Agatha Christie

Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie died 50 years ago in Winterbrook, England, on 12 January 1976. The English writer is regarded as one of the top names in detective fiction, best known for creating the characters of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. The success of her work was such that it inspired numerous adaptations for cinema and television. These include Murder on the Orient Express, which was brought to both the small and the big screen: the famous 1974 version directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Albert Finney, Sean Connery and Ingrid Bergman, and, more recently, the 2017 adaptation, with Kenneth Branagh both directing and playing Poirot, alongside Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer and Penelope Cruz.