Rowling, Agatha Christie or Dan Brown is to point to the sales figures,” he said. “I think the only response that one can make to criticism of a great writer whether it’s Enid Blyton, J.K.
Tony Medawar, organizer of the International Agatha Christie Festival. I’ve met people from all around the world who were taught English and learned English by reading Agatha Christie.” Medawar has little time for critics who disparage her prose. “Also, she writes in an incredibly accessible way. “People still enjoy the way Christie winds the clues in and out of the narrative and plays tricks on the reader, which work on screen stage and on paper,” Medawar said. Tony Medawar, organizer of the annual International Agatha Christie Festival (online this year due to the pandemic), said Christie’s enduring appeal isn’t hard to fathom. Her novels, most of which feature the eccentric detective Hercule Poirot or the amateur and elderly Miss Marple, have done even better with total sales in the billions and with more than 7,000 translations of her work. “The Mousetrap” ran in London for 67 years until COVID-19 interrupted it earlier this year. If I was writing a book, it would not be a person like me that had written a play that had run for 10 years.” “It’s not the sort of thing that would happen to me. “Sometimes I can hardly believe it’s me,” she stammered. The Queen of Crime who shot, stabbed, poisoned, strangled and electrocuted her fictional victims was shy, unassuming and sweet natured - and apparently mystified by her theatrical success. “I never have been any good at making speeches.” “This is awful!” Christie declared, clearly writhing with embarrassment. If she were alive today, Agatha would probably be horrified. The writer hated being the center of attention, as she proved in a sound recording of a dinner held in her honor in 1962 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of “The Mousetrap.” Greenway House, a sprawling Georgian mansion on a steep, wooded hillside overlooking the River Dart, is now owned and run by the National Trust, a charity that looks after places of natural beauty and of historic and cultural interest. Apart from buying her books - and they bought more than 2 million of them in the English-speaking world last year - the most devoted fans pay homage to their heroine by making the trek to the southwestern county of Devon to visit what was the writer’s rural retreat for the last 38 years of her life.
(Courtesy National Trust)Īgatha Christie fans shrug off such criticism. All this from the pen of a writer whose style is dismissed by some literary critics as “wooden” and “formulaic,” and whose lasting appeal is belittled by some as “truly mysterious.” Agatha Christie’s holiday home.
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Her murder mystery play “The Mousetrap” holds the record for the longest-running stage production in the world, and the feature films and TV adaptations of her work continue to multiply. A century after her first novel “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” appeared in print, the Agatha Christie industry is still going strong.Īccording to the Guinness Book of World Records, Christie remains the best-selling fiction writer of all time, with total global sales exceeding 2 billion books in more than 100 languages.
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