Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

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The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself. Beehler, Sharon A. (1998). "Close vs. Closed Reading: Interpreting the Clues". The English Journal. 77 (6): 39–43. doi: 10.2307/818612. JSTOR 818612. Edmund Wilson on Crime Fiction". The Crazy Oik. Archived from the original on 23 December 2017 . Retrieved 23 June 2020. Christie was a lifelong, "quietly devout" [4] :183 member of the Church of England, attended church regularly, and kept her mother's copy of The Imitation of Christ by her bedside. [14] :30,290 After her divorce, she stopped taking the sacrament of communion. [14] :263 Christie's familial relationship to Margaret Miller (née West) was complex. As well as being Christie's maternal great-aunt, Miller was Christie's father's step-mother as well as Christie's mother's foster mother and step-mother-in-law–hence the appellation "Auntie-Grannie".

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Agatha Christie began riding surfboards standing up at Waikiki - Museum of British Surfing". 24 March 2019 . Retrieved 1 September 2022. Curran, John. "75 facts about Christie". The Home of Agatha Christie. Agatha Christie Limited. Retrieved 21 July 2017.

This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater.