[108] Death Comes as the End will be the next BBC adaptation. Christie's British literary agent later wrote to her US representative, authorising American publishers to "omit the word 'Jew' when it refers to an unpleasant character in future books. Boehmer died in Jersey in 1863,[b] leaving his widow to raise Clara and her brothers on a meagre income. Her biographer Janet Morgan has commented that, despite "infelicities of style", the story was "compelling". [8] Rosalind also received 36% of Agatha Christie Limited and the copyrights to Christies play A Daughters a Daughter. She wrote about, and for, people like herself. Fred was born in New York City and travelled extensively after leaving his Swiss boarding school. [30]:373 She was buried in the nearby churchyard of St Mary's, Cholsey, in a plot she had chosen with her husband 10 years previously. [30]:47,7476 Christie said, "Miss Marple was not in any way a picture of my grandmother; she was far more fussy and spinsterish than my grandmother ever was," but her autobiography establishes a firm connection between the fictional character and Christie's step-grandmother Margaret Miller ("Auntie-Grannie")[i] and her "Ealing cronies". It never came up to expectations, but one morning she came up on the set and said, 'I have to tell you, I think my mother would have been very proud.'". There, she was found by the police ten days later and never spoke to Rosalind about the incident. [97] In 2014, RLJ Entertainment Inc. (RLJE) acquired Acorn Media UK, renamed it Acorn Media Enterprises, and incorporated it as the RLJE UK development arm. [180], In 2016, the Royal Mail marked the centenary of Christie's first detective story by issuing six first class postage stamps of her works: The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express, And Then There Were None, The Body in the Library, and A Murder is Announced. [133], In 2023, the Telegraph reported that several Agatha Christie novels have been edited to remove potentially offensive language, including insults and references to ethnicity. [170][171] Christie is one of the most-borrowed authors in UK libraries. During both World Wars, she served in hospital dispensaries, acquiring a thorough knowledge of the poisons that featured in many of her novels, short stories, and plays. Madge married the year after their father's death and moved to Cheadle, Cheshire; Monty was overseas, serving in a British regiment. Rosalind Margaret Clarissa Christie was born on 5 August 1919 in her grandmother's home, Ashfield, Torquay. [74][75], In 1946, Christie said of herself: "My chief dislikes are crowds, loud noises, gramophones and cinemas. [14]:16872 In August 1926, reports appeared in the press that Christie had gone to a village near Biarritz to recuperate from a "breakdown" caused by "overwork". [14]:29596[59] Their marriage lasted until Christie's death in 1976. Christie's stage play The Mousetrap holds the world record for the longest initial run. [123]:38, According to crime writer P. D. James, Christie was prone to making the unlikeliest character the guilty party. [4]:242,251,288, In the 1950s, "the theatre engaged much of Agatha's attention. [4]:25[5] Their first child, Margaret Frary ("Madge"), was born in Torquay in 1879. The film Agatha and the Truth of Murder (2018) sends her under cover to solve the murder of Florence Nightingale's goddaughter, Florence Nightingale Shore. [186], The television adaptation Agatha Christie's Poirot (19892013), with David Suchet in the title role, ran for 70 episodes over 13 series. "[14]:386, In The Hollow, published in 1946, one of the characters is described by another as "a Whitechapel Jewess with dyed hair and a voice like a corncrake a small woman with a thick nose, henna red and a disagreeable voice".