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Miss Jane Marple was introduced in a series of short stories that began publication in December 1927 and were subsequently collected under the title The Thirteen Problems. [14] :278 Marple was a genteel, elderly spinster who solved crimes using analogies to English village life. [30] :47,74–76 Christie said, "Miss Marple was not in any way a picture of my grandmother; she was far more fussy and spinsterish than my grandmother ever was", but her autobiography establishes a firm connection between the fictional character and Christie's step-grandmother Margaret Miller ("Auntie-Grannie") [i] and her "Ealing cronies". [12] :422–23 [112] Both Marple and Miller "always expected the worst of everyone and everything, and were, with almost frightening accuracy, usually proved right". [12] :422 Marple appeared in 12 novels and 20 stories. Winners and Nominees 2000s". Bouchercon. 22 September 2015. Archived from the original on 9 June 2018 . Retrieved 1 July 2020.

In 1922, the Christies joined an around-the-world promotional tour for the British Empire Exhibition, led by Major Ernest Belcher. Leaving their daughter with Agatha's mother and sister, in 10 months they travelled to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, and Canada. [4] :86–103 [32] They learned to surf prone in South Africa; then, in Waikiki, they were among the first Britons to surf standing up, and extended their time there by three months to practise. [33] [34] She is remembered at the British Surfing Museum as having said about surfing, " Oh it was heaven! Nothing like rushing through the water at what seems to you a speed of about two hundred miles an hour. It is one of the most perfect physical pleasures I have known." [35] Agatha's Greenway". National Trust. Archived from the original on 16 April 2020 . Retrieved 30 April 2020. She felt differently about the 1974 film Murder on the Orient Express, directed by Sidney Lumet, which featured major stars and high production values; her attendance at the London premiere was one of her last public outings. [14] :476,482 [186] :57 In 2017, a new film version was released, directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also starred, wearing "the most extravagant mustache moviegoers have ever seen". [187] Branagh has since directed two more adaptations of Christie, Death on the Nile (2022) and its sequel A Haunting in Venice (2023), the latter an adaptation of her 1969 novel Hallowe'en Party. [188] [189] The Details of this Strange Case ..." Classic Lodges. 2019. Archived from the original on 27 October 2019 . Retrieved 27 October 2019.

Simpson, Craig (25 March 2023). "Agatha Christie classics latest to be rewritten for modern sensitivities". The Telegraph . Retrieved 26 March 2023. People often ask me what made me take up writing ... I found myself making up stories and acting the different parts. There's nothing like boredom to make you write. So by the time I was 16 or 17, I'd written quite a number of short stories and one long, dreary novel. By the time I was 21, I finished the first book of mine ever to be published. In 1914, she wed Colonel Archibald Christie, a Royal Flying Corps pilot, and took up nursing during World War I. She published her first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920; the story focused on the murder of a rich heiress and introduced readers to one of Christie's most famous characters—Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Books and Disappearance Lask, Thomas (6 August 1975). "Hercule Poirot Is Dead; Famed Belgian Detective". The New York Times. US. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017 . Retrieved 16 October 2020.Other authors claim Christie wrote Murder on the Orient Express whilst at a dig at Arpachiyah. [4] :206 [30] :111 Christie's mother, Clarissa Miller, died in April 1926. They had been exceptionally close, and the loss sent Christie into a deep depression. [14] :168–72 In August 1926, reports appeared in the press that Christie had gone to a village near Biarritz to recuperate from a "breakdown" caused by "overwork". [36] Disappearance: 1926 [ edit ] Daily Herald, 15 December 1926, announcing that Christie had been found. Missing for 11 days, she was found at the Swan Hydropathic Hotel in Harrogate, Yorkshire