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Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in September of 1890 in South West England. She had two, much older, siblings, who were out of the house by the time she was born and therefore grew up much like an only child. Her father homeschooled her and so early on in her life, she developed a love of reading to pass time being home alone.<\/p>\n In the years between her childhood and her first book, Agatha met and married Colonel Archibald Christie. He was a pilot in the Royal Navy and their courtship whirlwind surrounded the years of the First World War. Even though they married in 1914 it wasn\u2019t until after the war in 1918 that their marriage really began.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n It started off well enough for the two of them. Agatha gave birth to her only child, her daughter Rosalind in 1919 and her first novel was published that same year. Her older sister began Agatha\u2019s adventure into writing. She bet that Agatha could not write a good detective story and as any younger sibling would, Agatha set out to prove her wrong. At the time she worked at a dispensary which ended up giving her a profound knowledge of poisons that she used in many of her novels including her first. And thus, Detective Hercule Poirot entered the world in Christie\u2019s debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The following years filled in Agatha\u2019s publications with Poirot and a few of her stand-alone novels. In 1925 Agatha\u2019s mother passed away and the same year her husband began an affair with a woman whom he met while golfing. All the turmoil sent Agatha into depression and in December she vanished. Her car was found abandoned on the side of a road and no one had any idea where she had gone. A nationwide search ensued with the press speculating far and wide what had happened to the famous mystery writer. Baffled police eventually found her Harrogate Hotel where she had registered under her husband\u2019s mistress\u2019s name. When they picked her up, she seemed confused, but no one knew what happened in those several days. Some said she disappeared to prove that she could vanish without a trace. Regardless the press and publicity she received from the incident drove her to never speak of it to anyone.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Agatha and Archie divorced in 1928 and she wrote her first romance novel under the pen name Mary Westmacott in that same year. She followed her ambition to travel on the Orient Express, and it eventually ended up at an archaeological site where she met her second husband Max Mallowan, an archaeology professor. They married in 1930 and Agatha\u2019s travels with him to various sites led her to discover many areas that became settings in her famous books.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Interested in reading a Christie novel? Try These!<\/p>\n The Murder of Roger Ackroyd<\/u> \u2013 Known for its startling reveal (you\u2019ll never see it coming!) this book will change your standard of mystery.<\/p>\n And Then There Were None<\/u> \u2013 Ten strangers are invited to an isolated island. Then rising tides and storms trap them and just as there is no way out someone dies\u2026.<\/p>\n Murder on the Orient Express<\/u> \u2013 One of the most famous Christie stories. A murder on a train trapped by snow. The victim came to Poirot fearing someone may be out to get him. Which passenger hides a dark secret?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sources Used:<\/p>\n And Then There Were None<\/i>. (2009). Agathachristie; Agatha Christie. https:\/\/www.agathachristie.com\/stories\/and-then-there-were-none<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Murder of Roger Ackroyd<\/i>. (2019). Agathachristie; Agatha Christie. https:\/\/www.agathachristie.com\/stories\/the-murder-of-roger-ackroyd<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Death on the Nile (2022 film)<\/i>. (2021, March 27). Wikipedia. https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Death_on_the_Nile_(2022_film)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Stories index<\/i>. (n.d.). Www.agathachristie.com. https:\/\/www.agathachristie.com\/stories<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Homepage<\/i>. (2019). Agathachristie; Agatha Christie. https:\/\/www.agathachristie.com\/<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Steinman, P. (2020, January 12). Has The Mystery Behind Writer Agatha Christie\u2019s Unexplained Disappearance Been Solved?<\/i> Icepop. https:\/\/www.icepop.com\/mystery-behind-writer-agatha-christie-mysterious-disappearance\/2\/<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Woodbury, J. (2020, January 9). The Best Agatha Christie Books (And Why You Should Read Them)<\/i>. BOOK RIOT. https:\/\/bookriot.com\/best-agatha-christie-book<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n Visual Bibliography:<\/p>\n Mystery Books 1920-1929, The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie, Alias The Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance, The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne, Whose Body? by Dorothy Sayers, The Rasp by Philip MacDonald, The House without a Key by Earl Derr Biggers, Payment Deferred by C.S. Forester, The Benson Murder Case by S.S. Van Dine, The Bellamy Trial by Frances Noyes Hart, Ashenden by W. Somerset Maugham, The Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett. (n.d.). In Biblio.com<\/i>. Retrieved March 27, 2021, from https:\/\/www.biblio.com\/book-collecting\/by-year\/mystery-books\/1920-1929<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Steinman, P. (2020b, January 12). Has The Mystery Behind Writer Agatha Christie\u2019s Unexplained Disappearance Been Solved?<\/i> Icepop. https:\/\/www.icepop.com\/mystery-behind-writer-agatha-christie-mysterious-disappearance\/2\/<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Max Mallowan<\/i>. (n.d.). Agatha Christie Wiki. Retrieved March 27, 2021, from https:\/\/agathachristie.fandom.com\/wiki\/Max_Mallowan<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Hot Take: Best Agatha Christie Characters<\/i>. (2019, October 24). The Chanticleer. https:\/\/jsuchanticleer.com\/2019\/10\/24\/hot-take-best-agatha-christie-character<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica. (2019). Agatha Christie | Biography, Novels, & Facts. In Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica<\/i>. https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Agatha-Christie<\/p>\n<\/div>\n https:\/\/www.vintag.es\/2015\/08\/13-rare-photos-of-queen-of-crime-agatha.html<\/p>\n Wagner, A. (2021, February 15). The Disappearance of Agatha Christie<\/i>. Medium. https:\/\/medium.com\/the-mystery-box\/the-disappearance-of-agatha-christie-bf3de9470b0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n https:\/\/anygoodfillms.com\/death-on-the-nile-trailer\/<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Detective Hercule Poirot, Miss Jane Marple, Tuppence, and Tommy Beresford. All are famous in the fiction world for their marvelous feats of intelligence and bravery. All characters birthed from the brilliant mind of the Queen of Mystery herself, Agatha Christie. 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Even after her death in 1976, Christie\u2019s works continue to be a huge success in the literary world and more. Her books have sold over two billion copies worldwide. Her play The Mousetrap still holds the record for the world\u2019s longest-running play.\u00a0 Many different movies and TV adaptations have been made of her novels. The most current being Kenneth Branagh\u2019s Poirot 2017 movie adaptation of The Murder on the Orient Express. A movie adaption of her novel Death on the Nile is coming in September 2021 more than forty years after Agatha\u2019s death.<\/p>\n