Prichard says he himself still has a bookshelf full of his grandmother's work - his favorite is one of her last books, Endless Night. "They are easily adaptable, whether to different languages or to television, and I think that you can pick up an Agatha Christie and in, what, four or five hours, you can lose yourself in a world of mystery and contentment." So people, when they read the books, they feel quite comfortable with the characters," Prichard says. They reflect people who appear in most people's lives.
He serves as the chairman of Agatha Christie Limited, which holds the rights to all of Christie's works.Ĭhristie Archive Trust/Courtesy of HarperĬhristie's stories, seen with modern eyes, can seem as quaint as that letter - but they still have the power to captivate. Mathew Prichard is the only grandchild of Agatha Christie. "The other thing is that, of course, whilst you read the letters you learn about the comparative simplicity of communications in those days. "It exhibits all sorts of things about the 1920s, the first of which, I suppose, is the art of letter writing," Prichard says. "I knew her as well as anybody, probably, during the latter half of her life," he tells NPR's Rachel Martin.Ĭhristie and her husband, Archibald, traveled to various British colonies as part of an expedition aimed at promoting an upcoming exposition of goods produced in the colonies. Now Christie's grandson, Mathew Prichard, has edited and published the letters she wrote while on that journey, in a new book, The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery. But before she ever wrote Death on the Nile or Murder on the Orient Express, Christie took her own less perilous journey, in 1922, when she set sail on a trip around the world. Her books were adapted for both big and small screens.
How?Īgatha Christie is the best-selling murder writer of all time, and has created two of the most renowned detectives in crime fiction - Miss Jane Marple and Hercule Poirot. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Grand Tour Author Agatha Christie and Mathew Prichard
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