By the publication of Giant's Bread, Christie had published 10 novels and two short story collections, all of which had sold considerably more than 30,000 copies. Her war service ended in September 1918 when Archie was reassigned to London, and they rented a flat in St. The film Agatha and the Truth of Murder (2018) sends her undercover to solve the murder of Florence Nightingale's goddaughter, Florence Nightingale Shore. The wooden counter in the foyer of St Martin's Theatre showing 22,461 performances of The Mousetrap (pictured in November 2006).

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Christie attended many dances and other social functions; she particularly enjoyed watching amateur polo matches. With her expert knowledge, Christie had no need of poisons unknown to science, which were forbidden under Ronald Knox's "Ten Rules for Detective Fiction". It was publicized from the very beginning that "Mary Westmacott" was a pen name of a well-known author, although the identity behind the pen name was kept secret; the dust jacket of Giant's Bread mentions that the author had previously written "under her real name.Public reaction at the time was largely negative, supposing a publicity stunt or an attempt to frame her husband for murder. Vera and Lombard find Armstrong's body washed up on the beach, and each concludes the other must be responsible. Deciding she lacked the temperament and talent, she gave up her goal of performing professionally as a concert pianist or an opera singer. On 14December 1926, she was located at the Swan Hydropathic Hotel in Harrogate, Yorkshire, 184 miles (296km) north of her home in Sunningdale, registered as "Mrs Tressa [d] Neele" (the surname of her husband's lover) from "Capetown[ sic] S.

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Naturalisation Papers Archived 24 October 2019 at the Wayback Machine: Miller, Nathaniel Frary, from the United States. Successive American reprints and adaptations use that title, though American Pocket Books paperbacks used the title Ten Little Indians between 1964 and 1986. Magazines rejected all her early submissions, made under pseudonyms (including Mac Miller, Nathaniel Miller, and Sydney West); some submissions were later revised and published under her real name, often with new titles. After keeping the submission for several months, John Lane at The Bodley Head offered to accept it, provided that Christie change how the solution was revealed.

Christie's family and family trusts, including great-grandson James Prichard, continue to own the 36% stake in Agatha Christie Limited, [86] and remain associated with the company. MI5 was concerned that Christie had a spy in Britain's top-secret codebreaking centre, Bletchley Park. Writing for The Times Literary Supplement of 11 November 1939, Maurice Percy Ashley stated, "If her latest story has scarcely any detection in it there is no scarcity of murders.