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Jump directly to the content. Sign in. All Football. Fabulous Anna Johnstone. When Penguin paperbacks were launched in The Mysterious Affair at Styles was one of the first 10 titles. Her favourite composers were Elgar, Sibelius and Wagner. She accepted the Presidency of the famous Detection Club in on the strict understanding that she would never have to make a speech.

Her title The Big Four was, in reality, a series of short stories reworked into a novel. The Secret Adversary. The Mary Westmacott pseudonym remained a secret for almost 20 years. The original programme for The Mousetrap had no title on the cover - just a mousetrap on a splash of red. In she was the recipient of the first ever Grandmaster Award from the Mystery Writers of America.

She very rarely allowed any representation of Poirot to appear on book jackets. In she was conferred with an honorary degree from the University of Exeter. In a Christie play, Chimneys , received its premiere in Canada - over 60 years after it was written. Agatha Christie is a character in the David Tennant Doctor Who episode "The Unicorn and the Wasp," where she helps the Doctor and his companion Donna Noble solve a series of murders that parallel her works and the board game Clue do.

Fenella Woolgar played Christie. Of her own work her favourite play was Witness for the Prosecution. Her favourite flower was Lily of the Valley. In Agatha Christie became a Limited Company.

There is a bronze bust of her on Carey Green in Torquay. She wrote her autobiography over a period of 15 years: - In she was immortalised in Madame Tussauds. She named her house Styles in after the success of her first novel. Three Act Tragedy in , became her first title to sell 10, copies in its first year.