Agatha Christieand his two main

characters

Àngela Mulet Albanell

Queen of the crimeAgatha Christie’s Biography Her works Hercule PoirotMiss Marple

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Queen of The Crime

Queen of the crime Christie has been called the best-selling

writer of books of all time, outsold only by William Shakespeare

and the Bible. UNESCO -most translated individual

author in the world Only Walt Disney Productions

superseding her.

Agatha Christie’s Biography

Agatha Christie’s Biography

1916 she married colonel Archibald Christie.

During I World war she worked at a hospital and then in a pharmacy

On 8 december 1926 she disappeared for ten days, causing great interest in the press.

Agatha Christie’s Biography (II)

In 1930, Christie married the archeologist Sir Max Mallowan.

In 1971 she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Agatha Christie died on 12 January 1976, at age 85.

Agatha Christie’s works

Agatha Christie’s works

80 detective novels,13 plays 6 love stories….

Introduction of Poirot and Miss Marple

Hercule Poirot is a fictional Belgian detective. Along with Miss Marple is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters

Poirot first novel appears in 1920 and Miss Marple first appears in 1930

During World War II, Christie wrote the last cases of these two great detectives

Hercule Poirot

Hercule Poirot

He appears in 33 novels and 54 short stories.

Sherlock Holmes tradition

eccentric detective, stooge assistant, with a Lestrade-type Scotland Yard detective, Inspector Japp."

green eyes described as shining "like a cat's" when he is struck by a clever idea.

two common phrases that he says: use of “the little grey cells" and "order and method”

Capitain Arthur describes Poirot

"He was hardly more than five feet four inches but carried himself with great dignity.

His head was exactly the shape of an egg, His moustache was very stiff and military. "

Some characters that appear in Poirot’s novels

Captain Arthur Hastings:

- becomes his life-long partner and appears inmany of the novels and stories.

- Poirot regarded Hastings as a poor detective,

- yet helpful in his way of being fooled by the criminal and for his tendency to unknowingly "stumble" onto the truth.

Ariadne Oliver:

the only one in Poirot's universe to have noted that "It’s not natural for five or six people to be on the spot when B

is murdered and all have a motive for killing B."

Chief inspector Japp:

Poirot often helps Japp solve a case and lets him take the credit in return for special favours.

These favours usually entail being supplied with cases that would interest him.

Miss Marple

Miss Jane Marple

Miss Marple appeared in a total of 12 novels and 20 short stories

Miss Marple is an elderly spinter who acts as an amateur detective, and lives in the village of St. Mary Mead.

Her innocuous appearance, meandering conversation and ever-present knitting needles often mislead people into underestimating her as simply a "dithering old maid."

she is a sharp observer of human nature with "an uncanny knack of being always right."

She solve difficult crimes because her frequent analogies to people and events in Saint Mary Mead

allowing her to realize about the true nature of a crime.