Agatha Christie
1890-1976
Agatha Christie was a prolific and influential English
mystery writer known for
stories involving fictional
detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
She began her debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in
1916
while working as a nurse during World War I, and published it after
the end of the war, in 1920. The novel introduced Hercule Poirot.
Christie disappeared in December 1926 after a bitter argument with her
husband and remained missing despite a massive nationwide (UK) manhunt.
Her car was found abandoned. The mystery made worldwide news until
someone finally recognized her at a spa hotel 10 days later. She had no
memory of how shegot there.
In her 1939 novel Ten Little
Niggers Ten Little
Indians And Then There Were
None, [*Footnote] ten random strangers who are invited to Nigger Sailor Island to
spend a relaxing weekend in the country start getting murdered one by
one and no one knows why.
*Footnote:
It took a few editions before she finally found an inoffensive title.
Husband: Archibald Christie (m. 1914–1928), Max Mallowan (m.
1930–1976)
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