Why did Agatha Christie become a dame?
In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.
When was Agatha Christie attributed with the honorific title Dame and by whom?
In 1971, she was honoured by the Queen with the title Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Christie died on 12 January 1976 at age 85 from natural causes at her Winterbrook House in the north of Cholsey parish, adjoining Wallingford in Oxfordshire (formerly part of Berkshire).
What is the name of the book Agatha Christie wrote detailing her travels with husband Max Mallowan?
Agatha Christie’s adventurous ‘second act’ plays out in Mesopotamia. After a devastating divorce, the crime novelist took a trip to Baghdad in 1928 and lost her heart—to the ancient sites of Iraq and archaeologist Max Mallowan.
What is the name of the Belgian detective who appears in more than forty of Christie’s books?
Her first detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introduced the chocolate-loving Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. He, together with his logic and rational methods and his “little grey cells,” was to be a staple character for Christie in over forty books, the last of which, Curtain, appeared in 1975.
What is Agatha Christie’s real name?
Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
Agatha Christie/Full name
What was Agatha Christie’s first novel?
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie published her first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 100 years ago this month.
How old was Agatha Christie when she met Max?
She and Max got on famously despite their age difference. (Agatha was 40.)
What is Agatha Christie’s best selling novel?
And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None is Christie’s best-selling novel, with 100 million sales to date, making it the world’s best-selling mystery ever, and one of the best-selling books of all time.