{"id":674,"date":"2013-03-15T12:54:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T12:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=674"},"modified":"2013-03-15T12:54:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T12:54:35","slug":"agatha-christie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=674","title":{"rendered":"Agatha Christie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Agatha Christie, the queen of crime <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller on 15 September 1890 in Torquay, Devon, South West England, in 1912 she met and married Archie Christie. They had a daughter, Rosalind, in 1919 but later divorced and Agatha married Max Mallowan, the world famous archaeologist. Their a marriage lasted forty-six years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Poison_CN.JPG?uselang=en-gb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" alt=\"Poison Symbol Author : Mooiboys http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Poison_CN.JPG?uselang=en-gb\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/b\/b2\/Poison_CN.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poison Symbol by Mooiboys<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During WW1, Agatha became a nurse at the Red Cross Hospital in Torquay. Her life long interest in the use of poisons began when she was working in the Hospital dispensary, where she completed the examination of the Society of Apothecaries.<\/p>\n<p>One of Agatha\u2019s lifelong ambitions had been to travel on the Orient Express. She made her first journey in 1928.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/c\/c2\/Hotel_Pera_Palace_-_Istanbul.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"464\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Photo by Steve Hopson, November, 2004.Room 411 at the Pera Palas hotel in Istanbul, Turkey, the room where Agatha Christie wrote Murder on the Orient Express. http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Hotel_Pera_Palace_-_Istanbul.jpg&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The atmosphere of the Middle East had an immense impact on Agatha, that can be seen in Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, Murder in Mesopotamia, Appointment With Death and They Came to Baghdad as well as in many of her short stories. One of her non-fiction books is Come Tell Me How you Live, which describes her archeological travels with her husband Max.<\/p>\n<p>After a hugely successful career and a very happy life Agatha died peacefully on 12 January 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Fancy a murder mystery evening? Visit www.invitation2events.co.uk to book a mystery evening or www.itmgames.co.uk to buy a downloadable mystery game to play at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agatha Christie, the queen of crime Born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller on 15 September 1890 in Torquay, Devon, South West England, in 1912 she met and married Archie Christie. They had a daughter, Rosalind, in 1919 but later divorced and Agatha married Max Mallowan, the world famous archaeologist. Their a marriage lasted forty-six years. &nbsp; &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=674\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Agatha Christie<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580,476,482,514],"tags":[590,339,595,583,584,554,472,473,596,589],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-murder-mystery-books","category-murder-mystery-games","category-murder-mystery-theatre","category-people","tag-little-grey-cells","tag-agatha-christie","tag-archie-christie","tag-crime-fiction","tag-crime-novels","tag-investigators","tag-invitation2events","tag-itm-games","tag-max-mallowan","tag-the-queen-of-crime"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Agatha Christie - City Adventurers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=674\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Agatha Christie - City Adventurers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Agatha Christie, the queen of crime Born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller on 15 September 1890 in Torquay, Devon, South West England, in 1912 she met and married Archie Christie. 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