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Agatha Christie is born
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born on 15 September 1890 into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon. She was the youngest of three children born to Frederick Alvah Miller, "a gentleman of substance", and his wife Clarissa Margaret ("Clara") Miller née Boehmer. -
"The Mysterious Affair at Styles"
The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie.
Styles was Christie's first published novel. It introduced Hercule Poirot, Inspector Japp, and Arthur Hastings Poirot, a Belgian refugee of the Great War, is settling in England near the home of Emily Inglethorp, who helped him to his new life. His friend Hastings arrives as a guest at her home. When the woman is killed, Poirot uses his detective skills to solve the mystery. -
"The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie. It is the third novel to feature Hercule Poirot as the lead detective. Poirot retires to a village near the home of a friend, Roger Ackroyd, to pursue a project to perfect vegetable marrows. Soon after, Ackroyd is murdered and Poirot must come out of retirement to solve the case. -
"The Thirteen Problems"
The Thirteen Problems is a short story collection by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by Collins Crime Club in June 1932[1] and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1933 under the title The Tuesday Club Murders. The thirteen stories feature the amateur detective Miss Marple, her nephew Raymond West, and her friend Sir Henry Clithering. They are the earliest stories Christie wrote about Miss Marple. -
"Endless Night"
Endless Night begins with Michael telling us about his time as a chauffeur and how he met the architect Rudolph Santonix. Michael is walking along a village road near the Gipsy's Acre property one day when he meets Ellie, a wealthy heiress who wants to escape from her world of snobby friends, begging relatives, and restrictive financial advisors. The newlywed couple are threatened by an old gypsy woman, Mrs Lee, who warns them and instructs them to leave because of a curse. -
"Curtain: Poirot's Last Case"
Curtain: Poirot's Last Case is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie.
The novel features Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings in their final appearances in Christie's works. It is a country house novel, with all the characters and the murder set in one house. Not only does the novel return the characters to the setting of her first, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, but it reunites Poirot and Hastings, who last appeared together in Dumb Witness in 1937 -
Agatha Christie dies
Christie died peacefully on 12 January 1976 at age 85 from natural causes at her home at Winterbrook House. When her death was announced, two West End theatres – the St. Martin's, where The Mousetrap was playing, and the Savoy, which was home to a revival of Murder at the Vicarage – dimmed their outside lights in her honour.