Chris Chan

Chris Chan is a doctoral student in U.S. History at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, specializing in literary history, the history of crime, twentieth-century world history, antimodern studies, and Asian-American history. He is also a contributing editor to Gilbert Magazine, a periodical devoted to the life and work of the author G.K. Chesterton, where he writes articles on literary theory and reviews of mystery books and television shows. Chris has been a fan of Agatha Christie since the age of ten, when he received a copy of And Then There Were None for Christmas in 1992. By September of 1994, he had read all of Christie's mystery novels and short story collections. Chris admires Christie for her imaginative plotting, strong sense of justice, and unflinching respect for the value of every human life.

Phil Clymer

Phil is Executive Producer for Poirot and Miss Marple and is Director, Television and Film at Chorion.

John Curran

John is a self confessed Christie fan and collects Christie editions and is currently researching and writing a book examining the secrets of Agatha Christie's Notebooks.

Hobbit

Hobbit is from England and has been an avid Christie fan for many years. His favourite books include And Then There Were None, The ABC Murders and Murder is Easy. He says the character he most resembles is probably Thomas Beresford, from Tommy and Tuppence - and became addicted to Agatha's work through a love of this famous duo and the incredible adventures they shared.

Mathew Prichard

Mathew is Agatha Christie's only grandchild and is Chairman of Agatha Christie Ltd.

David Spanswick

David writes:

I live in a book-filled house in Brighton in the UK and until a year ago I was a teacher. I am now blissfully retired.

I have been an Agatha Christie fan since I graduated from Enid Blyton in my early teens. My first Christie was Dead Man’s Folly. I was so impressed that I had the nerve to write to Agatha Christie, after a holiday in Devon where I had spotted her house on the River Dart, and she had the grace to reply. The letter, now including the famous signature, is one of my treasures.

I have collected the Christie books over many years and have a fine collection of both English and American copies as I am also a collector of Christie cover art.

I have recently been doing comparison studies of the various film adaptations and returning to the texts to see how close to the original they are.

I have also taken to rereading the short stories, which I had neglected and am at present looking closely at the volume of supernatural tales The Hound of Death which I consider to be some of Agatha Christie’s most revealing writing.

Ralf M.M. Stultiens

Ralf (b.1977) is a Dutch freelance journalist and councillor in his home village of Nuenen. He is also obsessed by the life and works of Agatha Christie.

Stultiens read his first Christie at the age of 11 and collects everything on and about the life ands works of the Queen of Crime. At this moment, Stultiens owns over 4,800 books in over 40 languages, clothes, books and signed letters which once belonged to the authoress and tons of other items. Please pay a visit to www.queenofcrime.com, Stultiens' website about his collection.

Last September - during the annual Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay - Stultiens donated several rare items from his collection to the Torquay Museum.

Tony O'Sullivan

Well, I'm from Ireland and have been interested in Agatha Christie for over twenty years now. She is simply my favourite author in terms of writing style and is, I think, extremely perceptive with regards human nature, having read her books as well as her autobiography. She is an illusionist and master puzzle setter and very witty and humorous in her work. I also have always noticed something thought provoking to be found in every book of hers that I've read - which by now is the vast majority as well nearly all her short stories.