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records and anniversaries, 307, 310–12, 322, 375
effect on book sales, 350
promoted, 360
sequel planned, 367
Moving Finger, The, 232, 234, 252
Murder Ahoy! (film), 336
Murder at Hazelmoor, 268
Murder at the Gallop (film adapted from After the Funeral), 335
Murder at the Vicarage, The, 176, 196, 199, 316
dramatised, 269, 271, 285, 321
Murder in Mesopotamia, 210, 316
Murder in the Mews (short stories), 211, 239
Murder Is Announced, A, 270, 285, 287, 323, 361
Murder Is Easy, 215, 229
Murder Most Foul (film adapted from Mrs McGinty’s Dead), 335–6
Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The, 120–2, 158, 161, 172, 175–6, 196, 257, 259, 262
see also Alibi
Murder on the Links, 83, 108, 217, 316
Murder on the Nile see Hidden
Horizon Murder on the Orient Express (in USA as Murder in the Calais Coach), 201, 206, 269, 317
1963 film proposed, 334
1974 film, 269, 374–5
Murder, She Said (film based on The 4.50 From Paddington), 328, 335
Mutual Network (USA), 260
Mysterious Affair at Styles, The, 78, 81–2, 101, 108, 125, 287, 377
book jacket, 125
Mysterious Mr Quin, The (short stories), 46, 175, 264
Mystery of the Blue Train, The, 163–5, 175, 234, 369
N or M?, 227–8, 232–4, 346
National Broadcasting Company (USA), 270
National Portrait Gallery, London, 347, 359
‘Neele, Theresa’, 149, 151, 163
Nemesis, 335, 366–8, 371
News Chronicle (newspaper), 122
News of the World (newspaper), 137
News Review, 264
New Statesman (journal), 140, 159–60, 314
New York, 102–3, 306–7
New York Drama Critics Circle, 300
New Yorker (magazine), 272
New Zealand, 99, 101
Nicoletis, Mrs (character), 302
Nicoletis, Mr, 302, 306
Nimrud, 269, 272, 273–81, 289, 292, 299, 305, 307, 311–12: Max writes on, 277, 295, 329, 336, 338, 341
Nineveh, 190, 200–1
No Fields of Amaranth see Verdict
Norman, Montagu, 99
North, the Hon. Mrs Dorothy, 217–8 223, 242, 266, 287, 298
North, the Hon. Susan, 217–8
Novel Magazine, 112
‘No. 14 Bardsley Gardens Mews’ (short story), 211
Nuri-es-Said, 279–80
‘Nursie’ (AC’s nanny), 10–12, 14, 22, 25, 29
Nye, Sir Stafford (character), 317
Ober, Harold: as AC’s US agent, 216, 223, 228–9, 231–2, 234–6, 253–4, 263, 265, 269–70, 284, 287, 295
and AC’s taxes, 267–8, 351
seeks typewriter for AC, 270
seeks camera for AC, 274
and AC’s plays, 298
and tax exemptions, 299
and AC’s visit to USA, 306–7
death, 312–3
Oberammergau Passion Play, 362
Olding, Miss Dorothy, 307–8, 313, 329, 343, 351, 364
Oliver, Ariadne (character), 211, 319–20, 327, 342
O’Neill, Daniel, 262
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (in USA as The Patriotic Murders), 224, 228, 318–9
‘Oracle at Delphi, The’ (short story), 207
Ordeal by Innocence, 107, 308–9
Orient Express (train), 169–71, 201–4
Osborne, Charles, xvi, 338
Osborne, Zachariah (character), 72
Osraan, Louis (‘Bumps’), 213–4
Pale Horse, The, 72, 230, 326–7
Palgrave, Major (character), 335
Panorama (BBC programme), 304
Paris-Match (magazine), 359
Parker Pyne Investigates (short stories), 206
Parker, Barbara see Mallowan, Barbara, Lady
Park-Lyle, Mr and Mrs, 43–4
Partners in Crime, 166–7, 341
Passenger to Frankfurt, 317, 362–6, 372
Paterson, James (designer of window),314
Patient, The (play), 327, 333
Pau (France), 24, 30
Pedler, Sir Eustace (character), 109
Pedrick, Gale, 304
Penguin Books, 217, 268, 287, 342
Pennefather, Canon (character), 240
Pennsylvania, University of, 306
Peril at End House, 200, 206
dramatised, 227, 232, 279
Persepolis, 333
Persia see Iran Personal Call (radio drama), 293
Peter (dog), 131, 142, 165, 192–3, 211
death, 223
Petra, 214
Petrie, Hilda, Lady, 173
‘Philomel Cottage’ (short story), 206
see also Love from A Stranger
Philpotts, Adelaide, 51
Philpotts, Eden, 51–3, 104, 112, 117
Pierce, Miss (character), 214
Pirie, Lilian, 24–5, 55
Pirie, Wilfred, 55–6, 94, 124
Platt, Phelps, 340–1
Pocket Full of Rye, A, 280, 295, 297
Poems (1973), 46, 371
Poirot Investigates (short stories), 108, 110–11
Poirot, Hercule (character): created, 77–8
in short stories, 108
Mountbatten suggests plot for, 120
‘psychic’ qualities, 159
on trains, 165
AC’s joke on, 167
D.L. Sayers on, 198
appearances, 201, 206, 208, 211, 221–2, 224, 229–30, 242, 260, 263, 302, 309, 311, 319, 342–3
AC’s antipathy towards, 207, 222, 230, 239–40, 270, 320
‘death’, 230–1, 375
dramatic portrayals of, 239, 296
character, 319–20
in films, 336–7
Belgian museum named for, 341
Poirot’s Early Cases (short stories), 373
Pollock, George, 337
Postern of Fate, 7, 371
Potts, Sally, 148
Power, Tyrone, 306
Prestley, Marguerite, 24
Prichard, Alexandra (AC’s great-grandchild), 358, 363
Prichard, Angela (née Maples Mathew’s wife), 345, 357–8, 368
Prichard, Hubert: marriage to Rosalind, 225, 248
in war, 231
son born, 243
killed, 250
Prichard, Mathew (AC’s grandson): born, 243
AC spends time with, 245–6, 248
bronchitis, 264
visits Greenway, 287, 301, 342
schooling, 301
portrayed by AC, 306
owns Mousetrap rights, 311
protects AC from photographers, 312
and Archie, 313
enthusiasm for Wagner, 327, 331
AC gives squash court to, 330
introduces John Wells, 332
cricket, 332
inheritance, 333
university and career, 341
marriage, 345
establishes Agatha Christie Trust for Children, 347
lives at Pwllywrach, 357–8
and AC’s broken hip, 368
Prichard, Norah (Hubert’s mother), 344
Prichard, Rosalind see Hicks, Rosalind
‘Promotion in the Highest’ (short story) 250
‘Punkie’ see Watts, Margaret Frary Pwllywrach (Glamorgan), 245–6, 254, 271, 338, 357
Pyne, Parker (character), 207, 211–2, 221, 319
Quin, Mr Haxley (character), 175–6, 319
RKO, 234
Race, Colonel (character), 211
Rafiel, Mr (character), 335, 366–7
Ralston-Patrick family, 44–5
Ramsey, Gordon: Agatha Christie, Mistress of Mystery, 340, 350
Rand Rebellion, 1922, 92–3
Rats, The (play
), 327, 330
Regatta Mystery, The (short stories), 221, 229
Reinheimer, Howard E., 223, 232–3, 235, 246, 267, 272, 351–2
Remembered Death, 249
Reminiscences of Mr Parker Pyne, The (short stories), 206–7
Reynolds, Quentin, 236
Rhodes (Greek island), 200
Rice, Craig, 259
Richard III, King, 344
Richards, Mr (witness of disappearance), 140
Richter, Hans, 47
Ridley, Arnold, 227
Rinehart & Co, Inc. (US publisher), 262–3, 287, 327
Rivière, François, 78
Road of Dreams, The (poems), 46, 75, 117
Robyns, Gwen: The Mystery of Agatha Christie, 156, 160
Rodgers, Michael (character), 344
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 228, 358
Rose and the Yew Tree, The (‘Mary Westmacott’), 262, 268, 372
Rose, John, 206, 213–5
Ross, Raymond, 148
Rowe, Jane (cook), 7, 11–12, 14, 29
Royal Magazine, 112
Rule of Three (trilogy of plays), 327, 333
Runciman, Sir Steven, 344
Rutherford, Margaret, 328, 335, 350
Sabatini, Rafael, 351–2
Sabratha (Tripolitania), 241, 247
Sad Cypress, 222, 224, 227, 321
Saltzman-Stephens, Minni, 47
‘Sanctuary’ (short story), 299
Santonix, Rudolf (character), 344
Satterthwaite (character), 208
Saturday Evening Post (magazine), 222, 232–3, 235
Saunders, Peter, 286–91, 294, 296–8, 303, 307, 309–11, 321, 327, 333, 360, 368
Sayers, Dorothy L., 195–9, 259, 261, 286, 292
at AC’s Savoy party, 209
on detective stories as moral tales, 324
In the Teeth of the Evidence, 318
Schofield, Reg, 151
Schofield, Mrs Reg, 148
Scoop, The (BBC serial), 195–8, 259, 317
Scotswood (flat at Sunningdale), 115, 123–5
Scudamore, Joan (character), 242
Secret Adversary, The, 83, 94, 108–9, 167
see also Abenteuer GmbH, Die Secret of Chimneys, The, 117–8, 166, 205, 211, 316
dramatisation, 291
Sellers, Peter, 332
Selwyn, Dorothy and Mary, 24
Seven Arts Films, 337
Seven Dials Mystery, The, 166–7, 211
Severn family, 270
Severn, Guy, 270
‘Shadow in Sunlight’, 335
see also Caribbean Mystery, A
Shalmaneser, Fort (Nimrud), 279
Sharp, Margery, 298
Shaw, George Bernard, 351, 354
Shebani (Monty’s servant), 105–6
Sheppard, Caroline (character), 176–7
Shubert, Lee, 254, 285, 294, 297–8, 321
death, 303
Sijé, Marie, 25, 31, 45
Simpson, Reginald, 227
Sim, Sheila, 294
Sinodun Players (amateur dramatic society), 369
‘Site’ see White, Miss
Sittaford Mystery, The, 49, 199
Sitwell, Edith: Bath, 240
Sketch, The (journal), 108, 163, 297
Skye, 187
Sleeping Murder (earlier, ‘Cover Her Face’), 159, 229–30, 369, 376
Smith, Sidney and Mary, 242, 252
Snowdon, Anthony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl, 374
Snow Upon the Desert, 51–2, 77
Society of Authors, 112
South Africa, 89–94
Southport Infirmary Children’s Toys Fund, 261
Sovereign Magazine, 49, 112
Sparkling Cyanide, 253, 321, 368
Sparrow, John, 344
Spence, Superintendent (character), 319
Spider’s Web (play), 297, 299–300
film, 328, 331
‘Star over Bethlehem’ (short story), 264
Star over Bethlehem, 337
‘Starring Hercule Poirot’ (US radio series), 207
Story-Teller, The (magazine), 112
Stout, Rex, 224
Strand (magazine), 224
‘Stuff of Dreams, The,’ (early story), 159
Styles (house at Sunningdale), 124–5, 128
Sullivan, Danae, 242, 248, 250
Sullivan, Larry, 239–40, 242, 250–1
Sunday Dispatch (newspaper), 294
Sunday Times (newspaper), 222, 300, 339, 358, 374
Sunningdale, 115, 119, 123, 144
see also Scotswood
Styles
Switzerland, 197
Syria, 208–10, 213–4
Taken at the Flood (in USA as There Is a Tide), 229, 263
Tappin, Bob and Mrs, 151
Tasmania, 94–6
Taylor, Mr and Mrs (Harrogate hoteliers), 146–7, 151
Taylor, Mrs (Monty’s housekeeper), 174
Tell Brak (Syria), 213, 215
Ten Little Indians (film), 328, 337
Ten Little Niggers (in USA as And Then There Were None), 220, 224, 229, 285, 323
dramatised, 227, 239–42, 245–6, 251, 267, 269, 271, 321
performed at Buchenwald, 266
TV production, 272
see also And Then There Were None (film)
They Came to Baghdad, 283, 289, 292, 309
They Do It with Mirrors (in USA as Murder with Mirrors), 107, 286, 289–91, 319, 346, 366
‘Third Floor Flat, The’ (short story), 342
Third Girl, 316, 342, 369
Thirteen for Luck, 324
Thirteen Problems, The 200
This Is Your Life (TV programme), 358
This Mortal Coil (play), 367–8
This Week (magazine), 260
Thompson, Mrs (housekeeper), 371
Thompson, Campbell, 190, 200–1, 210
Thorndike, Dame Sybil, 332, 361
Three Act Tragedy, 208, 239
Three Blind Mice (radio play), 262, 264, 299, 311
collection, 270
see also Mousetrap, The
Threlfall, Ian, 213
Tichborne, Sir Charles Doughty, 113
Tierney, Gene, 329
Tilling, Humphrey, 296, 298
Time (magazine), 371
Times, The (newspaper), 122, 141
Toronto Star (newspaper), 263
Torquay, 1, 7,12, 38
Towards Zero, 234–5, 248, 253, 321
dramatisation, 250, 254, 256, 285, 288, 294, 296, 303
Toy, Barbara, 269, 271, 298, 321
Treacle (dog), 330, 365, 376
‘Triangle at Rhodes’ (short story), 239
Trotter, Mr (music teacher), 21
Twentieth Century Fox (film company), 234, 253
Üder, Fräulein (music teacher), 21
Underdog, The, 286
Unexpected Guest, The (play), 310, 331
Unfinished Portrait (‘Mary Westmacott’), 30, 41–2, 54–5, 57, 65, 82, 119, 159, 207, 372, 305
United States of America, 306–7, 343–4, 346
Ur, 171–2, 178, 184, 190–1, 199, 273
Vanity Fair (magazine), 48
Vassall, William, 334
Verdict (play formerly No Fields of Amaranth), 309–10, 324
Verner, Gerald, 288
‘Vision’ (short story), 52, 108, 111, 113
Wagner, Richard, 327, 362
Wagner, Friedelinde, 362
Wallace, Edgar, 145, 157
Wallingford (Oxfordshire), 209, 211, 216, 218, 236, 242, 330, 368
Walpole, Hugh, 195
Warner Brothers (film company), 230
Watts, Annie (née Browne James’s mother), 35–6
Watts, Humphrey (James’s brother), 37
Watts, Jack (Madge’s son), 36–7, 57, 168, 256, 263, 332
Watts, Sir James (James’s grandfather), 35
Watts, James (father of following), 36
Watts, James (Madge’s husband):
marriage, 26–7
at Cheadle, 34, 36
and Rosalind, 93
suggestions for Roger Ackroyd, 120–1
and AC’s disappearance, 147
and Max’s proposal to AC, 185
at AC’s Savoy party, 298
arranges AC interview, 359
Watts, Lionel (James’s brother), 37
Watts, Margaret Frary (Madge née Miller AC’s sister ‘Punkie’): disguises and pranks, 1, 8–9, 37
spelling, 5
born, 6
schooling, 8, 18
relations with AC as child, 8–10, 14, 20, 23, 30
character, 8–9, 27
portrait of, 10
early reading, 18–19: visit to USA, 20
marriage, 26
father’s death, 33
at Cheadle, 34, 36
trust income, 34
theatre and opera going, 44, 47
stories published, 48, 75
and AC’s marriage to Archie, 68
and AC’s first detective story, 77
and AC’s Empire Tour, 88–9, 92, 94, 97: play (The Claimant), 95–6, 113–5
Corsica holiday with AC, 125
and mother’s death, 126, 128
and AC’s disappearance, 147, 148, 162
takes AC to Marple Hall, 176
and Max’s proposal to AC, 185–6
in World War II, 243
infrequent visits to London, 256
and politics, 263
death, 287
Watts, Nan see Kon, Nan Waugh, Evelyn, 183
Webster, Martyn, 304
Weekly Times, 82–3
Weissenberg, Alexis, 332
Wells, John, 332
Wentworth (golf course), 123–4
Westholme, Lady (character), 214
‘Westmacott, Mary’ (pseud., i.e Agatha Christie), 167, 207, 250, 262–3, 283–4, 286, 291–2, 304, 324, 327, 358, 378
see also individual book titles
Westminster Gazette, 140
Wheeler, Sir Mortimer, 284, 344
Whitburn, Archie, 179, 210, 255
White, Miss (‘Site’ Rosalind’s nurse), 107–8
White, Wilfrid Hyde see Hyde White, Wilfrid
Whiteley, Albert, 148
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?, 206
Wilbraham, Miss, 214
Willett, Basil (John Lane’s colleague), 110–11, 113
Williams, Charles, 220, 236
Wilson, Edmund, 257–8
Wilson, Dr Henry, 148
Winn, Godfrey, 365
Winterbrook House see Wallingford
‘Witness for the Prosecution’ (short story), 267, 272, 299
dramatisation, 292, 296–8, 300, 303, 321
collection, 268
film, 306–7
earnings, 354
Wodehouse, P.G., 352–3
Woman’s Journal (magazine), 290