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.

In 1980, Angela Lansbury played Miss Marple in The Mirror Crack'd ( EMI, directed by Guy Hamilton ), based on Christie's 1962 novel.

The art of the novel reached a pinnacle in Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber, but its combination of social commentary and psychological insight were echoed in highly skilled novels such as Wu Jingzi's The Scholars ( 1750 ) and Li Ruzhen's Flowers in the Mirror ( 1827 ).

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

In the 1970s, she returned to Romanyà de la Selva in Catalonia and finished the novel Mirall trencat ( Broken Mirror ) in 1974.

In the novel version of the Mirror Universe created by Diane Duane, Barclay is Captain Picard's personal guard.

He also appears in the novel Dark Victory ( William Shatner, 1999 ), and the short story " The Greater Good " ( Margaret Wander Bonanno ) in the anthology Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Shards and Shadows ( 2009 ).

Other writers who have made use of the theme include Donald Barthelme ( in his novel Snow White ), Gregory Maguire ( in his novel Mirror Mirror ), Jane Yolen ( in her story " Snow in Summer ," published in Black Swan, White Raven ), Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald ( in their story " The Queen's Mirror ," published in A Wizard's Dozen ), Anne Sexton ( in her poem " Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ," published in Transformations ), Gail Carson Levine ( in Fairest ), and A. S. Byatt ( in her essay " Ice, Snow, Glass ," published in Mirror, Mirror on the Wall ).

Oamaru: The clock tower on the old Post Office, vividly described in Frame's debut novel, Owls Do Cry, as well as in her third volume of autobiography, The Envoy from Mirror City

The poet Sylvia Plath was known to admire McCullers ' work, and the unusual phrase " silver and exact ", used by McCullers to describe a set of train tracks in the novel, is the first line of Plath's poem " Mirror ".

Plath was writing the novel under the sponsorship of the Eugene F. Saxton Fellowship, affiliated with publisher Harper & Row, but they were disappointed by the manuscript and withdrew, calling it, “ disappointing, juvenile, and overwrought .” Early working titles of the novel included Diary of a Suicide and The Girl in the Mirror.

George Thaw in the Daily Mirror of 22 October 1976 said, " Agatha Christie's last novel is very good.

Like many of Card's works, the novel is an expansion of a short story, his " Lost Boys ", which can be found in his short story compilation Maps in a Mirror.

The novel was serialised in the Star Weekly Novel, a Toronto newspaper supplement, in two abridged instalments from 9-16 March 1963 under the title The Mirror Crack'd with each issue containing a cover illustration by Gerry Sevier.

* She is a central character in Clare Colvin's novel The Mirror Makers ( 2003 ).

Later that year, the novel Graham Crackers: Fuzzy Memories, Silly Bits, and Outright Lies was released.

Later in 1957, Cagney ventured behind the camera for the first and only time to direct Short Cut to Hell, a remake of the 1941 Alan Ladd film This Gun for Hire, which in turn was based on the Graham Greene novel A Gun for Sale.

* In the 2009 Warhammer 40, 000 novel Mechanicum by Graham McNeill, the noosphere is an experimental communication infrastructure that empowers the user by harnessing the power of the collective mind.

Tales of my Landlord includes the now highly regarded novel Old Mortality set in 1679 – 89 against the backdrop of the ferocious anti-Covenanting campaign of the Tory aristocrat Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount of Dundee ( called " Bluidy Clavers " by his opponents and Bonnie Dundee by his Tory friends ).

His last film, an adaptation of the Graham Greene espionage novel The Human Factor ( 1979 ), had financial problems and was barely released.

The novel opens with the marriage of Lucy Graham, a beautiful, doll-like blonde who enchants almost all who meet her, to Sir Michael Audley, an old, rich, and kind widower, in June 1857.

The supposed flatness of the Norfolk landscape is noted in Noël Coward's Private Lives — " Very flat, Norfolk " — and the history of its waterways and drainage forms the backdrop to Graham Swift's novel Waterland.

* The character Pyle in Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American has a dog named Prince after The Black Prince.

* Black Library's Horus Heresy series novel set in the Warhammer 40, 000 universe, titled A Thousand Sons, by Graham McNeil, references the Enochian language.

Poldark author Winston Graham knew the town well and set his novel The Forgotten Story ( 1945 ) in Falmouth.

The " last Buchan " ( as Graham Greene entitled his appreciative review ) was the 1941 novel Sick Heart River ( American title: Mountain Meadow ), in which a dying protagonist confronts the questions of the meaning of life in the Canadian wilderness.

However, some critics were less than complimentary about his work, and Priestley began legal action against Graham Greene for what he took to be a defamatory portrait of him in the novel Stamboul Train ( 1932 ).

Graham Greene's novel The Comedians, set in 1960s Haiti, frequently refers to Samedi.

Here he wrote his first ― but never published ― novel The Poor Man and the Lady in 1867, and the poem " A Young Man's Exhortation ," from which Graham Greene took an epigraph for his own novel, The Comedians.

* Wormwood ( G. P. Taylor ), a 2004 fantasy novel by Graham Taylor

* Spirit: Graham Masterton's 2001 horror novel features characters and themes from The Snow Queen.

Meccano is mentioned in the first chapter of Graham Greene's novel The Power and the Glory.

* Graham Masterton's novel Picture of Evil, also known as Family Portrait, was set, in part, in Darien, the home of the Gray family, which, like Dorian Gray in The Picture of Dorian Gray, remain young while their counterparts in a family portrait grow old.

His movie credits include East of Eden, " Big Daddy " in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Desire Under the Elms, Wind Across the Everglades, The Big Country, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ; Ensign Pulver, the sequel to Mister Roberts ; and Our Man in Havana, based on the Graham Greene novel.

At the end of the novel, he sends Graham a note saying that he hopes Graham isn't " too ugly ".

* Monsignor Quixote ( Graham Greene novel about friendship between priest and Communist mayor )

The song was written by Graham for Ellen Rua, one of the characters in his second novel, The Brightest Day, The Darkest Night, also published by Harper Collins.

" You Raise Me Up "- It was in fact reading Graham ’ s novel The Whitest Flower, that led Norwegian composer, Rolf Lovland to contact Graham with a melody.

As usual in the Bond novels, a number of Fleming's friends or associates had their names used in the novel ; the Masterton sisters having their names taken from Sir John Masterman, an MI5 agent and Oxford academic who ran the double cross system during World War II ; Alfred Whiting, the golf professional at Royal St George's Golf Club, Sandwich, becoming Alfred Blacking ; whilst the Royal St George's Golf Club itself became the Royal St Mark's, for the game between Bond and Goldfinger.

The film was mostly similar to the novel, but Jill and Tilly Masterton ( renamed Masterson for the film ) have shortened roles and earlier deaths in the story.

She has appeared as a character in several novels, such as the biographical novels The Devil's Mistress by novelist and occultist J. W. Brodie-Innes, Isobel by Jane Parkhurst, the fantasy novel Night Plague by Graham Masterton, and Noches Paganas: Cuentos Narrados junto al Fuego del Sabbath by Luis G. Abbadie ;

* Family Portrait ( novel ), novel by Graham Masterton

* Flesh & Blood, a 1994 novel by Graham Masterton