TIMES WEST VIRGINIAN MONDAY, MAY 10, 2021 PAGE 1A GARFIELD ROSE IS ROSE FRANK & ERNEST MUTTS THE GRIZZWELLS RHYMES WITH ORANGE BEETLE BAILEY DADDY DAZE REX MORGAN MODERATELY CONFUSED REALITY CHECK THE BORN LOSER This This edition of Shortcuts is cartoon doesn’t have sponsored by AuThor. an alibi. The pen is even mightier than ritish author Agatha Christie my hammer! is the best-selling fiction writer of all time. Her novels have sold more than two billion copies worldwide and have been translated into more than 40 languages. In addition to her mystery novels, she also wrote short stories, plays and poetry. She even secretly wrote six Some of Christie’s more romance novels under the pen name famous novels were “And Then Mary Westmacott. There Were None” and “Murder Can you find the hidden words? Search carefully because some Hercule Poirot on the Orient Express.” words are backward or diagonal. and Miss Jane Marple are two of Christie’s more During her career, Christie wrote 66 ROMANCE MARPLE DAME AGATHA POIROT BOOK famous characters. In 1975, crime novels, six romance novels, 14 The New York Times published short story collections and 19 plays. CHRISTIE NOVEL TRAP MYSTERY STORY PLAY a full-page obituary for the During her more than 50 years of PUBLISH MOUSE BOB fictional Poirot when he writing, Christie filled more than 100 POETRY WRITE PEN died in Christie’s novel notebooks with her notes, sketches P R E T T Y P E A C O C K “Curtain.” and story ideas. T U B A A E C S H O W E R C A B L N N B A T H E Y M C H P L A P O P A O E B Y O M R M I S O N G M R B S Christie’s play “The Mousetrap” is the W A O I A S K I A T O Y T world’s longest-running play. It opened A R R U S T H D R B O P E in 1952 and saw more than 27,000 S P I N S T L E V O N A R performances before the theaters in A L L T O E I P O E T R Y London were closed in 2020 because P E N S E R V E N T O T E of the COVID-19 pandemic. The play Christie Christie was began as a short radio play named taught herself extremely “Three Blind Mice.” to read before shy. the age of 5. Can you spot all six differences between these two scenes? Why did Agatha Christie Christie start writing? She thought it continued to was a novel write until about idea. a year before her death at the Christie wrote her first age of 85. published novel, “The Mysterious Affair at Styles,” to win a bet between herself different. 5. Rug is smaller. 6. Debris is missing. is Debris 6. smaller. is Rug 5. different. 2. Tail is missing. 3. Outlet is missing. 4. Tail is is Tail 4. missing. is Outlet 3. missing. is Tail 2. and her sister, Madge. Why did GAME ANSWERS: 1. Knob is different. different. is Knob 1. ANSWERS: GAME What does Agatha Christie Why Agatha Christie do Agatha Christie’s go to the forest? did Poirot leave with a criminal? full name was Dame Agatha She heard it was the crime scene? Book 'em. Mary Clarissa Christie. full of shady He didn’t have characters. a clue. For more information: “Agatha Christie” by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara (Frances Lincoln Children's Books) or www.agathachristie.com Find your favorite past issues at: www.shortcutscomic.com Distributed by Andrews McMeel for UFS, Inc. © Jeff Harris 2021 5/10.