Abney Hall became Agatha's greatest inspiration for country-house life, with all the servants and grandeur which have been woven into her plots.

It opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End on 25November 1952, and by 2018 there had been more than 27,500 performances. The book came about from her reluctance to let others tell her story, as she explained to her agent Edmund Cork of Hughes Massie. In 2023, the Telegraph reported that several Agatha Christie novels have been edited to remove potentially offensive language, including insults and references to ethnicity. Thompson, Laura (2008), Agatha Christie: An English Mystery, London: Headline Review, ISBN 978-0-7553-1488-1. Madge married the year after their father's death and moved to Cheadle, Cheshire; Monty was overseas, serving in a British regiment.During the Second World War, Christie wrote two novels, Curtain and Sleeping Murder, featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, respectively.

Not having ever picked up a surf board myself, the idea of Dame Agatha doing so just tickles me to no end!Christie's travels with Mallowan contributed background to several of her novels set in the Middle East. In 1905, her mother sent her to Paris, where she was educated in a series of pensionnats (boarding schools), focusing on voice training and piano playing. Thompson believes Christie's occasional antipathy to her creation is overstated, and points out that "in later life she sought to protect him against misrepresentation as powerfully as if he were her own flesh and blood".