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She worked in various ways, too, to encourage and promote younger writers, including her relative Georgiana Craik , the authors of a Harper 's series of books for girls that she endorsed, and the working-class...

JC 's autobiography, A Personal Record, was published by Harper and Brothers in New York.

She had sent the manuscript to Collins , who discouragingly judged that the central character was undesirable. She then asked her literary agent, Edmund Cork , to search for another publisher. Heinemann signed...

AC said her publisher, Collins , was suspicious and disapproving of this project, because of its remoteness from the genre she had made her own.

In the early twenty-first century Penguin Putnam had around sixty AC titles in print. The BBC issued VHS and in some case DVD sets of series of her works featuring Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple...

AC introduced a second famous detective character, the unobtrusive elderly spinster Miss Marple, in a novel entitled The Murder at the Vicarage, published by Collins with a dedication To Rosalind, her daughter.

AC published with Collins and Dodd, Mead a Miss Marple murder mystery entitled A Murder is Announced (a title parodying the form of newspaper announcement for births, marriages, and deaths).

AC 's Miss Marple made her final appearance in the detective novel Sleeping Murder, published by Collins and Dodd, Mead , but written thirty years earlier.

With Collins , AC published Murder on the Orient Express, a detective novel featuring a radical experiment in plotting, with Poirot on a train travelling from Istanbul to Calais.

Signing herself Mary Westmacott, AC published with Collins a novel entitled Giant's Bread, which is not a detective story or thriller: it deals with reversals of fortune, longing for ancestral homes, and trials of love.

AC 's An Autobiography was published posthumously by Collins , edited by her daughter, Rosalind Hicks .

Agatha Miller (later AC ) wrote and published (under various pseudonyms) her first poems while she was about eleven. She was paid a guinea for each poem by Poetry Review. Her earliest verses have...

After publishing her first novel, John Lane held rights to her next five books: The Secret Adversary (1922), The Murder on the Links (1923), The Man in the Brown Suit (1924), Poirot Investigates (1924), and...

Collins and Dodd, Mead falsely advertised this as AC 's fiftieth mystery novel, when it was in actual fact her fiftieth book. They ran an enormous 50,000 copies of the novel and widely celebrated the...

Early editions are very rare. Children's book scholar and collector Peter Opie recorded in 1965 his excitement on acquiring a probable second edition of this beloved classic, dating from 1858, to go with his probable...