The Doctor Who episode " The Unicorn and the Wasp" (17 May 2008) stars Fenella Woolgar as Christie, and explains her disappearance as being connected to aliens.

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The production was directed by Mary Peate and featured Geoffrey Whitehead as Mr Justice Wargrave, Lyndsey Marshal as Vera Claythorne, Alex Wyndham as Philip Lombard, John Rowe as Dr Armstrong, and Joanna Monro as Emily Brent. Naturalisation Papers Archived 24 October 2019 at the Wayback Machine: Miller, Nathaniel Frary, from the United States. It opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End on 25November 1952, and by 2018 there had been more than 27,500 performances. Christie liked her acting, but considered the first film "pretty poor" and thought no better of the rest.Christie mocked this insight in her foreword to Cards on the Table: "Spot the person least likely to have committed the crime and in nine times out of ten your task is finished. For example, she described "men of Hebraic extraction, sallow men with hooked noses, wearing rather flamboyant jewellery" in the short story "The Soul of the Croupier" from the collection The Mysterious Mr Quin. Alison Light, a literary critic and feminist scholar, opined that Christie's original title and the setting on "Nigger Island" (later changed to "Indian Island" and "Soldier Island", variously) were integral to the work.

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The Agatha Christie Trust For Children was established in 1969, [77] and shortly after Christie's death a charitable memorial fund was set up to "help two causes that she favoured: old people and young children".

A year later, she began formal education at Miss Guyer’s Girls’ School in Torquay, before moving to France in 1905 to continue her education at three different Parisian schools. Similar changes were made in Dutch in 2004, [n 2] Swedish in 2007, [n 3] Brazilian Portuguese in 2009, [n 4] Polish in 2017, [n 5] French in 2020, [n 6] and Turkish in 2022. They are able to eliminate several suspects due to the circumstances of their deaths and items being moved afterward, but ultimately they cannot identify the killer. Based on the 1939 novel Ten Little Niggers; also known as Ten Little Indians and And Then There Were None.

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The descriptions of the fictional Chimneys, Stonygates, and other houses in her stories are mostly Abney Hall in various forms. As for who inherited Agatha’s fortune when she died, her daughter Rosalind was the main beneficiary.

Subsequent productions have included The Witness for the Prosecution [103] but plans to televise Ordeal by Innocence at Christmas 2017 were delayed because of controversy surrounding one of the cast members. Four short stories, including "The Submarine Plans,” "Christmas Adventure,” "The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest,” and "The Second Gong,” were expanded into longer stories by Christie (respectively "The Incredible Theft,” "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding,” "The Mystery of the Spanish Chest,” and "Dead Man's Mirror"). Boehmer's death registration states he died at age 49 from bronchitis after retiring from the army, [11] but Christie and her biographers have consistently claimed he was killed in a riding accident while still a serving officer. It begins with the classic set-up of potential victim(s) and killer(s) isolated from the outside world, but then violates conventions. Languages where the most recent edition retains racial epithets include Spanish, Greek, Serbian, Bulgarian, Romanian, [29] [ bettersourceneeded] Russian [30] and Hungarian, as well as the 1987 Soviet film adaptation Desyat Negrityat.