Agatha Christie
- marzo 05, 2015
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Agatha
was a mystery writer who was one of the world’s top selling authors with Works
like Murder on the Orient Express and The Mystery of the Blue Train. She was
born on September, 15th in 1890, in
Torquay, I thing that it is around England, maybe!
One of the first things that I ever read from her was a quote that she
said in an interview, it said something like: “People often ask me what made me
take up writing… I found myself making up stories and acting the different
parts… there’s nothing like boredom to make you write. So by the time I was 16
or 17 I had written quite a number of short stories and one long dreary novel.
By the time I was 21 I finished the first book of mine ever to be published”
When I read this if was like… OMG! She was so amazing I need to read more!
The Mystery Affair at Styles: the story focused on the
murder of a rich heiress and introduced readers to one of Christie’s most
famous characters – Belgian Detective Hercule Poirot. In The Mystery Affair at
Styles are two key expressions they are “whodunit” and fair-play. This story is
more like a Clue-puzzle story so the clue-puzzle stories are often called
“whodunit” stories, suggesting that the central question is always who has done
it. For the other hand, fair-play is the notion that a mystery or detective
story should, in principle, at least, be capable of being solved by a careful
and observant reader. The most widely known and most unusual element of the
clue-puzzle form is the fact that the reader is challenged to match the
detective’s process of identifying the murderer and there should be therefore
fair-play: the reader must be informed of each clue that the detective
sees.
In this book we also have the varied cast
of characters upon whom suspicion is thrown. There is Alfred Inglethorpe,
Emily's new and much younger husband upon whim suspicion in naturally initially
thrown. There are her sons, Lawrence and John Cavendish, both of whom have
their own motives for doing away with their mother. Also in the house is Mary
Cavendish, John's beautiful but unsatisfied wife who may or may not be having
an affair with the dark and handsome toxicologist (yes, a very suspicious
profession when someone has been poisoned) Dr Bauerstein. There is Cynthia
Murdoch, an orphan who has been taken into the family and of course the
eccentric Evelyn Howard, Emily longest friend and paid companion.
Then of course there are the marvellous
clues that Christie scatters throughout the book. Who left the footprints
outside the window? Why is there a green fabric caught in the latch of the
murdered woman's bedroom door? Can Cynthia really be that sound a sleeper? Who
was arguing with Emily on the day of her death and what was that argument
about? Why is there a crushed coffee cup on the floor of the bedroom, next to a
puddle of candle wax?
Despite it being her first work, this is a book that is bound to keeping you guessing until the end
Despite it being her first work, this is a book that is bound to keeping you guessing until the end
Christies was a
renowned playwright as well, with works like The Hollow (1951) and Verdict
(1958). Her play The Mousetrap opened in 1952 at the Ambassador Theater and –
at more than 8.800 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 (1974) and
Death on the Nile (1978). She was made a dame in 1971. In 1974 she made her
last public appearance for the opening night of the play version of Murder on
the Orient Express. Christie died on January 12, 1976.
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