Biography of Agatha Christie

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The Biography of Agatha Christie

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Agatha Christie is well known all over the world as the "queen of crime" for she was the greatest female mystery writer so far in history. She wrote 82 murder novels, 8 plays, 16 short stories and, under the name of Mary Westmacott, she wrote 6 romantic novels . Most including her famous characters, Miss. Marple and Hercule Poirot.

She was born on September 15 1890 in Torquay, England. Her farther was Frederick Miller so she was brought home as Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller. She was educated at home and studied singing and the piano in Paris. She married in 1914 to Archibald Christie, and army officer. Then World War I broke out and Agatha went to work as a nurse in the Red Cross hospital in Torquay. That is when she developed an interest in poison.

Agahta was a very private person and had little to do with the town apart from being president of the Sinodon Players from 1951-1976. This was the only public office she ever accepted. She was also known to have a love for cream and would drink a glass instead of an alcoholic drink.

Her first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was published in 1920. That was when the readers meet Hercules Poirot for the first time. The Belgian detective with the funny looking moustache, but her books were not recognized until she published The Murder of Roger Ackroyd in 1926.

When Agatha's mother died she was very depressed, and she disappeared in December of 1926. When she could not be found her husband was starting to be started to suspected that he had murdered her. She was soon found staying in a hotel, but could not remember how she got there. Apparently, she had amnesia, but soon recovered. Agatha and her husband were divorced in 1928 (Archibald died in 1962).

When she was 40 years old she went on a holiday and met an archaeologist by the name of Max Mallowan, who was 14 years younger then her. They were wed in 1930, and Agatha became Agatha Christie Mallowan. During World War II Agahta worked in the University Collage hospital in London. She often assisted her husband in excavations.

She lived in Winterbrook Lodge for over 40 years. Her favorite part of the proporty was a cedar tree in the field behind the house leading to the river. She went to Chosley church each Sunday. When Agatha died she was buried in the church's cemetery and Max married his secretary and when he died he was buried beside her, but Max's second husband was buried in the same cemetery but at a discreet distance.

Agatha was also the president of the Detection club and in 1971 she became Dame Agatha. She died on January 12, 1976. Two years later Max Mallowan Died.

I got this quote said by Agatha when she was looking over Wendon Cottage, "pushing open the gate of the Wendon cottage walked up the flagged path to the front door. She rang the bell and executed a cheerful little rat-tat-tat on the knocker - a quaint conceit in the form of a toads head… There was a small old-fashioned garden with Michaelmas daisies and straggling chrysanthemums behind the cottage, and beyond it a field. Beyond the field was the river".

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