Is the house Agatha Christie was born in still standing?
A. Unfortunately, it was knocked down many years ago. However you can visit the gardens of Greenway House in Devon where Agatha Christie lived for several years. The beautiful gardens are controlled by the National Trust and details are available at http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk. Greenway House will be reopening to the public in 2009. Q. Why were the book titles changed for the US market? A. The publishers Dodd Mead felt that different titles would appeal more to the American book-buying public. Often, but not always, they added ‘murder’ or ‘death’ or ‘fatal’. Sometimes they were changed to make sense to the American buyers, eg 4.50 from Paddington would not have meant much to an American audience; Lord Edgware Dies would not have had the same resonance; Murder in the Mews is (still) a very English sounding title.
