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Jul 26, 2024 · Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), introduced Hercule Poirot, her eccentric and egotistic Belgian detective; Poirot reappeared in about 25 novels and many short stories before returning to Styles, where, in Curtain (1975), he died.
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At 18, Christie wrote her first short story, "The House of Beauty", while recovering in bed from an illness. It consisted of about 6,000 words about "madness and dreams", subjects of fascination for her. Her biographer Janet Morgan has commented that, despite "infelicities of style", the story was "compelling".
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Agatha Christie described Hercule Poirot as “a small man, muffled up to the ears of whom nothing was visible but a pink-tipped nose and the two points of an upward-curled moustache.” His main method is to get people to talk. He has several tactics to achieve that. The most famous Hercule Poirot novels are The Mysterious Affair at Styles and Murder ...
Miss Marple is the cunning, intelligent mystery solver who presents herself to the world as a nice little old lady. She makes sense of crimes by comparing them to the events of everyday life. The most famous of these novels is Murder at the Vicarage. The Murder at the Vicarage(1930) The Body in the Library(1942) The Moving Finger (1942) A Murder is...
The Secret of Chimneys (1925) The Seven Dials Mystery (1929) Cards on the Table(1936) Murder is Easy (1939) Towards Zero(1944)
Some of these novels feature ex-army Colonel and MI5 agent Johnnie Race. The most famous of the standalone novels is And Then There Were None. The Man in the Brown Suit(1924) Giant’s Bread(1930) The Sittaford Mystery(1931) Unfinished Portrait (1934) Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?(1934) And Then There Were None(1939) Absent in the Spring (1944) Death Co...
The Mysterious Mr. Quin(1930) The Hound of Death(1933) The Listerdale Mystery(1934) Parker Pyne Investigates(1934) The Regetta Mystery and Other Stories (1939) The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (1948) Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (1950) The Under Dog and Other Stories(1951) The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960) Double ...
The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor (1923) The Affair at the Victory Ball(1923) The Adventure of the Western Star(1923) The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb(1923) Afternoon at the Seaside(1962) The Patient(1962)
Come, Tell Me How You Live(1946) Agatha Christie: An Autobiography (1977) And that’s all Agatha Christie books in order, organised by their category. Did you have any idea Agatha Christie wrote quite so many books?
Apr 22, 2024 · Christie published her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920 and went on to become one of the most famous writers in history with 83 books to her name (and her pseudonym, Mary...
- 1920. The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Christie’s first novel was written during World War One. The book introduces the character of Hercule Poirot, and is notable for introducing many of the character types, plot twists and red herrings that would characterise the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.
- 1922. The Secret Adversary. The book introduces the characters of Tommy and Tuppence who feature in three other Christie novels and one collection of short stories.
- 1923. Murder on the Links. Christie’s second novel to feature Hercule Poirot. Reviews compared the character to famed author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes.
- 1924. The Man in the Brown Suit. Following the character Anne Beddingfeld, the novel takes place in England, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Poirot Investigates.
Agatha Christie (1890–1976) was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. Her reputation rests on 66 detective novels and 15 short-story collections that have sold over two billion copies, an amount surpassed only by the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare . [ 1 ]
The Mysterious Affair at Styles is the first detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie, introducing her fictional detective Hercule Poirot.
