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▪︎Agatha Christie was born on 15 September 1890 into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon.
▪︎Miss Marple was inspired by her maternal grandmother and friends.
The Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul has an Agatha Christie Room where, it claims, she wrote Murder on the Orient Express.
▪︎She was initially an unsuccessful writer with six consecutive rejections, but this changed in 1920 when The Mysterious Affair at Styles, featuring detective Hercule Poirot, was published.
▪︎She was a dog lover.
▪︎Her favourite writers were Elizabeth Bowen and Graham Greene.
▪︎One of her life’s passions was music, especially the operas of Wagner.
▪︎Her work on archaeological digs led to her becoming an expert photographer.
▪︎Her work on archaeological digs led to her becoming an expert photographer.
▪︎Her last public appearance was at the 1974 premiere of Murder on the Orient Express.
▪︎Agatha Christie’s name has appeared every day for the last 53 years in every newspaper with a West End theatre listing.

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1.The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
2.Nothing turns out quite in the way that you thought it would when you are sketching out notes for the first chapter, or walking about muttering to yourself and seeing a story unroll
3.The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes
4.If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off
5.Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop...suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

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- Agatha Christie was known for her sixty-six detective novels and fourteen
short story collections.

- Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay

- "And then there were none" is one of the highest-selling books of all time, with approximately 100 million sales.

-According to Index Translationum , she remains the most translated individual author.

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1. In her early years Agatha Christie didn't go to school but was educated at home by her mother and a succession of governesses.
2. She wrote her first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, as the result of a challenge from her sister Madge.
3. In her late teens she studied to be a classical musician but was too nervous to perform.
4. She is the only crime writer to have created two equally famous and much loved characters - Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
5. She is the only female dramatist ever to have had three plays running simultaneously in London’s West End.
6. Endless Night is narrated by a young working-class male - and she wrote it when she was 76.
7. In 1922 she travelled around the world.
8. Her first book waited four years before publication having been rejected by six publishers.
9. She wrote six bittersweet novels under the name Mary Westmacott.
10. She wrote an entire book over one weekend: Absent in the Spring by Mary Westmacott.
11. When she adapted four of her Poirot novels for the stage she dropped Poirot completely.
12. She dedicated The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side to Margaret Rutherford - the first cinema Miss Marple.
13. She was a dog lover.
14. She described The Mystery of the Blue Train as ‘easily the worst book I ever wrote’.
15. When he died, Hercule Poirot was given a full-page obituary in The New York Times.
16. Her favourite colour was green.
17. She has a rose named after her.
18. She is the only crime novelist to achieve equal and international fame as a dramatist.
19. She was a teetotaller and non-smoker.
20. On the day she died the West End theatres dimmed their lights for one hour.

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She was a dog lover

Miss Marple was inspired by her maternal grandmother and friends

Her work on archaeological digs led to her becoming an expert photographer.

Her favourite writers were Elizabeth Bowen and Graham Greene.

One of her life’s passions was music, especially the operas of Wagner.

At least one of  Agatha Christie's fictional "victims" was inspired by a real-life nuisance.

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*At the beginning of her career, when she was trying to sell stories to magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Christie would rewrite her stories if the magazines requested it. Later, when she became more established, she refused rewrites.

*Agatha Christie: An English Mystery. “Money is central to Agatha’s writings. As both Poirot and Miss Marple are aware, it constitutes the prime motive for crime.”

*Christie liked to dream up plot ideas while soaking in her large Victorian bath, munching on apples. She stopped the habit when she became dissatisfied with the baths available to her. “Nowadays they don’t build baths like that. I’ve rather given up the practice.”

*Christie is the only crime writer to have created two equally famous protagonists: Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. The dandyish Poirot, remains the only fictional character ever to receive an obituary in the New York Times, whereas the
unassuming Marple, serves as the archetype for small-town, little-old-lady snoops.

*After her first husband, Archibald, asked for a divorce, Christie disappeared for 10 days. The mysterious disappearance of the mystery writer was on the front page of every newspaper and prompted an extensive manhunt that included thousands of police officers and volunteers. She was finally discovered at a hotel in Harrogate. It’s unclear whether Christie experienced memory loss or whether the disappearance was a purposeful stunt.

*The film "Murder on the Orient Express" was the only adaptation of the works of women writers, of which Agatha Christie has been fully satisfied. In particular, she said that the performance by Albert Finney Hercule Poirot was most close to her established literary character. Agatha Christie travelled a lot, and the novel, taken as the basis of this film, was written in Istanbul, where the writer came to rest with her husband.

*She authored six romantic novels under the pen name of Mary Westmacott. (Mary was her second name and Westmacott was the surname of some distant relatives.) For almost two decades, the public had no clue Christie and Westmacott were one and the same.

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~Agatha Christie was an English writer known for her sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short story collections,particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
~Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best selling fiction writer of all time,her novels having sold more than two billion copies.
~Her first husband was Archibald Christie;they married in 1914 and had one child before divorcing in 1928. Following her marriage to archaelogist Max Mallowan in 1930,she spent several months each year on digs in the Middle East and used her first hand knowledge of his profession in her fiction.
~According to Index Translationum, she remains the most translated individual author.
~Christie died peacefully on 12 January 1976 at age 85 from natural causes at home at Winterbrook House.

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! Agatha Christie is one of the most famous writers in history. She sold billions of copies of her work. She was dyslexic

! Friday 3 December 1926, Agatha Christie kissed her sleeping daughter Rosalind, goodnight Then she drove off into the night. She would not be seen again for 11 days.

! Her car was found next to a lake, crashed into a tree with all her belongings strewn about. After days of fruitless searching Christie was spotted in a hotel in  Harrogate

!After she died. They hired famous medium Tamara Rand to organize a seance to call up the spirit Cristie. After supposedly connecting with the ghost of Christie, Rand claimed that the answer to the mystery of Christie’s disappearance was located in Room 411 at Pera Palace

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About Agatha Christie:

She sold more than 2 billion copies of her works, this puts her third on all-time bestseller list behind only William Shakespeare and the Bible.

Her books have been published in over 100 languages.

She wrote her first detective novel "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" after a bet with her sister.

She wrote some novels under the name "Mary Westmacott" the fact that she was the author remained a secret for almost 20 years.

She wrote over 30 plays. The most famous one "The Mousetrap" is the longest running play in the world.

Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple are her most well-known detectives.

Room 411 at the Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul is dedicated to Christie. She said she wrote part of "Murder on the Orient Express" there. The room has pictures of her and many copies of her books.

About Miss Marple:
The character was based on Agatha Christie’s own grandmother.
She has an unusual background for a detective with no background in criminology or the police force.

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The Essence of Agatha Christie: Miss Marple

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1. Agatha Christie’s childhood was unconventional for many reasons, one of which being her homeschooling and her mother’s insistence that she not learn to read until the age of eight.

2. Christie’s works are filled with derogatory references toward Black, Asian, Italian, Native American and Arab peoples.

3. In a plot worthy of one of her own novels, Agatha Christie disappeared from her London home in 1926 without a trace for 11 days.

4. The character was, in part, based on Agatha Christie’s own grandmother, and her grandmother’s friends.

5. Miss Marple’s hobbies include gardening, knitting and, of course, gossiping.

6.  Miss Marple is described as an attractive, thin, old lady, with a twinkle in her blue eyes.

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# Agatha Christie was born in 1890.
#Agatha Christie is a prominent writer on crime.

# ''And There Were None'' is among her most famous book.
# In 1920, Agatha Christie published her first novel, ‘The Mysterious Affair at Styles’.
#Christie shares the Guinness Book of World Record title of ‘Best-selling Writer’
# Her plays and filmed versions are adapted for radio, television, comics and even video games.
# She said ''very few of us are what we seem.''.
# Agatha Christie died of natural causes in 1976, on 12 January.

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1. Agatha Christie's mother was against her daughter learning to read.
2. Hercule Poirot was based on a real person.
3. Agatha Christie once disappeared for 10 days.
4. Agatha Christie had an alias. Beginning in 1930 and continuing through 1956, she wrote six romance novels under the pen name Mary Westmacott.
5. At least one of Agatha Christie's fictional victims was inspired by a real-life nuisance.
6. Her former home in Devonshire, England is available for rent.

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1. In addition to her prolific production of mystery stories, Christie wrote six romance novels.
2. Christie is the most widely published author in the world, second only to Shakespeare and the Bible.
3. In 1922 she travelled around the world
One of her life’s passions was music, especially the operas of Wagner.
4. Agatha Christie’s name has appeared every day for the last 53 years in every newspaper with a West End theatre listing
5. Her books have been adapted into films 27 times, as well as into television shows and even video games.
6. Her two most lasting creations are Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
8. Miss Marple appears in 12 novels and 5 short story collections.
9. Christie said she based Miss Marple in part on her grandmother.
10. in 1929 when the Orient Express was trapped in a blizzard in Çerkezköy, Turkey, where it was marooned for six days! Two years later Christie was involved in a similar scenario when she was travelling on the Orient Express and the train got stuck for a period of time due to heavy rainfall and flooding, that time she got the inspiration.

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* She named her house Styles in 1924 after the success of her first novel.
* Her favourite flower was Lily of the Valley.
* Her favourite composers were Elgar, Sibelius and Wagner.
* She has a rose named after her.
* She holds the Guinness World Record for world’s thickest book
* One of her “victims” was a real-life enemy.
* She started writing detective novels, in part, to win a bet with her older sister.
* She filled and kept over 100 notebooks over the course of her life.

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Showcase: Agatha Christie's love affair with Istanbul