Agatha Christie, her life

Agatha Christie

and her history

welcome to the childhood of Agatha Christie

• date of birth : 15 september 1890
• Place of birth : Torquay, Devon, England

• date of death : 12 january 1976
• place of death : Winterbrook, England

Agatha Christie's birth name was Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller

she was British

her family

her mother was English and her father was American

Clarisa Margaret Boehme Frederick Alvah Miller

she has a brother and a sister Luis Montant Miller and Margaret Frary Miller

In 1910, Agatha wrote some storys, but they didn't find success as should have do. They were all refused by publishing housepar. To write her first storys, she inspired by Sherlock Holmes and Arsene Lupin.

she has been married twice. The first time with Archibald Christie, who was an aviator (1914-1928), then with Max Mallowan, archaeologist (1930-1976).

Max Mallowan

Archibald Christie

During the first world war, Agatha Christie was volunteer as nurse, then she became an assistant chemist and got her pharmacist diploma in 1917. She had therefore quite a bit of knowledges on drogues and poisons, that allowed her to be enable to create detectiv story.

The 5th august 1919, Agatha Christie gave birth to her daugther Rosalind, it will be the only child.

She was raised in a bourgeois environment so she never has been registered to school. Her Father taught her math lessons and it was her nurse who did home school because her mother refused her to go to school. She lost her father when she was 11 and she will therefore develop an aptitude for writing.

Her novels symbolize entertaining. The reader has the impression of being in the investigator's game: it's called "cosy crime". She was a woman of Letters, she marked the history of detective novels, with her famous book Murder on the Orient Express for exemple. With 65 novels, 154 stories and 20 plays, she was a real novelist she still is one of the most translated authors in the world.

the 3rd of december 1926, Agatha Christie disappeared, she will be found ten days later without giving the slightest explanation on what happened. During this time, many rumors will arise: suicide, disappearance for the buzz, ex-husband murder . According to testimonies, Agatha didn't even recognized her husband when he came to pick her up. Agatha Christie never returned to this event. The truth remains an enigma.

She is very well known for two characters who left their mark on the world of the novel: Hercule Poirot: Belgian investigator, easily recognizable with his little mustache Miss Marple: British detective amateur, boring old lady who knows everything, but very good observer.

2 years after, Agatha and her husband divorced. She decided to go on a cruise in Moyen Orient in 1930. Over there, she will meet her second husband, the archaeologist Max Mallowan

Death on the Nile is a detective novel by Agatha Christie published on November 1st, 1937, featuring one of the most famous investigation by Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. It was published the following year in the United States, and 8 years later, in 1945, in France. Among Hercule Poirot's 40 investigations, Death on the Nile is one of the most famous Agatha Christie's book. It has been adapted for theater, radio, television and cinema.

Agatha Christie wrote Death on the Nile, which takes place mainly on a cruise ( in Upper Egypt ) by combining the memories of an early stay in Egypt with her mother and those of others trips made with her husband, Max Mallowan. On first hand, Agatha Christie writting's plan is: the drama in a close place, the investigation with the testimonies of each of the characters, the progressive undermining of all the alibis by Poirot, then the scene of the denouement in the classic form of a final explanation in front of all the protagonists of the "impossible crime". On the other hand, as always, the secondary characters have all real personality, which makes the novel very lively.

During the second world war, Agatha Christie manages to find time to continue writing despite of the time she spends in the pharmacy

In 1971, Agatha Christie is ennobled as " Lady Commander of the British Empire " by Elizabeth herself

Agatha Christie has considered as the author of the modern detective novel . She suggests investigations where the reader is completely transported into the twists and turns of the story. The little girl alone and shy has managed to find a place among the great writers of detective novels. All the terrible events that happened to her despite allowed her to write masterpieces.