![]() ![]() This she did but regretted the fact afterwards, feeling that her (unpublished) ending was better. In addition he made forceful suggestions to Christie to change the ending of the book. He also assisted Christie with details of daily household life in Egypt 4000 years ago. The suggestion to base the story in ancient Egypt came from noted Egyptologist and family friend Stephen Glanville. The novel is notable for its very high number of deaths and is comparable to And Then There Were None from this standpoint. Instead, the novel is set in Thebes in 2000 BC, a setting for which Christie gained an appreciation of while working with her archaeologist husband, Sir Max Mallowan in the Middle East. It is the only one of Christie's novels not to be set in the 20th century, and - unusually for her - also features no European characters. Dustjacket illustration of the UK First Edition (Book was first published in the US)ĭeath Comes as the End is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in October 1944 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in March of the following year. The US Edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6). ![]()
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