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== The Author's Life == | == The Author's Life == | ||
See <ref name=agathaeb>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/115645/Dame-Agatha-Christie Dame Agatha Christie] Free full-text article from Encyclopedia Britannica Online.</ref> | See <ref name=agathaeb>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/115645/Dame-Agatha-Christie Dame Agatha Christie] Free full-text article from Encyclopedia Britannica Online.</ref> | ||
==Commentary on Agatha Christie's fiction== | |||
See <ref name=bargainer>Earl F. Bargainnier (1980) [http://www.questia.com/read/101091014 The Gentle Art of Murder: The Detective Fiction of Agatha Christie.] Bowling Green State University Popular Press: Bowling Green, OH. | |||
*'''<u>From the Preface:</u>''' "The queen of crime," "the mistress of fair deceit," "the first lady of crime," "the mistress of misdirection," "the detective story writer's detective story writer," and even "the Hymns Ancient and Modern of detection"-these are just a few of the epithets which have been used to indicate Agatha Christie's position as writer of detective fiction. In her sixty-seven novels and one hundred and seventeen short stories of detection and mystery, Christie created a body of work which made her the most popular writer of the twentieth century…. In spite of the risk of being called "a knave or a fool," my intent is a literary analysis of the detective fiction of "the queen of crime." I hope that I will not ruin any of her works for readers, but rather enable them to understand better the general skill of their construction as works of a particular genre of fiction.</ref> | |||
== Adaptation Of Her Works Into Film == | == Adaptation Of Her Works Into Film == | ||
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Agatha Christie (born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller September 15, 1890 – died January 12, 1976) was an English author best known for her crime novels and her fictional characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote plays and romance novels.
Called the "Queen of Crime" by many of her fans, she was also cited by The Guinness book of World Records as the best selling author of all time along with another English author—Shakespeare. Her worldwide book sales total roughly 4 billion books:UNESCO has called her the most widely translated author in history.
The Author's Life
See [1]
Commentary on Agatha Christie's fiction
See [2]
Adaptation Of Her Works Into Film
Critical Acclaim
List of Novels
Hercule Poirot:
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- Murder on the Links
- The Big Four
- Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The: Hercule Poirot Investigates
- The Mystery of the Blue Train
- Peril at End House
- Murder in Mesopotamia
- Murder on the Orient Express
- Murder in Three Acts
- Death in the Clouds
- ABC Murders, The
- Dumb Witness
- Cards on the Table
- Death on the Nile
- Appointment with Death
- Hercule Poirot's Christmas
- One Two, Buckle My Shoe
- Sad Cypress: A Hercule Poirot Novel
- Evil under the Sun
- Five Little Pigs
- The Hollow
- Taken at the Flood
- Mrs. McGinty's Dead
- After the Funeral
- Hickory Dickory Dock
- Dead Man's Folly
- Cat Among the Pigeons
- Clocks, The
- Third Girl
- Hallowe'en Party
- Elephants Can Remember
- Curtain
Mrs. Marple:
Other:
List of Short Stories
List Of Adaptations For Film
Plays
- And Then There Were None
- Appointment with Death
- The Mousetrap
- Go Back for Murder
- Chimneys
References and notes cited in text
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- ↑ Dame Agatha Christie Free full-text article from Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
- ↑ Earl F. Bargainnier (1980) The Gentle Art of Murder: The Detective Fiction of Agatha Christie. Bowling Green State University Popular Press: Bowling Green, OH.
- From the Preface: "The queen of crime," "the mistress of fair deceit," "the first lady of crime," "the mistress of misdirection," "the detective story writer's detective story writer," and even "the Hymns Ancient and Modern of detection"-these are just a few of the epithets which have been used to indicate Agatha Christie's position as writer of detective fiction. In her sixty-seven novels and one hundred and seventeen short stories of detection and mystery, Christie created a body of work which made her the most popular writer of the twentieth century…. In spite of the risk of being called "a knave or a fool," my intent is a literary analysis of the detective fiction of "the queen of crime." I hope that I will not ruin any of her works for readers, but rather enable them to understand better the general skill of their construction as works of a particular genre of fiction.