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Agatha Christie's Books: List of works

Famous writer Agatha Christie became the founder of a new literary phenomenon - a female detective. Her life continues to excite readers and biographers who are trying to learn about her path to the smallest detail. The books of Agatha Christie, whose list consists of several dozen items, have already been one of the most widely read in the world for more than one hundred years. Her works were repeatedly staged and screened, she has a darkness of imitators and followers. But Agatha Christie remains the only one - the Queen of the Detective.

Biography of the writer

Agatha Christie, whose books are read worldwide today, was born September 15, 1890 in a wealthy family who came from the United States. She said that she had a very happy childhood, her parents were very fond of each other, her three children were taken care of by a caring nanny, they lived in a beautiful house with a wonderful garden. All this became a special spiritual reserve for Agatha, she always remembered that happiness exists. As a child, she was a little strange girl, very shy and detached. When she was a teenager, her father died, and Agatha began an adult life. For any girl at that time, the main goal was marriage. Agata marries Lieutenant A. Christie in 1914. The couple had a daughter, Rosalind, who later gave birth to the writer's favorite grandson. During the First World War, the future detective queen worked as a nurse, and then in a pharmacy. This became for her a source of information that the writer used in her detectives. In 1926, Christy's marriage is in crisis, the husband announces his desire to divorce. Then there is the famous disappearance of the writer, which researchers have been arguing for almost 100 years. In 1928, the divorce took place, and Agatha went on a big trip to Baghdad. At this time she meets her second husband - M. Mallowan. With it, she lived until the end of her days. Many facts of the biography of the writer became a part of her works.

The first literary experiments

Agatha Christie created her first work back in 1916 - this is the novel "Mysterious Incident in Styles." Here for the first time appear the famous characters of Christie: the detective E. Poirot, Captain Hastings, the slow-witted Inspector Japp, who will become the protagonists of the writer's detectives for years to come. The book was written easily, but her path to the reader was not easy. Christy had no connections, no one knew her, and the publishers did not want to risk publishing to an unknown author. Only in the 7th publishing house she found understanding, her novel was published in a circulation of 2 thousand pieces and paid her 25 pounds. The work was a success, and the writer began to devote more time to creativity. The books of Agatha Christie, whose list was quickly replenished, "grew" from her life's impressions and fantasies. She said that the texts formed in her head when she knit in the evenings, listening to the conversations of relatives and guests. Then she just wrote down the finished work.

Early Creativity

For the first 10 years of his writing, Agatha Christie, whose books are gradually gaining popularity, writes 6 novels and a collection of 11 stories. They get their lives characters who will be the main characters of the series: E. Poirot, a couple of Tommy and Tuppence Beresfordy, Colonel Reis, Inspector Battle. In 1924, Christie was already a real celebrity, her novels were waiting, publishers were hunted for them, honoraria grew. Until 1926, the life of the writer was developing successfully, but at that time her troubles fell: her mother dies, her brother becomes a drug addict, her husband starts an affair and demands a divorce ... Agata leaves home and disappears for almost two weeks. On her return, she said that she did not remember anything about the events of those days.

The period of creative heyday

After the crisis Christie begins a lot and work fruitfully. In a year she leaves from 1 to 3 books, a small decline in creative activity falls on the period of World War II. For 10 years, from 1926 to 1936, she wrote 21 books. In 1930, for the first time, the novel "Murder in the House of the Vicar" with the protagonist Miss Marple. The writer complicates the system of her characters, adds new faces, such as Miss Lemon. In some of her novels, characters of different series meet and act together. In 1939, the novel "Ten Little Indians" was published, which the detective queen herself considered her best creation. In the 1940s and 1950s, Christie's productivity declined slightly, she experimented with different genres, wrote historical and spy novels. Agatha Christie, the list of books on which series is difficult to distribute, turns to drama, she writes part of the works without the participation of her usual characters. In her work, it is customary to single out such series as works about:

  • Hercule Poirot;
  • Miss Marple;
  • Mr. Parker Peine;
  • A couple of detectives Tommy and Tuppence Beresfords;
  • Inspector Battle.

Novels about Ericule Poirot

The detective of Belgian origin Hercule Poirot Agatha Christie, the list of books about which includes 33 novels and 51 novels, is the most famous character of the writer. This strange narcissist with a special style and unique intelligence speaks good English, but with a strong accent. He notices something that others can not even pay the slightest attention. Christie called him something vile, then unbearable, but the audience loved him very much. And the writer decided to "finish" with Poirot only a year before his own death (in 1975): in the novel "The Curtain" he dies. At his death, The New York Times responded with an obituary, this was the only time in history when the fictional person was declared dead. This honor was awarded only to the author of the detectives Agatha Christie. Hercule Poirot (the books, whose list is now replenished due to new translations into different languages of the world, are presented in the article) is the main character of the following works:

  • "The secret of the Blue Express."
  • "The death of Lord Ergveda."
  • "Death in the air."
  • "Cards on the table."
  • "One, two, three - fasten the shoe", etc.

A series about Miss Marple

The works about the old detective are the second most popular book of Agatha Christie. The list of texts about Miss Marple includes 12 novels and 20 short stories, including:

  • "The body in the library."
  • "The finger of fate."
  • "A murder has been declared."
  • "The mirror broke, ringing."

Prototype of the image of Jane Marple was the grandmother of the writer, she was a kind person, but always, according to Agatha, she suspected everyone in the world at the worst. For the first time the old woman appears in the story "Thirteen Mysterious Cases" in 1927. Back in 1940, Christie wrote the novel "Sleeping Murder," in which Miss Marple died, but this work was published only in 1976, after the death of Agatha herself. The most recent works about this character in the light came stories "The last case of Miss Marple" in 1979. Although some of the short stories were published earlier in the magazines.

The detective has many oddities, she always tells some stories from the life of her neighbors around the village, she is very curious and active. The old woman embodies the traditions of old England, unlike Poirot, and promotes the classic values of the British: home, garden, privacy. Jane Marple is very sociable, she always goes to visit friends and relatives and usually finds herself close to a crime, in the investigation of which she is included. Her innocuous appearance of a classic old maiden allows her to easily enter into the credibility of people, she is invited to tea, where she finds out everything she needs to solve crimes. Miss Marple is very observant, she always has a complex chain of associations with events in her village of Saint-Mary-Meade.

A series about Mr. Parker Peine

Another character in the works of Agatha Christie appeared for the first time in stories in 1934. In total, about 14 stories were published about Mr. Paine's life, and most of them are combined into the collection "Investigates Parker Pine." A former civil servant, the owner of a detective agency is ready to come to the aid of those who have an unhealed wounds. The works of this series are not classic detectives, the source of the investigation is usually not a crime, but a personal story of the agency's clients. Pine is very popular in the English-speaking world, in Russia Poirot and Miss Marple are more famous, and the texts about Paine are less readable.

Tommy and Tuppence Beresfords

The collection of Agatha Christie, whose list of books includes more than a hundred works, would be incomplete without texts about a family of detectives. Tommy and Tuppence first appear in the second novel of the writer "Mysterious opponent" in 1922. Then they were not yet married and began life with a crime - blackmail as a way of earning. But they quickly realized that the investigations were as captivating and at the same time more profitable, and became detectives. Christie rarely remembered about this couple, they all appear in 4 novels and 15 stories, including: "Flick your finger only once" and "X or the game." The novel "The Gate of Destiny" tells about the 70-year-old heroes who are investigating the murder. This novel was the last text written by Agatha Christie, after that health no longer allowed her to write. But he did not become the last published work of the writer.

Inspector Battle

Agatha Christie, a writer whose list of books is incredibly long, loved to return to her characters, their lives and images became an auxiliary storyline of detectives. For the first time Inspector Battle appeared in the novel "The Secret of Chimney Castle" in 1925. Superintendent Battle specializes in investigating scrupulous cases involving state secrets. He is charged with crimes whose publicity is undesirable. In total, the inspector will appear in 5 novels by Christie ("Towards Zero", "Kill Easy", "The Secret of the Seven Dials" and others). About its life, she writes a little and does not even deserve her character naming by name. All that the reader knows about him is that he works in Scotland Yard, that he is married and has 5 children. This very reserved, intelligent and cultured person embodied Christie's best ideas about a real professional detective.

Other works

Also Agatha Christie writes about other characters. For example, in 4 novels appears Colonel Reis, a British intelligence officer. The texts about him are a tribute to the writer of the genre of spy novel. Also in Christie's legacy there are works in which characters appear, which then are not used anywhere else. This Harley Keane in the collection of short stories "Mysterious Mr. Keen" (1930), Inspector Narracot in "The Mystery of Sittford" (1931), Frankie and Bobby in "Why not Evans?" (1935), Inspector Main and Thomas Legg in the novel "Ten Little Indians "(1939), Charles Hayward in the book" The Crouching Little House. "

Dramaturgy

In 1928, a new playwright appeared in Great Britain - Agatha Christie. The list of books in the order in which they are written differs from the list by the time of publication: this is connected both with the author's plans and with the ideas of the publishers. In 1928 a dramatic version of Christie's sixth novel about Roger Ackroyd appears - the play "Alibi". All in all, from the pen of the writer came out 24 plays, some of them reproduce the subjects of novels and stories. But the most famous play by Christie, of course, is her "Mousetrap".

List of the best

In the great legacy of the writer, every reader finds his favorite work. Researchers believe that the best books of Agatha Christie, whose list is difficult to limit the figure, is:

  • "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" (1926).
  • "Murder in the house of the vicar" (1930).
  • "Mystery of the estate Endhouse" (1932).
  • "Murder in the Orient Express" (1934).
  • "Death on the Nile" (1937).
  • "Ten Little Indians" (1939).
  • "Evil under the sun" (1941).
  • "Death Comes in the End" (1944).
  • "The crocheted little house" (1949).
  • "At 4.50 from Paddington" (1957).

Shield

Detectives of Christy are the most sought-after works by filmmakers. Films from the books of Agatha Christie, whose list is constantly growing, considered even famous directors to be an honor for themselves . In total, different film studios of the world filmed at least 100 tapes on her texts. The most notable were the paintings:

  • "Murder in the Orient Express."
  • "Ten Little Indians."
  • "Woe to the innocent."
  • "The Mystery of the Dead."

TV viewers also could not ignore her work, there are many single productions and two extremely successful series about Poirot and Miss Marple.

Awards and Records

Despite the great literary heritage, Agatha Christie has received quite a few awards for her life. Her novels and plays were awarded several literary prizes, including the prestigious Prize for them. E.P. In 1956, the writer was awarded a prestigious award - the Order of the British Empire. But her legacy beats many records. One of the most published in the world are the books of Agatha Christie: the list of languages to which they are translated, has passed for a hundred. She belongs to the third place in the world for publishing after the Bible and Shakespeare's texts. The total circulation of the editions of her works is almost 5 billion copies. She owns the largest number of staged literary works.

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