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In April 1928, Agatha Christie's divorce from her first husband Archie Christie was finalised. She had been deeply hurt by the experience. She spent the summer finding herself somewhere to live and a school for her daughter Rosalind. Already the well-known author of several successful crime novels, she buried herself in her writing. By the autumn of that year Agatha was ready for a holiday, and began planning a trip to the West Indies. But a chance meeting with a young naval officer and his wife just returned from the Middle East changed her mind, and she decided upon Baghdad instead.
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Agatha Christie was a renowned English crime fiction writer born on September 15, 1890, to a British mother and an American Father. She wrote as many as eighty mystery novels most of which featured either Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot. ‘The murder of Roger Ackroyd,’ ‘Murder on the Orient Express,’ and ‘And then there were none’ were some of her most famous novels. She ... wrote many collections of short stories and plays. Many of her novels have been adapted into radio shows, stage dramas, films and television series.
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Agatha Christie married for a second time and in 1938 the family moved to Greenway House, a handsome residence on the River Dart in the West Country. She loved the area, the surrounding countryside and beautiful, interesting properties gave her the perfect setting for some of the ingenious plots in her most memorable novels. Sleeping Murder was written around the Imperial Hotel in Torquay and she used her own home to great advantage in the pages of Dead Man's Folly. The great, white Georgian house with camellia clad grounds, picturesque boathouse, on the banks of the River Dart, is quite mystical with a timelessness, superbly suited to the 'dapper' Hercule Poirot, delightful Belgian detective the author introduced to us in her first book. Agatha Christie's other amazing sleuth came to life in the form of a typical English lady who could have come from any of interesting villages featured in the authors work. Miss Marple first appeared in 1930 in Murder in the Vicarage.
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Agatha Christie had read the exciting reports of the ancient city of Ur that began appearing in The Illustrated London News in 1925. The site was being excavated by the English archaeologist Leonard Woolley, and since 1925 some of his finds had even rivalled those emerging from the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt. On Agatha's arrival at Ur, she was made welcome by Katharine Woolley. Katharine had been reading The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, one of Agatha's murder mysteries, and had made all the young men on the dig read it too. Leonard Woolley himself took Agatha round the vast site, and made sense of the ruins for her so that she could imagine the lives of the ancient inhabitants.
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Agatha Christie was born in Torquay, in the county of Devon, as the daughter of Frederick Alvah Miller, an American with a moderate private income, and Clarissa Miller. Her father died when she was a child. Christie was educated home, where her mother encouraged her to write from very early age. At sixteen she was sent to school in Paris where she studied singing and piano. Christie was an accomplished pianist but her stage fright and shyness prevented her from pursuing a career in music. In her books Christie seldom referred to music, although her detectives, Poirot and Miss Marple, show interest in opera and Poirot sings in THE A.B.C.
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Agatha Christie was born as Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in Torquay, Devon, to an American father and an English mother. She never claimed United States citizenship. Her father was Frederick Alvah Miller, a rich American stockbroker, and her mother was Clarissa Margaret Boehmer, the daughter of a British army captain[3]. Christie had a sister, Margaret Frary Miller (1879 – 1950), called Madge, eleven years her senior, and a brother, Louis Montant Miller (1880 – 1929), called Monty, ten years older than Christie. Her father died when she was eleven years old. Her mother taught her at home, encouraging her to write at a very young age.
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