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Christie accompanied the pair on many excavations and travelled extensively throughout egypt and the holy land. Agatha christie, quote from death comes as the end. Agatha christie is not just a famous mystery writer, shes the best selling novelist of all time with over two billion copies sold and a massive fandom that continues long after her death. Editions of death comes as the end by agatha christie. The bbc has announced it will be adapting a new agatha christie murder novel next year 2019. Death 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.
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