As a huge Christie fan, I couldn't but love this episode. Naturally, the quality of Christie's writing is up for discussion, but I really enjoyed the book title dropping, and the audacity of the writers in taking on the huge mystery that was Christie's disappearance.
Sure, Christie's no Shakespeare, but she wrote 79 books as Agatha Christie and 6 novels as Mary Westmacott in about 50 years, as well as at least 40 short stories (some of which were later recycled as novels) and a few plays, including the longest running play in history (The Mousetrap opened in the West End of London in 1952 and has been running continuously ever since, with the 25,000th performance last year). In total, she has sold about 1 billion books in English to date, as well as another billion in translation. The only literary work in English that has outsold Christie is the Bible.
Sure, Christie's no Shakespeare, but she wrote 79 books as Agatha Christie and 6 novels as Mary Westmacott in about 50 years, as well as at least 40 short stories (some of which were later recycled as novels) and a few plays, including the longest running play in history (The Mousetrap opened in the West End of London in 1952 and has been running continuously ever since, with the 25,000th performance last year). In total, she has sold about 1 billion books in English to date, as well as another billion in translation. The only literary work in English that has outsold Christie is the Bible.
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