Agatha Mary Clarissa Originally Mallowan, nee Miller was going to be published under the pseudonym Martin West and Martin Gray, believing that the woman's name detective author may make some readers prejudice.Later, she decided to keep the present name of her first husband - Christie.
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In the early years, Agatha did not go to school.Her training takes a mother and a whole bunch of governesses.
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reason for writing the first novel by Agatha Christie had to argue with her sister, who was a writer.The argument that it will be able to do something more worthwhile than a sister.
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Christie's first book publication waiting for 5 years.She refused to print 6 publishers.
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Agatha suffered dysgraphia - the inability to write lyrics.Her works have been dictated.
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During the First World War, Agatha Christie worked as a nurse in a military hospital, then she went to work in a pharmacy, so great was the understanding of the toxic substances.Perhaps, therefore, it is poisoned so often in her detectives.
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her favorite flowers were lilies.
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In 1922, she toured the world.
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familiar Agatha Christie, once told about her methods, "she was finishing up the last chapter of the book, and then choose the most unlikely of suspects and, returning to the top remade several times to substitute it."
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prototype Miss Marple Agatha was a grandmother on the maternal side.
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According to Christie's, from childhood to old age she dreamed the same dream: a man with his hands chopped off and a terrible person.She called him a man-killer, even in his sleep he did not kill anyone.
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Agata wrote six psychological novels, published under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.
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Most of all she is herself admitted hated marmalade, pudding and cockroaches.
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worst ever written her Agatha Christie believed the novel "The Mystery of the Blue Train," a series of works about Hercule Poirot.
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Her favorite color was green.
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1926 became one of the most difficult in the life of Christie, but then it was the mysterious disappearance.Her mother died, my brother became a drug addict, publishers did not like the novel, "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd", in which the narrative was conducted on behalf of the murderer, and to top it all, her husband Archibald fell in love with another woman and demanded a divorce.Then Agatha lost her long sought, and even enlisted the help of other British Master Detective - Arthur Conan Doyle.
After a while Agatha found in the small town sanatorium, where it appeared to all as Teresa Neal.She is very badly damaged memory: she had a vague memory of her husband, she could not remember the name of his daughter, and his sister learned only a few days.
Some believed that the author acted out a special situation with his "disappearance" to avenge her husband.
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During the Second World War, Agatha Christie wrote two stories, "Curtain" and "Sleeping Murder", which were to be the last book about Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, two of its most popular characters.At the request of both the writer of the book had been hidden in a bank vault and had to come out into the light when it is no longer able to write.
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Its main musical influences were Wagner.
