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.

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

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

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

In the 1940s, Joan appeared on-stage in an Agatha Christie play, Appointment with Death, which was seen by Christie who wrote in a note to her, " I hope one day you will play my dear Miss Marple ".

Howard Christie wrote that The Italians started numerous and diverse businesses in Tripolitania and Cirenaica.

Time magazine wrote, " In London, the first night of Eugene O ' Neill's Anna Christie, with Pauline Lord in the title role, received a tremendous ovation.

However, on January 26, 1931, I. Khalepsky ( Head of the Department of Mechanisation and Motorisation of the RKKA ) wrote a letter to S. Ginzburg with information obtained via the intelligence service that the Polish government had decided to purchase Vickers 6-Ton light infantry tanks as well as Christie M1931 cavalry tanks and to mass produce them with the assistance of both the British and French.

Walter John Christie, who followed Orwell to Eton, wrote that she preached the virtues of " simplicity, honesty, and avoidance of verbiage ", and pointed out that the qualities Flip most prized were later to be seen in Orwell ’ s writing.

In his book, A Talent to Deceive — An Appreciation of Agatha Christie, the writer and critic Robert Barnard wrote:

It was the last Christie novel published — posthumously — although not the last one Christie actually wrote.

It is generally believed that Christie wrote Curtain ( Hercule Poirot's last mystery, which concludes the sleuth's career and life ) and Sleeping Murder during World War II to be published after her death, and that Sleeping Murder was most probably written sometime during the Blitz, which took place between September 1940 and May 1941.

On 7 June 1940 Edmund Cork wrote to Christie advising her that he would have the necessary ' deed of gift ' drawn up so her husband Max would become the owner of the unpublished Miss Marple novel.

James's début crime novel Cover Her Face in 1962, Christie became aware of the need to think up yet another title for her Miss Marple book ; she duly wrote to Edmund Cork on 17 July 1972 asking him to send her a copy of the unpublished Miss Marple manuscript and a copy of Max's deed of gift.

The last Marple novel Christie wrote, Nemesis, was published in 1971, followed by Christie's last Poirot novel Elephants Can Remember in 1972 and then in 1973 by her very last novel Postern of Fate.

Agatha Christie wrote it years ago but if I was going to pick a swansong book this is certainly the one that I would choose.

The same year he wrote Christie Johnstone, a close study of Scottish fisher folk.

In December 1969, Mountbatten wrote to Christie for a second time after having seen a performance of The Mousetrap.

In 1983 Brinkley wrote and illustrated a book on health and beauty titled Christie Brinkley's Outdoor Beauty and Fitness Book, which topped the New York Times best seller list.

His views were shared by W J L Christie, Indian Civil Service, who wrote a riposte to Orwell in defence of the school in Blackwoods Magazine ( owned and edited by Douglas Blackwood ).

Their other appearances were in Partners in Crime, a 1929 collection of short stories ( each reminiscent of another writer's work ); N or M ?, a 1941 espionage novel ; By the Pricking of My Thumbs ( published in 1968 ); and Postern of Fate in 1973, the last novel Christie ever wrote ( although not the last to be published ).

Maurice Richardson in a short review in the 7 December 1941 issue of The Observer wrote: " Agatha Christie takes time off from Poirot and the haute cuisine of crime to write a light war-time spy thriller.

In the 1940s she appeared on-stage in an Agatha Christie play, Appointment with Death, which was seen by Christie who wrote in a note to her, " I hope one day you will play my dear Miss Marple ".

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.

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.

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.

When she made it, the results, starring Margaret Rutherford, were popular and successful light comedies, but were disappointing to Christie herself ; nevertheless, Agatha Christie dedicated the novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side to Rutherford.

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.

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

In the novel Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry by B. S. Johnson, Christie's girlfriend is referred to as the Shrike because she works in a butcher's shop.

She also appeared in ITV's Marple: Ordeal By Innocence, based on the Agatha Christie novel.

In 1963 Christie dedicated her novel The Mirror Crack'd: " To Margaret Rutherford in admiration ".

:* 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

The film, based on a novel by Boris Pasternak, tells the story of a physician and poet ( Omar Sharif ) who falls in love with an unavailable woman named Lara ( Julie Christie ) and struggles to be with her in the chaos of the revolution and subsequent Russian Civil War.

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.

* The Big Four ( novel ), by Agatha Christie

* Indochine ( book ), a 1987 historical fiction novel by Christie Dickason.

In her 1953 novel, A Pocket Full of Rye, Agatha Christie used paresis as an explanation for the behavior of the victim.

With the exception of one short story, Suchet will have played the role in adaptations of every novel and short story featuring the character written by Dame Agatha Christie.

In 1966, Christie played a dual role in François Truffaut's adaptation of the Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451, where she starred opposite Oskar Werner.