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Christie's 120th Anniversary

2010 marks the 120th anniversary of Christie's birth year, 1890. To mark this special occasion Christie fans around the world will be taking part in a series of anniversary celebrations and events culminating in Christie Week 2010, in mid September. We have a host of events planned, but as ever we would like to hear your thoughts and suggestions on fun things to do to mark this special year. Please post all your suggestions here!

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MissQuin 01 Feb 10 at 4:47 p.m. GMT

Alot of the Christie events from previous years have looked like great fun! The mystery hunts, plays and the costume ball. But there are some fans who are housebound/disabled, so one idea is an online event of some sort. Can anyone think of something?

Maybe clues hidden around the site for people to solve?

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missmarpleinholland 17 Nov 10 at 11:58 a.m. GMT

Let famous artists come up with art for covers of the Christie books! A competition would be nice, but it would also be great fun to ask artists, illustrators world wide to come up with a design for one speicific book (a whole serie covers for The Body in the Library ) or for individuael books to create a complete new serie with different covers!

missmarple123 27 Sep 10 at 11:15 p.m. GMT

great ideas heiseiholmes and MissQuin !

patbish0 27 Sep 10 at 9:47 p.m. GMT

I recently had a birthday on the 10th and treated myself by taking part in the week long celebration of Agatha's 120th in Torquay. The week opened with a garden fete followed by visits to the theatre to see Witness for the Prosecution and Spider's Web.  Guided walking tours about Agatha's life in Torquay. A vintage bus ride to visit Greenway House. A night out when 14 of us, in 1920s costume, took the Murder Mystery Dining steam train to Kingswear. A Tea Dance and Garden Party, culminating in the Agatha Christie swim from Goodrington to Broadsands, and in between, whilst completing the treasure hunt for 120 Red Herrings across Torbay, I visited places of interest and relevance to Agatha whilst she was growning up in her home town, and visited places such as Churston Rail station and Churston Manor, a cream tea at Cockington Court, etc.  Even if I don't win one of the prizes I enjoyed my birthday treat and hope that it is repeated next year.

Forgetful 16 Sep 10 at 11:57 a.m. GMT

Another idea would be to choose any Christie title then make as many words as you can of 3 or more letters

Forgetful 16 Sep 10 at 11:53 a.m. GMT

How about a week of doing different things,such as submitting things like short stories/poems/crosswords etc all related to Christie books/plays. Each catagory could win a random prize from the shop signed by Mrs Christie's grandson

MissQuin 24 Jun 10 at 9:29 p.m. GMT

Yes, because it's ACs birthday. Greenway is still open most of the year though.

CMillion 23 Jun 10 at 5:35 a.m. GMT

I wish Christie week was during the summer months (June-August).  If it were, my husband and I would surely fly to England from California for the festivities.  Do they always hold it in September?

Mr_west 15 Jun 10 at 7:08 p.m. GMT

ok, you can open it plese?

and here is another question:

where did the book appointment with death take place?

MissQuin 15 Jun 10 at 3:37 p.m. GMT

Bantry. I didn't look that one up! I know it by heart.

Maybe we should start another psot for the quiz?

Mr_west 15 Jun 10 at 3:02 p.m. GMT

we can still ask here questions and who search for the answer only hurt his fun, for exmple: what is the last name of miss marple friend dolly?

MissQuin 14 Jun 10 at 4:47 p.m. GMT

Well the quiz would be great if it was a interative website game feature. Rather than one that we post on the topics, because frankly, some people would look up the answers! You could have easy, moderate and hard levels.

Mr_west 14 Jun 10 at 3:55 p.m. GMT

OMG i know almost everything about AC and her work!

also we can ask here question (without spoilers like who is the murderer in ......!)

MissQuin 13 Jun 10 at 10:24 a.m. GMT

Kerr52

hey g'day!

how about someone come up with a problem to solve (they know the solution, which is feasible) as in "the Tuesday Night Club", give some pertinent facts whereby readers can attempt, by their st mary mead ways, work it out?

of course Poirot, Mr. Quin, Parker Pyne, Tommy and Tuppence et al can have tier turns.

cheeeers!

In answer, theres been a couple of short stories posted on here for people to work out.

It also would be great if there was a big Agatha Chrisite quiz. One that has to be anwered in a time limit, so people can't cheat by looking up the facts!

Mr_west 30 May 10 at 5:03 p.m. GMT

great idea!

right now i thinking about a problem that i can tell.

Kerr52 24 May 10 at 4:04 a.m. GMT

hey g'day!

how about someone come up with a problem to solve (they know the solution, which is feasible) as in "the Tuesday Night Club", give some pertinent facts whereby readers can attempt, by their st mary mead ways, work it out?

of course Poirot, Mr. Quin, Parker Pyne, Tommy and Tuppence et al can have tier turns.

cheeeers!

smiksa09 23 May 10 at 1:32 a.m. GMT

http://acrccarnival.blogspot.com/ The Agatha Christie Reading Challenge Blog Carnival will be hosting a daily blog tour during September 2010. You can indicate your interest in being a stop on the blog tour by leaving a comment on the blog.

MissQuin 06 May 10 at 8:26 p.m. GMT

Hello and welcome to the board MrJuan.

I do think that the end of Then There Were None is so fantastic, that it can't possibly be bettered by anyone. But not to put you off, short story competions would be a great idea for this website. So maybe in the future yo can submit some of your ideas.

MrJuan 06 May 10 at 7:36 p.m. GMT

What about a competition . Write a new finale for ATTWN. This year is the 70 anniversary of my prefered novel. And I think it's a good idea. If not I'll send to the blog my own finale . But I have to translate it because as you can see my english is very very bad. I'm from Spain ( Bilbao , in the north) and I'm very happy  of can read all of you speaking about my favorite writer. Thanks .

yours sincerely.

MrJuan

And sorry for my english...

Agathasmykid 02 May 10 at 8:26 p.m. GMT

Lots of great suggestions here folks, I am all for the following;

-Website murder mystery where we can all participate.

-Website short story submission - kept to a certain amount of words

-Vote for Agatha's best books, short stories, or characters were all webiste members are asked to submit lists.

Roadyblack 19 Apr 10 at 9:53 a.m. GMT

Sounds like a great idea!!!

Something fun and creative.