Maybe I'll be forgotten, perhaps I have not thought of before but I have not written a study on crime novelist of the twentieth century. Surely all you know it? She is Aghtatha Cristie. The famous mystery writer. That's all I could take and aprprodire. Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller, Lady Mallowan, known as Agatha Christie (Torquay, September 15, 1890 - Wallingford, January 12, 1976) was a British writer. Among his works include, in addition to the novels that made her famous, some romance novels written under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.
world-renowned mystery writer, always took care of her novels with great skill, creating a intriguing characters and environments through easily recognizable: accurate descriptions, sense of suspense , detailed realistic environments, characters never without thickness or characterization. Its major characters are famous all over the world, including the most famous protagonists of most of his literary production, are Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the nice old lady, intriguing and inquisitive Miss Marple.
Even today, her novels are published with success around the world. It is the most translated English author, even more than Shakespeare. In the original language of his books have been sold a billion copies, and an equal number at least forty-five different languages.
Agatha grew up in a middle class family and, strangely, did not attend any school but was educated by his mother, Clara Boehmer, a woman of good society, his grandmother and housekeeper. His father, Fred Miller, American stockbroker, died in 1901, Agatha spend adolescence between study and social life within the family.
Meanwhile a passion for music and in 1906 went to Paris to study singing: he wants to become an opera singer, but the studies do not give much satisfaction, probably because of his poor attitude to singing, and decides to return in England. He knows Archibald Christie, Colonel of the Royal Flying Corps, with which they engaged.
During the First World War, Agatha worked at the hospital in Torquay, and learned a lot about poisons and medicines, which will return the most useful when, inspired by this knowledge, decide to write novels also boosted by a kind Bet he had done with his sister, who believed that it would not be able to become a writer of detective story . On December 24, 1914 he married Archibald with a simple ceremony and from this marriage born in 1919 his only child, Rosalind. Full
World War began writing his first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Poirot a Styles Court ), which has as its setting the first world war but which will however not published until later in 1920. The inspiration to invent a character in a detective novel came to Christie, as well as his knowledge of poisons to the dispensary learned from reading the books that the patients, returned to the front, left the hospital: the books that gave life to the rich suggestion as Arsene Lupin by Maurice Leblanc or the journalist-investigator Joseph Rouletabille, released from the pen of Gaston Leroux. The well was the idea of \u200b\u200binventing a character who in turn was as clever as Sherlock Holmes Conan Doyle but that does not imitate too closely, both in appearance in the conduct of investigations.
With funding from the British Museum in 1923 partly with her husband for a trip around the world in the same year signed a contract with the magazine "Sketch" to write twelve novels which have as their protagonist Hercule Poirot.
In 1926 Christie's life is shaken by two traumatic events in some ways: his mother dies and her husband for divorce. Agatha suddenly disappears from his home, wandering in a state of amnesia (malignerà but someone who may have been a publicity stunt), the case raises a stir and after about ten days Agatha, which is found Harrogate, a spa town in northern England, where he was staying in a hotel in the place registered under the name of the lover of her husband, he can not give any explanation. His biographer has discovered a document in 2001, according to which Christie ran away and hid in the hotel where he was found again in the hope that her husband Archie was accused of murder and concealment of the corpse of his wife, all done because Archie cheated on her with his secretary.
Also in 1926 left for the Canary Islands with her daughter Rosalind. After the divorce, Agatha still retain her married name, but only for commercial reasons. In the three years
Subsequent writes novels considered inferior to the literary value of works that had success and then, during a train trip to Baghdad, has the inspiration to write Murder on the Orient Express , considered his masterpiece. The same journey to the archaeologist Max Mallowan became known, many years his junior, whom she married shortly afterwards (1930). Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul, the room where Christie had stayed for some time during his trip to the East was transformed into a small museum of memorabilia and memories of the writer.
Christie also began to write in that year death in the village, its first novel that features Miss Marple, an old woman with a calm and good sense, who lives in the seemingly tranquil town of St. Mary Mead, fragile in appearance, but an expert in criminology and human nature, which alternates the conduct of investigations to the knitting mesh. It seems that Christie has taken as a model for the figure of Miss Marple his own grandmother.
In 1949 he discovers that the author was not only yellow but, under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, including biographical and other sentimental novels but had much less chance of the yellow series.
continuously since 1952 is represented in a London theater one of his plays, The Mousetrap ( Trap rat), taken from the collection Three Blind Mice and Other Stories . Christie wrote seventeen other plays.
In 1975, just before Christmas, comes the latest novel whose protagonist Hercule Poirot ( Curtain), because in this novel, Agatha decides to kill the famous detective. The news of the death of Poirot was also featured on the front page of the Times on August 6 of that year. The famous English writer
it dies January 12, 1976 at Willingford in his home country, will be buried in the cemetery of Cholsey in Oxfordshire. In his own tomb after two years will also interred the remains of her husband. In life, Agatha Christie has won more than 20 million pounds.
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- 1920 The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Poirot a Styles Court , they appear Hercule Poirot, Captain Arthur Hastings Chief Inspector Japp)
- 1922 The Secret Adversary (Opponent secret, it appears the couple Tommy and tuppence )
- 1923 Murder on the Links ( Help, Poirot! )
- 1924 The Man in the Brown Suit ( Man Brown Suit )
- 1925 The Secret of Chimneys (The Secret of Chimneys )
- 1925 Poirot Investigates (Poirot investigates )
- 1926 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ( The Murder of Roger Ackroyd also translated as nine to ten )
- 1927 The Big Four (Poirot and four )
- 1928 The Mystery of the Blue Train ( The Mystery of the Blue Train )
- 1929 Black Coffee ( finished in the summer of 1929 , written as a stage play with the main character in H. Poirot is published by Harper Collins Publishers in 1998, with permission Agatha Christie Ltd., a company that controls the rights of his works, some twenty years after the death of Agatha and the suggestion of Charles Osborne, stage actor who most 'times he played the part of Dr. Carey in Black Coffee ( Source HarperCollins - London)
- 1929 The Seven Dials Mystery ( The Seven Dials )
- 1929 Partners in Crime (Tommy and tuppence : two s'indaga better)
- The Murder at 1930 the Vicarage ( The Murder at the Vicarage Murder or custom , which appears for the first time Miss Jane Marple)
- 1930 The Mysterious Mr. Quin ( The Mysterious Mr. Quin appears Mr. Harley Quin)
- 1930 The Thirteen Problems (Miss Marple and thirteen problems )
- 1931 The Mystery Sittaford ( A message from the spirits )
- 1932 Peril at End House ( Peril at )
- 1933 The Hound of Death (The Hound of Death , twelve stories they take on with the spirit world, of which he was a passionate follower)
- 1933 Lord Edgware Dies ( If my husband died )
- 1934 Murder on the Orient Express (Murder on the Orient-Express )
- 1934 Parker Pyne Investigates ( Parker Pyne investigates , twelve short stories yellow)
- 1934 The Listerdale mystery (The mystery of Lord Listerdale and other stories, twelve short stories yellow)
- 1935 Three Act Tragedy ( tragedy in three acts )
- 1935 Why Did not They Ask Evans? ( Why did not they ask Evans? )
- 1935 Death in the Clouds (Death in the sky )
- 1936 The ABC Murders (The ABC Murders )
- 1936 Murder in Mesopotamia ( There is no escape )
- 1936 Cards on the Table ( cards on the table )
- 1937 Death on the Nile ( Nile Poirot )
- 1937 Dumb Witness ( Two months after )
- 1937 Murder in the Mews ( Four cases for Hercule Poirot )
- 1938 Appointment with Death ( Appointment with Death or The Taming )
- 1939 And Then There Were None published originally as Ten Little Niggers and also known as Ten Little Indians ( Ten Little Indians or ... and then there remained no one.)
- 1939 Murder Is Easy (It's too easy )
- 1939 Hercule Poirot's Christmas ( Christmas Poirot )
- 1939 The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories ( In three against the crime )
- 1940 Sad Cypress ( The Defenders )
- 1941 Evil Under the Sun (Evil Under the Sun )
- 1941 N or M? ( Fifth column )
- 1941 One, Two, Buckle My Shoe ( Poirot no mistake )
- 1942 The Body in the Library ( Body in the Library )
- 1942 Five Little Pigs (Portrait of Elsa Greer )
- 1942 The Moving Finger ( to terror by mail )
- 1944 Towards Zero (Towards Zero )
- 1944 Sparkling Cyanide ( Day of the Dead)
- 1945 Death Comes as the End ( Once upon a time )
- 1946 The Hollow (Poirot and the body )
- 1947 The labors of Hercules ( The labors of Hercules, twelve short stories with Hercule Poirot)
- 1948 Taken at the Flood (Title in U.S. There Is A Tide ) ( Adrift )
- 1949 Crooked House ( is a problem )
- 1950 A Murder is Announced ( A crime takes place )
- 1950 Three Blind Mice and Other Stories ( Three Blind Mice and Other Stories , nine short stories featuring some of which Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot)
- 1951 They Came to Baghdad ( The world is in danger )
- 1952 Mrs. McGinty's Dead ( stop the Executioner )
- 1952 They Do It With Mirrors ( Miss Marple: juggling )
- 1953 A Pocketful of Rye ( of Rye )
- 1953 After the Funeral ( After the funeral )
- 1955 Hickory Dickory Dock ( Poirot bored )
- 1955 Destination Unknown (Destination unknown )
- 1956 Dead Man's Folly (The Rite of murder )
- 1957 4:50 from Paddington ( Snapshot of a crime )
- 1957 Ordeal by Innocence ( The two truths )
- 1959 Cat Among the Pigeons ( quiz Macabro)
- 1961 The Pale Horse (Pale Horse witch )
- 1961 Double Sin ( Meet the fear )
- 1962 The Mirror Crack ' d from Side to Side ( Silence: you kill or Mirror Crack'd )
- 1963 The Clocks ( Challenge Poirot )
- 1964 A Caribbean Mystery ( Miss Marple in the Caribbean )
- 1965 At Bertram's Hotel ( Miss Marple to the Bertram Hotel )
- 1966 Third Girl ( I'm a murderer? )
- 1967 Endless Night ( In my beginning my end )
- 1968 By the pricking of my Thumbs ( I feel itchy thumbs )
- 1969 Hallowe'en Party (Poirot and the massacre of innocent )
- 1970 Passenger to Frankfurt ( Passenger to Frankfurt )
- 1971 Nemesis ( Miss Marple: Nemesis )
- 1972 Elephants Can Remember ( Elephants have good memory )
- 1973 postern of Fate (The the gates of Damascus )
- 1974 Poirot's Early Cases ( The first cases of Poirot eighteen short stories of mystery)
- 1975 Curtain, the last homes of Poirot ( Curtain, Poirot's last case, written four decades earlier)
- 1976 Sleeping Murder (Miss Marple Goodbye, the last the case of Miss Marple, written four decades earlier)
- 1977 While the light lasts ( The dream home, a collection of short stories published in one volume for the first time)
