"With Murder to World Fame" - Agatha Christie, her life between poison and secrets on the 50th anniversary of her death

A lively biographical reading by and with actress and speaker Alke Katharine Szonn. "I have learned that a happy life is a mixture of small joys and great secrets." – hardly a sentence describes Agatha Christie better. In this special reading, the focus is not on her over two billion books sold in more than a hundred languages, but on the woman who wrote them: Agatha Christie – pharmacist, world traveler, mother, adventurer – and at the same time the most-read author of all time. With anecdotes from her memoirs, wit, and insight, she tells of Christie's imaginative childhood, her "school of poisoners" during World War I, and her travels to the Orient, where she laughingly confessed, "A spade in hand is just as exciting as a typewriter." An evening that makes the "Queen of Crime" newly accessible to the audience, for Christie fans as well as for anyone who wants to discover.