Several of the passages in Agatha Christie's Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries have reportedly been reworked or stripped altogether in new editions of her books.
Additional pieces by Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, and Jack Butler Yates will appear in the upcoming Modern British Art Evening Sale.
The artist’s portraits of ‘dangerously independent women’ raised eyebrows in Belle Epoque Europe. Now his enigmatic works are in demand once more
“Great photo of former Miss Marple & Hercule Poirot, Julia McKenzie & @David_Suchet, at the #OlivierAwards last night”
Miss Marple's Geraldine McEwan dies at 82: life in pictures
David Suchet, 74, best known for playing Agatha Christie's Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, has seen his distinguished five-decade care recognised with a knighthood.
Joanna Moorhead meets Agatha Christie's grandson and finds there's more to the Queen of Crime than meets the eye ... her love of surfing, for example
David Suchet, 65, revealed that the show’s grand finale, which will be screened next year, will conclude with Poirot, the Belgian detective, dying at the end.
For centuries artists have understood the power that the right frame can have in presenting and enhancing their work. This is a short article aimed at contemporary artists and art students, in the …
In December 1926, Agatha Christie's husband Archie confirmed he was leaving her for his female golf partner. She appeared to stage her own death in Surrey and fled to Harrogate in Yorkshire.
Novelist Sophie Hannah (pictured), chosen to write new Hercule Poirot novels, has hit out at the snobbery of the literary establishment towards commercial crime fiction.
Impressionism is often viewed as a French affair, but the movement also had a major impact in the UK. We look at the artists involved
At the recent Geneva auctions, several statement colored diamonds reached record-setting prices. Will this success spread to the broader colored diamonds market? Click here to find out!
The book was inspired by Christie's own trips to Baghdad with her second husband, archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, and is also one of few Christie novels...
From the collection of Monsieur Hubert de Givenchy, the Empire private sale exhibition includes a pair of Sarreguemines stoneware porphyry-simulated torchères so-called “candélabres‟. Photo: Christ…
The riverside near Greenway proved fertile ground for Agatha Christie and her writing. Hilary Macaskill visits the author's South Devon home, and tries not to get as confused as Poirot.
Specialist Sarah Reynolds reveals how a chance encounter in a charity shop could now be about to pay off handsomely
From record-breakers to national treasures, a selection of the very best works offered by Christie’s
Agatha Christie was a private person, but there are numerous clues to her hidden right in her wildly popular novels.
Christie’s has announced the upcoming auction of The Private Collection of President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan! The Collection will be on view at Christie’s New York September 17 to 20 and is slated for sale September 21 and 22, with live and online components. The catalogue can be viewed online here, and I am enamored with […]
We may find it difficult to believe that Agatha Christie, a Victorian wife and mother who wrote crime stories set in rural England, supported feminism through her writings. Indeed, we will find many critics like Johann Hari who tell us that Christie did exactly the opposite, incorporating 'a hostility to feminism' into her stories. The writer is perhaps better known for her partiality towards young and dashing archaeologists and for the most successful disappearing act since Houdini. The latter earned her the title of ‘original Gone Girl' in the English media. But in her own way, Dame Christie was as
The Nimrud Ivories were found in northern Iraq in an expedition led by the author's husband Sir Max Mallowan and are to go on show at the British Museum.
The BBC have today released promotional pictures for the first episode in their new six part adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Partners in Crime series. Centered on the detective duo Tommy and …
The crime novelist lived at the historic property for 40 years.
For part 1 of the fashion in the Poirot series click here ! "To sit in the sun-what could be more charming? To step from your pedesta...
The prolific mystery writer took an active part in her husband’s archaeology digs.
Julie Christie dans Dr. Jivago Julie Christie (Julie Frances Christie), née le 14 avril 1941 à Chabua (en), dans la région d'Ass...
Is it possible to look even better at 63 than at 23? If so, Christie Brinkley has nailed it. Also, is there any way she can tell me her secret to looking ageless? Because I need it, like, yesterday. One of the world's most well-known supermodels from all the way back in the day, Brinkley has built an enviable career, raised three children from four marriages and amassed a fortune estimated at over $80 million. Even more mind-blowing is the fact that she has done it while looking like absolute perfection from head to toe, even all these years later....
You’d never guess she dreamt up such macabre and violent ends for her characters when you visit Agatha Christie’s idyllic holiday home on the banks of the River Dart in Devon.
In the week when we marked 125 years since the birth of Agatha Christie, how much did you know about her mysterious disappearance in 1926...
Ahead of a BBC adaptation, Ben Lawrence salutes the under-known pair of sleuths inspired by the writer's own marriage
Gendarme Jacque Hamoir, right, is the man who the author, inset, turned into her famous detective, left, according to Belgian archivists.
The author claimed amnesia after going missing for 11 days in her 30s