Agatha
Americannoun
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Marcel Proust wrote in bed; Dalton Trumbo in a bath; Agatha Christie only needed “a steady table and a typewriter.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
A collection of items from English crime author Agatha Christie's housekeeper are set to make more than £1,000 at auction.
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
Book learning is all very well, but as Agatha Swanburne liked to say, “If you want fresh ideas in your head, get some fresh mud on your boots.”
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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