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Canada 131, 136
Cards on the Table (Christie) 53–4, 361
Caribbean Mystery, A (Christie) 367
Cat Among the Pigeons (Christie) 41, 85, 124
Certain Justice, A (James) 391
Chabrol, Claude 392
Chaffins (H. B.) 39, 81
Chagar Bazar 313–14
Chandler, Raymond 382–3, 390
Charlotte (nurse) 50
Cheyney, Peter 429, 433
children: importance of home environment 11–12; AC’s attitude to 122–7, see also youth
‘Choice, A’ (Christie) 305*
Christie, Agatha: birth 8; and Ashfield 1–2, 4–7, 39–41, 170–73, 308–9; and Greenway 7–8, 309–12, 321, 423–5, 441–2, 482; relationship with mother 8–9, 11–12, 28, 35–6, 57, 58–9, 139–40, 162–3, 168; relationship with Madge 43, 45–6, 48, 102, 131, 161–2, 166; admiration for father 14–15; education 18–20, 59; religious faith 20, 41, 274, 295, 405; security of childhood environment 20–23; attitude towards servants 21–3, 424; influence of women 23–6; attitude towards womens’ role 26–7, 83–7; mementoes 28–32; Album of Confessions entries 31–2, 43, 60, 77, 411, 472; ‘Gun Man’ nightmare 32; trips to France 34–5, 56, 59–61; death of father 33, 36; relationship with Monty 50, 5141, 55–6; belief in essential character 53–4; appearance 56, 64–5, 160, 164, 180–81, 196, 297, 328, 364–5; relationship with Nan Kon 56, 161, 449, 482; social life (youth) 56–7, 64–8; first flirtations 60, 65–7, 68; music and singing 60–63; trip to Egypt 67–8; other marriage proposals 74–80, 367; attitude towards the supernatural 78; World War One 91–102; nursing 93–5; dispensary work 102–4, 343, 350; relationship with Rosalind 120–21, 122–3, 126–7, 129, 139, 158–9, 267–9, 336–9, 434–42; attitude towards children and motherhood 122–7; letters to mother 139–40, 141–2; finances (for earnings and tax problems see under writing below) 140, 269, 4972 ; flirtation with Frick Bell 142; snobbishness 144–6, 312, 385–6; xenophobia and racism 145, 386–8; importance placed upon money 150–52, 166; and mother’s deteriorating health 166–8; and mother’s death 168–73; first trip to Iraq 272–6; visits to psychiatrist 272–3; health 138, 284, 298, 343, 440, 463–4, 474–5, 482; attention from other men 292–3; sexuality 302; Winterbrook House 309, 424; World War Two 316, 320–21, 343–4; fascination with Shakespeare 321–3; friendship with Stephen Glanville 330–36; and Rosalind’s marriage to Hubert Prichard 340; and grandson Mathew 340–41, 343, 345, 435–6; and Hubert’s death 349–50; dogs 364, 475; support for death penalty 395; attitude towards suicide 404–5; mistrust of youth 467–9; letters to Rosalind 419, 441, 474–5; visits to America 464—5; love of horse racing 515’°; charitable donations 427; will 434; growing sense of the past 477–9, 482; death 484; burial 484; memorial service 481
and Archie Christie (first husband):
meeting and courtship 72—4; engagement 81–3, 88–96; attraction to Archie 88–91; Archie’s war service 91–3; wedding 96–7; Archie’s flying 98–9; Archie’s leave 108–9; wartime letters 100; finances 80–81, 111, 115, 165; married life in london' 111–15, 134; sex life 302; pregnancy 114, 116–18; birth of daughter Rosalind 118; deteriorating relationship 127–8, 147–9, 153–4, 159–61, 162–4, 166, 175, 178–83; Sunningdale 154–5, 158, 163–4; Styles (house) 158, 164–5; motive for disappearance (see also Christie, Archie; disappearance below) 220, 223; Empire Tour 131–43; holidays together 136, 140–41, 160, 166, 183; idea to have another child 158; Archie’s relationship with Nancy Neele 173–81, 184; separation 174–82, 256, 263; enduring love for Archie 181–2, 410–11; attempted reconciliation 182–4; last meeting 263; divorce 263, 265, 267; letter of condolence on Nancy’s death 264, 411–12; Archie’s death 412 disappearance 186–258, 437–8; letter to Archie 232; letter to Campbell Christie 194, 203, 204, 220, 223, 226; letter to Charlotte Fisher 232, 235, 254; Newlands Corner 190–94, 224–5, 234, 248–50; assisted in starting car 192–3, 225; abandons car 193–4, 224–6; leaves ring at Harrods 194, 244, 252; Harrogate 195–217, 227, 236–40; assumed name 241, 243–4; advertisement in The Times 206, 251, 252; police investigation 201, 221–4, 228, 232–6, 241, 244–5, 254–5; press coverage see press coverage; reported sightings 226–7; identity suspected 236–7; discovered 214–18, 236–7; aftermath 253–6; Daily Mail interview 186, 255, 258, 272–3; motives 220–21, 223; amnesia theory 215–16, 240, 242–3, 251–3, 402–3; deliberate intent theory 243, 246–51; murder theory 223, 227–31, 232–3, 254–5; suicide theory 190–92, 207, 210–11, 225–6, 229, 404–5; references in AC’s writing 402–5 and Max Mallowan (second husband): meets Max 284–5; with Max in Iraq 284–8, 291, 301–2, 414–22, 442, 445–7; relationship with Max 288, 293–8, 327, 413–14, 454–7; Max proposes 292, 293; engagement 293–8; wedding 295; food poisoning 298–9; miscarriage 302; wartime correspondence 10, 309–10, 319–31, 334–5, 340–41, 343–5, 349–51; other letters to Max 291–2, 293–4, 299–301, 302–3; with Max in Syria 313–16; relationship with Marguerite Mallowan 326–7; support for British School of Archaeology 417; relationship with Barbara Parker 447;. and Max’s relationship with Barbara Parker 450, 454–6; last visit to the East 464; European travel with Max 465
writing 356–408; early writings 41–2, 63–4, 67–71; first appearance in print 41–2; and Madge’s writing 43, 46, 47, 48, 102; idea to write detective fiction 102–4; compulsion to write 260–61, 307, 365–6; gift 400—402; realisation as artist 259–61; style 399–400; fidelity to genre 373–7; influence of real-life murder cases 266–7, 279–80, 356, 377–81; titles and names 372–3; characterisations 392, 398–9; Poirot character 105–7, 282, 372, 374, 431, 480–81; Miss Marple character 278, 281–4; Ariadne Oliver character 363; plays 357–8, 359–60, 458–61, 473–4; films of works 357, 429–33, 438–9, 475–6; fame 356–7, 360–65; hatred of publicity 362–7, 420–21; awarded CBE 382; earnings 150, 152, 277, 345–6, 348, 358, 426, 429, 430, 436–7; tax problems 345–8, 358–9, 425–9, 433–4; as limited company 427–9, 434, 436–7; American serialisations 462; criticisms of work 382–8, 390, 392, 458–62, 473–1; retaliates against agents and publishers 462–3; copyrights 427, 429, 434; made Dame 312, 473; list of works 489–92; for individual works see individual headings
themes and devices: violence and anarchy 3—4, 468–9; children and youth 11–12, 123–6, 467–9; servants 21–3; human nature 53–4, 104, 130, 388–93, 396–8, 471; victim’s character determines fate 69; doctors 103; plots and ideas 104, 261, 367–72, 373, 479; money 151; narrator as murderer 155; villages 278–9, 280–81; motives for murder 279–80, 377–80, 396–7; psychological aftermath of war 351–5; contemporary issues 388–9; moral ambiguity 393–6; absolute values 405–7
Christie, Archie (first husband of AC): meets and courts AC 72–4; flying 72–3, 98–9, 100; engagement to AC 81–3, 88–96; finances 80–81, 115, 153, 265; character 82–3, 148–9; letters to AC 91, 97, 98, 100; war service 92, 97, 100–101; wedding to AC 96–7; love for AC 98; health 100, 112, 141, 142, 160, 265; in AC’s writing (see also Giant’s Bread; Unfinished Portrait) 101–2, 108*, 132–4, 286, 409–12; war leave 108–9; married life in London 111–15, 134; career in the City 115, 153, 264; sex life with AC 302; and AC’s pregnancy 116–17; relationship with Rosalind 120, 122, 267, 412; and AC’s writing 127, 128, 153; deteriorating relationship with AC 127–8, 147–9, 153–4, 159–61, 162–4, 166, 175, 178–83; Empire Tour 131–7, 141–3; holidays with AC 136, 140–41, 160, 166, 183; relationship with mother-in-law 140–41, 162–3; difficulty finding work 148; golf 153–4, 160–61; move to Simningdale 154–5; relationship with own mother 162–3; reaction to Clara’s death 169–70; relationship with Nancy Neele 172–81, 184, 253–4; separation from AC 174–82, 256, 263; attempted reconciliation 182–4; AC’s letter to before disappearance 232; press interviews during AC’s disappearance 207, 227–33; suspected of AC’s murder 223, 227–31, 232–3, 255; AC’s discovery in Harrogate 214–18, 238; press interviews after AC’s discovery 215–16, 240, 242–3; belief in AC’s intention
al disappearance 246; aftermath of AC’s disappearance 253–4; last meeting with AC 263; divorce from AC 263, 265, 267; marriage to _ Nancy 263, 264–5; and Nancy’s death 264, 411–12; death 412
Christie, Campbell (brother-in-law of AC) 82, 149, 263, 358; AC’s letter to 194, 203, 204, 220, 223, 226
Christie Copyrights Trust 427, 434
Christie, Dorothy (wife of Campbell) 358
Christie, Ellen (Archie’s mother) see Hemsley
Christie, Nancy (second wife of Archie) see Neele
Christie, Rosalind (daughter of AC) see Hicks
Christie Settlement Trust 427
Claimant, The (Watts) 46–9, 161–2
Clair, René 357
Clifford, Lord and Lady 73
Collins (publishers) 152, 277, 348, 352, 360
Collins, Sir William 481
Come, Tell Me How You Live (Christie) 314, 315, 325, 344
‘Coming of Mr Quin, The’ (Christie) 277
Corbett, Miss (Hydro entertainer) 201, 206, 209, 239
Core, Donald 242
Cork, Edmund 150, 152, 362, 386–7, 397, 51631 ; and AC’s tax affairs 346–8, 358, 359, 425, 426–9, 433–4, 436–7; and AC’s plays 357–8, 458, 460, 473; handles Max Mallowan’s book 414–15; and AC’s support of British School of Archaeology 417; runs AC’s life 422, 424–5; and films of AC’s books 429–30, 432; and AC’s American trip 464—5; see also Hughes Massie agency
Cox, Mrs (Bravo case) 379–80
Crippen, Cora 378
Crippen, Hawley Harvey 378–9, 380
Crooked House (Christie) 49, 123, 124, 371, 380–81
Cross, Ernest 225, 250
Crowe, Una 212, 213, 234, 245
Croydon murder case 266–7, 279–80, 356, 379, 380
Cuckoo (nanny) 129, 148
Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case (Christie) 84, 322, 344, 367, 370–71, 461, 462, 480–81
‘D.’ (companion of Max Mallowan) 451–3, 464
Daily Chronicle (newspaper) 227
Daily Express (newspaper): AC’s
disappearance 227, 228, 230, 233, 234, 236; after AC’s discovery 239—40, 241–2
Daily Mail (newspaper): AC’s disappearance 199, 201, 205, 207–8, 213, 228–9, 231–2, 235–6; after AC’s discovery 238–9, 241, 243—4, 437; AC’s interview with 186, 255, 258, 272–3
Daily News (newspaper) 233, 235, 240
Daily Sketch (newspaper) 219–20, 226, 233, 234, 235, 241, 243
Daniels, Mr (reported sighting of AC) 227
Daughter’s a Daughter, A (Westmacott) 26, 75, 125, 272, 339, 360, 366
Day-Lewis, Cecil 370
de Silva, Mrs (neighbour) 188, 201–2, 250
Dead Man’s Folly (Christie) 84, 311, 519, 31
Dean, Basil 47, 162
Death in the Clouds (Christie) 299, 314–15, 386
Death Comes as the End (Christie) 27–8, 126, 331–2, 344
Death on the Nile (Christie) 79*, 210*, 317, 372, 394–5, 397; play (Hidden Horizon) 334, 344, 349, 351, 357; film 50416
Destination Unknown (Christie) 191, 293, 402–3, 405, 461, 462, 468
Dibdin, Michael 383—4
Dietrich, Marlene 358 ‘Disappearance of Mr Davenheim, The’ (Christie) 49821
Dodd Mead (publishers) 277, 348, 463, 464
Dore, Frederick 224–5 ‘Dressmaker’s Doll, The’ (Christie) 462
Duff family (Croydon murders) 266–7, 279–80, 356, 379, 380
Dumb Witness (Christie) 26, 53, 124–5, 308, 372
Duvivier, Marguerite (married name Mallowan) 289, 326–7
Duvivier, Marthe 289
‘Edge, The’ (Christie) 211*
Egypt 67–8, 331–2
Elephants Can Remember (Christie) 472
Eliot, T. S. 400
Elizabeth II, Queen 482
Endless Night (Christie) 7, 53, 311, 400, 466–7; film 476
Evening News (newspaper) 150, 228
Evening Standard (newspaper) 238
Evil Under the Sun (Christie) 69, 83, 344, 392–3
Fiddler’s Five (renamed Fiddler’s Three, Christie) 473–4, 477
films of AC’s works 357, 429–33, 438–9, 475–6, see also individual films
Finney, Albert 50416
Fisher, Charlotte (‘Carlo’) 165, 182–3, 295, 336, 343, 427, 50824 ; father’s illness 172, 174; and AC’s disappearance 196, 216–17, 230–31, 232, 235, 236, 251, 254; death 472
Fisher, Mary 216–17, 231, 295, 51124
Five Little Pigs (Christie) 85, 122, 123, 156, 210*, 311, 318–19, 324, 330, 344, 391; play (Go Back for Murder) 360, 458; television 406
Fleming, Ian 434
Fletcher, Bolton 75–6
4.50 from Paddington (Christie) 22, 101–2, 151, 157, 51630 ; film (.Murder, She Said) 430
Fowles, John 258
Fox, Madge (married name James) 166, 175–6, 184, 253
France 34–5, 56, 59–61, 336–7
Furster, Charles 60–61
Gardner, Graham 448–9, 450–51
Gardner, Judith (née Kon) 177, 247, 250–51, 438, 448–9, 450–51
Geoffrey Bles (publishers) 152
Giant’s Bread (Westmacott) 5–6, 7, 8; music and singing 62–3; World War One 95–6; Archie Christie 98, 99–100, 261–2; examination of
anti-Semitism 145, 387; primacy of art 259–60
Gielgud, John 5184
Glanville, Ethel 330, 334
Glanville, Lucia 335
Glanville, Stephen 319, 321, 330–36
Goddard, Superintendent 222
Gowler, Mr and Mrs (Greenway staff) 424
Graves, Robert 322, 382, 50519
‘Greenshaw’s Folly’ (Christie) 427
Greenway House 7–8, 29–31, 309–12, 321, 423–5, 441–2, 482
Griffiths, Arthur 73, 195
Gully, Dr 379, 380
Guyer, Miss (schoolmistress) 19, 56
Hallowe’en Party (Christie) 66, 85, 123, 124, 311, 368, 370, 467–8
Hamilton, Robert 446
‘Harlequin’s Lane’ (Christie) 190, 211
Harold Ober agency 346–8, 415, 461–2, 464–5
Harrogate 195–217, 227, 236–40
Harrogate Herald (newspaper) 227
Harrogate Hydro (hotel) 195–217, 227, 236–40
Hart, Ann 52221
Hemsley, Ellen (formerly Christie, ‘Peg’) 82, 96, 149, 162–3; and AC’s disappearance 205, 208, 235
Hemsley, William 82
‘Henry’s Engagement’ (Miller) 15
Hibberd, Captain 75
Hickory Dickory Dock (Christie) 371, 372, 386, 427
Hicks, Anthony 265, 422–3, 425, 428–9, 443, 5126
Hicks, Rosalind (née Christie, formerly Prichard) 336–43; birth 118; character 120; appearance 120, 338; nannies 148, 165; relationship with AC 120–21, 122–3, 126–7, 129, 139, 158–9, 267–9, 336–9, 434–42; relationship with father 120, 122, 134, 267, 412; and grandmother Clara 36, 163, 169; education 163, 165, 336; and father’s relationship with Nancy Neele 176, 265; and AC’s disappearance 247, 251, 258 , 437–8 , 5028 ; and parents’ divorce 267; pneumonia 288; letters to AC 336–7, 338, 423; lodges in Europe 336–8; and Max Mallowan 337–8, 341–3, 443; débutante season 338; administrative job during war 340; marriage to Hubert Prichard 340—11; and son Mathew 340—41, 345, 436; and Hubert’s death 349, 350; marriage to Anthony Hicks 422–3; runs Greenway 423–5, 441–2; AC’s trustee 428–9, 436–7; and AC’s writing 434—5, 438; and adaptations of AC’s books 358, 427, 438–9, 50416 ; and Postern of Pate tapes 4916 ; and tape of Snowdon interview 49637 ; antipathy towards Barbara Parker 453; claims AC’s personal possessions after Max’s death 453—4
Hickson, Joan 407, 50014
Hidden Horizon (Christie) 334, 344, 349, 351, 357
Hollow, The (Christie) 349; Ashfield 6, 172; politics 23, 151; Archie Christie 108*; art and creativity 260, 307; Stephen Glanville 335–6; play 357, 360; alternative titles 372; antiSemitism 387
Houellebec
q, Michel 51441
‘House of Beauty, The’ (Christie) 45–6, 63, 78, 153, 49513 Howard, Esme 290
Hughes Massie agency 69–70, 149–50, 359, 461, see also Cork, Edmund
Huxley sisters 57, 61
Iraq 272–6, 284–8, 301–2, 414–22, 442, 445–8, 449–50
J’Accuse (television programme) 383
Jackson, Geoffrey 405
James, Madge (née Fox) 166, 175–6, 184, 253
James, P. D. 257, 279, 375, 384–5, 391, 396, 402
James, Sam 166, 176, 233, 253
‘Jane in Search of a Job’ (Christie) 151
‘Jenkins Gives a Dinner’ (Miller) 386
Jolly, Mrs (typist) 49I6
Joynson-Hicks, Sir William 245
Kafka, Franz 484
Keating, H. R. F. 383
Keeling, Colonel 285
Keeling, Katherine see Woolley
Kenward, Superintendent 201, 221—1, 232, 233, 235–6, 254–5
Kenyon, Kathleen 416
Kipling, Rudyard 17
Kirwan, Stella 464
Kitching, Mrs (reported sighting of AC) 226
Kokoschka, Oscar 5078 Kon, George 161, 301
Kon, Judith see Gardner
Kon, Nan (née Watts, formerly Pollock) 112, 301; relationship with AC 56, 161, 449, 482; and failure of AC’s marriage to Archie 177, 182–3; and AC’s disappearance 247–8, 250–51; death 438, 482
Labour Party 352–3
Labours of Hercules, The (Christie) 20, 85, 380
Lane, Sir Allen 321, 365, 496,
Lane, John 112, 119–20, 128, 149, 152
Lane, Lettice 321
Laughton, Charles 277, 358
Laurin family 336–7
Lavin, Frank 423—4
Layard, Sir Henry 415
le Neve, Ethel 378, 380
Leeming, Bob 236
Levin, Bernard 382
Listerdale Mystery, The (Christie) 153, 303
Lockwood, Margaret 473, 515,2 Lord Eigware Dies (Christie) 297–8, 302, 303, 386, 387
‘Love Passes’ (Christie) 174–5
Love from a Stranger (film) S0014
Lucy girls 57, 58
Lucy, Reginald 79–80, 367
Luland, Alfred 225, 234
McAllister, Edward 225, 250