Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.
Agatha Christie is the best-selling author of all time. She wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in Romance. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author, having been translated into at least 103 languages. She is the creator of two of the most enduring figures in crime literature-Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple-and author of The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theatre.
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U.K., as the youngest of three. The Millers had two other children: Margaret Frary Miller (1879–1950), called Madge, who was eleven years Agatha's senior, and Louis Montant Miller (1880–1929), called Monty, ten years older than Agatha.
Before marrying and starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospital during the First World War, tending to troops coming back from the trenches. During the First World War, she worked at a hospital as a nurse; later working at a hospital pharmacy, a job that influenced her work, as many of the murders in her books are carried out with poison. During the Second World War, she worked as a pharmacy assistant at University College Hospital, London, acquiring a good knowledge of poisons which feature in many of her novels.
Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, came out in 1920. During her first marriage, Agatha published six novels, a collection of short stories, and a number of short stories in magazines.
In late 1926, Agatha's husband, Archie, revealed that he was in love with another woman, Nancy Neele, and wanted a divorce. On 8 December 1926 the couple quarreled, and Archie Christie left their house, Styles, in Sunningdale, Berkshire, to spend the weekend with his mistress at Godalming, Surrey. That same evening Agatha disappeared from her home, leaving behind a letter for her secretary saying that she was going to Yorkshire. Her disappearance caused an outcry from the public, many of whom were admirers of her novels. Despite a massive manhunt, she was not found for eleven days.
In 1930, Christie married archaeologist Max Mallowan (Sir Max from 1968) after joining him in an archaeological dig. Their marriage was especially happy in the early years and remained so until Christie's death in 1976.
Christie frequently used familiar settings for her stories. Christie's travels with Mallowan contributed background to several of her novels set in the Middle East. Other novels (such as And Then There Were None) were set in and around Torquay, where she was born. Christie's 1934 novel Murder on the Orient Express was written in the Hotel Pera Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, the southern terminus of the railway. The hotel maintains Christie's room as a memorial to the author. The Greenway Estate in Devon, acquired by the couple as a summer residence in 1938, is now in the care of the National Trust.
Christie often stayed at Abney Hall in Cheshire, which was owned by her brother-in-law, James Watts. She based at least two of her stories on the hall: the short story The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, and the novel After the Funeral. Abney Hall became Agatha's greatest inspiration for country-house life, with all the servants and grandeur which have been woven into her plots.
To honour her many literary works, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1956 New Year Honours. The next year, she became the President of the Detection Club.
The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings…
First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond… then came the ‘suicide’ that was murder… the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat… a suspicious death in a locked gun-room… a million dollar bond robbery… the curse of a pharaoh’s tomb… a jewel robbery by the sea… the abduction of a Prime Minister… the disappearance of a banker… a phone call from a dying man… and, finally, the mystery of the missing will.
What links these fascinating cases? Only the brilliant deductive powers of Hercule Poirot!
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“西方之星”曆險記 The Adventure of The 'Western Star' 馬斯頓莊園慘案 The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor 低價租房奇遇記 The Adventure of the Cheap Flat 狩獵者小屋的秘密 The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge 百萬美元債券劫案 The Million Dollar Bond Robbery 埃及古墓曆險記 ...
評分“西方之星”曆險記 The Adventure of The 'Western Star' 馬斯頓莊園慘案 The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor 低價租房奇遇記 The Adventure of the Cheap Flat 狩獵者小屋的秘密 The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge 百萬美元債券劫案 The Million Dollar Bond Robbery 埃及古墓曆險記 ...
圖書標籤: AgathaChristie 英文原版 推理 Agatha_Christie 阿加莎·剋裏斯蒂 偵探 短篇 懸疑
短篇還是不如長篇好讀
評分阿婆前期的作品,短篇小說的結集作品。所收作品質量不一,但都在平均水準以上,且構思比較精巧、節奏明快,帶有推理小說起步時期的明顯特色。 個人以為,以《狩獵者小屋的秘密》、《百萬美元債券劫案》、《大都會珠寶劫案》、《首相綁架案》和《達文海姆先生失蹤案》為佳。 另外,黑斯廷斯在書中更多地是扮演瞭一個吐槽機的角色,而波洛則展示瞭自負和自戀的一麵,為豐富角色形象起到瞭作用。
評分A collection of short stories of Poirot's talent. Each is interesting and has a surprising twist. I like the imaginative author so~ a! The imagination!
評分new yorker是文學評論雜誌。文學評論雜誌針對的主要是純文學。雖然ac的小說很有意思,但是ac的小說史通俗小說中的偵探小說。雖然我個人覺得純解謎好過社會派,但是文學評論傢們更細化pdjames和桃樂絲那種社會派或者是文學型的。
評分2009.1.5讀完 我以前是很愛看阿加莎的短篇的。因為我對長的故事特彆沒耐心。直到我不停地自虐看阿加莎的長篇,開始喜歡上她的碎碎念以及各種劇情的拖遝鋪墊。 聽完以後,發現現在聽短篇很容易get confused. 人物太多,劇情也聽得不是很真切,然後犯人就水落石齣瞭... 如此說來,長篇似乎好看一點..
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