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Tuesday, 21 August 2007, 16:38 GMT 17:38 UK

In pictures: Agatha Christie Comic Strip

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Agatha Christie's crime novels, already immortalised on television, on film, on stage and in audio books, have been adapted as comic strip editions.

The Secret of Chimneys

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The relaunch of Christie in this new way is timed to coincide with the annual Agatha Christie Week on September 9 to 15, 31 years after the novelist's death.

Murder on the Orient Express

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The relaunch in comic form is an effort to make the world's second best-selling author more appealing to new and younger readers.

Murder on the Orient Express

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The famous Orient Express will be instantly recognisable to Christie fans. The first 12 of 83 titles will launch next month and the rest are due to follow next year.

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The start of the roll-out, September's Agatha Christie Week, marks the 70th anniversary of the publication of Christie's Death on the Nile, a film that starred Dame Maggie Smith.

The Secret of Chimneys

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Christie will appear as a character in the new series of BBC1's Dr Who, which is due to start next year, a move that will introduce her to new fans.

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In the Murder of Roger Ackroyd, the protagonist knows too much and pays the price. In classic Christie-style, he dies while reading a crucial clue to another killing.

The Murder on the Links

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An estimated one billion copies of her novels have been sold in English, and only William Shakespeare has been more widely read, according to the Guinness Book of Records.

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