Día del libro Agatha

Childhood

Adulthood

Greenway

Works

Agatha Christie

World Book Day

Born in 1890 in Torquay, Devon

Wealthy family

QUEEN OF CRIME: Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller

Largely home-schooled

Her father died in 1901

Voracious reader

Piano, mandolin

WW1

Hospital Dispensary

Winter 1907 in Cairo

Dances, polo matches and social events

Wrote & performed

1st works: rejected

Active social life

1913: married Archie Christie

1919: Rosalind

1926: mother died & divorce

Mysterious disappearence

1930: married archaeologist Max Mallowan

Travelled extensively (Syria, Irak, Turkey, etc)

66 novels14 short stories16 plays1 autobiography ....

Sold more than 100 million copies. She is the most-translated individual author. Her works were often serialized and adapted for TV.

• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)

• Murder on the Orient Express (1933)

• And Then There Were None (1939)

• The Mousetrap (1952)

Her style

• Simple everyday language
• Intricate plots
• Clever twists
• Attention to detail

Hercule PoirotMiss Jane Marple

Greenway house

National Trust

BBC radio_Agatha Christie's works

Thank you for your attention

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire1971