How Did Agatha Christie Create Suspenseful Stories

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The famous British mystery writer, Agatha Christie, has made an impact on the way mystery authors create suspenseful stories in the modern world, the way plays are created and how her disappearance has frightened this realm. Murder mystery genres created a great part of Agatha’s writing career. Along with writing, Christie’s playwriting profession took off after writing her famous play, “The mousetrap”, which began in 1952. Numerous years after a fortunate career, Agatha Christie then soon lived a mystery of her own after her own disappearance. Christie is one of the greatest famous mystery writers from the 1900’s.
Agatha Christie first began writing her suspenseful stories in the 1800’s and soon after became one of the world’s bestselling

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