At each step, the couple got progressively more capable riding surfboards some historians believe they may have even been among the first British surfers to learn how to ride standing up. Along with her husband, Archie, Christie went on a traveling spree in 1922, starting in South Africa and winding up in Honolulu. The image of Christie as a matronly author of mystery is the one most easily recognized by readers, but there was a time when Christie could be found catching waves. The pseudonym was a construct of her middle name, Mary, with Westmacott being the surname of her relatives. Beginning in 1930 and continuing through 1956, she wrote six romance novels under the pen name Mary Westmacott. Not all of Christie’s work had a mortality rate. Rarely did her protagonists carry a gun her two most famous detectives, Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, were virtual pacifists.
While a murder is typically needed to set a murder mystery in motion, Christie’s preferred methodology for slaying her characters was poison: She had worked in a dispensary during wartime and had an intimate knowledge of pharmaceuticals. Agatha Christie wasn't big on violence in her work. The author made no mention of it in her later autobiography some speculated it was a publicity stunt, while others believed the family's claim that she had experienced some kind of amnesic event. A police manhunt ensued, although it was unnecessary: Christie had simply driven out of town to a spa, possibly to get her mind off her tumultuous home life. It could have been the beginning of one of her sordid stories, particularly since her husband, Archie, had recently disclosed he had fallen in love with another woman and wanted a divorce. In 1926, Christie-who was already garnering a large and loyal fan base-left her home without a trace. Agatha Christie once disappeared for 10 days. His fictional counterpart's debut in The Mysterious Affair at Styles would be Poirot's first of more than 40 appearances. He was reportedly a bit odd-looking, with a curious style of facial hair and a quizzical expression. Christie was said to have been inspired when she caught sight of a Belgian man deboarding a bus in the early 1910s. The dapper Poirot, a mustachioed detective who took a gentleman's approach to crime-solving, might be Christie’s best-known creation. Agatha Christie based Hercule Poirot on a real person. The novel, which featured Hercule Poirot, was rejected by six publishers before being printed in 1920. Christie accepted the challenge and wrote The Mysterious Affair at Styles, a mystery featuring a soldier on sick leave who finds himself embroiled in a poisoning at a friend’s estate. Agatha Christie's first novel was written on a dare.Īfter an adolescence spent reading books and writing stories, Christie’s sister Madge dared her sibling to attack a novel-length project. Christie refused to let Agatha pursue any formal education until the age of 15, when her family dispatched her to a Paris finishing school. Agatha Christie's mother was against her daughter learning to read.īefore becoming a bestselling novelist, Christie’s mother was said to be against her daughter learning how to read until age 8 (Christie taught herself) and insisted on home-schooling the budding author. Let's take a look at some of the verifiable details of the famed crime writer’s life and times. Occasionally, the mystery surrounding her personal life-including a high-profile disappearance in the 1920s-has rivaled the best of her fiction. With more than 2 billion copies of her books in print, British author Agatha Christie (1890-1976) has kept countless readers up into the early morning hours.
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