id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt marketplace-org-7112 Agatha Christie mysteries still raking in cash 100 years later - Marketplace .html text/html 1689 180 79 Agatha Christie mysteries still raking in cash 100 years later Marketplace https://www.marketplace.org/2020/09/28/agatha-christie-mysteries-still-raking-the-cash-100-years-later/ https://www.marketplace.org/2020/09/28/agatha-christie-mysteries-still-raking-the-cash-100-years-later/ A century after her first novel "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" appeared in print, the Agatha Christie industry is still going strong. "Agatha didn't actually write at Greenway, but it was the inspiration and the setting for some of her most famous books like 'The ABC Murders' and 'Five Little Pigs,'" said Belinda Smith, visitor experience manager at the property. The publisher Harper Collins won't say how well her other three forays into Christie-land have done, but Sophie says that while her own crime fiction has made her a wealthy woman, the Poirot books have made her "richer." And commissioning these so-called "continuation novels" seems to have been good for the Agatha Christie company, too. Like the Queen of Crime herself, the Agatha Christie company prefers to keep a low profile, refusing to answer Marketplace's questions about revenues. ./cache/marketplace-org-7112.html ./txt/marketplace-org-7112.txt