On January 12, 1976, Agatha Christie, one of the world’s most successful writers of all time, died. She was 85 years old. I wrote about her 130th anniversary last September.

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Agatha Christie is one of the best sellers ever and her books were translated for over a 100 different languages. She created the beloved detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, but she lived a real mystery that up until today has not been solved when she disappeared for 11 days. She was finally identified in a hotel alive, claiming she had no memory on how she got there. Weirdly, she was using her husband’s girlfriend name, but hey, coincidence? no wonder the marriage ended in divorce soon after.

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Agatha Christie, when alive, was already known as the most read woman author in the world. She died at home and was already rarely seen in public in her later years. Ironically, she passed only 5 months after Hercule Poirot, who, albeit a fictional person, “earned” an obituary in the New York Times.

“Hercule Poirot, a Belgian detective who became internationally famous, has died in England. His age was unknown”, said the dizia the text. “At the end of his life, he was arthritic and had a bad heart. He was in a wheelchair often, and was carried from his bedroom. His death was confirmed by Dodd, Mead, Dame Agatha’s publishers”, it went on. The obituary preceded the book Curtain, the novel in which we know his last days.

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Christie’s first book that was produced to the screen was in 1928, The Coming of Mr. Quin. In 2020 it was supposed to have been the launching of a new version of Death in the Nile, but due the pandemic, it’s been delayed. Perhaps sometime in 2021. In the mean time, we can always catch up with Kenneth Branagh in Murder on the Orient Express, that was released in 2017.

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