Her knowledge of medicine influenced her mysterious characters, many of whom died from lethal injections.Ĭhristie received numerous awards and critical honors for her work. During World War II, Christie again worked as a pharmacist and nurse. Her travels to the Middle East with her new husband inspired the settings for several of her most famous novels including Murder on the Orient Express, which was written during an extended stay at a hotel in Istanbul, Turkey. In 1930, Christie married Max Mallowan, an archaeologist. She was found soon after and blamed the disappearance on memory loss. Soon after her discovery of the affair, Christie disappeared, causing a national uproar. Her marriage, however, was turbulent, and she and her husband divorced after she discovered he was having an affair. While married to Archie Christie, she published six other novels and numerous short stories. The first three publishers she brought the novel to rejected it, and it was almost a decade until she found a publisher in John Lane of The Bodley Head. She began writing the novel during World War I, partly in response to a bet from her sister Madge that she couldn't write a good detective story, and partly to relieve the monotony of her job at a hospital dispensary. After working as a nurse during World War I, she married Archie Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps.Ĭhristie's debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introduced one of her most famous characters, the detective Hercule Poirot. Agatha was the youngest of three children. This is a good short listen and well worth your time if you are an admirer of her work.Agatha Christie was born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in Devon, England in 1890. She said she loved that experience but didn't know she could survive another one. She than slept for 24 hours straight and the next day she read and made very few changes. That particular book she wrote the first chapter, than the last chapter and continued to write it in one day with no sleep. She also talks about her favorite books she's written: Absent in the Spring by Mary Westmacott (her pseudonym).
Miss Marple is NOT her grandmother although a lot of characteristics they share, including a second sense that something is going to happen. It's really a textbook on how to write a book and how it worked for her. You can tell she is a very private person because there is little on her personal life in this story. The unique thing for this is she reads it herself. It's more of a history on when and why she wrote her different books and plays.
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