Agatha
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“I never had a definite place which was my room or where I retired specially to write,” Agatha Christie said in her autobiography.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
Auctioneer Bridget Meadows said: "These lots form a wonderful insight into Agatha Christie's personal life at Greenway House."
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026
Whether with an old-fashioned one-case-per-episode or a more sprawling multistrand story, quaint or violent, historic or modern, the birthplace of Agatha Christie understands that we all need stories that make sense of seemingly senseless acts.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
Agatha Christie’s detective Hercule Poirot, introduced in 1920 and killed off in 1975, has enjoyed a second lease on life through a continuation series by Sophie Hannah.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
“To gain access to the letters of Agatha Swanburne.”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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