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The Life and Death of Agatha Christie
The best-selling novelist of all time, crime-writer and creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, Agatha Christie, died in January 1976. Her only grandson remembers her life.
In January 1976, the best-selling novelist of all time, the Queen of Crime, creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, Agatha Christie died peacefully, aged eighty-five. Her grandson, Mathew Prichard, remembers her life.
(Photograph: Agatha Christie with her only grandchild, Mathew Prichard, in the 1950s at London airport. Credit: Keystone/Getty Images.)
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