Christie Agatha

Christie Agatha . She was a British writer of detective novels. She wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. She is known as the Queen of Crime .

Summary

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• 1 Biographical summary
  • 1 Literary Production
  • 2 Death
• 2 Works
  • 1 Death
• 3 Decorations
• 4 Sources

Biographical summary

He was born on 15 September 1891 in Torquay , Great Britain . She is the youngest daughter of the marriage of Fred Miller and Clara Boehmer. As a child she had a shy and withdrawn character, and she rejected her dolls to play with imaginary friends. Her father, who lived on income, spent his days playing cards, died when she was eleven, leaving his wife and children bankrupt.

During World War I he worked in a hospital dispensary, which later had a certain influence on his work, such as the knowledge of chemical composition for murderous purposes; where he got the inspiration to write a police story whose victim died of poisoning. The novel was The Mysterious Affair of Styles 1920 , and with it she inaugurated her career as a writer.

She did not see her future in literature , because for her her family came first and foremost, but the bad economic situation that she and her mother were going through encouraged her to write another book. From then on she would never stop writing.

It took him about fifteen years to write his autobiography. This work helped a lot to get to know her, since she was a person who was very jealous of her privacy. There is a very dark chapter in her life that she never wanted to talk about: when her mother died and her husband asked for a divorce to go with her secretary.

These two events caused him a major nervous breakdown that gave rise to his amnesia . On a December night in 1926 , when she was 36 years old, her abandoned car appeared near the road, but there was no trace of her.

There was much speculation about this event, it was even thought that it was an action to give publicity to the writer. What is certain is that eleven days later she appeared at a beach hotel registered under the last name of her husband’s lover. Not knowing who she was, she published a letter in a newspaper to see if anyone recognized her, but since she signed with another surname, no one did. Fortunately, her family found her and she was able to recover from this blow with psychiatric treatment.

Separated from her husband and with her daughter in school, Agatha traveled alone to Baghdad aboard the Orient Express, a train that served as inspiration for one of her most famous novels: Murder on the Orient Express .

At this time it was very risky for a woman to cross all of Europe alone to visit the East.

During this trip she meets Max Mallowan, an archaeologist fifteen years younger than her, whom she marries despite criticism. She was 40 years old. From then on the writer lives between the Middle East and England , her marriage being a success.

Literary production

He published more than eighty novels and plays, mainly of the closed room type and plots involving one of his main characters, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple . Although she liked to vary the established form of the detective story (one of her first books, The Death of Roger Ackroyd , is famous for its surprising denouement), she was scrupulous about playing fair with the reader by making sure to give all the information to solve the problem.

Most of his novels and stories have been made into films , some on more than one occasion, such as Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile . He had been writing since the end of the First World War , when he created his character Hercule Poirot, the little Belgian detective with his egg-shaped head and his passion for “order and method”, and since then one of the most popular detectives from Sherlock Holmes . Poirot and his other detectives, such as Miss Marple, have also appeared in the numerous films, radio programs and stage performances based on his books.

Several of his books have been published posthumously, including his autobiography. In addition to being a detective writer, she wrote 6 romantic novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, some plays and a book of poems.

Death

He died of natural causes on 12 January 1976 , aged 85, at Winterbrook House, Cholsey, near Wallingford, Oxfordshire . She is buried in the churchyard of St. Mary’s Church, Cholsey.

Plays

• The seven capital sins
• Agatha Christie’s secret notebooks
• Come and tell me how you live
• A lonely god and other stories
• Murder at Bardsley Mews
• A sleeping crime
• Curtain
• Early Poirot cases
• The door of destiny
• Elephants can remember
• Nemesis
• Passenger to Frankfurt
• The apples
• Picture
• Eternal night
• The third girl
• Bertram’s Hotel
• Mystery in the Caribbean
• The clocks
• The mirror cracked from side to side
• The Mystery of Pale Horse
• Christmas pudding
• A cat in the pigeon coop
• The 4:50 train
• tragic innocence
• The Nasse-House temple
• Murder on Hickory Street
• Unknown destination
• after the funeral
• a handful of rye
• The mirror trick
• McGinty is dead
• The Mousetrap
• Intrigue in Baghdad
• A murder is announced
• Three blind mice
• The crooked house
• High tides of life
• witness for the prosecution
• The labors of Hercules
• blood in the pool
• Nofret’s Revenge
• foaming cyanide
• Towards zero
• The case of the anonymous
• five little pigs
• A corpse in the library
• The Mystery of Sans Souci
• Death visits the dentist
• Evil under the sun
• ten little blacks
• Killing is easy
• tragic christmas
• Problem in Pollensa
• Appointment with death
• The silent witness
• Death on the Nile
• Cards on the table
• The mystery of the railway guide
• Murder in Mesopotamia
• Death in the clouds
• Tragedy in three acts
• Murder on the Orient Express
• The Listerdale Mystery
• The trajectory of the boomerang
• Parker Pyne investigates
• The death of Lord Edgware
• Miss Marple and thirteen problems
• Poirot breaks the law
• Imminent danger
• The enigmatic Mr. Quin
• The Sittanford Mystery
• Death in the vicarage
• The mystery of the seven spheres
• Hound Marriage
• The Tuesday Club
• The mystery of the blue train
• The big four
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
• The secret of Chimneys
• The man in the brown suit
• The red signal
• Poirot investigates
• Murder on the golf course
• The mysterious Mr. Brown
• The mysterious case of Styles
• A sad cypress

Death

He died of natural causes on 12 January 1976 , aged 85, at Winterbrook House, Cholsey, near Wallingford, Oxfordshire . She is buried in the churchyard of St. Mary’s Church, Cholsey.

Award

She was a member of the Royal Society of Literature and an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Exeter, as well as a Dame of the British Empire, one of the great awards of the British crown.