Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.
Agatha Christie is the best-selling author of all time. She wrote eighty crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and several other books. Her books have sold roughly four billion copies and have been translated into 45 languages. She is the creator of the two most enduring figures in crime literature-Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple-and author of The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theatre.
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U.K., as the youngest of three. The Millers had two other children: Margaret Frary Miller (1879–1950), called Madge, who was eleven years Agatha's senior, and Louis Montant Miller (1880–1929), called Monty, ten years older than Agatha.
During the First World War, she worked at a hospital as a nurse; later working at a hospital pharmacy, a job that influenced her work, as many of the murders in her books are carried out with poison.
On Christmas Eve 1914 Agatha married Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. The couple had one daughter, Rosalind Hicks. They divorced in 1928, two years after Christie discovered her husband was having an affair.
Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, came out in 1920. During this marriage, Agatha published six novels, a collection of short stories, and a number of short stories in magazines.
In late 1926, Agatha's husband, Archie, revealed that he was in love with another woman, Nancy Neele, and wanted a divorce. On 8 December 1926 the couple quarreled, and Archie Christie left their house Styles in Sunningdale, Berkshire, to spend the weekend with his mistress at Godalming, Surrey. That same evening Agatha disappeared from her home, leaving behind a letter for her secretary saying that she was going to Yorkshire. Her disappearance caused an outcry from the public, many of whom were admirers of her novels. Despite a massive manhunt, she was not found for eleven days.
In 1930, Christie married archaeologist Max Mallowan (Sir Max from 1968) after joining him in an archaeological dig. Their marriage was especially happy in the early years and remained so until Christie's death in 1976. In 1977, Mallowan married his longtime associate, Barbara Parker.
Christie frequently used familiar settings for her stories. Christie's travels with Mallowan contributed background to several of her novels set in the Middle East. Other novels (such as And Then There Were None) were set in and around Torquay, where she was born. Christie's 1934 novel Murder on the Orient Express was written in the Hotel Pera Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, the southern terminus of the railway. The hotel maintains Christie's room as a memorial to the author. The Greenway Estate in Devon, acquired by the couple as a summer residence in 1938, is now in the care of the National Trust.
Christie often stayed at Abney Hall in Cheshire, which was owned by her brother-in-law, James Watts. She based at least two of her stories on the hall: the short story The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, which is in the story collection of the same name, and the novel After the Funeral. "Abney became Agatha's greatest inspiration for country-house life, with all the servants and grandeur which have been woven into her plots.
During the Second World War, Christie worked in the pharmacy at University College Hospital of University College, London, where she acquired a knowledge of poisons that she put to good use in her post-war crime novels.
To honour her many literary works, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1956 New Year Honours. The next year, she became the President of the Detection Club. In the 1971 New Year Honours she was promoted Dame Commande
Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer.
Isolated by the storm and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer amongst a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again...
我本来是不甚喜欢看阿加莎的小说的. 一来是因为翻译翻得不大好,二来是手法跟日本侦探小说很不一样.. 之前看过阿加莎的几本小说,无奈忘记名字了,只记得读起来非常不吸引人,行文不流畅(主要是译者的问题),还有情节的向前推进缺乏必然性.那时候边看边想:果然是老一辈侦探作...
评分 评分 评分东方快车不是我最喜欢的阿婆作品之一,但是平心而论此作实乃上乘,阿婆一贯的人性与正义在此作中体现的淋漓尽致。众人手中的正义之剑更是在波罗最后的伟大抉择中绽放出绚烂的光辉,波罗无疑与他们一样站在了善与罚的一面。 说句题外话,我十分鄙视无耻邻国日本的推理小说,其变...
1.Mrs Hubbard的口头禅是my daughter,简直不敢揣测她每次说出这个词的心情。 2. Miss Debenham的中间名是Hermione。3. 波洛最后做决定的时候完全轻描淡写,哪有电影里的戏那么足,阿婆似乎不太care法律至高无上的地位…
评分BL 6.2,AR 9,Word Count 58154;久仰大名,本来想先从爱伦坡的经典五篇侦探小说入门,但奈何词汇难度太大,就先从这本入门了;只读了一半就觉得人物关系太复杂,毕竟出场人数多达十个,分不清车厢位置,就跑去看电影,剧本也不是特别精彩,事到如今也读不下去了,历史意义大于娱乐意义;我发现推理小说可能比科幻小说奇幻小说好读点,毕竟往往以对话驱动。
评分我更喜欢前面不急不缓的推理过程,而后面急转的结果实在有些不在情理之中却又能自圆其说。这种奇特的案子大概也只有Poirot能破吧?惊喜的是,没想到侦探小说还能这么幽默,隔三差五让人笑!法语我几乎都还给老师了,好在文中穿插的少数法语并不难不影响阅读。
评分看的直让人痴迷不已,结局完全没猜到,故事推进的精彩无比!还推荐她的另一本游记《告诉我怎样去生活》。
评分幸好没剧透,完全没猜到!。。。不过英文小说里总夹杂法语读起来是什么鬼。。,
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