What did Agatha Christie’s daughter do?

Rosalind Margaret Clarissa Hicks (née Christie; 5 August 1919 – 28 October 2004) was the only child of author Agatha Christie and her first husband Archibald Christie. She spent much of her time at the Greenway Estate in south Devon, which her mother bought in 1938.

Rosalind married Major Hubert de Burr Prichard in 1940, and they had one child, Mathew Prichard, in 1943. After her husband died in the Battle of Normandy in 1944, Rosalind remarried to lawyer Anthony Arthur Hicks in 1949.

Following Agatha Christie’s death in 1976, Rosalind and Christie’s husband inherited most of the £106,683 net (about £773,000 in 2019), which she left behind. Rosalind also received 36% of Agatha Christie Limited and the copyrights to Christie’s play “A Daughter’s a Daughter”.

Agatha Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), introduced Hercule Poirot. According to UNESCO’s Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author.

In 2013, Agatha Christie was voted the best crime writer, and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd the best crime novel ever by 600 professional novelists of the Crime Writers’ Association.