The Mystery that is Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie, almost as popular as Shakespeare, was a brilliant writer. She uses her life and experiences to make brilliant novels, loved worldwide. The novel, Death on the Nile, written by famous mystery writer Agatha Christie, is directly influenced by the events that took place in her life.
September 15, 1890, the queen of crime, Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born (“Death”). Agatha’s childhood was happily spent in Torquay, England. She lived with her two parents Clara and Frederick Miller. Agatha wrote later in her autobiography that she “had a very happy childhood” (Hammer). Though her childhood was happy, it’s the events and experiences that happened later in her life that influenced her world …show more content…
In the novel Death on the Nile the main character, Linnet Ridgeway and her new husband are both rich and successful. But jealously and anger end up getting them both killed (Christie). The murders in Agatha’s novels are intense and are passionate. The characters develop throughout the book and you learn how driven they are by “jealousy, love, ambition, arrogance, faithfulness and unfaithfulness, frustration or boredom” (“Death”). In the author’s foreword, her own intro into Death on the Nile, she wrote that she spent a winter in Egypt and it inspired her to write this mystery. She calls this book, “one of my best “foreign travel” ones (novels)” …show more content…
She married twice, once with Archibald Christie in 1914 (Dorn). Archie is the father of her child, Rosalind (“Death”). In 1926, Agatha’s mother died after being sick (Death). Months later Archibald, Agatha’s former husband, asked her for a divorce (Dorn). From here on out Agatha became very distant and private. When Agatha went missing in December of 1926 for no known reason, a nationwide search was started in order to find the crime writer (Hammer). Her car was found at the edge of a lake near a small town. Nobody had any idea of where she went. Weeks later she was found at a hotel as a guest under a fake name. She had poor memory of what had happened to her during the time of her disappearance (Hammer). She was very mysterious until the day she died. Christie was also known for writing six novels under a fake name at the time (Curran). Agatha had a second marriage that inspired her travel theme. Max Mallowan, whom she married in 1930, was an archeologist (Dorn). He took her on many excavations to places she later used as settings in her novels. In Death on the Nile, the setting is in Egypt, she had visited these places while accompanying her husband. Though Agatha loved traveling and all of the experiences she had, she returned often to England to revisit her old life. She usually did this under false names
Agatha Christie, almost as popular as Shakespeare, was a brilliant writer. She uses her life and experiences to make brilliant novels, loved worldwide. The novel, Death on the Nile, written by famous mystery writer Agatha Christie, is directly influenced by the events that took place in her life.
September 15, 1890, the queen of crime, Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born (“Death”). Agatha’s childhood was happily spent in Torquay, England. She lived with her two parents Clara and Frederick Miller. Agatha wrote later in her autobiography that she “had a very happy childhood” (Hammer). Though her childhood was happy, it’s the events and experiences that happened later in her life that influenced her world …show more content…
In the novel Death on the Nile the main character, Linnet Ridgeway and her new husband are both rich and successful. But jealously and anger end up getting them both killed (Christie). The murders in Agatha’s novels are intense and are passionate. The characters develop throughout the book and you learn how driven they are by “jealousy, love, ambition, arrogance, faithfulness and unfaithfulness, frustration or boredom” (“Death”). In the author’s foreword, her own intro into Death on the Nile, she wrote that she spent a winter in Egypt and it inspired her to write this mystery. She calls this book, “one of my best “foreign travel” ones (novels)” …show more content…
She married twice, once with Archibald Christie in 1914 (Dorn). Archie is the father of her child, Rosalind (“Death”). In 1926, Agatha’s mother died after being sick (Death). Months later Archibald, Agatha’s former husband, asked her for a divorce (Dorn). From here on out Agatha became very distant and private. When Agatha went missing in December of 1926 for no known reason, a nationwide search was started in order to find the crime writer (Hammer). Her car was found at the edge of a lake near a small town. Nobody had any idea of where she went. Weeks later she was found at a hotel as a guest under a fake name. She had poor memory of what had happened to her during the time of her disappearance (Hammer). She was very mysterious until the day she died. Christie was also known for writing six novels under a fake name at the time (Curran). Agatha had a second marriage that inspired her travel theme. Max Mallowan, whom she married in 1930, was an archeologist (Dorn). He took her on many excavations to places she later used as settings in her novels. In Death on the Nile, the setting is in Egypt, she had visited these places while accompanying her husband. Though Agatha loved traveling and all of the experiences she had, she returned often to England to revisit her old life. She usually did this under false names