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	Al Christie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Al Christie, (November 24, 1881 – April 4, 1951) was a Canadian-born motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.
		Born Alfred Ernest Christie, in London, Ontario, Canada, he was one of a number of Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood who made their way to Hollywood, California, attracted by the newly developing motion picture business.
		During his time in the film business, Al Christie was the author of 95 screenplays and directed and or produced more than 200 motion pictures.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Al_Christie (291 words)

	Charles Christie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Charles H. Christie (April 13, 1880 – October 1, 1955) was a motion picture studio owner.
		Born in London, Ontario, Canada, Charles and his brother Al left home to pursue a career in the fledgling motion picture industry.
		However, the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression devastated business and in January of 1933, the Christie brothers companies went into receivership, the studio assets being acquired by another large film making company.
	www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Charles_Christie (261 words)

	Charles Christie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles was primarily the business administrator, while brother Al made films.
		Before long, the Christie brothers were two of Hollywood's most powerful movie moguls.
		By 1922, the brothers were so successful that they built the Christie Hotel, Hollywood's first luxury hotel featuring such extravagances as private baths.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Christie (221 words)

	Golden Age Mysteries - The Grand Dame
		Christie, while creating characters of psychological complexity, was also carefully to maintain the older tradition of chronicling society and its forces in her work.
		Charles' tepid conclusion is that "In poor little Josephine all the worst of the family came together." She was the crooked child of the crooked house -- born with a kink.
		Christie's most intelligent characters are those who plan ingenious crimes and those who unravel them, and that was the extent of her own kind of genius.
	www.jdcarr.com /forum/showthread.php?p=4190 (6144 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Agatha Christie's career spanned over 50 years and 80 books; given that she also wrote plays, poems and fragments of memoir, it is at times hard to see how she managed to pay so much attention to the fine details through which her detective stories both inform and misdirect.
		Agatha Christie was the author of over 100 plays, short story collections and novels which have been translated into 103 languages; she is outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare.
		Charles Osborne, a lifelong student of Agatha Christie, has approached this most private of persons above all through her books, and the result is a companion to her life and work.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0006531725 (868 words)

	Salon Books \| Christie for Christmas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Christie, like the other Golden Age detective novelists, is supposed to be good at clues.
		Christie's many fans were no doubt happy to learn that the writer, who died in 1976, has in the past two years started to publish anew.
		This return is thanks to Charles Osborne, a literary jack-of-all-trades, who has turned two of her plays into novels.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/1999/12/23/mysteries (601 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Black Coffee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Christie loyalists will welcome and applaud his dedication to the original, but it does seem as though he could have given it a bit more flair.
		Christie biographer Osborne's adaptation of the grande dame's 1930 play has been blessed by the Christie estate and heartily endorsed by her grandson Michael Prichard.
		Christie was a far more talented writer than her later critics like to admit, and therefore not as easily imitated as one might expect.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1565115546 (1073 words)

	Christie Johnstone by Charles Reade : Arthur's Classic Novels
		Christie, belonging to no one, had danced with him all the night, they had walked under the stars to cool themselves, for dancing reels, with heart and soul, is not quadrilling.
		Christie had not learned it in a day; when she began, she used to tell them like the other Newhaven people, with a noble impartiality of detail, wearisome to the hearer.
		Christie's cool, fresh breath, as she hung over him while painting, suggested to him that smoking might, peradventure, be a sin against nature as well as against cleanliness.
	arthurwendover.com /arthurs/reade/crsti10.html (18091 words)

	Plays
		Agatha Christie believed there was too much fuss and absurdity over the change of the title "Ten Little Niggers": it was a nursery rhyme that children chanted innocently for some 100+ years (even "Ten Little Indians" was a totally different tune).
		Speaking of the novel, Christie once said "I had ruined [the novel] by the introduction of Poirot." I guess she thought she'd do it the right way when adapting the play.
		In its first performance (with Christie in attendance), the audience was unresponsive, and so the stage crew got flustered and the acting faltered a little.
	www.poirot.us /plays.html (1345 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Witness for the Prosecution
		Charles Laughton stars as Sir Wilfrid Robarts, a London barrister who is facing semi-retirement due to poor health and nagging nurse Miss Plimsoll (Elsa Lanchester).
		Christie's Witness for the Prosecution first opened on the London stage in 1953, and after its 1954 New York debut a bidding war erupted in Hollywood for the film rights.
		What remains of Christie's play is what made it a hit in the first place: an intriguing premise, courtroom surprises, and a final series of twist endings that makes the viewer want to see the whole thing all over again.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/w/witnessftprosecution.q.shtml (379 words)

	Annes Paternal Surnames - apsg08 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Robert Christie [Parents] was born on 26 Apr 1849 in Cupar Parish, Fife.
		Charles Christie was born in 1883/1884 in St.Veagans, Arbroath..
		Janet Christie [Parents] was born on 30 Jan 1854 in Bridgend,Cupar Parish, Fife.
	www.btinternet.com /~fraser.hamilton2/apsg08.htm (357 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Unexpected Guest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Christie cleverly shifts suspicion and parcels out new facts and perspectives in marvelous fashion, proving ingeniously that the obvious isn't always obvious.
		And as is typical with Agatha Christie yarns, all is not as it seems.
		Charles Osborne writes very much like Agatha Christie and he even added things that Agatha Christie didn't usually add like a map of the room the murder occured in.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0312975120 (1180 words)

	Charles Reade : Christie Johnstone : Chapter IV.
		Christie looked up from her book; pretended he had spoken to her, gave a fictitious yawn, and renewed the negotiation with the air of one disposed to kill time.
		He was not a bit affected himself, but by pure memory he remembered where she had been most agitated or overcome.
		She told it to a knot of natives next day; it lost nothing, for she was a woman of feeling, and by intuition an artist of the tongue.
	www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid.1/bookid.2853/sec.5 (553 words)

	ttgapers.com store - The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie: A Biographical Companion to the Works of Agatha Christie - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Christie's famous disappearance in 1926; her work as an archaeologist's assistant; her love for dogs; idiosyncrasies like forever munching on apples while she wrote) to her characters (from her intolerance over sleuth Poirot to her favorite character, Caroline Sheppard, not least her alter-ego, Adraidne Oliver).
		Having personally read the entire oeuvre of Christie's crime novels, I believe Osbourne's conclusion that "the plotting of some of Poirot and Miss Marple novels which Agatha Christie wrote in the last 15 years of her life is a more than a trifle lax" is more than justified.
		Charles Osbourne presents an overview of Agatha Christie's life and works his way chronologically through each book she wrote with new insights into the storylines and other happening in her life at the time of her writing the book.
	www.ttgapers.com /ttStore-index2-asin-0312301162.html (2377 words)

	Agatha Christie - Author of the Month at MyShelf.com
		Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller Christie Mallowan was born in 1890 in Torquay, Devon, England.
		Charles Osborne has done his best to novelize a rare treat, and in my humble opinion, he did a grand job.
		Charles Osborne is an authority on theater and opera.
	www.myshelf.com /aom/00/christie.html (1804 words)

	Encyclopedia: Charles Christie
		Canada, Charles and his brother Al Christie, (November 24, 1881 - April 4, 1951) was a Canadian born motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.
		Hollywood, California, they made enough money working in films to purchase a property at 6724 Hollywood Boulevard and set up their own Christie Film Company was a pioneer motion picture company founded by Al Christie and Charles Christie, two brothers from London, Ontario, Canada.
		1933, the Christie brothers companies went into receivership, the studio assets being acquired by another large film making company.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Charles-Christie (657 words)

	C. A. Christie Real Estate First ! Toll Free Telephone #: 1-888-281-3387 --> Bahamas Real Estate - Residential ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1996, C.A. Christie Real Estate purchased the property just steps away from Government House and The Central Bank in the heart of the business district and carefully restored the building, taking painstaking detail to renew and enhance its unique architectural design and structural elements.
		The C.A. Christie Real Estate team has guided clients through real estate opportunities for more than a quarter of a century as the islands of The Bahamas emerged as a sought-after location for commercial investment, second homes or primary residences on waterfront properties, exclusive gated-communities and single-family houses.
		The brokerage firm specializes in property development and was formed by President and Broker, Charles A. Christie, a Government Approved Assessor.
	www.cachristie.com (837 words)

	Charles Reade : Christie Johnstone : Chapter VI.
		With them was a young Englishman, the leader of the expedition, Charles Gatty.
		All this morning he had been doggreling, when he ought to have been daubing; and now he will have to sup off a colored print, if he sups at all.
		Christie read, blushed, and put the verses in her bosom.
	www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid.1/bookid.2853/sec.7 (768 words)

	HarperCollins Publishers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Charles Osborne, a lifelong student of Agatha Christie and author of novelisations of three of her plays, approaches this most private of people above all through her books, and the result is a fascinating companion to her life and works.
		This 'professional life' of Agatha Christie provides authoritative information on each book's provenance, on the work itself and on its contemporary critical reception set against the background of the major events on the author's life.
		Illustrated with many rare photographs, this comprehensive guide to the world of Agatha Christie has been fully updated to include details of all the publications, films and TV adaptations in the 25 years since her death.
	www.harpercollins.co.uk /books/default.aspx?id=8245 (271 words)

	Agatha Christie Stage Plays Mousetrap Black Coffee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Agatha Christie had made her debut as a crime novelist in 1920 with The Mysterious Affair at Styles in which she introduced her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.
		Christie decided to try her hand at putting Poirot on the stage in a play of her own.
		Charles Osborne is a world authority on theater and opera as well as the author of The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie (1982).
	christie.mysterynet.com /agatha.shtml (773 words)

	ManyRooms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He knows her style - 'One of Agatha Christie's great achievements as a crime writer was to make the murder cosy enough to be palatable to refined middle-class tastes'.
		Osborne has us there at Agatha's real-life mysterious disappearance when Colonel Christie tells a colleague, "They (the police) think I've murdered my wife," He takes us with her as she travels and we see how she could write a murder mystery set entirely on a train - Murder on the Orient Express.
		Agatha Christie was not a great writer, she wasn't profound and didn't deal with life's difficulties (except of course murder), but she was a first-rate writer of crime fiction and she wrote a lot of it, and her many admirers say 'thank goodness she did'.
	www.redempt.org /mr/html/mr_thereadingroom_bookreviews_agatha.htm (307 words)

	Brooklyn Museum Accused of Trying to Lift Art Value [Free Republic]
		The new allegation accuses the museum of conspiring with Christie's auction house, a sponsor of the show, to inflate the value of the artworks to be displayed, which are all privately owned by Charles Saatchi, the British advertising executive.
		Christie's has a long history of sponsorships of exhibitions in the United States and internationally.
		In making the allegations of conspiracy, city officials capitalized on news reports that noted the dual role of Christie's, which is a promoter and financial supporter of the exhibition as well as a purveyor of artwork belonging to Saatchi, who is a major collector and an important client.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a37f4f3d17898.htm (3010 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Black Coffee (Hercule Poirot Mysteries (Paperback)) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is a great Christie story and the final Poirot tale (despite the fact that it obviously takes place before "Curtain" it was published afterward).
		Christie would have omitted that telling detail if SHE had written it as a book) you can see where it would have been a smash hit.
		As for the content, this particular work is rather straight-forward, lacking some of Christie's usual twists and turns, cleverness, etc. It is the only one of the 3 plays that includes one of her 3 usual "detectives" (Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Tommy & Tuppence).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312970072?v=glance (1927 words)

	Charles Christie - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Charles Christie - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This page was last modified 10:41, 6 Jun 2005.
		The article about Charles Christie contains information related to Charles Christie and See also.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Charles_Christie (242 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot Mysteries (Paperback)) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The cast of characters could have been a little more diverse but it is one of the first Hercule Poirot mysteries to fully exploit the generation gap between Poirot (and Hastings) and the young things at the centre of this book in an amusing manner.
		For Agatha Christie fans used to her methods, the solution will be fairly obvious rather quickly but it is still a clever little puzzle and should delight and mystify any readers not completely immersed in the author's vast output of books.
		When Christie was on top of her game, no one was better, and this is a prime example of her amazing skills.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0425130258?v=glance (1739 words)

	Charles Christie Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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	www.createdbygod.com /encyclopedia/Charles_Christie (366 words)

	The Unexpected Guest by Charles Osborne, Agatha Christie, 0006513689, Lowest Book Price Finder
		Penned in only four weeks this Agatha Christie murder mystery was originally written as a play in 1958, but has recently been adapted as a novel by Charles Osborne.
		Like all the other Agatha Christie novels I have read I am careful to minutely examine and weigh up every detail that is revealed (particularly at the start) in the hope of picking up something that 'doesn't quite fit'.
		The novel reads like a vintage Christie, and I am very happy with the experience, and would recommend it heartily to not only Christie fans, but to new readers who wants to start of with one of Christie's more exciting plots, without the burden of excessive setups (like Death on the Nile).
	www.bookfinder4u.co.uk /book_detail/0006513689 (725 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Unexpected Guest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A new full-length novel adapted by Charles Osborne from Agatha Christie's acclaimed play, presented in the new Christie livery.
		When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog near the South Wales coast, and makes his way to an isolated house, he discovers a woman standing over the dead body of her wheel-chair bound husband, a gun in her hand.
		Charles Osborne does a brilliant conversion that will please fans of the famous novelist and bring in new readers who will hunt for one-hundred per cent pure Christie works.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0007154895 (597 words)

	Agatha Christie Signature - Fadedgiant Online Author Autograph Guide - Books, Links, Quotes
		Whether you've read every title in the giant Christie canon, or are just discovering her writing, The Complete Christie reveals in delectable detail why the mystique, fascination, and brainteasing fun of the mysteries penned by the century's most successful writing remain forever undiminished.
		Amazon.com: Hercule Poirot is perhaps Agatha Christie's most interesting and endearing character; short, round, and slightly comical, Poirot has a razor-sharp mind and puts unlimited trust in his "little grey cells." Those little cells come through for him every time, enabling Poirot to solve some of the most baffling mysteries ever conceived.
		As usual, all is not as it seems between the newlyweds, and when Linnet is found murdered, Poirot must sort through a boatload of suspects to find the killer before he (or she) strikes again.
	www.fadedgiant.net /html/christie__agatha.htm (1424 words)

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