Agatha Christie

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Agatha Christie

• The queen of crime

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• Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was born Agatha May
  Clarissa Miller in Devon, England in 1890, the
  youngest of three children in a conservative
  family.

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• Agatha Christie, was an English writer. She also
  wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott,
  but she is remembered for her 80 mystery novels.

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• Her work with mystery novels, particularly
  featuring detectives Hercule Poirot or Miss
  Marple, has given her the title 'Queen of Crime'
  and made her one of the most important and
  innovative writers in the development of the
  mystery novel.

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• Poirot was an amiably comic character with an
  egg-shaped head.His friend,Captain Hastings,
  represents the "idiot narrator" - familiar from
  Sherlock Holmes stories. Poirot draws conclusions
  from observing people's conduct and from objects
  around him, creating a chain of facts that
  finally reveal the murderer. 'He tapped his
  forehead. These little gray cells. It is up to
  them - as you say over here.' Behind the
  apparently separate details is always a pattern,
  which only Poirot is able to see.

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• Miss Marple, an elderly spinster, was a typical
  English character, but when Poirot used logic and
  rational methods, Marple relied on her feminine
  sensitivity and empathy to solve crimes. She was
  born and lived in the village of St. Mary Mead.
  Both Poirot and Marple did not have any family
  life, but Poirot travelled a lot. Marple was
  featured in 17 novels, the first being MURDER AT
  THE VICARAGE (1930) and the last SLEEPING MURDER
  (1977). She was reportedly based on the author's
  own grandmother.

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• Miss Marple made her first screen appearance in
  1961 in Murder She Said, starring Margaret
  Rutherford. It was based on the novel 450 FROM
  PADDINGTON (1957). It was followed by Murder at
  the Gallop (1963), Murder Ahoy (1964), and Murder
  Most Foul (1964), all directed by George Pollock.
  The BBC TV series starring Joan Hickson ran from
  1984to 1987. Gracie Fields played Miss Marple on
  television in an adaptation of A Murder Is
  Announced (1956).

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• Novels
• 1920 The Mysterious Affair at Styles (introducing
  Hercule Poirot, Chief Inspector Japp and Captain
  Hastings)
• 1922 The Secret Adversary (introducing Tommy and
  Tuppence)
• 1923 Murder on the Links
• 1924 The Man in the Brown Suit
• 1925 The Secret of Chimneys
• 1926 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
• 1927 The Big Four
• 1928 The Mystery of the Blue Train
• 1929 The Seven Dials Mystery
• 1930 Murder at the Vicarage (introducing Jane
  Marple)

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• 1949 Crooked House
• 1950 A Murder is Announced
• 1951 They Came to Baghdad
• 1952 Mrs McGinty's Dead (also known as Blood Will
  Tell)
• 1952 They Do It with Mirrors (also known as
  Murder with Mirrors)
• 1953 A Pocket Full of Rye
• 1953 After the Funeral (also known as Funerals
  are Fatal and Murder at the Gallop)
• 1954 Destination Unknown (also known as So Many
  Steps to Death)
• 1955 Hickory Dickory Dock (also known as Hickory
  Dickory Death)
• 1956 Dead Man's Folly

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• Texts compiled by
• KAOUTAR CHAQCHAQ
• 4B LV2

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• Music
• Hercule Poirot theme by
• Christopher Gunning
• Miss Marple theme by
• Ron Goodwin

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• THE END