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If you've searched the web for the words "Agatha Christie books," you need a good detective literary work. The writer is considered by literature specialists as an icon of the black novel, that wide grayscale world. Christie's narrative style integrates elements typical of the style Sherlock Holmes, although with a great satirical touch and irony, even towards herself. Its protagonists exhibit superlative intelligence, courage, ferocity, independence and idiosyncrasy, qualities inherent —for example— in one of its most legendary subjects: Hercule Poirot.
Christie (September 15, 1890 - January 12, 1976) He was born in Torquay, Devon, Great Britain. SHer full name is Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller. She was the youngest of three siblings from the marriage between Frederick Alvah Miller and Clara Boehmer.
Childhood, youth and influences
His childhood was spent in Ashfield, in a house surrounded by lawns and trees.. This location would inspire many of the scenes of the crimes narrated in his novels, with inhabitants who are calm - apparently - but capable of murder with precision and cold blood (in order to receive a juicy inheritance or get rid of a troublesome husband).
Her adolescence was that of a typical British girl belonging to a wealthy class. He received home instruction from his parents and private tutors. She learned singing, embroidery, cooking, and gardening. During that time he read many fairy tales, Dickens and Conan Doyle. She also traveled a lot, being the Riviera and Egypt two the places that marked her deeply.
Her father was a bourgeois from New York and her mother a sophisticated and cultured English woman who was actively involved in the formation of young Agatha and encouraged her to write from an early age. At that time he built characters based on the classic detectives of his time, but little by little he added his own qualities. As far as his work is concerned, there are a considerable number of literary curiosities.
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In 1912 she met and became engaged to Mr. Archibald Christie, whom she married two years later.. Her husband was an aviator, joining the French Army during the Great War, while Agatha volunteered at the Torquay Red Cross Hospital. That experience helped him to analyze the psychology of people, described masterfully later in his novels.
First publications
Agatha Christie was assigned to the hospital dispensary when the war was ending, there she had her first contact with the poisons that she would later use in her stories. Likewise, she became a regular reader of Doyle and Chesterton's police dramas. As the war was dying out, he began to write his first novel, The Mysterious Case of Styles, starring his beloved detective Poirot.
The novel was published in 1920 by Bodley Head Publishing House, from London, thanks to John Lane, after being rejected by up to six different publishers. That first contract was not very beneficial for the author, but she was very happy to at least get published. However, after complying with the other four agreed novels, she decided to look for better conditions.
After the war, Christie traveled through South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States, in this way, he acquired knowledge that further enriched his work. In addition, between 1921 and 1925 he published numerous short stories in magazines (years later they were collected in volumes) that allowed him new income on a constant basis.
Equally, during those years he wrote books that would be successful a few decades later, among those we can name Murder in Connections (1923) The Man in the Brown Suit (1924) and Chimneys Secret (1925). Although it would be The Secret Adversary (1922) the most renowned with its intricate plot of action between spies. At that time he conceived his daughter Rosaleen.
Writer Agatha Christie.
Literary success and divorce
The Assassination of Rogelio Ackroyd was the title of the detective novel that gave Agatha final fame in 1926, who during that same year decided to definitively use her husband's surname as a literary name. It is one of his most prominent works; constantly incorporates surprise elements and false leads, beginning with the narrator, Dr. Sheppard, who turns out to be the murderer.
The following years were quite turbulent for the author, because she had to deal with the death of her mother and the consequent depression. Shortly after she divorced, in 1928, because her husband left her for another woman. His only support during those hard times were writing and his daughter Rosaleen, with whom he settled for about a year and a half in the Canary Islands.
Despite the circumstances, Agatha Christie was able to publish many other works: The big four (1927) The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928) The Seven Marks of Mystery (1929) Murder in the Villa del Vicario (1930) and The Giants' Jam (1930 - under the name of Mary Westmacott, used for romantic stories, mainly).
New arrival of love and World War II
During a trip to Iraq in 1930 Agatha met Max Mallowan, a renowned archaeologist who he later married. He was ten years younger than her, for this reason the writer initially hesitated to contract a second marriage, but then agreed. From then on, she would accompany her husband to different places in Greece, Syria and Iraq, while he did his excavations and she helped with the photographic material.
But the happy marriage would be interrupted for most of World War II., as Prof. Mallowan acted as advisor for Arab affairs to the British Army in North Africa, due to his knowledge of the language and customs of the Middle East.
During the conflict, the author enlisted as a volunteer at the University College Hospital of London. In that health center he wrote assiduously, there were so many works produced that some like The Sleeping Killer (1976) were reserved through his notary for publication after his death. Other prominent titles from that decade were The Body in the Library (1942) Death Comes to the End (1944) and Absence in the Spring (1944 - as Westmacott).
Agatha Christie: Books and Travel
De Those constant transfers inspired him to develop many of his locations for his future publications.. Thus, they emerged —among many other titles— Murder on the Orient Express (1934) Murder in Mesopotamia (1936) Muerte en el Nilo (1937) and A Date with Death: A Poirot Mystery (1938)
Until her death Agatha Christie continued to constantly write countless books and short stories, much of them starring Hercule Poirot, to whom he gave his honorable end with Curtain (published in 1975, but written during the 40s).
"Murder is Easy", one of Agatha Christie's books.
In addition, the author produced and supervised highly acclaimed plays such as The Mousetrap (1952) In all, Agatha Christie's books have sold more than 300 million copies, have gone through multiple editions, and have been translated into more than 28 languages.
His work has been the best sellers most important in the detective novel genre, with numerous performances in theater, film and television. Few people in today's world have had direct or indirect contact with their intellectual heritage.
Just clarify that Agatha Christie never wrote a crime novel, hers is a detective novel or enigma.
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I am reading 8 cases for Poirot, I am already finishing it.