They travelled back to England at least once a year. They spent over a decade in Assyria, at an archeological dig. She later married Max Mallowan, an archeologist. This episode of Agatha’s life is perhaps the most talked about and less known. When it was discovered she was indeed alive, there was speculation that she did it to either spite her husband or gain publicity for her latest novel. There was an extensive search, with some thinking she was dead and others speculating she was alive. But after a few months, she left her house and disappeared after a huge fight. The couple seemed to overcome this and try to stay together. He told her of his affair and love for Nancy Neel (an acquaintance) immediately upon returning from Spain. He was in Spain when her mother died and seemed completely indifferent to her feelings and grief. The author’s mother died in 1926, not long before Archibald left Agatha for another woman. The confusion and sadness of the patients she tended affected her deeply, and her knowledge of poison and drugs is seen again and again in her novels.ĭuring quiet periods at the hospital, she started writing in response to her sister’s statement of long past that she could not write a detective story. She began writing detective fiction while working as a nurse during World War 1. Archibald returned to military service right after their marriage, and Agatha was later to say that she felt her married life really began in 1918-when her husband was stationed in London. In 1914, she married Archibald Christie, who was a Lt.
Her time there influenced the rest of her life. In 1910, at 20, Christie spent winter months in Egypt with her mother. She has been quoted as saying, “There is nothing like boredom to inspire you to write.” She had written a number of short stories by the time she was 17. She was very clever at inventing ways to keep occupied. Her first published writing happened when she was 11. Although she did not have the social experience of public school, she studied dance and piano as a teenager. Her father was her primary teacher, but her mother was a storyteller-and gave strong encouragement for Agatha to write.Īlthough she became a prolific writer, she claimed she really did not have much in the way of lessons other than arithmetic. She was home-schooled, which was a lot more uncommon at the turn of the 20th century than it is now.
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She taught herself how to read at five years old even though her mother didn’t want her to do so until she was eight. Agatha grew up in the town of Torquay in southwest England. The Witness for the Prosecution and Other StoriesĪ Fruitful Sunday and Other Short StoriesĪgatha Christie was born in Ashfield. The Listerdale Mystery and Eleven Other Stories The Rose And The Yew Tree (As:Mary Westmacott)Ī Daughter's a Daughter (As: Mary Westmacott) The Sittaford Mystery / The Murder at HazelmoorĪnd Then There Were None / Ten Little IndiansĪbsent in the Spring (As:Mary Westmacott) The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan One, Two, Buckle My Shoe / Overdose of Death Hercule Poirot's Christmas / Holiday for Murder / Murder for Christmas
Murder on the Orient Express / Murder in the Calais Coach
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