Queen of Detectives: 10 Interesting Facts about Agatha Christie

Biography

Agatha Christie is an English writer, prose writer and playwright, creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. The author's works still sell millions of copies; her books have become the third most popular after the Bible and the works of Shakespeare.

Detective Queen Agatha Christie

She managed to change ideas about the detective genre and become one of the most famous writers in the world.

Childhood and youth

Agatha Christie was born on September 15, 1890. The hometown of the future writer was Torquay (English county of Devon). At birth, the girl received the name Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller. Agatha's parents are wealthy immigrants from the United States. In addition to Agatha, the family had two more children - older sister Margaret Freri and brother Louis Montan. The future writer spent her childhood years on the Ashfield estate.

Agatha Christie in childhood and youth

In 1901, Agatha’s father passed away, the family could no longer afford “aristocratic liberties”, they had to cut expenses and live in conditions of strict economy.

There was no need for Agatha to go to school; initially, the girl’s education was handled by her mother, and then by the governess. In those days, girls were mainly prepared for married life, taught manners, needlework, and dancing. At home, Agatha received a musical education and, if not for stage fright, would probably have devoted her life to music. Since childhood, the Millers' youngest daughter was shy and differed from her brother and sister in her calm character.

Agatha Christie in her youth

At the age of 16, Agatha was sent to a Paris boarding school. There the girl studied without much zeal for science and was constantly homesick. Agatha’s main “achievements” were two dozen grammatical errors in dictation and fainting before performing at a school concert.

Then Agatha studied at another boarding school for two years, after which she returned home as a completely different person - from an unintelligent, shy girl, the future celebrity turned into an attractive blonde with long hair and languid blue eyes.

Agatha Christie in Paris, 1906

During the First World War, the future writer worked in a military hospital, acting as a nurse. Then the girl became a pharmacist, which later helped in writing detective stories - 83 crimes described by the author were committed through poisoning. After her marriage, Agatha took the surname Christie and, in between shifts in the pharmacy department of the hospital, began creating masterpieces.

It is assumed that the idea of ​​creativity was prompted by the writer’s sister, who by that time had already achieved some success in the literary field.

Literature

Agatha Christie wrote her first detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1915. Based on the acquired knowledge, as well as acquaintance with Belgian refugees, the writer brings out the key character of the novel - the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The first novel was published in 1920: before that, the book was rejected at least five times by publishing houses.

Film "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"

A series was filmed about the famous detective, which was loved by viewers around the world. Directors will constantly return to the novels of the British woman, creating films based on the writer’s books: “Agatha Christie’s Poirot”, “Miss Marple”, “Murder on the Orient Express”.

Viewers especially remembered the series “Miss Marple”. In this film adaptation, the image of Miss Marple was brilliantly embodied by British actress Joan Hickson.

Joan Hickson in the TV series "Miss Marple"

By 1926, Christie had become popular. The author's works have been published in large quantities in world magazines. In 1927, Miss Marple appears in the story “Tuesday Evening Club”. The reader's thorough acquaintance with this insightful old woman occurred with the appearance of the novel “Murder at the Vicarage” (1930). Then the characters invented by the writer were present in several works combined into a series. Murders and the theme of the investigation will be the main ones in the detective stories of the British writer.

The most striking detective novels of Agatha Christie are considered to be: “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” (1926), “Murder on the Orient Express” (1934), “Death on the Nile” (1937), “Ten Little Indians” (1939), “Baghdad Meeting” (1957). ). Among the works of the late period are experts about (1968), “The Halloween Party” (1969), “The Gates of Destiny” (1973).

David Suchet as Hercule Poirot

Agatha Christie is a successful playwright. The works of the British woman became the basis for a large number of plays and performances. The plays “The Mousetrap” and “Witness for the Prosecution” became especially popular.

Christie holds the record for the maximum number of theatrical productions of one work. The play “The Mousetrap” was first staged in 1952 and is continuously shown on stage to this day.

Film "Murder on the Orient Express"

The writer’s creative biography includes more than 60 novels. She published most of them under the name of her first husband. But she signed 6 works with a fictitious name - Mary Westmacott. Then the writer not only changed her name, but also left the detective genre for a while. She also published a considerable number of stories, collected in 19 collections.

Throughout her entire writing career, the writer has never made crimes of a sexual nature the theme of her works. Unlike modern detective stories, there are practically no scenes of violence or pools of blood in her novels. On this score, Agatha has repeatedly expressed that, in her opinion, such scenes do not allow the reader to concentrate on the main theme of the novel.

The writer herself considers the novel “Ten Little Indians” to be her best work. The setting is based on the Isle of Burgh in South Britain. However, today this book, to comply with political correctness, is sold under a different title - “And Then There Were None.”

Russian adaptation of the novel “Ten Little Indians”

The novels "Curtain" and "A Forgotten Murder" were published in 1975 - they became the last in the series about Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. But they were written long before that, during the Second World War, in 1940. Then she put them in a safe to publish when she could no longer write anything.

In 1956, the writer was awarded the Order of the British Empire, and in 1971, Christie was awarded the title of Dame Commander in the field of literature for her achievements. Recipients of the award also receive the noble title "dame", which is used before the name when pronounced.

Agatha Christie and Queen Elizabeth

In 1965, Agatha Christie completed her autobiography, which she ended with the following words:

“Thank you, Lord, for my good life and for all the love that has been given to me.”

Creativity[ | ]

In her interview with the British television company BBC[28][29] in 1955, Agatha Christie said that she spent her evenings knitting with friends or family, while in her head she was working on thinking about a new storyline, to the point where she sat down to write a novel, the plot was ready from beginning to end[30]. By her own admission, the idea for a new novel could have come anywhere. Ideas were entered into a special notebook full of various notes about poisons and newspaper articles about crimes. The same thing happened with the characters. One of the characters created by Agatha had a real-life prototype - Major Ernest Belcher, who at one time was the boss of Agatha Christie's first husband, Archibald Christie. It was he who became the prototype for Pedler in the 1924 novel “The Man in the Brown Suit” about Colonel Race[31].

Agatha Christie was not afraid to address social issues in her works. For example, at least two of Christie's novels (The Five Little Pigs and Ordeal by Innocence) depicted miscarriages of justice involving the death penalty. In general, many of Christie’s books describe various negative aspects of English justice of that time.

The writer has never made crimes of a sexual nature the theme of her novels. Unlike today's detective stories, there are practically no scenes of violence, pools of blood or rudeness in her works. “The detective story was a story with a moral. Like everyone who wrote and read these books, I was against the criminal and for the innocent victim. No one could have imagined that the time would come when detective stories would be read for the scenes of violence described in them, for the sake of obtaining sadistic pleasure from cruelty for the sake of cruelty ... "

- this is what she wrote in her autobiography. In her opinion, such scenes dull the feeling of compassion and do not allow the reader to concentrate on the main theme of the novel.[32]

Agatha Christie considered her best work to be the novel “Ten Little Indians.” The rocky islet on which the novel takes place is copied from life - this is the island of Burgh in southern Britain. Readers also appreciated the book - it has the highest sales in stores, but to comply with political correctness it is now sold under the title And Then There Were None [25].

In her work, Agatha Christie demonstrates her conservative political views. A striking example is the story “The Clerk's Story” from the series about Parker Pyne, about one of the heroes of which it is said: “He had some kind of Bolshevik complex.” A number of works - "The Big Four", "The Orient Express", "The Captivity of Cerberus" - feature immigrants from the Russian aristocracy, who enjoy the author's unfailing sympathy. In the aforementioned story, "The Clerk's Tale," Mr. Pine's client becomes involved in a group of agents who are passing secret blueprints of Britain's enemies to the League of Nations. But according to Pine’s decision, a legend is invented for the hero that he is carrying jewelry that belongs to a beautiful Russian aristocrat and saves them together with the owner from agents of Soviet Russia.

Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple[ | ]

Main articles: Hercule Poirot

and
Miss Marple
In 1920, Christie published her first detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, which had previously been rejected five times by British publishers[25]. Soon she has a whole series of works in which the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot acts: 33 novels, 1 play and 54 stories.

Continuing the tradition of the English masters of the detective genre, Agatha Christie created a pair of heroes: the intellectual Hercule Poirot and the comical, diligent, but not very smart Captain Hastings. If Poirot and Hastings were largely copied from Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, then the old maid Miss Marple is a collective image reminiscent of the main characters of the writers M. Z. Braddon and Anna Catherine Green[32].

Miss Marple appeared in the 1927 short story “The Tuesday Night Club.” The prototype of Miss Marple was Agatha Christie’s grandmother, who, according to the writer, “was a good-natured person, but always expected the worst from everyone and everything, and with frightening regularity her expectations were justified.”[33]

Like Arthur Conan Doyle from Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie was tired of her hero Hercule Poirot by the end of the 1930s, but unlike Conan Doyle, she did not decide to “kill” the detective while he was at the peak of his popularity. According to the writer’s grandson, Matthew Pritchard, of the characters she invented, Christie liked Miss Marple the most - “an old, smart, traditional English lady”[25].

During the Second World War, Christie wrote two novels, The Curtain (1940) and A Forgotten Murder, with which she intended to end the series of novels about Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, respectively. However, the books were not published until the 1970s.

Other detectives of Agatha Christie[ | ]

Colonel Reis

(eng. Colonel Race) appears in four novels by Agatha Christie. The Colonel is an agent of British intelligence, he travels around the world in search of international criminals. Reis is a member of MI5's spy department. He is a tall, well-built, tanned man.

He first appears in The Man in the Brown Suit, a spy mystery set in South Africa. He also appears in two Hercule Poirot novels, Cards on the Table and Death on the Nile, where he assists Poirot in his investigation. He last appears in the 1944 novel Sparkling Cyanide, where he investigates the murder of an old friend. In this novel, Reis has already reached old age.

Parker Pine

(English: Parker Pyne) is the hero of 12 stories included in the collection “Parker Pyne Investigates”, as well as partially in the collections “The Secret of the Regatta and Other Stories” and “Trouble in Pollensa and Other Stories”. The Parker Pyne series is not detective fiction in the generally accepted sense. The plot is usually not based on a crime, but on the story of Pine's clients who, for various reasons, are unhappy with their lives. It is these dissatisfaction that brings clients to Pine's agency. In this series of works, Miss Lemon first appears, who leaves her job with Pine to become a secretary to Hercule Poirot.

Tommy and Tuppence Beresford

(eng. Tommy and Tuppence Beresford), full names Thomas Beresford and Prudence Cowley, are a young married couple of amateur detectives, first appearing in the 1922 novel The Mysterious Assailant, not yet married. They begin their lives with blackmail (for money and out of interest), but soon discover that private investigation brings more money and pleasure. In 1929, Tuppence and Tomie appeared in the short story collection Partners in Crime, in 1941 in N or M?, in 1968 in Snap Your Finger Just Once, and most recently in the 1973 novel The Gates of Doom. which was the last Agatha Christie novel written, although not the last published. Unlike the rest of Agatha Christie's detectives, Tommy and Tuppence age along with the real world and with each subsequent novel. So, by the last novel where they appear, they are nearly seventy years old.

Superintendent Battle

(English: Superintendent Battle) - detective, hero of five novels. Battle is entrusted with sensitive cases related to secret societies and organizations, as well as cases affecting the interests of the state and state secrets. The Superintendent is a highly successful Scotland Yard employee, he is a cultured and intelligent policeman who rarely shows his emotions. Christie says little about him: thus, Battle’s name remains unknown. It is known about Battle's family that his wife's name is Mary, and that they have five children.[34]

Inspector Narracott

- detective, hero of the novel “The Riddle of Sittaford.”

Personal life

Agatha, a girl from an intelligent family and with an untarnished reputation, easily found a groom to match. Things were heading towards marriage, but this young man turned out to be very boring. It was at this time that she met the handsome man and womanizer Archibald Christie. The girl broke off the engagement and in 1914 married pilot Colonel Archibald.

Agatha and Archibald Christie

Later they had a daughter, Rosalind. Agatha plunged headlong into family life, but it wasn’t easy. For the writer, her husband always came first. Despite the fact that he earned good money, his wife spent even more. While Agatha wrote novels and traveled with her husband, her daughter was raised by her grandmother Clara and Aunt Margaret.

Despite ongoing financial difficulties and Archie's gloomy mood, Agatha believed that everything would work out. Later, when it became clear that Archibald Christie was unable to support his family, writing came first in Agatha’s life.

Agatha Christie with her daughter

The marriage lasted 12 years, then the husband admitted to the writer that he fell in love with a certain Nancy Neal. A scandal broke out between the spouses, and in the morning Agatha disappeared.

The mysterious disappearance of Christie was noticed by the entire literary world, because by that time the writer had gained wide popularity. The woman was put on the national wanted list and searched for 11 days, but only the car was found, inside of which her fur coat was found. It turned out that all this time Agatha Christie was staying in one of the hotels under a different name, where she visited beauty treatments, the library, and played the piano.

Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared

Many biographers and psychologists later tried to explain the disappearance of Agatha Christie, which caused a lot of noise. Someone said that this was unexpected amnesia due to stress. On the eve of her disappearance, in addition to her husband’s betrayal, Agatha also suffered the death of her mother. Others said it was deep depression. There was also a version about a kind of revenge on her husband - presenting him to society as a possible murderer. Agatha Christie remained silent on this matter all her life. Two years later, the couple officially broke off their relationship.

In 1934, Agatha published a novel, “An Unfinished Portrait,” under a pseudonym, in which she described events similar to her disappearance. This is also described in the 1979 film Agatha, in which Vanessa Redgrave played the role of the writer.

For the second time, Christie married archaeologist Max Mallowan. The meeting took place in Iraq, where Agatha went to travel. The woman was 15 years older than her husband. Later she joked that for an archaeologist, an older wife is even better, as her value increases. The writer lived with this man for 45 years.

The Mysterious Story of Agatha Christie

Agatha was born on September 15, 1890. The family (father Frederick, mother Clara, sister Madge, brother Monty and little Agatha) settled in a spacious cottage in Torquay, Devon. Christie recalled her childhood with great warmth and love. A blooming garden, devoted servants, simple joys available only to a child, carefree happy years when the whole family was still together.

Little Agatha. (pinterest.com)

She learned to read early, at the age of five, which greatly upset her mother. Clara Miller assumed that a girl should not learn this wisdom until at least 8 years old. But writing was not so easy for her: as Christie later recalled, words for her were not made up of individual letters, she distinguished them entirely. When the girl fully mastered reading, her father gave her a collection of mathematical problems - little Agatha really liked arithmetic. He also suggested to his daughter that she should probably try her hand at writing. Older sister Madge, also gifted with a talent for writing, published a series of her stories in Vanity Fair magazine.

However, Agatha’s abilities did not go unnoticed - through the efforts of her grandmother, a poem by little Miss Miller was published in the city newspaper. It was about trams. At that time the girl was 11 years old. She also became seriously interested in music - if not for her fear of public speaking, Agatha probably could have become a professional pianist.

At the same age, she experienced her first severe shock. Her father, who had suffered from regular heart pain for a long time, died. Agatha felt that she now had responsibility for her mother’s well-being. For two years after the death of her beloved dad, she got out of bed every night, made her way to Clara’s bedroom and quietly opened the door to check if her mother was breathing.

The head of the family left his financial affairs in a deplorable state - failures had been following him for quite some time, and he was never able to improve the situation. Madge got married and left home, Monty, who chose a military career, also left his family. From now on it was just the two of them: Clara and Agatha. And although things were not going well, the mother eventually abandoned the idea of ​​​​selling the family nest.

Agata is a young girl. (pinterest.com)

Despite any difficulties, Clara brought her youngest daughter into the world. In 1910, they went on a three-month trip to Cairo. It was a wonderful place for a young girl - balls were given five days a week, each time in a different hotel. Real bride fairs - young officers looked after their wives, and chaperones monitored the rules and adherence to etiquette (no more than two dances with one candidate!). At the same time, Agatha received her first marriage proposal. True, she learned about this from her mother, who, due to the young age of the bride, was approached by a certain captain. The proposal, however, was rejected.

In 1912, Agatha met her first great love and future husband, Archibald Christie. “No sooner had the ball begun than I met Christy, a tall young man with a head of curly blond hair and a slightly upturned nose; he spread an atmosphere of carefree and self-confidence around him,” this is how Agatha later recalled their first meeting. He was only a year older than her, a junior officer who dreamed of becoming a pilot. Archie was confident that aviation was the future of the army. Christie's family was not rich, and this circumstance complicated the situation. Archie insisted that Agatha, who was already engaged at that time, should marry him. After some hesitation, she agreed.

Archibald Christie, 1912. (pinterest.com)

Clara was horrified - her daughter was going to become the wife of a man whose financial situation was monstrously unstable. Archie, having heeded Mrs. Miller's admonition, was himself thinking of postponing the wedding indefinitely - until he was firmly on his feet. But then history intervened: the First World War began. Christie insisted that they get married before he left for the front. The wedding ceremony was held hastily and without notifying relatives - two almost random witnesses, travel clothes, no hint of a celebration. But the young people were happy. Archie went to war, Agatha eagerly awaited news from him. Finally, in 1918, he returned to her, and only then did real married life begin for them.

During the war, Agatha mastered the skills of a nurse and then a pharmacist, and became acquainted with the process of making medicines and poisons, which gave her the idea to write her first detective novel. She, of course, chose poisoning as a method of killing the character. Christie invented a detective - he was a pedantic, round Belgian named Hercule Poirot. The finished novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was repeatedly rejected by publishers. But when the book was finally published in 2,000 copies, it received rave reviews from critics. This is how the young writer won her first fame.

Agatha while working in the hospital. (pinterest.com)

The year 1926 became an incredible challenge for Christie. Her mother died of bronchitis at the age of 72. Archie, who had an aversion to misfortune, illness and death, did not support his wife in any way, leaving her alone in Torquay. He himself went to London and very rarely spoiled his wife with visits. Then he fell in love. The girl's name was Nancy Neal, she worked as the secretary of Archibald's friend. Returning to Torquay, he stunned his wife with this news and demanded that he be given a speedy divorce. Agatha was shocked and sincerely hoped that Archie's obsession would soon dissipate and he would return to her and their daughter Rosalind. However, in December of the same year, something strange happened: after another scandal, Agatha simply disappeared.

On Friday evening, December 3, 1926, Christie left her home in Styles without warning, driving a car allegedly to Yorkshire (she reported this in a note to her secretary Carlo). Archie reported to the police that his wife was missing. Soon the writer's car was found, in which she left her fur coat, but there was no trace of her. For 11 days no one knew the whereabouts of Agatha Christie.

In total, about 500 police officers, as well as sniffer dogs and an aircraft, were involved in the search. There were different versions: from murder to suicide. The police combed the entire area, searching nearby ponds and fields in search of the body.

Archie was one of the main suspects. A real plot for a detective: an unfaithful husband gets rid of his annoying wife. The servants confirmed the suspicions of the police - they reported constant quarrels and scandals between the spouses. Archie was forced to comment to the press, emphasizing that family squabbles had nothing to do with it...

A note in a newspaper about the disappearance of Agatha Christie. (pinterest.com)

Nevertheless, the public drew its conclusions. And although Archie’s guilt was not proven, there was talk of his involvement.

By this time, Agatha Christie already had admirers, she gained fame in literary circles. Her search was followed not only by journalists and fans, but also by fellow writers. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a great lover of hoaxes, got hold of Christie's glove and took it to the medium in the hope of learning something about the mysterious disappearance.

11 days later, Agatha was finally found - alive and relatively healthy. During this time she lived under an assumed name at a spa hotel in Harrogate. Christy visited the library, went to procedures, played the piano - in general, she led a measured vacation life. Agatha herself did not explain her disappearance in any way. Doctors who examined her diagnosed her with amnesia (as a result of hitting her head in an accident). However, later psychiatrists doubted it. The fact is that upon arrival at the hotel, Christie registered under the name of Teresa Neal (that was the name of Archie’s mistress) - this led the doctors to the idea that Christie did not have any temporary amnesia, and she acted according to a well-thought-out plan.

Psychologist Andrew Norman, who became interested in this story, then wrote about the case in the book “The Finished Portrait.” In his opinion, Christie could suffer from a rare form of the disorder - dissociative fugue. With this disease, caused by a difficult experience, a person can completely forget the history of his personality, down to his name, profession, address and other information. The patient may suddenly move to another place and begin to live a completely new life, in no way connected with his real personality. Norman suggested that this condition was caused by extreme stress - the bitterness of the loss of a loved one and the betrayal of a spouse.

Mrs. Christie has been found. (pinterest.com)

But many also believed that Christie, who had well learned the basics of a classic detective story, had thought out the “escape” plan in detail, having calculated everything in advance. One way or another, she herself never returned to this topic and avoided the episode in her memoirs. The public did not blame the poor, deceived woman, despite the fact that almost all the police in the area were involved in her search. And, of course, Archie could breathe a sigh of relief.

Christie, who for some time after the incident lived in the hope that her husband would still return to the family, gave him a divorce only in 1928.

A little later, she will meet the second and, perhaps, main love of her life - the young archaeologist Max Mallowan. He was 15 years younger than Christie, which, however, did not become an obstacle for the lovers. Together with Max, she traveled throughout the Middle East, attended excavations and collected material for novels. They got married and lived together for more than 40 years, until Agatha's death in 1976. But this, as they say in one good program, is a completely different story.

Death

Beginning in 1971, Agatha Christie's health began to deteriorate, but she continued to write. Subsequently, employees of the University of Toronto, having examined the manner of writing Christie's last letters, suggested that the writer suffered from Alzheimer's disease.

In 1975, when Agatha was completely weakened, she transferred the rights to the play “The Mousetrap” to her grandson Matthew Pritchard. He also heads the Agatha Christie Ltd Foundation.

Agatha Christie with her grandson Matthew

The life of the “queen of detectives” was cut short on January 12, 1976. Christie died at home in Wallingford, Oxfordshire. She was 85 years old. The cause of death was complications from a cold. The writer was buried in St. Mary's cemetery in the village of Cholsey.

Christie's only daughter, like her famous mother, also lived to be 85 years old. She died on October 28, 2004 in Devon.

In 2000, Agatha Christie's Greenway home was transferred to the National Trust. For 8 years, only the garden and the boat house were available to visitors. And in 2009, the house was opened, which underwent a large-scale reconstruction.

Agatha Christie's house

In 2008, Matthew Pritchard discovered 27 audio tapes in the closet of her house on which Agatha Christie talks about her life and work for 13 hours. However, the man said that he was not going to publish all the materials. According to him, some of his grandmother’s monologues are intimate and somewhat chaotic.

Agatha Christie's grave

In 2020, fans of the great writer celebrated the 125th anniversary of Agatha Christie. In Great Britain, this event gained national proportions.

Even so many years after the death of the writer, her works continue to be published in millions of copies.

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34. Superintendent Battle

Bibliography

• 1920 – “The Mysterious Affair at Styles”
• 1926 – “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd”
• 1929 – “Partners in Crime”
• 1930 – “Murder at the Vicarage”
• 1931– “The Sittaford Mystery”
• 1933 – “The Death of Lord Edgware”
• 1934 – “Murder on the Orient Express”
• 1936 – “The Alphabet Murders”
• 1937 – “Death on the Nile”
• 1939 – “Ten Little Indians”
• 1940 – “Sad Cypress”
• 1941 – “Evil Under the Sun”
• 1942 – “Corpse in the Library”
• 1942 – “Five Little Pigs”
• 1949 – “The Crooked Little House”
• 1950 – “Murder Announced”
• 1953– “Pocket Full of Rye”
• 1957– “4.50 from Paddington”
• 1968 – “Snap your finger just once”
• 1971 – “Nemesis”
• 1975 – “Curtain”
• 1976 – “Sleeping Murder”