Miss Marple has appeared in books such as «The Moving Finger» (1942) and «A Pocket Full of Rye» (1953), and has been played on screen by actresses such as Angela Lansbury, Helen Hayes and Geraldine McEwan. Poirot appears most often in Christie’s work in such titles as Ackroyd, The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928) and Death in the Clouds (1935). Poirot and Marple are Christie’s best-known detectives, and both appear in dozens of novels and short stories.

The year of his remarriage also saw the release of «The Murder at the Vicarage», which became another classic and introduced readers to Miss Jane Marple, a curious village lady. In 1930 she married archaeology professor Max Mallowan, with whom she traveled on several expeditions, and later recounted her travels in the 1946 memoir «Come, Tell Me How You Live». Traumatized by the revelation, Christie disappeared only to be discovered by authorities several days later in a Harrogate hotel, registered under the name of her husband’s mistress.Ĭhristie recovered and divorced Archibald in 1928. That same year, however, she had to deal with upheaval when her mother died and her husband revealed that he was having an affair with another woman. In 1926, Christie published «The Murder of Roger Ackroyd», a hit that later became marked as a classic of the genre and an all-time favorite.

She published her first book, «The Mysterious Case of Styles», in 1920 the story centered on the murder of a wealthy heiress and introduced readers to one of Christie’s most famous characters: the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. In 1914 she married Colonel Archibald Christie, a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps, and became a nurse during the World War I. The youngest of three siblings, she was home-schooled by her mother, who encouraged her daughter to write.Īs a child, Christie enjoyed fantasy play and character creation and, when she was 16, she moved to Paris for a time to study singing and piano.

But first, a little history of this fabulous English writer.Īgatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born on Septemin Torquay, Devon, in the southwest of England. Today we present you 8 books by Agatha Christie in PDF format that you can read and download for free.

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