickens, Agatha Christie, and George Bernard Shaw.

A number of other defendants were found not guilty, including Stuart Christie, who had previously been imprisoned in Spain for carrying explosives with the intent to assassinate the dictator Francisco Franco, and Angela Mason who became a director of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights group Stonewall and was awarded an OBE for services to homosexual rights.

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.

Similarly, there have been innumerable Agatha Christie send-ups.

* John Christie who was hanged in the prison in 1953 after having been convicted of murdering his wife.

: Over two dozen of Italian descent had been elected as state governors, most recently Paul Cellucci of Massachusetts, John Baldacci of Maine, Janet Napolitano of Arizona, Donald Carcieri of Rhode Island, Joseph Manchin of West Virginia, Chris Christie of New Jersey, and Andrew Cuomo of New York.

They have been sampled and covered by various artists including Tony Christie, Utah Saints, Ministry of Sound, Craig David, George Michael, KMFDM, Robbie Williams and Out of the Blue ( Oxford University ).

Over half of Rameau's operas have now been recorded, in particular by conductors such as John Eliot Gardiner, William Christie, and Marc Minkowski.

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.

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

In November 2007, it was reported that the couple had quietly married in India, which Christie called " nonsense ," explaining " I have been married for a few years.

The play starred Pauline Lord, who had been the original Anna Christie on Broadway.

The land there was controlled by three English seigneurs: Colonel Henry Caldwell had purchased what had been the Foucault Seigneurie, which ran along the Richelieu River and a little over the present day frontier ; Colonel Gabriel Christie was seigneur of Noyan ; and Thomas Dunn was seigneur of Saint-Armand.

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.

But Christie reportedly did not approve of the 1960s films as they portrayed Marple as a comedy character and were not faithful to the original plots.

Christie portrayed Barlow's mother, who desperately fights to save her son from being hung for drug trafficking in Malaysia.

Christie portrayed the female lead in Away from Her, a film about a long-married Canadian couple coping with the wife's Alzheimer's disease.

For example, the remake of a pre-code film dealing with prostitution, Anna Christie was cancelled by MGM in 1940 and 1946 because the character of Anna was not allowed to be portrayed as a prostitute.

Miss Marple, a character created by Agatha Christie and portrayed by Margaret Rutherford, and Margaret's husband Stringer Davis had a cameo role in The Alphabet Murders, a movie based on another of Christie's books and which featured Hercule Poirot.

In their early appearances, they are portrayed as typical upper middle class " bright young things " of the 1920s, and the stories and settings have a more pronounced period-specific flavour than the stories featuring the better known Christie characters.

The Christie waxwork mentions, disparagingly, that while he had been portrayed in film by Richard Attenborough, Haigh had been portrayed by Martin Clunes.

Early in her career, she portrayed Mary Shelley and Patty Hearst in feature films, and she received critical acclaim and a Theatre World Award for her Broadway debut in the 1993 revival of Anna Christie.