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Agatha Christie

1. Agatha Christie 1890-1976

2. The world's foremost mystery writer of all time, Agatha Christie's books have been translated in over 40 languages and sold over two billion copies. Only the Bible and Shakespeare have outsold her. She wrote 78 mystery novels, 19 plays, and over 100 short stories. Christie also wrote six romance novels (under the name of Mary Westmacott), 2 books of poetry, a children's book, and 2 autobiographies. Christie managed to write an average of two novels a year through most of her life.

3. She wrote them longhand at first and later started using a typewriter for her manuscripts. She wrote anywhere: in the bathtub, on a washstand, on the dining room table, or on a makeshift table in the Middle East. From 1958 until her death she served as the co-president of the Detection Club of London, a private club for leading crime writers. She was known to love eating apples, playing golf, and playing the piano.

4. Agatha May Clarissa Miller was born in 1890 along the Devon coast in the town of Torquay. The third child of

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Agatha Christie: Elvis Presley

In 1920, she wrote her first book, “The Mysterious Affair of Styles”. It
became an immediate success : people discovered and got to like the
hero that she invented : the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.
When her husband was fighting during World War I, Agatha worked in
a hospital as a nurse. Later she worked in the hospital pharmacy
(that’s where she learnt all the information about poisons and
medicines that she used later in her books). Agatha admitted that
poisons were her favourite means of murder.
After her divorce in 1928 Agatha remarried to an archeologist. She
travelled a lot with him, particularly to Egypt, Syria and Irak. They
A) Write complete sentences with spent several months a year in the desert but Agatha didn’t stop
the following information. Use writing. She took her typewriter with her and wrote books with exotic
the simple past tense. titles like “Death on the Nile” or “Murder on the Orient Express”.
People really liked her books and especially her heroes: Miss Marple
- Date of Birth : 15 September 1890 and Hercule

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Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

October 6, 2015

"Towards the beginning of the war, Graham Greene had written to me and asked if I would like to do propaganda work. I did not think I was the kind of writer who would be any good at propaganda, because I lacked the single-mindedness to see only one side of the case. Nothing could be more ineffectual than a lukewarm propagandist. You want to be able to say ‘X is black as night’ and feel it. I didn’t think I could ever be like that."

Dame Agatha - one of the most puzzling authors I have ever read. Puzzling because I can never guess from her stories whether she is poking fun at people by drawing up outrageous characters, whether she is echoing the mores of her time, whether she expresses her own attitudes in her books, whether it's all or none of these.

Dame Agatha is a mystery to me.

Earlier this year I got a little unnerved with re-reading some of her books because of some of the attitudes exhibited by her characters. I know that I am looking at this from the point of someone who is of a different generation and cultural backg