Appeal of Agatha Christie Who does not enjoy a good mystery story? Popular literature abounds with examples‚ raging from the controversial work of Dan Brown to the horrific work of Stephen King. This genre‚ rooted in the Victorian tradition of Edgar Allan Poe‚ Wilkie Collins and Arthur Conan Doyle‚ certainly has a wide following. On the beach‚ on the subway‚ people escape into the worlds of these authors. Although many female writers claim to be the “Queen of Crime Fiction”‚ it is really Agatha Christie
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A. Agatha Christie The Body in the Library ‚ 1942 B. Agatha Christie was born on September 15th ‚ 1890 in Torquay‚ Devon. Her parents were Frederick Alvah Miller and Margaret Boehmer‚ who raised three children. By the age of five‚ Agatha had taught herself to read. In the first World War‚ she trained and worked as a nurse. She remembered her time as a nurse saying it was “one of the most rewarding jobs she ever undertook”. She married Archibald Christie in December 1914‚ but they divorced in 1928
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In a writing career that lasted fifty-five years‚ Agatha Christie wrote seventy-two novels and fifteen collections of short stories that are still a part of pop culture today. Her Hercule Poirot series is thirty-three novels long and Poirot is one of the most famous and long lived characters that anyone could relate to. Throughout the Hercule Poirot series‚ Agatha Christie’s writing style changed in a negative way. Her writing style changed through how the vocabulary‚ the way she presented the clues
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The Queen of Crime: Agatha Christie I. Introduction Thesis Statement II. Body I. Life and Career A. Family background and Childhood B. First marriage and the First World War C. Christie’s first novels D. Disappearance E. Second marriage and later life II. Famous Characters on her work A. Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple III. Archaeology and Agatha Christie III. Conclusion I. Introduction Agatha Christie is one of the most popular and best-known novelists ever‚ and
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story. Go beyond the obvious! And Then There Were None Paragraph - Jada Kleinholz As stated in the topic prompt‚ the setting is a huge component in a novel. In Agatha Christie’s novel‚ And Then There Were None‚ the story is set on a small island with a large mansion; this island being the main setting affects the story in three main ways. The setting first influences the story when a group of people are individually called to the island; each person is given a letter from someone that provides
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‚ and they have to have done something to the murderer/s to make him/her want to kill him/her. Agatha Christie‚ the famous author of the great novel And Then There Were None‚ did not prove this rule‚ because Justice Wargrave did not know any of the victims personally and he did not care about the people‚ only the act of the perfect crime. The fact that Justice
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reports of killing that occur a street away or on the other side of the world. “Why?” you wonder‚ “What drives murderers to cross the line and kill?” This question is explored in many of the murder mystery books written by the renowned author Agatha Christie whose books have been outsold by only Shakespeare and the Bible. Unlike her other works‚ the theme of Christie’s novel And Then There Were None fundamentally revolves around the very question mentioned above. Written in 1939‚ this brilliant novel
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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie‚ DBE was an English crime writer of novels‚ short stories‚ and plays. She also wrote six romances under the name Mary Westmacott‚ but she is best remembered for the 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections she wrote under her own name‚ most of which revolve around the investigations of such characters as Hercule Poirot‚ Miss Jane Marple and Tommy and Tuppence. She also wrote the world’s longest-running play‚ The Mousetrap. Born to a wealthy upper-middle-class
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an author must leave the reader guessing and on edge. Christie masterfully fulfills this within her plot‚ and this is what has caused her to be dubbed as “The Queen of Mystery”. The plot of And Then There Were None‚ due to the abundance of characters‚ each with their own backstory and individual storyline‚ is complicated‚ and filled with intricacies that help the individual characters come together to be part of a larger plot. However‚ Christie is able to maintain clarity and hold attention whilst
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Title: And Then There Were None Author: Agatha Christie Description of characters: 1. Lawrence Wargrave: Lawrence Wargrave was a retired judge. He’s an older man with a dominant personality‚ and commanded the group when they realized a killer was after them. After reading on in the book‚ you find out that this “tortoise-like” man was actually carrying out these murders. He even faked his own death so he would be aquitted of all blame. 2. Vera Claythorne: Vera Claythorne was a former nanny‚ who
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