Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
In And Then There Were None, several of the characters die from being poisoned. In real life, Agatha Christie qualified as a dispenser and learned about different poisons. Don’t eat first at dinner with her. (source)
And Then There Were None is actually the first of several Christie book based off of children’s nursery rhymes. Wonder what her childhood was like? (source)
In the stage adaptation of And Then There Were None, Christie writes an alternate happy ending. In it, Lombard shoots Wargrave to death. Then Lombard and Vera fall in love and get married. Aww! (source)
Christie didn’t just write mystery novels—she engineered her own. When her husband announced his infidelity and asked for a divorce, Christie disappeared for 11 days. (source)
Christie was quite the prolific writer. In fact, the thickest book in the world is The Complete Miss Marple, which has all of Christie’s Miss Marple books. It comes in at a staggering 4,032 pages. We recommend the Kindle edition. (source)