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2 days ago · A terrible expression appears on Marina's face, reminding Dolly of a line from Tennyson: "The mirror crack'd from side to side, 'The curse is come upon me', cried the Lady of Shallott." Later, Heather suddenly dies after consuming a drink supposedly meant for Marina.
2 days ago · Answer: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side According to a number of websites, part of this novel's plot parallels an incident in the life of the actress, Gene Tierney, who contracted rubella (German measles) during her pregnancy in 1943 and as a result gave birth to a daughter who was intellectually and physically handicapped.
4 days ago · 'Sleeping Murder' was the last published novel to feature Miss Marple though it was written by Christie much earlier. This led to some discrepancies like the presence of Colonel Arthur Bantry who was mentioned as dead in earlier books like 'The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side'.
2 days ago · Agatha Christie, English detective novelist and playwright whose books have sold more than 100 million copies and have been translated into some 100 languages. Her first novel, in 1920, introduced her eccentric and egotistic Belgian detective Hercule Poirot; Miss Jane Marple first appeared in 1930.
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- Agatha Christie was an English detective novelist and playwright. She wrote some 75 novels, including 66 detective novels and 14 short story collec...
- Agatha Christie began writing detective fiction while working as a nurse during World War I (1914–18). She began her debut novel, The Mysterious Af...
- Agatha Christie’s most famous novels include And Then There Were None (1939), Murder on the Orient Express (1933), and The ABC Murders (1936). Her...
- After her husband, Col. Archibald Christie, asked for a divorce, Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared for nearly two weeks. On December 4, 1926...
4 days ago · Out flew the web and floated wide; The mirror crack'd from side to side; 'The curse is come upon me,' cried The Lady of Shalott.PART IV In the stormy east-wind straining, The pale yellow woods were waning, The broad stream in his banks complaining, Heavily the low sky raining Over tower'd Camelot; Outside the isle a shallow boat Beneath a ...
19 hours ago · Miss Marple is an elderly spinster based loosely on friends (or, in Christie’s words, “cronies”) of Christie’s step-grandmother. Christie is also a hugely influential author in Japan. A 2012 survey ranked her And Then There Were None as the #1 non-Japanese detective novel.
4 days ago · Young also appeared in the 2010 Marple drama "The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side" and guest starred in a 2010 episode of Skins. [ 137 ] [ 138 ] In 2011, he starred in a new drama series on Sky Living called Bedlam , about supernatural happenings taking place at a disused asylum being converted into loft-style apartments.
