Agatha Christie Old have heard some truly awful

have heard some truly awful things about Britain's most notorious prison

Only Yesterday

but it is also a dazzlingly original work of fiction

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and the 1963 Cannes Film Festival

Agatha Christie Old have heard some truly awfulSince her debut in 1920 with The Mysterious Affair At Styles, Agatha Christie has become the chief proponent of the English village murder mystery. Although she created two enormously popular characters the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and the inquisitive elderly spinster and amateur sleuth Miss Jane Marple of St Mary Mead it is not generally acknowledged that she wrote in many different genres: comic mysteries (Why Didn't They Ask Evans?),