![]() "My own ten would certainly vary from time to time because every now," she wrote in 1972, in response to a Japanese translator's list of her top books, "and then I re-read an early book for some particular reason, to answer a question that has been asked me perhaps, and then I alter my opinion-sometimes thinking it is much better than I thought it was-or not so good as I had thought. Arguably the best known adaptation of Agatha Christie’s novel, Towards Zero, was that of prolific writer, Gerald Verner, in 1956. Her debut, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was published in 1920 and introduced Inspector Hercule Poirot, a character who would go on to feature in half of her novels, in addition to fifty short stories and two plays.Ī few years before she passed away in 1976 at the age of 85, Christie shared a list of her own top 10 works. By age 18, she was crafting short stories, and during World War I, she started writing detective novels. ![]() Now considered "the queen of mystery," Christie was born into a well-off middle class family in south west England, and taught herself to read by age five. They both cited it as one of their favourite Christie stories due to its ingenious plotting, so I definitely had to see for myself. Many of her novels went on to be adapted into TV shows and films-with the most recent being Death on the Nile, directed by Kenneth Branagh. Towards Zero was brought to my attention by authors Sophie Hannah and Alex Michaelides during a bookish Zoom event I watched in the summer to celebrate the release of a new Agatha Christie short story collection. ![]() ![]() Agatha Christie was a prolific writer, putting out 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections over the course of her illustrious career. ![]()
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