The extent of her wealth, particularly since the worldwide success of Murder on the Orient Express and the attendant film offers, may well mean that Dame Agatha Christie has left a hugely profitable Christie industry as a family and Inland Revenue inheritance. She had published 83 books including novels, romances written under the pseudonym of Mary Westmacott, short stories, poetry, and texts of her plays. "But she was read all over the world, including Russia, was translated into 28 languages and in her lifetime her thrillers had sold about 300 million copies." Mr Robert Knittel, editorial director of Collins, which has published all her books since 1926, said yesterday that it was statistically impossible to calculate her precise sales. At last night's performance of The Mousetrap, the leading man, Brian McDermot, paid respect to Dame Agatha.
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