![]() ![]() ![]() 2001 saw the first radio adaptation which was transmitted on BBC Radio 4 and starred June Whitfield. It was then adapted again in 2006, this time by ITV, for their series Marple which starred Geraldine McEwan. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and a billion in t Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was. She wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in Romance. Sleeping Murder was first adapted for television in 1987 as part of the Miss Marple series by the BBC, starring Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. Agatha Christie is the best-selling author of all time. In An Autobiography Christie explains that she ‘had written an extra two books during the first years of the war’ and ‘those two books, when written, were put in the vaults of a bank.’ But in Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks, John Curran argues that it was written much later. There is much discussion around when the story was first written. Originally it has been thought that the story was written in the early 1940s, although this has been debated by Christie expert John Curran in his book Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebook in which he discovers that Christie began writing the novel much later. Murders is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, featuring her characters Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp, as they contend with a series of killings by a mysterious murderer known only as 'A.B.C.'. A puzzle that is tortuous, surprising and finally satisfying. ![]()
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