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Agatha Christie's fictional universe

Agatha Christie's fictional universe

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In Agatha Christie's mystery novels, several characters cross over different sagas, creating a fictional universe in which most of her stories are set. This article has one table to summarize the novels with characters who occur in other Christie novels; the table is titled Crossovers by Christie. There is brief mention of characters crossing over in adaptations of the novels. Her publications, both novels and short stories, are then listed by main detective, in order of publication. Some stories or novels authorised by the estate of Agatha Christie, using the characters she created, and written long after Agatha Christie died, are included in the lists.

Her novels under the pen name Mary Westmacott and her nonfiction books are not covered in this article.

One notable example of characters from one novel appearing in another is the novel The Pale Horse, which featured no fewer than five cross-over characters: Ariadne Oliver, Major Despard and his wife Rhoda (all had previously appeared in the Poirot mystery Cards on the Table; although Mrs Oliver appeared in numerous later Poirot mysteries) and the Rev and Mrs Dane Calthrop (who were seen in the Miss Marple mystery The Moving Finger).[1]

List of cross-overs

Crossovers by Christie

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Crossovers in media adaptations of novels or short stories

Outside of stories by Christie herself, three media adaptations of her works have featured crossovers involving Miss Marple which Christie herself never wrote; two of the three aired many decades after her death:

Hercule Poirot

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Miss Marple

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Mr Satterthwaite

Parker Pyne

Superintendent Battle

Tommy and Tuppence

Colonel Race

Trivia

References

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    Hobbs, James (2018). "Fictional World of Agatha Christie". Retrieved 3 September 2018.
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    Webb, Mary (2017). "Ariadne Oliver". All About Agatha Christie. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
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    Hobbs, James (2018). "Poirot's Allies". Hercule Poirot Central. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
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    Bunson, Matthew (2000). The Complete Christie: An Agatha Christie Encyclopedia. Pocket Books. ISBN 978-0671028312.
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    Curran, John (2009). Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making. Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0007310562.
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    Curran, John (2011). Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Her Notebooks. Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0062065421.
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