Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.
Agatha Christie is the best-selling author of all time. She wrote eighty crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and several other books. Her books have sold roughly four billion copies and have been translated into 45 languages. She is the creator of the two most enduring figures in crime literature-Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple-and author of The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theatre.
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U.K., as the youngest of three. The Millers had two other children: Margaret Frary Miller (1879–1950), called Madge, who was eleven years Agatha's senior, and Louis Montant Miller (1880–1929), called Monty, ten years older than Agatha.
During the First World War, she worked at a hospital as a nurse; later working at a hospital pharmacy, a job that influenced her work, as many of the murders in her books are carried out with poison.
On Christmas Eve 1914 Agatha married Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. The couple had one daughter, Rosalind Hicks. They divorced in 1928, two years after Christie discovered her husband was having an affair.
Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, came out in 1920. During this marriage, Agatha published six novels, a collection of short stories, and a number of short stories in magazines.
In late 1926, Agatha's husband, Archie, revealed that he was in love with another woman, Nancy Neele, and wanted a divorce. On 8 December 1926 the couple quarreled, and Archie Christie left their house Styles in Sunningdale, Berkshire, to spend the weekend with his mistress at Godalming, Surrey. That same evening Agatha disappeared from her home, leaving behind a letter for her secretary saying that she was going to Yorkshire. Her disappearance caused an outcry from the public, many of whom were admirers of her novels. Despite a massive manhunt, she was not found for eleven days.
In 1930, Christie married archaeologist Max Mallowan (Sir Max from 1968) after joining him in an archaeological dig. Their marriage was especially happy in the early years and remained so until Christie's death in 1976. In 1977, Mallowan married his longtime associate, Barbara Parker.
Christie frequently used familiar settings for her stories. Christie's travels with Mallowan contributed background to several of her novels set in the Middle East. Other novels (such as And Then There Were None) were set in and around Torquay, where she was born. Christie's 1934 novel Murder on the Orient Express was written in the Hotel Pera Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, the southern terminus of the railway. The hotel maintains Christie's room as a memorial to the author. The Greenway Estate in Devon, acquired by the couple as a summer residence in 1938, is now in the care of the National Trust.
Christie often stayed at Abney Hall in Cheshire, which was owned by her brother-in-law, James Watts. She based at least two of her stories on the hall: the short story The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, which is in the story collection of the same name, and the novel After the Funeral. "Abney became Agatha's greatest inspiration for country-house life, with all the servants and grandeur which have been woven into her plots.
During the Second World War, Christie worked in the pharmacy at University College Hospital of University College, London, where she acquired a knowledge of poisons that she put to good use in her post-war crime novels.
To honour her many literary works, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1956 New Year Honours. The next year, she became the President of the Detection Club. In the 1971 New Year Honours she was promoted Dame Commande
Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer.
Isolated by the storm and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer amongst a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again...
我得承认我对于阿婆的波洛系列是没有什么“抵抗力”的,尤其是像本书这样的经典之作,虽然我已经读过贵州和人文两个版本的《东方快车谋杀案》,但是看到新星版的时候,还是要找来又读了一遍。不过我没有考据癖,更没有过目不忘的本领,所以无法说出这三个版本的异同,不过无论...
評分我读过的推理侦探小说极少,甚至乎可以说仅有阿婆,所以在我的记忆储备里缺乏和阿婆相互对应比较的参照物。更没有成体系的个人评价来判断何为真正好的推理小说。 但从绝对层面来说,阿婆的小说没有故弄玄虚、也没有天眼洞开,书中的侦探,就是老老实实的抽丝剥茧般的盘查、质...
評分我本来是不甚喜欢看阿加莎的小说的. 一来是因为翻译翻得不大好,二来是手法跟日本侦探小说很不一样.. 之前看过阿加莎的几本小说,无奈忘记名字了,只记得读起来非常不吸引人,行文不流畅(主要是译者的问题),还有情节的向前推进缺乏必然性.那时候边看边想:果然是老一辈侦探作...
評分我读过的推理侦探小说极少,甚至乎可以说仅有阿婆,所以在我的记忆储备里缺乏和阿婆相互对应比较的参照物。更没有成体系的个人评价来判断何为真正好的推理小说。 但从绝对层面来说,阿婆的小说没有故弄玄虚、也没有天眼洞开,书中的侦探,就是老老实实的抽丝剥茧般的盘查、质...
評分有图原址——http://www.douban.com/note/59499134/ 潘家园小逛,得书两本:《汉——唐佛教思想论集》73年2版1印,封面折的非常厉害。虽然时时告戒自己买书不能无度,多了也是贪婪,但任继愈的书是一直想收全的,这本出现的正好哈。奇怪的是文化大革命的时候这类书可以出版么...
1.Mrs Hubbard的口頭禪是my daughter,簡直不敢揣測她每次說齣這個詞的心情。 2. Miss Debenham的中間名是Hermione。3. 波洛最後做決定的時候完全輕描淡寫,哪有電影裏的戲那麼足,阿婆似乎不太care法律至高無上的地位…
评分即使知道整個故事,還是手不釋捲。太佩服瞭。而且,除瞭密不透風的推理,另外一個非常齣色的地方是對群像的描寫,每個人都那麼鮮亮有層次。有些段落又幽默得要命。
评分第一次看阿加莎的小說,果然眼前一亮。太多讓人反思的東西,關於調查和推理,關於死亡和正義,關於團體中個人的思維。。。
评分我更喜歡前麵不急不緩的推理過程,而後麵急轉的結果實在有些不在情理之中卻又能自圓其說。這種奇特的案子大概也隻有Poirot能破吧?驚喜的是,沒想到偵探小說還能這麼幽默,隔三差五讓人笑!法語我幾乎都還給老師瞭,好在文中穿插的少數法語並不難不影響閱讀。
评分被劇透瞭!所以看得非常不帶勁!對嫌犯挨個審問的時候簡直是摺磨啊……
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