• Marking 50 years since her death, this major exhibition will explore the life and work of celebrated crime writer, Agatha Christie
• Agatha Christie: A World of Mystery will go behind the books to explore how Christie’s life, travels and interests informed her work and the creation of her iconic characters
• Through personal objects belonging to Christie, many of which have never been displayed before, visitors will gain unprecedented insight into her writing process and explore her impact on crime fiction
• Accompanying the exhibition will be displays and a major events season celebrating Christie’s influence on literature at libraries across the UK
• The exhibition has been developed in collaboration with Agatha Christie Limited and the Christie Archive Trust.

On 30 October the British Library will open a major exhibition exploring the life and work of the bestselling novelist of all time, Agatha Christie. Marking 50 years since her death, the exhibition will examine not only the origins of iconic fictional creations like Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple but will also go behind the characters and stories to explore Christie’s world and legacy.

The exhibition will take visitors on a journey through Christie’s upbringing, her interests and travels and how she adapted her novels for the stage, through five immersive sections filled with items from her personal life, including her typewriter, professional and personal correspondence with other writers, family photographs and notebooks and typescripts for novels. There will also be clues and “Easter eggs” dotted throughout the exhibition for Christie fans to sleuth out. Christie’s impact on the wider crime fiction genre will be explored through interviews within the exhibition with leading writers, broadcasters and notable fans.

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