Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

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John Emsley, "The poison prescribed by Agatha Christie" Archived 25 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine, The Independent, 20 July 1992.

I fell in love with Ur, with its beauty in the evenings, the ziggurrat standing up, faintly shadowed, and that wide sea of sand with its lovely pale colours of apricot, rose, blue and mauve changing every minute. The Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul, the eastern terminus of the railway, claims the book was written there and maintains Christie's room as a memorial to the author. Lucy Worsley’s Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman is the first significant biography of Christie since Laura Thompson’s Agatha Christie: An English Mysteryin 2007. it is a good thing to have had a dream and to have enjoyed it, so long as you do not clutch too hard. In addition to Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, Christie also created amateur detectives Thomas (Tommy) Beresford and his wife, Prudence "Tuppence" née Cowley, who appear in four novels and one collection of short stories published between 1922 and 1974.Agatha Christie was arguably the first modern literary celebrity, and it follows that her long writing life, from her first published novel in 1920 to her death in 1976 at the age of 85, has been thoroughly picked over, not only by journalists during her lifetime but by the author herself in her autobiography.

We see Agatha’s mother, father, grandparents, her sister and brother, her husbands, her child and grandson through her eyes.In 1946, Christie said of herself: "My chief dislikes are crowds, loud noises, gramophones and cinemas. Thompson, Laura (2008), Agatha Christie: An English Mystery, London: Headline Review, ISBN 978-0-7553-1488-1. There are quite a few revelations about her early life with Archie Christie where the couple struggled with funds and, of course, how she struggled with money again after their divorce. A fictionalised account of Christie's disappearance is also the central theme of a Korean musical, Agatha.