Although we know Agatha Christie to be the queen of crime, who had become famous for her 66 detective novels and 14 short stories, along with the fictional characters Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple, there are other lesser known facts about the dame. Like the fact that she had a stained glass window designed and installed at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Churston Ferrers, Devon.
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What urged the mystery writer to propose such an idea was that she had hated the plain glass windows on the east side of the church, and so she decided to commission someone to design the window to her specification. However, there was the matter of the cost, legal fees, and taxes.
Negotiations between Christie’s literary agent, Edmund Cork, and the diocese came at an impasse, and the dame, who wanted none of the fuss, settled with having the windows installed without being specified as the donor. Later on, her daughter Rosalind put up a plaque explaining the origin of the stained glass window.
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Source: neatorama