Christie did not limit herself to quaint English villages–the action might take place on a small island ( And Then There Were None), an aeroplane ( Death in the Clouds), a train ( Murder on the Orient Express), a steamship ( Death on the Nile), a smart London flat ( Cards on the Table), a resort in the West Indies ( A Caribbean Mystery), or an archaeological dig ( Murder in Mesopotamia)–but the circle of potential suspects is usually closed and intimate: family members, friends, servants, business associates, fellow travellers. Desyat' Negrityat (1987, Десять негритят, Eng: "Ten Little Negroes") a Russian adaptation produced/directed by Stanislav Govorukhin, notable for being the first cinema adaptation to keep the novel's original plot and grim ending. Meanwhile, Christie's social activities expanded, with country house parties, riding, hunting, dances, and roller skating. For instance, an unnamed reviewer in the Toronto Daily Star of 16 March 1940 said, "Others have written better mysteries than Agatha Christie, but no one can touch her for ingenious plot and surprise ending. In 2016, the Royal Mail marked the centenary of Christie's first detective story by issuing six first-class postage stamps of her works: The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express, And Then There Were None, The Body in the Library, and A Murder is Announced.

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The Invisible Host was adapted as the 1930 Broadway play The Ninth Guest by Owen Davis, [41] which itself was adapted as the 1934 film The Ninth Guest. The closed setting with the succession of deaths is here taken to its logical conclusion, and the dangers of ludicrousness and sheer reader-disbelief are skillfully avoided. Statement of Services Archived 26 October 2019 at the Wayback Machine: Frederick Boehmer, 91st Foot.The pair travelled frequently on archaeological expeditions, and she utilized the experiences she had while on her many adventures as a basis for some plots, including Murder on the Orient Express (1934), Murder in Mesopotamia (1936) and Death on the Nile (1937). To assist Mary financially, they agreed to foster nine-year-old Clara; the family settled in Timperley, Cheshire. Agatha Christie Limited still owns the worldwide rights for more than 80 of Christie's novels and short stories, 19 plays, and nearly 40 TV films.

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Two weeks after Boehmer's death, Mary's sister Margaret West married widowed dry goods merchant Nathaniel Frary Miller, a US citizen.Christie's obituary in The Times notes that "she never cared much for the cinema, or for wireless and television. A third novel, Murder on the Links, again featured Poirot, as did the short stories commissioned by Bruce Ingram, editor of The Sketch magazine, from 1923. Poirot's first film appearance was in 1931 in Alibi, which starred Austin Trevor as Christie's sleuth. As part of that deal, the BBC broadcast Partners in Crime [100] and And Then There Were None, [101] both in 2015. Her characters and her face appeared on the stamps of many countries like Dominica and the Somali Republic.