The first name that comes to mind when it comes to crime: Who is Agatha Christie?

Date of Birth: 15.09.1890

From: UK, Togay

Date of Death: 12.01.1976 (died at the age of 86)

Sign: Virgo

Family Life:

Agatha Christie was born on September 15, 1890, in Torquay, Devon. Her full name is Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller Christie Mollowan. She also used the pseudonyms, Mary Clarissa Miller and Mary Westmacott. His father is Frederick Alvah Miller and his mother is Clarissa Miller. Christie's parents were in no hurry to name their daughter, deciding on the name "Agatha" just minutes before the christening ceremony. Her sister is Margaret Frary Miller and her brother is Louis Montant Miller.

Education:

Agatha Christie was homeschooled. Encouraged to write by her mother at a very young age, Christie was sent to Paris, where she took singing and piano lessons, at the age of sixteen.

Private life:

Agatha Christie married Archibald Christie, a Flying Royal Corps employee, in 1914. From this marriage, their daughter, Rosalind, was born in 1919.

He divorced Agatha Christie in 1926 after Archibald Christie revealed that he was in love with a younger woman named Nancy Neele. Upon this sadness, Agatha Christie, who experienced another pain in the same year, also lost her mother.

Two years after the divorce process was finalized in 1928, Agatha Christie accompanied Archaeologist Max Mallowan, whom she met during her visits to the Middle East in 1927, on her trips to excavation sites in Syria and Iraq. Agatha Christie, who later married Max Mallowan, traveled and saw many places.

Career:

Agatha Christie's first detective novel was The Mysterious Affair at Styles. The famous Belgian detective character, who would later appear in more than forty novels, was the first book in which she used Hercule Poirot. The book was rejected by various publishing houses. It was later adopted by Bodley Heidi Publishing House in 1920.

In the late 1920s, Agatha Christie's most intense work was published, four books on different mysterious events, fourteen books written by Detective Hercule Poirot, and four books in which she wrote the stories of Miss Marple and Inspector Battle. Agatha Christie, Harley Quin and Mr. She has written two books on Marker Pyne stories. Later, she wrote two stage plays.

The famous detective Christie wrote in her other book, the detective Miss Jane Marple, who is an amateur in her job, is written as a typical English character. The character of Poirot is a detective who does his duty to solve mysterious events using his logic, rational methods, and "little gray cells".

The character of Marple has fulfilled her duty as a detective who trusts her feminine instincts and ability to empathize. Marple's name appears in seventeen works, including Murder At The Vicarage, written by Agatha Christie in 1930, and finally, Sleeping Murder, written in 1977. The characters Poirot and Miss Marple have both been adapted for film and television.

In 1978, the movie Agatha, directed by Michael Apted and portrayed by Vanessa Redgrave, is about Christie's real-life story. The film disappeared for a while after Christie's divorce in 1926 and stayed at the Harrowgate Hotel, where Mrs. It is about living under the name of Neele.

The first six psychological romance novels, written by Agatha Christie under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, were published in 1936.

In 1937, she met Howard Carter and after her visit to Luxor, she wrote the stage play "Akhanaton", which was not published until 1973. This play was staged in 1979 in New York, London, under the name "Akhanaton" and "Nefertiti".

Agatha Christie served in the dispensary of University College Hospital in London during the second world war. After the war, in addition to continuing his novel studies, she also gained success on the stage and in the cinema.

In 1954, the play "Witness for the Prosecution" was selected as the best foreign stage play of the season by the New York Drama Critics Circle.

Agatha Christie became president of the British Research Club in 1967.

In 1971, Agatha Christie was awarded Britain's highest honor, the "Female Commander of the British Empire".

Agatha Christie died on January 12, 1976, in Wallingford, England.

Agatha Christie is the best-selling British novelist of all time.

1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles – 1920
2. The Secret Adversary – 1922
3. Murder on the Links – 1923
4. The Man in the Brown Suit – 1924
5. Poirot Investigates – 1924
6. The Secret of Chimneys 1925
7. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 1926
8. The Big Four 1927
9. The Mystery of the Blue Train 1928
10. The Seven Dials Mystery – 1929
11. Partners in Crime  – 1929
12. The Murder at the Vicarage – 1930
13. The Sittaford Mystery – 1931
14. Peril at End House – 1932
15. The Thirteen Problems  -1932
16. Lord Edgware Dies – 1933
17. The Hound of Dead –  1933
18. Murder on the Orient Express – 1934
19. The Listedeler Mystery –  1934:
20. WHO Didn’t They Ask Evans? – 1934
21. Parker Pyne Investigates – 1934
22. Three-Act Tragedy- 1934
23. Death in the Clouds – 1935
24. The ABC Murders – 1936
25. Murder in Mesopotamia – 1936
26. Cards on the Table – 1936
27. Dumb Witness – 1937
28. Death on the Nile – 1937
29. Murder in the Mews – 1937
30. Appointment with Death – 1938
31. Hercule Poirot’s Christmas – 1938
32. Easy to Kil – 1939
33. The Rekâtta Mystery – 1939
34. And Then There Webe None – 1939
35. Sad Cypress – 1940
36. Öne, To, Bukle My Shore – 1940
37. Evil Under the Sun – 1941
38. N or M? – 1941
39. The Body in the Library – 1942
40. Five Little Pigs – 1942
41. The Moving Finger – 1942
42. Towards Zero – 1944
43. Death Comes as the End – 1944
44. Sparking Cyanide – 1945
45. The Hollow – 1946
46. The Labours of Hercules - 1947
47. Taken at the Floyd – 1948
48. Witness for the Prosecution – 1948
49. Crooked House – 1949
50. A Murder is Announced – 1950
51. Three Blind Mice – 1950
52. They Came to Baghdad – 1951
53. Mrs. McGinty’s Dead – 1952
54. They Do It with Mirrors – 1952
55. After the Funeral – 1953
56. A Pocket Full of Rye – 1953
57. Destination Unknown- 1954
58. Hickory Dickory Dock – 1955
59. Dead Man’s Folly – 1956
60. 4.50 from Paddington – 1957
61. Orda By Innocence – 1958
62. Cat Among the Pigeons – 1959
63. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding – 1960
64. The Pale Horse – 1961
65. The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side – 1962
66. The Clocks – 1963
67. A Caribbean Mystery – 1964
68. At Berta’msa Hotel – 1965
69. Third Girl – 1966
70. Endeks Knight – 1967
71. By the Pericin of My Thumbs – 1968
72. Hallowe’en Party – 1969
73. Passenger to Frankfurt – 1970
74. Nemesis – 1971
75. Elephants Can Remember – 1972
76. Postern of Fate- 1973
77. Poirot’s Early Cases – 1974
78. Curtain – 1975
79. Sleeping Murder – 1976
80. Miss Marple’s Final Cases – 1979
81. Problem at Pollensa Baym– 1991
82. The Harlequin Tea Set - 1997
83. While the Light Lasts – 1997