Agatha Christie

1.Her biography:

Agatha Christie, her maiden name Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay in the United Kingdom (Devon) in 1891, an American father and an English mother. The latter died when the writer is a child. His widowed mother encouraged him very top through education original writing. When Agatha reaches the age of 16, she moved to Pars to start learning a singing career that she should give up quickly. Agatha celebrates her engagement with Colonel Archibald in 1912, she married two years later and she had a daughter named Rosalind. She is forced to split her husband left to fight in the war of 14-18 and begins working at the hospital in Torquay. At this time, thanks to a bet with her sister, Agatha Christie wrote her first book titled: The mysterious affair at Styles. This book not finding a publisher at once, it was not published until 1920 Bodley Head. But it was not until 1926 that the writer becomes famous through the novel: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Agatha Christie Thus began the habit of writing two books a year. However in 1928, she left her husband after 14 years of marriage, following a temporary amnesia. She married two years later the archaeologist Max Mallowan that will give managers of several of these novels during journeys to archaeological sites.

Apart from these famous novels she wrote for the rest of his life, Agatha Christie has published novels under the name Mary Westmacott as far from you this spring (1944) or the Rose and the yellow tree ( 1948) but also poems, short stories and an autobiography. She ends her life in January 1976 at his home in Wallingford, England, after slaying her most famous detective, Hercule Poirot, I appointed, in a most fascinating history.

Agatha Christie has shown, it is true, another aspect of the crime, its causes and how we should go about solving it. It can be seen, she said, as a single event but as a fact explained by the personality of the victim as the murderer. Finding a solution is possible by a search for mobile, as evidence of why as much as the how. But in all cases, the culprit may be unmasked only after an investigation, often psychological, background of the victim and crime more generally. Sometimes, we are dealing with a crime that has happened in the past is any indication, so that material is gone and that solving the riddle can only be done through a purely intellectual research.

According to Agatha Christie (and particularly by his heroes), all the characters in context, in which the action takes place, are, or at least may be suspect: the Lord respected as the maid, skivvy. Moreover, the novelist expressed in many books that anyone can become a murderer, for example, protect a criminal or someone simply in a phase of uncontrollable excitement. On the other hand, the plot of Agatha Christie novels can vary considerably, from a struggle between good and evil, the existence of international criminals or youth disorders.

Regarding the frame, found in most of these novels the image of the house or the family plot where the shape more terrible crimes behind the respectable appearance of old English traditions. It may be noted as well that many crime have a private nature. And finally, Agatha Christie shows that the roles of writer, reader, detective, victim and murderer are closely linked and always likely to switch.

Agatha Christie is undoubtedly one of the most popular novelists of his time. Author of eighty four books which are mostly entangled police, scores of plays and several collections of short stories - indeed, less well known - she managed to make his works of hits the twentieth century, read around the world. She participated in the establishment of rules of the detective novel par excellence and has provided a new approach to solving puzzles in his famous detective Hercule Poirot is as Miss Marple. She has through all his novels mix a complex plot with a clever plot and a solution always unexpected and clever while giving a multitude of clues that must remove the intruder. In conclusion, Agatha Christie has managed, throughout his life and even now, entertain many people around most captivating works from each other, published worldwide more than 2 billion copies and in 57 languages.

2. Her literature

Agatha Christie has published over 80 novels, story collections and plays. A large part of them takes place camera. This allows the reader to guess the culprit before the end of the story. It lays the foundations of detective story. Obeying a system always identical but constantly renewed by the variety of stories and especially his way of capturing the reader, forcing him to try to discover the culprit before it is unveiled. Agatha Christie is an important author in the field of crime fiction, both commercially that because of the innovations it has introduced in this genre. Never hesitated to deviate from the beaten track, it gave its readers a particular number of indices sufficient to solve the enigma. Find in the homesick on Dunes Egypt where its Winter's Hotel Room to write plots exciting happenings in the country Albion. One of her first novels, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Is famous for how it uses the narrator to create the final surprise. Much of her novels and news has been adapted for film or television, particularly Murder on the Orient Express, Ten Little Niggers, Death on the Nile and  4:50 from Paddingtion. The BBC also produced television and radio broadcasts of most stories that depict Poirot and Miss Marple. One of his plays The Mouse Trap(The Mousetrap), Was presented for the first time London in 1952 to "St Martin's Theatre"And has held the record for the longest piece played without interruption. Some of his novels were adapted into comics by Editions Claude Lefrancq and Emmanuel Proust (Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express of Jean-François Miniac, Ten Little Indians, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Etc..). Regarding the frame, found in most of these novels the image of the house or the family plot where the shape more terrible crimes behind the respectable appearance of old English traditions. It may be noted as well that many crimes have a private character. And finally, Agatha Christie shows that the roles of writer, reader, detective, victim and murderer are closely linked and always likely to switch. Following her second husband during her visits archaeologist, Agatha Christie draws inspiration for his novels.

Some of her main books :  Murder on the Orient Express (1934) , Ten Little Niggers (1939), 4:50 From Paddington(1957),  Curtain (1975)

Death on the Nile (1936)        

3. The principal  characters:

                a.Hercule Poirot

Who does not know the most famous character of the work of Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot? Appearing in her first novel, a Belgian detective is found in thirty of the best works of Agatha Christie and dies in her last (Poirot leaves the scene). Before her arrival in England during the First World War, her country being occupied by the Germans, Poirot is the chief of police in Belgium. It is then evacuated in the small English town called Styles St Mary where he solved his first puzzle: the mysterious affair at Styles before becoming a private detective. The investigator mannered, ovoid skull with green eyes sparkling with mischief, with the mustache that is so beautiful and proud with dyed hair is a middle-aged man, dressed to the nines, maniac, always impeccably dressed, and mindful of its moral as well as its comfort. This is a very vain man, imbued with the person who likes to be complimented and is still seeking an explanation for his errors, which are however very rare. It feels almost foolproof and does not fail and face the most terrible adversaries. But that pride he is often misjudged some people and therefore to be misjudged. Moreover, it remains in many minds, a somewhat ridiculous, prompting his opponents to underestimate him. As for his method, it stands at any level of that of a detective no less known Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes. According Hercule Poirot, the best way to unmask a criminal (or unravel a riddle) is sitting in a chair and makes best use of his "little gray cells", while the search for physical evidence, so important for Sherlock Holmes, remains secondary. Often accompanied by his faithful assistant, Captain Hastings. Like Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Hercule Poirot likes order and the right things and highlights the small details that may seem insignificant to everyone but are instead essential components to discover the truth, s they are ranked in order, like the puzzle and added to the evidence, cleverly triggered by intelligence detective. The disclosure of the truth is, in most of its investigations as a pretext for staging organized by Poirot himself, and brings together all the protagonists of the story. Then Poirot describes the different stages of its investigation when he reveals the different assumptions for each case and a possible murderer. It was played in these films by many actors as Charles Laughton, Austin Trevor, Tony Reandall ("The Alphabet of Murder" 1966), Albert Finney's ("The Murder on the Orient Express" 1974), David Suchet (Series TV's "LWT's Poirot series' 1980) Peter Ustinov (" Death on the Nile "1978" Murder under the sun "1981" Meeting with Death "and on television in" Thirteen at Dinner "1985," Dead Man's Folly "1986 and" Murder in Three Acts "1986) and Ian Holm (" Murder in the Library ")

                        b. Miss Jane Marple :

Miss Jane Marple, another famous character of the work of Agatha Christie appeared in 1930 in the novel The Murder at the Vicarage "and continue his career until 1979, having starred in a dozen novels in which it solves the murders of the most interesting as those "train from 16h50" or "At Bertram's Hotel". It is already old when it was discovered in the first book but that did not stop carrying out its various investigations. She leads a quiet life of single hardened in an English village called St Mary's Meadow and spends his days gardening and watching his fellow men. The old lady does war in the usual search for clues but the method employs a personal, intuitive and routine based on the knowledge of human nature based on observation of his environment cautious. She said the survey found fewer relations between facts and between individuals and it is through a network of associations of ideas rather vague, that the culprit may be unmasked. Like Poirot, the solution is explained by psychology, or even morality and all this can indicate sensitivity to evil which is often emphasized in various novels. The actress who embodied the very best is famous Miss Marple Joan Hickson undoubtedly be found in many TV series, so that Helen Hayes was rather shown in the cinema with the movie "Murder She Wrote's Angela Lansbury .

                c. Captain Arthur Hastings:

Captain Arthur Hastings is found in many works as he is, mostly, and the narrator in which he seconded the famous Poirot to unmask the criminals and bandits so. He became, after his recovery, a deputy secretary, married and moved to Argentina where he purchased a ranch. He does not hesitate to leave his family for long if necessary, with some bitterness still, to accompany his loyal friend in his investigations of the strangest. Its role remains very eclipsed that of the famous Belgian detective who takes a much larger narrative. This man is by nature very simple, generous, discreet, very naive and often left overwhelmed by the charm of some ladies. But as Hercule Poirot, its main characteristic is to have a face "transparent" to whom nothing can confide. And so, throughout his adventures, Poirot never reveals his thoughts, even if he knows the identity of the murderer. In addition, Poirot often criticized for not properly use his little gray cells and therefore to think the right way. However, he considers it as an effective ally in a position to help and is very grateful to be with him even if he does not express himself verbally, but by his behavior.