Editing Agatha Christie (section)

== In popular culture ==
Some of Christie's fictional portrayals have explored and offered accounts of her disappearance in 1926. The film ''[[Agatha (film)|Agatha]]'' (1979), with [[Vanessa Redgrave]], has Christie sneaking away to plan revenge against her husband; Christie's heirs sued unsuccessfully to prevent the film's distribution.<ref>{{cite web |author=Axmaker, Sean |title=Agatha |url=https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/1083600 |access-date=17 June 2017 |work=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |archive-date=14 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180114183823/http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/1083600%7C0/Agatha.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Doctor Who (series 4)|''Doctor Who'']] episode "[[The Unicorn and the Wasp]]" (17 May 2008) stars [[Fenella Woolgar]] as Christie, and explains her disappearance as being connected to aliens. The film ''[[Agatha and the Truth of Murder]]'' (2018) sends her undercover to solve the murder of [[Florence Nightingale]]'s [[goddaughter]], Florence Nightingale Shore. A fictionalised account of Christie's disappearance is also the central theme of a Korean musical, ''Agatha''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Musical Agatha |url=http://www.visitseoul.net/en/article/article.do?_method=view&m=0004009001001&p=06&art_id=78125&lang=en |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150416100240/http://www.visitseoul.net/en/article/article.do?_method=view&m=0004009001001&p=06&art_id=78125&lang=en |archive-date=16 April 2015 |access-date=10 April 2015 |website=Visit Seoul |publisher=[[Seoul Metropolitan Government]]}}</ref> ''The Christie Affair'', a Christie-like mystery story of love and revenge by author Nina de Gramont, was a 2022 novel loosely based on Christie's disappearance.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Christie Affair |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/nina-de-gramont/the-christie-affair/ |publisher=[[St. Martin's Press]]}}</ref>

Other portrayals, such as the Hungarian film ''Kojak Budapesten'' (1980), create their own scenarios involving Christie's criminal skills. In the TV play ''Murder by the Book'' (1986), Christie (Dame [[Peggy Ashcroft]]) murders one of her fictional-turned-real characters, Poirot. Christie features as a character in [[Gaylord Larsen]]'s ''Dorothy and Agatha'' and ''The London Blitz Murders'' by [[Max Allan Collins]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Larsen |first=Gaylord |url=https://archive.org/details/dorothyagatha00lars |title=Dorothy and Agatha: A Mystery Novel |publisher=[[E. P. Dutton|Dutton]] |year=1990 |isbn=978-0-525-24865-1 |location=New York City; London |access-date=23 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Collins |first=Max Allan |title=The London Blitz Murders |publisher=[[Berkley Prime Crime]] |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-425-19805-6 |location=New York City}}</ref> The American television program ''[[Unsolved Mysteries]]'' devoted a segment to her famous disappearance, with Agatha portrayed by actress Tessa Pritchard. A young Agatha is depicted in the Spanish historical television series ''[[Gran Hotel (TV series)|Gran Hotel]]'' (2011) in which she finds inspiration to write her new novel while aiding local detectives. In the [[alternative history]] television film ''[[Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar]]'' (2018), Christie becomes involved in a murder case at an archaeological dig in Iraq.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hogan |first=Michael |date=15 December 2019 |title=Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar review – A cut-price Christie for Christmas is still quite a treat |language=en-GB |work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2019/12/15/agatha-curse-ishtar-review-a-cut-price-christie-christmas-still/ |access-date=29 April 2020 |issn=0307-1235 |archive-date=6 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200106004751/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2019/12/15/agatha-curse-ishtar-review-a-cut-price-christie-christmas-still/ |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2019, [[Honeysuckle Weeks]] portrayed Christie in "[[Frankie_Drake_Mysteries#Season_3_(2019)|No Friends Like Old Friends]]" (September 16, 2019), episode 1 of season 3 of the [[CBC Television|Canadian television]] period [[Detective fiction|detective series]] [[Frankie Drake Mysteries]] when Christie helps visiting [[Private investigator|private detective]] Frankie Drake solve the disappearance and poisoning of an old friend.

In 2020, [[Heather Terrell]], under the pseudonym of Marie Benedict, published ''The Mystery of Mrs. Christie'', a fictional reconstruction of Christie's December 1926 disappearance. The novel was on the ''[[USA Today]]'' and [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''The New York Times'' Best Seller list]]s.<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 September 2020 |title=The Mystery of Mrs. Christie |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/marie-benedict/the-mystery-of-mrs-christie/ |access-date=30 May 2022 |website=Kirkus Reviews}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Mystery of Mrs. Christie |url=https://www.authormariebenedict.com/the-mystery-of-mrs-christie.html |access-date=30 May 2022 |website=MARIE BENEDICT |language=en}}</ref> In December 2020, Library Reads named Terrell a Hall of Fame author for the book.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Marie Benedict |url=https://libraryreads.org/hof/marie-benedict |access-date=30 May 2022 |website=LibraryReads |language=en-US |archive-date=19 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221019163933/https://libraryreads.org/hof/marie-benedict |url-status=dead}}</ref>
[[Andrew Wilson (author)|Andrew Wilson]] has written four novels featuring Agatha Christie as a detective: ''A Talent For Murder'' (2017), ''A Different Kind of Evil'' (2018), ''Death In A Desert Land'' (2019) and ''I Saw Him Die'' (2020).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fantasticfiction.com/w/andrew-wilson/ |title=Andrew Wilson}}</ref> Christie was portrayed by [[Shirley Henderson]] in the 2022 comedy/mystery film ''[[See How They Run (2022 film)|See How They Run]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2021/film/news/see-how-they-run-sam-rockwell-saoirse-ronan-1235030099/ |title=Star-Studded Searchlight Murder Mystery 'See How They Run' Reveals Full Cast, First Look Image |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |first=Matt |last=Donnelly |date=29 July 2021|access-date=11 June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=N'Duka |first=Amanda |title='Gangs of London's Pippa Bennett-Warner Joins Saoirse Ronan In Tom George-Directed Murder Mystery Thriller From Searchlight Pictures |url=https://deadline.com/2021/05/pippa-bennett-warner-saoirse-ronan-tom-george-murder-mystery-thriller-searchlight-pictures-1234753364/ |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |date=10 May 2021 |access-date=11 June 2023}}</ref>