Agatha Christie

My daughters named after Agatha Christie: Sangma

Bhubaneswar: Opposition Presidential candidate PA Sangma on Sunday said his two daughters, Christie and Agatha, were named after prominent British novelist Agatha Christie, whose book was presented to him by the then Orissa chief minister Biju Patnaik.

"I named my two daughters after Agatha Christie. Biju Patnaik had presented me with a Agatha Christe book when I met him for the first time in 1977," Sangma told a gathering of BJD MLAs and MPs during his campaign trail here.

Sangma said he admired Biju Patnaik who was a friend of young MPs then. "I also admire Naveen. He too has the same courage," Sangma said.

While Sangma's younger daughter Agatha is the minister of state for Rural Development, his elder daughter Christie is a non-political person. Of his two sons, Conrad Sangma is the leader of Opposition in Meghalaya Assembly....more

07:55 PM, Jul 15, 2012

Bengali film inspired by Agatha Christie

by Press Trust of India

Kolkata: In a whodunit plot, inspired by Agatha Christie thrillers, popular Bengali film actor Tota Roy Choudhury has turned up in a new avatar unravelling the murder mystery of a bar girl. "From the role of a crook in Hitlist by Sandip Ray, to that of an upright ACP, bent on fixing the real culprit, Chhal will show me in a hitherto unseen role with both commercial and realistic shades,"...

12:54 PM, Feb 14, 2012

'The Floating Admiral' republished after 80 years

by Press Trust Of India

London: Here's some good news for Agatha Christie fans -- 'The Floating Admiral', a collaborative novel written in 1931 by 14 members of The Detection Club, including her, is republished, 80 years after its first publication. Christie, Dorothy L Sayers and GK Chesterton, along with other British mystery writers, who formed The Detection Club in 1930, each had produced a chapter for 'The Floating Admiral' which was first published in...

03:07 PM, Feb 28, 2011