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Agatha Christie, master puzzler.(commentary on Christie's writing career)
ON NOVEMBER 25, 2002, Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap clocked up fifty years on the London stage. It's been performed there more than twenty thousand times, to audiences adding up to about ten million people, making it the longest-running show in theatre history. A few other long runs ended recently, so even if it comes off tomorrow it'll probably hold that record for longer than most people reading this will be alive.
Nobody's sure why it's lasted so long. Agatha Christie herself thought it might run for eight months. To start with, it didn't do great business. Then things picked up, and as long as people kept coming there was no sense in taking it off. It ...
- Agatha Christie Goes Electronic; Agatha Christie Limited Selects HarperCollins...
- Press release article from: Business Wire September 16, 2003 700+ words
...HarperCollins Publishers and Agatha Christie Limited, a Chorion company...book format of 85 works by Agatha Christie -- the world's bestselling author. The program will include Agatha Christie's classic mysteries that feature...
- Agatha Christie, Best-Selling Author Of The 20th Century, Enters the 21st With...
- Press release article from: Business Wire February 3, 2000 700+ words
...com is the definitive source for Agatha Christie and features online adaptations of Agatha Christie short stories, complete information...community, and an online store. Agatha Christie is now the first major literary figure...
- MysteryNet and Agatha Christie Ltd. Sign Exclusive Agreement to Produce the...
- Press release article from: Business Wire August 3, 1999 700+ words
...3, 1999-- The official Web site for Agatha Christie, the world's best-selling writer...was announced today by MysteryNet and Agatha Christie Ltd. The official Agatha Christie Web site (www.MysteryNet.com/AgathaChristie...
- Oberon Games to Bring the Mysterious World of Agatha Christie to Online Gaming.
- Press release article from: Business Wire April 11, 2007 700+ words
...Bible and Shakespeare have outsold Agatha Christie, making her the best-selling novelist...announced the downloadable PC game, Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile, will be available...After a rich heiress is killed, Agatha Christie's famous detective, Hercule Poirot...
- AGATHA CHRISTIE FANS IN FOR A CRIME TREAT TO MARK THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF HER...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 9, 2001 700+ words
...press release is transmitted on behalf of Agatha Christie Ltd. Agatha Christie devotees will enjoy a series of key events...programme. Mathew Prichard, grandson of Dame Agatha Christie and Chairman of Agatha Christie Ltd, said...
- It's a remarkable story, worthy of an Agatha Christie plot. How did an Irishman...
- Newspaper article from: Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland) September 1, 2009 700+ words
...passion for mystery who deciphered Agatha Christie's secret notebooks It's a remarkable story, worthy of an Agatha Christie plot. How did an Irishman become...quintessentially English writer as Agatha Christie, deciphering for the first...
- Oberon Games Takes Agatha Christie Classic Online with 'Peril at End House'.
- Press release article from: Business Wire December 6, 2007 700+ words
...million downloads to date, comes Agatha Christie: Peril at End House, available for...games portals on December 6. "Our Agatha Christie games are wholly unique in that their...story in a way that will engage both Agatha Christie devotees and casual game players alike...
- Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None Ships Into Retail Stores; The #1...
- Press release article from: Business Wire October 27, 2005 700+ words
...anticipated mystery adventure game Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None...for PC CD-ROM. "Fans of Agatha Christie's mystery novels and adventure...alike will be enthralled by Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None...
Source: HighBeam Research, Agatha Christie, master puzzler.(commentary on Christie's writing...