Agatha Christie Memorial

Agatha Christie Memorial. . , Dame Agatha Christie DBE , Writer and Playwight, This memorial was unveiled by her grandson Mathew Prichard CBE, Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen St, Chairman of Mousetrap Productions and the Lord Mayor of Westminster, Councillor Angela Harvey on 18 November 2012. The unveiling also marked 60 years and 25,000 London performances of her play The Mousetrap., Sculptor: Ben Twiston-Davies , Architects: Donald Insall Associates , , (text on base) , Agatha Christie, née Miller was born on 15 September 1993 in Torquay, Devon. Educated at home, she acquired as a child her lifelong passion for reading and writing. Knowledge of poisons, gained as a pharmaceutical dispenser in the 1914-18 war proved invaluable for her crime writing. She married Archie Christie in 1914; their daughter Rosalind was born in 1919, A devotee of travel she gave many books foreign settings, especially in the Middle East, where she assisted her second husband the archaeologist Max Mallowan on his expeditions in Syria and Iraq. Her daughter, her son-in-low Anthony Hicks, her grandson Mathew Prichard born in 1948, and all who knew it shared her great love for Greenway, her house on the River Dart, which he family later gave to the National Trust., Agathe Christie was appointed Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1971. She died on 12 January 1976., Agatha Christie’s books have sold over two billion coples in 100 languages, more than any other modem writer. Her work has been widely adapted for the cinema, radio and television., The Mousetrap, the world's longest-running show, opened in 1952 at the Ambassadors Theatre and has played at the St Martin's Theatre since 1973, in 1954 she became the first woman to have three plays running in London at the same time., Hercule Poirot, the all-knowing Belgian defective, made his bow in 1920 in Agatha Christie's first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Miss Jane Marple, her all-seeing village spinster, followed a few years later., The Mousetrap, her many other plays, and more than eighty novels and books of short stories brought Agatha Christle world-wide fame in her lifetime. Through her unique understanding of human nature, her dramatic skills and mastery of the art of storytelling she has become one of the most successful and best loved writers of all time. ,