It is difficult to think of a writer in the modern era whose name is as instantly recognisable, and whose work has been subject to as many adaptations and reinterpretations, as Agatha Christie. The Queen of Crime, who remains the best-selling novelist of all time, died 50 years ago, and the British Library is marking that auspicious occasion with a show dedicated to her life and work. Photographs form the backbone of the exhibition, including many of Christie on her travels in Australia, Zimbabwe, Hawaii, Libya and elsewhere – experiences that inspired many of her novels set abroad, such as Death on the Nile and Evil Under the Sun. There are also manuscripts of her books, letters to and from family and friends and even her Remington typewriter from 1937, on which she is thought to have written And Then There Were None. There are other things on display too, but we will finish there in order to leave a little room for mystery, and a twist or two.
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