Detective fiction
Agatha Christie had disappeared for ten days in 1926
Along with Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie was the central figure of British detective fiction: legendary detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple were products of her exceptional imagination.
Black Week Festival opens at Pera Palace Hotel Jumeriah
Istanbul's Pera Palace Hotel Jumeirah is hosting the "Black Week" event in honor of the 125th anniversary of the birth of popular novelist Agatha Christie's birth, featuring a week of crime fiction-themed events.
The festival, which will continue until Oct 24, will include panel discussions at the historic hotel with local and international detective novelists.