Game for a new adventure! by Jemma

Today we unveil the newest Agatha Christie computer game. Dead Man's Folly is the latest of Christie's titles to be adapted as a seek and find game. Fans of the story can play the game for one hour free, by clicking here.

The process of adapting Christie for the PC is a complex one and we thought fans would be interested in hearing from the game developers:

JANE JENSEN – Creative Director, Dead Man’s Folly

• As an award winning game designer, what is it about Agatha Christie stories that make you such a fan?"I've always loved ...

• Posted 14 October 2009 at 2:57p.m. GMT
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The Guessing Game by Mathew

I thought you might be entertained by this little bit of family history.

I remember the year when Nima read us a chapter or two of A Pocket Full of Rye after dinner each night.  It must have been 1953 and I can remember the scene as if it were yesterday.  All the family sitting round the drawing-room at Greenway, coffee cups empty, a little cigar smoke rising from my grandfather's cigar, mauve chintzy covers on the chairs and a piano in the corner of the room.  Nima sat in a deep chair with a light directly above her ...

• Posted 28 September 2009 at 7:32a.m. GMT
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Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks by John_Curran

As some of you may already know, my silence of late on the Website is due to my commitments to things Christiean elsewhere. In short, I am writing a book about Agatha Christie, specifically Agatha Christie and her plotting Notebooks. This is probably the last aspect of Agatha Christie that has not already been discussed in a book. We have had books on her life, her literary output, her husband, her disappearance; we have bought quiz books, travel books, film books, Mousetrap books; books about her poisons, her characters, her cover designs, her garden; biographies of Poirot and Miss Marple ...

• Posted 3 April 2009 at 11:41a.m. GMT
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The Loveliest Place in the World by Tamsen_Harward

Tomorrow, Greenway House, Agatha Christie’s Summer home, opens to the public for the first time.  Those lucky enough to be able to make the trip to Devon will be able to see the house (and gardens) Dame Agatha described as “the loveliest place in the world”. I had the honour of a sneak preview on Tuesday and thought I would share some highlights with you.

The National Trust’s restoration/conservation has been very sensitive – there are no ropes cordoning off cupboards and rooms and for a fan, while one can’t quite have a good poke around, it ...

• Posted 27 February 2009 at 4:50p.m. GMT
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Greenway reopening 2009 by Mathew

If you were to ask me what I thought was the most important Agatha Christie thing that was going to happen in the next year, I would say the reopening of Greenway, Nima’s [my grandmother's] lovely house in Devon, now owned by the National Trust.  To me, Greenway means all kinds of childhood things – cricket on the lawn, a loving family, cream teas which Nima drank from a mug called Don’t Be Greedy (an admonition she never obeyed) and watching the Dart steamers steam past with her in the boathouse (read Dead Man’s Folly).

For you ...

• Posted 17 September 2008 at 9:19a.m. GMT
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