Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

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The first edition contains four pages of colour plates of oil paintings of Christie and her family from the late 19th and early 20th century which do not appear in later editions. Shortly after the death of her beloved mother, Christie’s husband, Archie, informed her that he was in love with another woman and wanted a divorce. John Emsley, "The poison prescribed by Agatha Christie" Archived 25 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine, The Independent, 20 July 1992. Christie was a lifelong, "quietly devout" [4] :183 member of the Church of England, attended church regularly, and kept her mother's copy of The Imitation of Christ by her bedside. As well as being Christie's maternal great-aunt, Miller was Christie's father's step-mother as well as Christie's mother's foster mother and step-mother-in-law–hence the appellation "Auntie-Grannie".

The son of a barrister in the Indian Civil Service, Archie was a Royal Artillery officer who was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps in April 1913. Christie attended many dances and other social functions; she particularly enjoyed watching amateur polo matches. In the 1965 epilogue she stated that, "now that I have reached the age of seventy-five, it seems the right moment to stop…I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the ante-room for the summons that will inevitably come…I am ready now to accept death. Most of her works are mentioned in passing but no great detail is given of any of them apart from the ones that are firm milestones in her career (e. G., Murder in Mesopotamia: Agatha Christie and Archaeology, archived from the original on 14 April 2013 .Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover, "to celebrate the British cultural figures he most admires". She had accompanied her second husband to Nimrud, Iraq, where he was working on an archaeological dig. Christie took Marple to some exotic locations in the later books, so perhaps Alyssa Cole’s gloriously comic Miss Marple Takes Manhattan is not so far-fetched.

She lost her father when she was eleven years old and even before his death the family had run into financial difficulties. Branagh has since directed two more adaptations of Christie, Death on the Nile (2022) and its sequel A Haunting in Venice (2023), the latter an adaptation of her 1969 novel Hallowe'en Party. Her biographer Janet Morgan has commented that, despite "infelicities of style", the story was "compelling".gives the first name as Teresa, but her hotel register signature more naturally reads Tressa; newspapers reported that Christie used Tressa on other occasions during her disappearance (including joining a library). Leaving her young daughter, Rosalind, at home with the servants, she drove to the Surrey Hills, where her abandoned car was later found crashed into a hedge at the edge of a quarry, her clothes and driving licence still inside. For the 1931 digging season at Nineveh, Christie bought a writing table to continue her own work; in the early 1950s, she paid to add a small writing room to the team's house at Nimrud. Rising through the ranks, he was posted back to Britain in September 1918 as a colonel in the Air Ministry. She intones equally well men, women and children, the young and the old, those of a high class and those of the working class.