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Agatha Christie - the "Mistress of Mystery"
She was born -
She moved to Paris
She studied music and piano -
First short story - The House of Dreams
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She studied nursing
As volonteer she helped injured soldiers -
Agatha got married
Archie was an aviator who met at a party -
Her daughter Rosalind was born
She was writing her first detective novel -
“The Mysterious affair at Styles” was published
She introduced Hercules Poirot, a Belgian detective who appears in 33 of her mystery novels. -
Agatha's mother died
Her husband asked her for a divorce because he was in love with another woman. -
Agatha disappeared
Agatha disappeared for 11 days and nobody knew where she was. The police found her car in Newlands Corner with her clothes inside. More than a thousand police officers, 15,000 volunteers, and several aeroplanes searched for her in the area. -
Agatha was found
She was found in a small hotel explaining to the police that she had lost her memory. -
Agatha Christie divorced
Agatha and Archibald dicorced -
Agatha married again
She married her second husband, Max Mallowan, an archaeologist. She accompanied Mallowan on his archaeological expeditions, and her travels with him contributed background to several of her novels set in the Middle East. -
“The murder at the Vicarage” was published
That year she published “The murder at the Vicarage” which was dedicated to her daughter. In this novel, Agatha introduced Miss Marple, an old lady who acts as an amateur detective who solves mysteries with her intuition. She appeared in 12 novels. -
"Murder on the Orient Express" was published
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“Death on the Nile” was published
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Christie worked in the pharmacy
As she was working in the pharmacy she learned about drugs and poisons and she used this information to kill the characters of her novels. -
“Sleeping Murder” was published
It was her final novel -
Agatha Christie died
Christie died peacefully at age 85 from natural causes at her home.