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    19 plays and 6 romantic novels under the name of an exceptionally well-known character of Mary Westmacott. Moreover, many of her books have been translated into 103 different foreign languages. She has written many great novels like ‘The murder of Roger Ackroyd’, ‘The mysterious affairs at styles’, ‘Endless night’ and ‘And then there were none’, these novels are regarded as the masterpiece of Agatha Christie. Not only her novels were a piece of a paper book but they also turned into famous and…

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    In Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackord, various philosophical themes are present throughout the novel. One theme in particular, reality vs. appearance, plays a vital role in expressing the novel’s main plot line. Reality and appearance or reality vs. appearance addresses how “things might not always be what they seem” and that it is easy to judge things initially based on their first appearance, when in actuality they might be the complete opposite of what we had initially perceived…

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    Agatha Christie was famous for many books and plays that she wrote. Some of Christie’s more famous ones include A Ticket to the Boneyard, Maigret at the Crossroads, L.A. Confidential, and The Murders in the Rue Morgue. One quality all of those books listed have in common is that they are all murder mysteries, the stories she was most famous for. Characters that everyone knew and loved in that generation were Miss M, and Poiret (How Christie Wrote). Other stories and plays she wrote were…

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    Doctor Who, many of Christie's works are mentioned, and many book covers are even seen. One of the most famous novels that is noted is The Murder on Orient Express. This is a mystery novel by Christie that has recently been turned into a box office hit. Similarly, the episode also features one of the characters reading Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. This novel is quite well known. In the episode, the dinner hostess is Another way that the episode incorporates Christie’s real life, is…

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    The film version of Ten Little Niggers (1945, US title: And Then There Were None) by the French director René Clair, starring Walter Huston and Barry Fitzgerald, is one of the most faithful Christie adaptations. In addition to these mysteries, Christie wrote her autobiography (1977), and several plays, including THE MOUSETRAP, which run more than 30 years continuously in London, and had 8 862 performances at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. The play was based on the short story 'Three Blind…

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