Dear Agatha Christie

A mysterious comedy by Juan Carlos Rubio
German translation by Wolfgang Seidenberg

1927. Puerto de La Cruz, Tenerife. Hotel Taoro. The already celebrated young writer Agatha Christie faces yet another sleepless night. The ghosts of her crumbling marriage and the recent loss of her mother have shaken her grip on reality. She is on the verge of doing something reckless - anything to stop the pain for good.

Then an unexpected visit from a mysterious stranger sends events in a dark and dramatic new direction...

2026 is Agatha Christie year: 12 January marked the 50th anniversary of her death, and exactly 100 years ago, in December 1926, her strange eleven-day disappearance gripped the world. Even the New York Times and Arthur Conan Doyle joined the search.

A Netflix series, Kenneth Branagh's new film adaptations of her crime novels, and the enduring presence of her stories on German stages ("The Mousetrap", "Murder on the Orient Express") all confirm that Agatha Christie is very much alive today. In the best possible sense.