Agatha Christie is the second best-selling author of all time, behind only William Shakespeare. Upon reading just one of her ...

When you hear the name Agatha Christie, what immediately comes to mind? Perhaps you picture the author herself, the doyenne of crime fiction, aging and matronly, respected and respectable. (I tend to ...

Christie purchased Greenway in 1938. Years later, she recalled the spell that the estate had cast on her: "a white Georgian house of about 1780 or '90, with woods sweeping down to the Dart..

Christie describes the thrill of it in her autobiography. But by 1928, the marriage was over. Archibald had fallen in love with someone else and had asked for a divorce. Christie was in a ...