Agatha Christie

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Miss Marple, Poirot, Tommy and Tuppence were just a few of many characters created by Agatha Christie. Agatha Christie was a murder mystery writer and was known as the “Queen of Crime.” She had a very unique style of writing. Agatha Christie created her characters on the basis of being detectives. Some were actual detectives while others were just ordinary people with the skills of a detective. Because of her novels, she earned the title of “Queen of Crime.”
Agatha Christie was born on September 15, 1890 in Torquay, Devon, England as Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller (“Agatha Christie”, Biography). Her parents were Fredrick Miller and Clarissa Boehmer. She was the youngest of three whose names were Margarite also known as “Mage”, Louis, and Montant also known as “Monty” (Morgan 2). Her parents were a prominent middle-class family and her mother taught Christie at home. Her mother was very passionate about her being able to write which Agatha Christie was already showing great talent before the age of sixteen. However, she did not start to publish her work until later. …show more content…

In this house; many of her masterpieces were made. Her house is where she stayed until her death. Christie seemed to take great inspiration from nature and found ways to incorporate it into her novels whenever she could. Her unique style of writing and the way she conveys her ideas won her the title of “Queen of Crime.” She paved the way for other female authors not just for mystery, but for all genres. She helped to show that there is nothing a woman cannot do especially if they work hard enough to achieve their goal. As the New Yorker says, “She tries to help the reader, or she pretends to” (Acocella 8). Agatha Christie died on January 12, 1976 from natural causes at the age of eighty-five in her home in Winterbrook, Oxfordshire (“Agatha Christie”,

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