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 Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, (15 September 1890-12 January 1976), also known as Dame Agatha Christie, was an English crime fiction writer. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but is remembered for her mystery novels.
Her work with mystery novels, particularly featuring detectives Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple, have given her the title the 'Queen of Crime' and made her one of the most important and innovative writers in the development of the mystery novel. She had once written romances under the name of Mary Westmacott.
Agatha Christie Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 45 foreign languages.
Other intersting points on the author:
- Agatha Christie overcame her learning disability, dylexia, to be a writer.
- She had once worked in a hospital during World War I. This influnenced many of her works, where many murders were result of poison.
- Her second husband – Sir Max Mallowan, had contributed background to many of her novels set in the Middle East.
Achievements of Agatha Christie:
NOVELS
The Lady has been called - by the Guinness Book of World Records, among others - the best-selling writer of books of all time, and the best-selling writer of any kind second to William Shakespeare. Her books has been translated to 103 languages. Most of her books and short stories have been filmed, some many times over.
She has wriiten 66 mystery novels, 21 collections of short stories and 7 romance novels (under the name of Mary Westmacott).
PLAYS
Agatha Christie has written 25 plays. In 1955, Christie was the first recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's highest honor, the Grand Master Award, and in the same year, Witness for the Prosecution was given an Edgar Award by the MWA, for Best Play.
LIFE
Named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1971.
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| Cards on the Table |
Four murderers and four crime specialists are invited to dinner by Mr Shaitana, a rich eccentric who collects only the best - including collections of people.
The dinner is excellent. However, the host decides to spice things up by putting the wind up in his quartet of murderers.
The evening continues until the crime specialists found their host being murdered.
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Curtain |
Having not seen his old friend, Poirot, for a year, Captain Hastings, now a widower, is invited to stay with him at the scene of their first investigation together: Styles Court in Essex. He is prepared for an emotional reunion, but is immediately shocked by the decline in Poirot’s physical condition. Poirot told Captain Hastings that there is a dangerous murderer in the house. He realises that Poirot is determined to solve one final case or die attempting it. |
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A Daughter’s a Daughter |
Ann Prentice falls in love with Richard Cauldfeld and hopes for new happiness.
Her only child, Sarah, cannot contemplate the idea of her mother marrying again and wrecks any chance of her remarriage.
Are mother and daughter destined to be enemies for life or will their underlying love for each other finally win through?
A novel in which mutual hatred leads to unhappiness; but love and hate are very much akin...
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Masterpieces of Mystery and the Unknowns |
Agatha Christie’s works have been cherished by generations of readers. Christie, however, was also a master of the short story and this volume collects some of her finest short pieces.
With such masterpieces as Witness for the Prosecution (the basis for the classic film) and Three Blind Mice (the basis for her Mousetrap, the longest-running play in history), as well as some lesser known works, including all of her supernatural suspense tales, this collection of twenty-eight ingenious short mysteries displays Agatha Christies full range as an author.
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Available in The Aroozoo Library:
- Cards on the Table
- A Caribbean Mystery
- Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case
- Hercule Poirot : the complete short stories
- Masterpieces of Mystery and the Unknowns
- Murder is Easy
- Murder on the Orient Express
- Taken at the Flood
- A Daughter’s a daughter (written as Mary Westmacott)
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/orientexpress/summary.html
http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/achristiemw.html
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