It’s been fifty years since Agatha Christie died (of natural causes) at the age of 85 but the passage of time has only increased the public’s appetite for the Queen of Crime. She is officially the best-selling fiction author in the world, having sold around 2 billion copies of her books, and continues to inspire endless screen adaptations, biographies, biopics, podcasts and of course homages (“Murder, She Wrote,” “Only Murders in the Building” and “Knives Out” all invoke Christie to varying degrees.)
\n\nThe author is also the subject of a major new exhibition at the British Library in London, which opens this month. “Agatha Christie: A World of Mystery” will give visitors a glimpse into Christie’s fertile mind, with items such as notebooks, manuscripts, photographs, letters and even her typewriter on display.
\n\n“She’s such a consummate storyteller and I think that’s why she has such enduring appeal,” says Suzanne Mackie, CEO of Orchid Pictures, which recently produced “Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials” for Netflix. Starring Mia McKenna-Bruce, the three-part series dropped in January, joining an extensive library of Christie content on the streamer, which includes six seasons of Geraldine McEwan’s “Marple” show, which debuted in 2004, 13 seasons of 1990s series…
Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/