it was demonstrated, many critics would later point out, in the length of his novels.

His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).

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.

This aspect of Poirot is less evident in the later novels, partly because there is rarely a narrator so there is no one for Poirot to mislead.

Central to his behaviour in the later novels is the underlying assumption that particular crimes are only committed by particular types of people.

One thing that is consistent about Poirot's retirement is that his fame declines during it, so that in the later novels he is often disappointed when characters ( especially younger characters ) recognize neither him nor his name:

In Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, the character of Alberto Mallich ( founder of the Unseen University and later Death's manservant Albert ) is a sly nod to Albertus Magnus in his more legendary and esoteric guise.

Resultantly, the Claudine novels, were originally attributed under Willy ’ s name only, before later being published under both names.

They marry and have a daughter, Fleurette, who figures in later novels.

His father, William, was a naval surgeon who later wrote novels and short stories, some of which included illustrations by his son.

" Most of his later novels were not science fiction.

His experiences at Hyde's, where he worked a thirteen-hour day and slept in a dormitory with other apprentices, later inspired his novels The Wheels of Chance and Kipps, which portray the life of a draper's apprentice as well as providing a critique of society's distribution of wealth.

( In the later novels, To Play the King and The Final Cut, however, she is called ' Elizabeth ' and plays a larger role, as in the television series.

To add some further confusion, some of the shorter novels published in magazines were later expanded to, or incorporated in, book-length novels.

However, Niven later invited other authors to participate in a series of shared-universe novels, with the Man-Kzin Wars as their setting.

A 1995 edition of all three completed Gormenghast novels includes a very short fragment of the beginning of what would have been the fourth Gormenghast novel, Titus Awakes, as well as a listing of events and themes he wanted to address in that and later Gormenghast novels.

Here, Mao was taught the value systems of Confucianism, one of the dominant moral ideologies in China, but he would later admit that he did not enjoy reading the classical Chinese texts which preached Confucian morals, instead favouring popular novels such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin.

Tomino later lamented that had he known that anime ending would be different and that another series would be made, he would not have killed off Amuro in the novels.

Several later Revelation Space novels add additional details of history of groups and characters on Mars.

He later published the Plateau Mont-Royal Chronicles, a cycle of six novels including The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant ( La grosse femme d ' à côté est enceinte, 1978 ) and The Duchess and the Commoner ( La duchesse et le roturier, 1982 ).

Shards of Honor and Barrayar concern Miles ' parents, while " Dreamweaver ’ s Dilemma " concerns a distant ancestor of Cordelia Naismith, Ethan of Athos involves a few minor characters from other Vorkosigan novels, and Falling Free does not involve Miles or any of his family, though in a later novel, Miles encounters the descendants of the characters from Falling Free.

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

Agatha Christie disappeared on 3 December 1926 only to reappear eleven days later in a hotel in Harrogate, apparently with no memory of the events which happened during that time span.

He started with an afternoon show and later did mornings, broadcasting under the name Jeff Christie.

" Hamlet calls this new play The Mouse-trap ( a title that Agatha Christie later took for the long-running play The Mousetrap ).

In later years, he worked with lutenist Robert Spencer and harpsichordists Harold Lester and William Christie.

* In chapter 2, Anne Meredith tells Poirot that she knows Ariadne Oliver from her book The Body in the Library, which was the title of a book later written by Agatha Christie and published in 1942.

The T-29 was a prototype medium tank, a modernized T-28 with Christie suspension — a later version of this vehicle was considered for the competition of prototypes which led to the T-34, but by then it was outdated ( not to be confused with a Grotte tank project also called T-29 ).

The original Christie tanks were designated fast tanks by the Soviets, abbreviated BT ( later referred to as BT-1 ).

The sloping front hull ( glacis plate ) armor design of the Christie M1931 prototype was retained in later Soviet tank hull designs, later adopted for side armor as well.

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.

Christie later revised this story as The House of Dreams, and it was published in issue 74 of The Sovereign Magazine in January 1926 and many years later, in 1997, in book form within While the Light Lasts and Other Stories.

Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple's Last Case is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1976 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.

The character of Caroline Sheppard was later acknowledged by Christie as a possible precursor to her famous detective Miss Marple.

In 1916, eight years later, Christie remembered this conversation and was inspired to write her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

After litigation the estate passed to a relative, Mr Langham Christie, but he later had to pay £ 50, 000 to persuade another relative to withdraw a rival claim.

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

A fellow inhabitant at the same address, John Christie, later found to be a sexual serial killer, gave key evidence against Evans.

Hallowe ' en Party is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in November 1969 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.

In Cards on the Table, there is a reference to Mrs Oliver's book The Body in the Library ; this title was used by Christie six years later, for a novel featuring Miss Marple.

Richard Copley Christie in later life

He was president of the Whitworth Institute from 1890 to 1895 and was much interested in the medical and other charities of Manchester, especially the Cancer Pavilion and Home, of whose committee he was chairman from 1890 to 1893, and which later became the Christie Hospital.