She was born and lived in the village of St. Her other detective was Miss Marple, an elderly spinster who relied on her feminine sensitivity and empathy to solve crimes. Poirot was an amiably comic character with egg-shaped head. Christie's first detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introduced Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective, who appeared in more than 40 books, the last of which was Curtain (1975). It was to be useful when she started writing mysteries. During World War I she worked in a Red Cross Hospital in Torquay as a hospital dispenser, which gave her knowledge of poisons. In 1914 Christie married Archibald Christie, an officer in the Flying Royal Corps their daughter, Rosalind, was born in 1919. Encouraged by Eden Philpotts, neighbor and friend in Torquay, she devoted herself to writing and had short stories published. When Christie's mother took her to Cairo for a winter, she wrote a novel there.
Christie was an accomplished pianist but her stage fright and shyness prevented her from pursuing a career in music. At sixteen she was sent to school in Paris where she studied singing and piano. Her father died when she was a child, and Christie was educated home, where her mother encouraged her to write from very early age. OL472899W Page_number_confidence 90.82 Pages 198 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.7 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210131034443 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 420 Scandate 20210128150624 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Tts_version 4.Agatha Christie was born in Torquay, in the county of Devon. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:00:41 Boxid IA40052116 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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