In my dream, I sat in the Sheriff's recliner, a torn and tattered Christie novel in my lap.

It was the last Miss Marple novel the author wrote, although Sleeping Murder was the last Christie novel to be published.

Mrs Oliver is apprehensive of attending a fete, for reasons that will be apparent to readers of her previous appearance in a Christie novel: Dead Man's Folly.

It is the first Christie novel to be given a different title for the US market.

The story has some similarities to the full-length 1941 Christie novel, Evil Under the Sun, which includes a complicated love-triangle relationship.

"The Pale Horse" is set in the 1960's, like the Christie novel on which it is based.

Yet tomorrow, on her birthday, "Black Coffee," a new Christie novel, will be published by St. Martin's Press.

The first time Tommy and Tuppence appeared in a Christie novel was in The Secret Adversary (1922).

"The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" and "Lord Edgware Dies" are the two Christie novels being produced as A&E originals.

She did not plan to put Miss Marple into a series of books, but the public loved her and she eventually appeared in twelve Christie novels and twenty short stories.