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.

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.

Prior to meeting Mallowan, Christie had not had any extensive brushes with archaeology, but once the two married they made sure to only go to sites where they could work together.

In 1806 shortly after the death of Christie and her husband she married Edward Butler, another army officer.

Darling tells the story of a bored young married woman named Diana Scott ( Julie Christie ) who drifts up the social and economic ladders of modern society without really knowing what she wants.

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.

Michael Smith married Helen Christie in 1960 ; they had two sons and one daughter, but separated in 1983.

Christie then tells her that she is just a bitter, dried-up career woman while she is happily married, to which Lisa answers, " Yes Christie, keep telling yourself that.

He is married to fellow comic Bridget Christie, with whom he has two children.

They were married on 4 June 1931 and during their honeymoon attending the Salzburg and Bayreuth festivals, Christie and his wife developed the idea of bringing professional opera to Glyndebourne, although Christie's original concept was for it to be similar to the Bayreuth Festival.

Her mother moved to California, where she later married television writer Don Brinkley, and Christie adopted her stepfather's surname.

Christie Brinkley has been married four times:

Wooley married his manager, Linda Dotson, and had two daughters named Christie and Shauna.

He married pediatric nurse Elizabeth Christie Fogle, on October 14, 2001, but they divorced on October 18, 2007.

Smith was twice married, and left by his first marriage ( to Anne Read ) two daughters ; by his second marriage ( to a daughter of John Christie of Hackney ) an only son, Herman ( died 23 July 1897, aged 77 ).

Gardiner was married three times: first to Rosetta Jane Gardiner in 1912, then to Violet McEwen in 1917 and finally to Isabella ( Scott ) Christie in 1944.

In 1994, she married renowned movie star Liam Neeson, whom she had met when the two appeared in Anna Christie.

On February 24, 1898, he married Harriett Christie.

He was married twice, first to Joan Peart who died in 1989 after forty years of marriage, and then to Helen Christie who died in 1995.

Throughout most of the ordeal, Andy has been having a relationship with Sam Mitchell ( Kim Medcalf ) whom he later married, but when Den Watts ( Leslie Grantham ) and Marcus Christie ( Stephen Churchett ) tricks Sam into selling the pub to Den, and signing her house over to Andy, Andy leaves her, taking Sam for every penny she had and leaving her homeless.

O ' Neal married his wife Christie in 2005.

He married Enid Christie, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister in Winnipeg, in June 1919.

Torborg and Christie Wolf got married on October 5, 2000.

On 10 May 1920 Christie married Ethel Simpson Waddington from Sheffield, at Halifax Register Office, but his problems with impotence remained, and he continued to frequent prostitutes.