Her debut novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles took some time to finish and even longer to find a publisher. When the Hospital opened a dispensary, she accepted an offer to work there and completed the examination of the Society of Apothecaries.
She finished the manuscript during her two week holiday which she spent at the Moorland Hotel at Haytor on Dartmoor. Her new found expertise in poisons was also put to good use. With the end of the war, Archie had found a job in the City and they had just enough money to rent and furnish a flat in London. Later that year, on the 5th August, Agatha gave birth to their only daughter, Rosalind.
It was also the year that a publisher, John Lane of The Bodley Head, and the fourth to have received the manuscript, accepted The Mysterious Affair at Styles for publication and contracted Agatha to produce five more books.
John Lane insisted on a couple of changes to her manuscript including a reworked final chapter — instead of a courtroom climax, Lane proposed the now familiar denouement in the library.
So where did the inspiration for Hercule Poirot come from? During the First World War there were Belgian refugees in most parts of the English countryside, Torquay being no exception. Although he was not based on any particular person, Agatha thought that a Belgian refugee, a former great Belgian policeman, would make an excellent detective for The Mysterious Affair at Styles.
Hercule Poirot was born. Following the war Agatha continued to write — experimenting with different types of thriller and murder mystery stories, creating first Tommy and Tuppence and then Miss Marple in quick succession. In , leaving Rosalind with her nurse and her mother, she and Archie travelled across the then British Empire, promoting The Empire Exhibition of By this time Christie had already decided to change publishers. Once returned from the Grand Tour, the family were reunited and settled in a house they named Styles in the suburbs outside London.
It was a difficult time for Agatha — her mother had died and she was often alone clearing out the family home in Torquay and struggling to write the next novel for Collins. Archie was a keen golfer; Agatha not. One night in early December, overwhelmed and with close friend and secretary Carlo away for the night, Agatha left Rosalind and the house to the care of the maids without saying where she was going.
Her car was found abandoned the next morning several miles away. A nationwide search ensued. In , she married archaeology professor Max Mallowan, with whom she traveled on several expeditions, later recounting her trips in the memoir Come, Tell Me How You Live.
The year of her new nuptials also saw the release of Murder at the Vicarage , which became another classic and introduced readers to Miss Jane Marple, an enquiring village lady. Poirot and Marple are Christie's most well-known detectives, with the two featured in dozens of novels and short stories. Writing well into her later years, Christie wrote more than 70 detective novels as well as short fiction.
Though she also wrote romance novels like Unfinished Portrait and A Daughter's a Daughter under the name Mary Westmacott, Christie's success as an author of sleuth stories has earned her titles like the "Queen of Crime" and the "Queen of Mystery. Christie was a renowned playwright as well, with works like The Hollow and Verdict Her play The Mousetrap opened in at the Ambassador Theatre and—at more than 8, showings during 21 years—holds the record for the longest unbroken run in a London theater.
Additionally, several of Christie's works have become popular movies, including Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile The couple divorced in Growing up in Devon during the last decade of the 19th century, Agatha taught herself to read by the age of five. While her two siblings were sent away for their education, Agatha was homeschooled by her parents, and from a young age she enjoyed reading, writing poetry and playing music. However, Agatha lost her father in November after he suffered numerous heart attacks.
After moving back to England in , Agatha began writing her first short story, The House of Dreams. Not until was the tale published, in an issue of The Sovereign Magazine.
The pair very quickly fell in love, but had to delay getting married. However, they were reunited in January when Archie moved to London after being given a position in the War Office. It was during the First World War that Agatha began writing detective stories. Christie learned about poison while working as a nurse and pharmacy dispenser during World War I. Christie is widely acknowledged to be the best-selling author in the world after Shakespeare.
Her books have sold more than two billion copies and translated into more than languages. His age was unknown. First performed in , the play is still running on the at the St. Martins Theater in London. She was also the first female playwright to have had three plays running on the West End simultaneously. Support Provided By: Learn more.
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