About the Author: Agatha Christie: Additional Trivia and Quotes

TRIVIA

. At one point Agatha was the owner of eight properties

. Whether intentionally or otherwise, the crimes detailed in Agatha's novels have been replicated in real life. For example, in West Germany 1981 there was a case startlingly similar to 'Murder on the Orient Express.' An attempted murder also appeared similar to the events of 'Pale Horse'. A particularly gruesome in North Carolina in 1979 appeared quite similar to 'Sleeping Murder'

. The Guinness Book of World Records lists Agatha as the best selling author of all time

. 'The Mouse Trap' is the longest running play in history

. Her favourite colour was green

. There is a rose named after her

. She was a teetotaller and a non-smoker

. Her favourite composers were Elgar, Sibelius and Wagner

. The Mary Westmacott pseudonym remain secret for nearly 20 years

. In 1972, a year after being made a Dame, she was further honoured by being immortalised in wax at Madam Tussauds

. She was an expert photographer thanks to years of experience at archeological sites

QUOTES

. 'But surely, for everything you love you have to pay some price'

. 'Time is the best killer'

. 'Fear is incomplete knowledge'

. "Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
  "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it."

. 'I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing'

. ' The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curios and beautiful to seekers after it'

. 'The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances'

. 'The sky is blue, the sun is shinning, and you forget that everywhere there is evil under the sun'

. "The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes

. 'I successfully chloroformed a hedgehog that was entangled in the tennis net and so managed to release it