sentences:  In her "", Christie claimed that the success of "And Then There Were None" set her on the path of being a playwright as well as a writer of books and that only she would adapt her works for the stage from then on and that "The Hollow" would be her next play.In writing this, Christie forgot her intervening plays of "Appointment with Death" (1945) and "Murder on the Nile" (1946) in addition to Moie Charles and Barbara Toy's 1949 adaptation of "Murder at the Vicarage".Christie had always felt that "The Hollow" would make a good play but she came up against the opposition of her daughter, Rosalind Hicks, who Christie affectionately described as having "had the valuable role in life of eternally trying to discourage me without success".