She was also named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1971. Christie received the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for 1954-1955 for Witness. Christie accompanied Mallowan on annual expeditions to Iraq and Syria, which served as material for Murder in Mesopotamia (1930), Death on the Nile (1937), and Appointment with Death (1938).Ĭhristie's credits also include the plays, The Mousetrap and Witness for the Prosecution (1953 film 1957). About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright. Over the years, her travels took her to the Middle East where she met noted English archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan.

Poirot, in particular, plays the hero of many of her works, including the classic, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and Curtain (1975), one of her last works in which the famed detective dies. We are told in a foreword written by Dr Reilly that she is ‘obviously the person to do it. Noted for clever and surprising twists of plot, many of Christie's mysteries feature two unconventional fictional detectives named Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. The narrator of Murder in Mesopotamia is Amy Leatheran, who visits the Hassanieh dig to act as nurse companion to the victim, Dr Leidner’s wife, Louise. Some of her most famous titles include Murder on the Orient Express, Mystery of the Blue Train, And Then There Were None, 13 at Dinner and The Sittaford Mystery. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language with another billion in 44 foreign languages.

In her lifetime, she authored 79 crime novels and a short story collection, 19 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.

She wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920, launching a literary career that spanned decades. While accompanying his friend Hastings to a dig in Iraq, Hercule Poirot becomes involved in the murder of an archaeologists wife. One of the most successful and beloved writer of mystery stories, Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie was born in 1890 in Torquay, County Devon, England.

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