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

Excluding " Sleeping Murder ", forty-one years passed between the first and last-written novels, and many characters grow and age.

# Sleeping Murder ( written around 1940, published 1976 )

* Sleeping Murder ( 1987 )

* Sleeping Murder ( 2005 )

* Agatha Christie – Sleeping Murder

( When the police inspector sees Miss Marple he comments on a case of poison pen near Lymstock ; thus Sleeping Murder is set after the happenings in The Moving Finger, which was published in 1942.

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.

But the Agatha Christie / Edmund Cork and Harold Ober literary correspondence files, currently held at Exeter University in Devon, indicate Sleeping Murder was written early in 1940.

Christie's notebooks are open to imaginative interpretation and coloring in hindsight, and John Curran argues in his book Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks that Sleeping Murder was still being planned at the end of the 1940s and the beginning of the 1950s.

But this argument is not supported by Janet Morgan's biography, Agatha Christie, or by Laura Thompson's biography, Agatha Christie: An English Mystery ; both biographers state unequivocally, without further explanation, that Sleeping Murder was written in 1940.

The original manuscript of Sleeping Murder was entitled Murder in Retrospect after one of the chapters in the book.

She then arranged to have Sleeping Murder published in 1976, but died before the publication.

Sleeping Murder is the last of Miss Marple's excursions into detection.

Sleeping Murder was filmed by the BBC as a 100-minute film in the sixth adaptation ( of twelve ) in the series Miss Marple starring Joan Hickson as Miss Marple.

* Turkish: Uyuyan Ölüm ( Sleeping Murder )

* Polish: Uśpione morderstwo ( Sleeping Murder )

* Sleeping Murder at the official Agatha Christie website

* Wiki collection of quotations from Sleeping Murder

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She became a movie star in the late 1990s, carrying a string of successes, including While You Were Sleeping, and Miss Congeniality in 2000.

It was the last Miss Marple novel the author wrote, although Sleeping Murder was the last published.

Anna Anderson was also used as a narrative device in Youri Vámos ' 1992 ballet for Theater Basel, Sleeping Beauty – Last Daughter of the Czar, based on Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty.

* Ghosts ( Sleeping at Last album ), the major label debut of the alternative rock band Sleeping at Last

Gallagher played a potential career threat to Tim Robbins ' studio executive in The Player ( 1992 ); the comatose fiancé of Sandra Bullock in While You Were Sleeping ( 1995 ); a real estate salesman having an affair with Annette Bening in American Beauty ( 1999 ); a media executive in Mr. Deeds ( 2002 ); and a political reporter exposing media ethics during a presidential debate in The Last Debate.

In addition to the above, they were: " Nancy Lee "; " The Midshipmite "; " Polly "; " They all love Jack "; " Jack ’ s Yarn "; " The Old Brigade "; " The Deathless Army "; " To the Front "; " John Bull "; " Darby and Joan "; " When We are Old and Grey "; " Auntie "; " The Chimney Corner "; " The Children ’ s Home "; " The Old Maids of Lee "; " The Men of Ware "; " The Devoted Apple "; " To-morrow will be Friday "; " Douglas Gordon "; " Sleeping Tide "; " The Star of Bethlehem "; " Beauty ’ s Eyes "; " In Sweet September "; " Bid me Good-bye "; " The Last Watch "; " London Bridge "; " The King ’ s Highway "; " Go to Sea "; " Veteran ’ s Song "; " Up from Somerset "; " Beyond the Dawn "; " Nirvana "; " Mifanwy "

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In Goodey's Last Stand ( 1975 ) he introduced San Francisco private eye Joe Goodey, who returned in Not Sleeping Just Dead ( 1977 ).

# ( 21 ) Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Sleeping Dog ( 1998, ISBN 0-385-32576-2 )

The Leningrad Kirov Ballet, which opened a series of performances Friday night at the Opera House, is, I think, the finest `` classical '' ballet company I have ever seen, and the production of the Petipa-Tschaikowsky `` Sleeping Beauty '' with which it began the series is incomparably the finest I have ever had the pleasure of witnessing.

The classic fairy tale Sleeping Beauty is partly inspired by Eris's role in the wedding of Peleus and Thetis.

The Sleeping God is eventually revealed to be an entity created by an ancient, long departed culture, which was able to create a stable, naked quantum singularity.

As described by the Sleeping God, the Confederation is ( paraphrasing ) " one vast middle-class estate ", still suffering war, genocide, environmental destruction, hideous crime and greed, best exemplified by Earth as a rotten core to the confederation.

Sandra Annette Bullock (; born July 26, 1964 ) is an American and Academy Award winning actress and producer who rose to fame in the 1990s after roles in successful films such as Demolition Man, Speed, The Net, Hope Floats, A Time to Kill, and While You Were Sleeping.

The Tc1 / mariner-class of TEs Sleeping Beauty transposon system, awarded as the Molecule of the Year 2009 is active in mammalian cells and are being investigated for use in human gene therapy.

* January 15 – The Sleeping Beauty ( ballet ) with music by Tchaikovsky is premiered at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia.

Pujol is a primary character in Sarah Bynum's novel Madeleine is Sleeping.

" In addition, the spread of Sleeping Sickness across central Africa is attributed to the movements of Stanley's enormous baggage train and the Emin Pasha relief expedition.

Nelson shows the occasional glimpse of humanity, though, and other characters have occasionally warmed to him ; Lisa dates him briefly in " Lisa's Date With Density ", Marge informally adopts him in " Sleeping with the Enemy ," and Bart is shown as a friend to him several times, such as in " The Haw-Hawed Couple.

The trail's western end is located within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

Most complications arise when lenses are worn differently than prescribed ( improper wear schedule or lens replacement ) Sleeping in lenses not designed or approved for extended wear is a common cause of complications.

* In Sleeping with Sirens's 2010 With ears to see and eyes to hear, there is a song called " If I'm James Dean, you're Audrey Hepburn ".

* " Ariadne Sleeping " is an instrumental piece by The Clientele on their Ariadne EP.

Fairy tales with hostility between the mother-in-law and the heroine — such as Mary's Child, The Six Swans, and Perrault's Sleeping Beauty — have been held to reflect a transition between a matrilineal society, where a man's loyalty was to his mother, and a patrilineal one, where his wife could claim it, although this interpretation is predicated on such a transition being a normal development in societies.

The tradition maintained at Ussé is that this was the castle Charles Perrault had in mind when writing " The Sleeping Beauty ".

( The peak is sometimes nicknamed La Mujer Dormida (" The Sleeping Woman ").

Glen Lake, located within the boundaries of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, is considered one of the most beautiful lakes in the world.

The film is a modern sci-punk retelling of the tale of Sleeping Beauty, with a twist.

Notable features include Toolbrunup, Bluff Knoll-the tallest peak in the southwestern region, and a silhouette called The Sleeping Princess which is visible from the Porongurup Range.

Sleeping is the basis for nearly all yo-yo tricks other than looping, the player first putting the yo-yo in a " sleep " before throwing the yo-yo around using its string.

The town's nickname is " The Land of the Sleeping Giant.

This area of town is the location of the unique Sleeping Giant hill formation that is the source of the town's nickname.