Agatha Christie has long been one of my favourite writers. By continuing to use the site, you accept our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.
There were approximately 250 murders in my house last year. Her works are ranked third in the world’s most published books, behind Shakespeare and the Bible, and they have been translated into at least 103 languages. But I also found something new: A portrait emerges of what it was like to live in England from about 1920 to 1970, one that becomes especially evident when you read the books in order, proceeding from the grim aftermath of World War I to the swinging London of the 1960s. 13, 1890, and died in 1976), but that should do its bit to goose Christie’s sales, which are at 2 billion and rising. It was sheer coincidence that I finished just a couple of months before the 125th birthday of the Queen of Crime (she was born Sept. Chris Hewitt was the Pioneer Press movie critic and then an arts and entertainment reporter from 1993 to 2017. “Murder at the Vicarage” (1930): I like it because it feels like Christie is trying to get her bearings after a series of tragedies (the death of her beloved mom, getting dumped by her husband and touching off an international sensation when she disappeared for a week after being dumped - a disappearance that, by the way, has never been explained).
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