Biographie Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie by her real name Agatha Mary Clarissa MILLER, She was born
on 5 January 1922 in Torquay in Angleterre on a american father Frédéric Alvah
MILLER and a english mother Clarisse Margaret BOEHMER and died on 12
January 1976 in Wallingford at the age of 80 years old.
During her childhood, her siblings placed her in boarding school she studied at
home Unfortunately when she was eleven years old, her father died and so did
her mother who took care of her education. And thanks to her upbringing, the
encouragement of those around her and the counts and poems in the family
library, she began to write her own novel at the age of twelve. In 19006, she
went to Paris to finish her studies in French educational houses (at
Mademoiselle Cabernet in Paris, then at the Marronniers in Auteuil, finally at
Miss Dryden in Paris) where she also studied piano and singing to become a
lyric artist but because of her shyness she gave it up.

His mother fell ill so they decide to take a vacation in Cairo for its warm
climate. In 1910 she was bedridden because of a fever during which she wrote
"House of Beauty" on the theme of dreams and madness, she later also wrote
"The Call of Wings" which was rejected by several magazines whose book she
had sent them. Later her sister introduces her to the riddles of Sherlock Holmes
and Arsène Lupin, so she challenges herself to write a crime novel that she
called "The Lonely Petit" inspired by his trip to Cairo but was also turned down
by many publishers, including Eden Phillpotts, a family friend.

At a ball at "Chudleigh" given by Lord and Lady Clifford, she met Archibald
Christie, an army aviator, they married and end up divorced a few years later,
but she kept the surname "Christie" for her career as a writer. Thanks to her
involvement as a volunteer nanny during the Great War and obtaining her
writing the novel "The Mysterious Investigation of Styles" in which Hercules
Poirot appeared for the first time, published in 1920 by the house "The Bodley
Head". In 1930, she married archaeologist Max MALLOWAN, with whom she
travelled extensively in the Middle East, during this period she wrote several
books including "Death on the Nile".

She wrote other books such as "The Pothero Affair" which features Miss
MAPLE, an investigator but also "Murder on the Orient Express" and many
others among all her works containing more than 78 detective novels, 150 short
stories, 19 plays, 1 biography and 6 romance novels under one other name. Who
will make her success, nicknamed "The Mistress of Mystery" or "Queen of
Crime".