Agatha Christie
Born: 09-14-1890
Agatha Christie, renowned as the "Queen of Mystery," was a prolific British author famous for her detective novels. Born in 1890, she created iconic characters such as Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie's work, noted for its clever plots and unexpected twists, has sold over two billion copies worldwide. Her play "The Mousetrap" holds the record for the longest initial run in London's West End. She passed away in 1976.
Book summaries for books written by Agatha Christie
Quotes
Poirot looked searchingly at me. He was excited - profoundly excited.
He had become so completely absorbed in himself, and isolated from his fellows that he dreaded meeting, not only his landlady, but any human being.
Why, for instance, does he take the trouble to spend his time and money in winding up the watch when he has no intention of taking it out of his pocket?
It sounds impossible, but it's fact. I had my last glimpse of the great detective just as I completed these memoirs.
A woman, well stricken in years, was putting a flower into the button-hole of a littie girl's coat. I remarked on this afterwards.
But this is all guesswork. We know nothing until we know why and how the 'receiving set' was tampered with.
Nothing escapes him. I have heard him dismiss a servant at a glance, and at his first word to her.
I was very much interested by what the young detective had just said. He certainly seemed to be getting on.
You are like everyone else. They deceive themselves, and believe everything strangers in authority tell them.
Everyone must feel that the fact that Mr. Inglethorp's large fortune, tied up until he was fifty, and disposing so shortly before his death of so much of it, to her, looks black against her.
Are we being followed?
The matter can be easily remedied. You can turn him out if you like.