Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Author- Agatha Christie
INDEX
1. Background of the author 2. Characters 3. Plot summary 4. Re-created few pages 5. Review of reviews 6. Legal vocabulary 7. Bibliography 8. Original Pages
Background of the author
Agatha Christie was born Agatha May Clarissa Miller in Devon, England in 1890, the youngest of three children in a conservative, well-to-do family. Taught at home by a governess and tutors, as a child Agatha never attended school. She created games to keep herself occupied at a very young age. A shy child, unable to adequately express her feelings, she first turned to music as a means of expression and then later in her life to writing.
In 1914, at the age of 24, she married Archie Christie, a World War I fighter pilot. While he was off at war, she worked as a nurse. It was while working in a hospital during the war that Christie first came up with the idea of writing a detective novel. The Mysterious Affair at Styles is her first novel published in October 1920.
In 1926, Archie asked for a divorce, as he fell in love with another woman. Agatha, already upset by the recent death of her mother, disappeared. All of England became wrapped up in the case of the now famous missing writer. She was found three weeks later in a small hotel, explaining to police that she had lost her memory. Thereafter, it was never again mentioned or elaborated upon by Christie. She later found happiness with her marriage in 1930 to Max Mallowan, a young archaeologist who she met on a trip to Mesopotamia
Christie ultimately became the acknowledged Queen of the Golden Age. In all, she wrote over 65 novels, numerous short stories and screenplays, and a series of romantic novels using the pen name Mary Westmacott. Several of her works were made into successful feature films
Her work has been translated into more than a hundred languages. In short, she is the single most popular mystery
Author- Agatha Christie
INDEX
1. Background of the author 2. Characters 3. Plot summary 4. Re-created few pages 5. Review of reviews 6. Legal vocabulary 7. Bibliography 8. Original Pages
Background of the author
Agatha Christie was born Agatha May Clarissa Miller in Devon, England in 1890, the youngest of three children in a conservative, well-to-do family. Taught at home by a governess and tutors, as a child Agatha never attended school. She created games to keep herself occupied at a very young age. A shy child, unable to adequately express her feelings, she first turned to music as a means of expression and then later in her life to writing.
In 1914, at the age of 24, she married Archie Christie, a World War I fighter pilot. While he was off at war, she worked as a nurse. It was while working in a hospital during the war that Christie first came up with the idea of writing a detective novel. The Mysterious Affair at Styles is her first novel published in October 1920.
In 1926, Archie asked for a divorce, as he fell in love with another woman. Agatha, already upset by the recent death of her mother, disappeared. All of England became wrapped up in the case of the now famous missing writer. She was found three weeks later in a small hotel, explaining to police that she had lost her memory. Thereafter, it was never again mentioned or elaborated upon by Christie. She later found happiness with her marriage in 1930 to Max Mallowan, a young archaeologist who she met on a trip to Mesopotamia
Christie ultimately became the acknowledged Queen of the Golden Age. In all, she wrote over 65 novels, numerous short stories and screenplays, and a series of romantic novels using the pen name Mary Westmacott. Several of her works were made into successful feature films
Her work has been translated into more than a hundred languages. In short, she is the single most popular mystery
Bibliography: AUTHOR: Agatha Christie, 1890–1976. TITLE:The mysterious affair at Styles: a detective story, by Agatha Christie. PUBLISHED:London: Bodley Head, c1920. ISBN:1-58734-006-2. CITATION:Christie, Agatha. The Mysterious Affair at Styles. London: Bodley Various web sites for background of the author.