OL471610W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.90 Pages 198 Ppi 650 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0671464965 Urn:lcp:bodyinlibrarymis00agat:epub:0739970b-00bd-43a0-a82b-0a73ccdf12fe Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier bodyinlibrarymis00agat Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3806953s Isbn 0671602551ĩ780671464967 Lccn 88035734 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary OL7660126M Openlibrary_edition Christie Agatha Sous le Pseudonyme de Mary Westmacott.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:32:34 Boxid IA107010 Boxid_2 CH117201 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary External-identifier.Christie, Agatha, Illustrated by Cover Art.Christie, writing as Mary Westmacott, Agatha.( YING ) A JIA SHA KE LI SI DI DIAO KE LI YI.In 1971 she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She was the single most popular mystery writer of all time. In all, she wrote over 66 novels, numerous short stories and screenplays, and a series of romantic novels using the pen name Mary Westmacott. Most of her other novels were set in a fictionalized Devon, where she was born.Īgatha Christie is credited with developing the 'cozy style' of mystery, which became popular in, and ultimately defined, the Golden Age of fiction in England in the 1920s and '30s, an age of which she is considered to have been Queen.

She travelled with her husband's job, and set several of her novels set in the Middle East. She was happy in the early years of her second marriage, and did not divorce her husband despite his many affairs.

In 1930, she married Sir Max Mallowan, an archaeologist and a Catholic. In 1928 she divorced her husband, who had been having an affair. When her husband came back from the war, they had a daughter. While he went away to war, she worked as a nurse and wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), which wasn't published until four years later. In 1914, at age 24, she married Colonel Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. Dryden's finishing school in Paris to study singing and piano.

Her mother taught her at home, encouraging her to write at a very young age. Her father died when she was eleven years old. Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, in the United Kingdom, the daughter of a wealthy American stockbroker.

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