Agatha Christie
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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
Alussions
- One of her novels, And Then There Were None, where ten people were invited on an island and disappeared one after the other, while a doll representing them also disappeared has been for many cases that are similar to it:
- In The Disappearing Detective Boys Case Kids have been disappearing one after the other, and the dolls each disappeared one had also vanished each time. The plot and the puppet play that they trying to re-enact is similar to the novel.
- In The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid case was inspired by it.
- In And Then There Were No Mermaids the case's title is a pun on the novel.
- In The Fourteenth Target also incorporate Christie's And Then There Were None.
- In And It'd Be Nice if Everybody Disappeared The title of the episode, Soshite Dare mo Inaku Nareba Ii, is a play on the Japanese name of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, Soshite Dare mo Inaku Natta.
- In The Evidence That Didn't Disappear Hatsuki dog was named Christie.
- One of her novels, ABC Murders, is referenced a lot in the series as well:
- In The Shifting Mystery of Beika City The names of the characters follow the same pattern as in the ABC Murders, where the characters' last names are following an alphabetical order, except for the culprit's name.
- Files 393–397 and Episodes 325-327 of its anime adaptation feature a case with some similarities as the criminal was inspired by the plot of The A.B.C. Murders.
- The Fourteenth Target is a combination of this story, with a murderer killing based on numbers in names as a ruse to confuse detectives.
- In The Disappearance of Conan Edogawa: The Worst Two Days in History this special is based on the famous case of the disappearance of Agatha Christie in 1926.
