Agatha Christie: Her plays are the third best-selling in history, behind the Bible and Shakespeare.
Agatha Christie's works have sold more than two billion copies , standing in the third position of the best-selling books in the world, only for behind of the works from Shakespeare and the Bible.
Ten Negritos is the best-selling mystery novel of all time and another of his novels, The murder of Roger Ackroyd, was voted the best crime novel of all time by the Crime Writers Association..
Beginnings in literature:
The first character Agatha Christie created was Poirot, his famous detective, and he did it in his first novel, The mysterious case of StylesBut even the Great Lady of Crime didn't get off to an easy start in the complex literary world: six publishers rejected the novel. When she got them to bet on her, they put one of the conditions that most devastates an author: that she modify the ending.
The critics gave him one of lime and another of sand:
"The only flaw in this story is that it is almost too clever."
It was the first detective story in which the reader would not be able to locate the criminal
Plot veracity:
Her experience as a nurse and as a pharmacy assistant gave her some knowledge about drugs and poisons that he applied in his novels. His competence on this subject was so high that the description of thallium poisoning, which he makes in The Pale Horse Mystery (1961) was so precise that curiously helped solve a medical case which was puzzling to the specialists.
One of the main characteristics of Agatha Christie's novels is that leaves enough clues throughout the chapters for the reader to find the killer before the end. This literary technique or experience is called whodunit (of Who do it?).
An extensive literary work:
Agatha Christie posted 66 detective novels in addition to plays, six romantic novels, short stories, two autobiographies, and two books of poetry.
His play The Mousetrap It is the longest running show in the world.
All the six romance novels he published them under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.
Poirot, the public's favorite character, whom his own creator found "insufferable."
Agatha Christie and her characters:
Only twenty years after creating Poirot, confessed to his diary that he found it "insufferable". Despite this, he surrendered to his readers and continued to write novels with Poirot as the protagonist without lowering their quality one iota. He continued thirty more years with his star character, with such success that Poirot is the only fictional character to have his own obituary. in The New York Times after his last appearance (Curtain, 1975)
Its two main characters never met. Jamas Poirot and Miss Marple met in the same novel.
"I'm sure they wouldn't like to meet"
he said once, and if we think about it, he was right. They weren't two personalities meant to get along.
In any case, together or separately, it is worth rereading each of their adventures, without neglecting those starring Tommy and Tuppence, Parker Pine or characters who only lived during a story, such as the protagonist of one of my favorite novels, The Eternal Night.