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Edith Thompson was executed for the murder of her husband, who was stabbed by her young lover.

The last Poirot mystery, in which Christie's fabled Belgian detective dies, was written in the early 1940s during World War II in case she did not survive

Agatha Christie's 1930s typewriter and the manuscript of her final Hercule Poirot novel, which was kept for decades in a bank vault, go on display Saturday in a new exhibition delving into the "dark stuff" at the heart of crime fiction.- Dark stuff - The exhibition draws on the library's one million-strong fiction collection of first editions -- still in their original dust jackets -- by highlighting nearly 100 of the most famous, influential and best-selling crime novels in UK history.

Agatha Christie's 1930s typewriter and the manuscript of her final Hercule Poirot novel, which was kept for decades in a bank vault, go on display Saturday in a new exhibition delving into the "dark stuff" at the heart of crime fiction. The cover of the faded and fragile manuscript has the book's title "Curtain" written in capital letters in Christie's own hand along with her name and address -- Greenway House in Devon, southwest England -- in spidery longhand, AFP said.

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