publishers to delete any distasteful passages about Jews and Catholics. Though the letter was reportedly never shown to her, it prompted her agent to give permission to her U.S. At one point, the Anti-Defamation League penned a letter objecting to her apparent anti-Semitism. Jewish people don’t fare well either Christie generally depicts them as hook-nosed and money-grubbing.
The Anti-Defamation League protested her portrayal of Jews.Ĭhristie’s works are filled with derogatory references toward Black, Asian, Italian, Native American and Arab peoples. In England, meanwhile, she continually shuttled back-and-forth between London and various houses in the countryside. Lucia and likewise mined the Canary Islands for ideas after vacationing there. She then met her second husband, an archeologist 14 years her junior, at a dig site in Iraq and thereafter often returned to the Middle East, gaining material for such books as “Murder on the Orient Express” and “They Came to Baghdad.” She wrote another book, “A Caribbean Mystery,” after visiting St. While growing up, she spent months at a time in France and Egypt, and she later traveled around the world on an expedition promoting the British Empire. Most of Christie’s books take place in England, but she was able to write convincingly about other locations as well by seeing them firsthand. English crime writer Agatha Christie at London Airport with her grandson, Matthew Pritchard.
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