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Christie's inspiration for the character came from Belgian refugees living in Torquay, and the Belgian soldiers she helped to treat as a volunteer nurse during the First World War. Agatha attended a girls’ school in Torquay for a short while, but finding that unsuitable, Clara took her daughter to Paris where she spent time in a succession of boarding schools, taking piano and singing lessons and embracing the culture of the French capital. From the late 1940s until the end of the 1950s, Agatha and Max would spend each winter living and working at the site of Nimrud in Iraq, which they chose after living in Baghdad for five months (this period inspired 1950’s adventure novel They Came to Baghdad). The second, Louis Montant ("Monty"), was born in Morristown, New Jersey, in 1880, [18] while the family was on an extended visit to the United States.

She became less prolific, aiming for one novel a year (a Christie for Christmas) and focusing on playwriting. Her verdict: a good adaptation with the minor point that Poirot's moustaches weren't luxurious enough.It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. Clara, who was an excellent storyteller, did not want Agatha to learn to read until she was eight but Agatha, bored and as the only child at home, taught herself to read by the age of five.

She eventually made friends with other girls in Torquay, noting that "one of the highlights of my existence" was her appearance with them in a youth production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Yeomen of the Guard, in which she played the hero, Colonel Fairfax. Earlier that year Agatha had travelled to the Canary Islands with her secretary and daughter Rosalind, where she struggled through finishing The Mystery of the Blue Train, set on the French Riviera. In October 1912, she was introduced to Archibald "Archie" Christie at a dance given by Lord and Lady Clifford at Ugbrooke, about 12 miles (19 km) from Torquay. Educated at home by her mother, Christie began writing detective fiction while working as a nurse during World War I.

Both Marple and Miller "always expected the worst of everyone and everything, and were, with almost frightening accuracy, usually proved right". One of Christie's plays, The Mousetrap, opened in West End theatre in 1952, and ran continuously until 16 March 2020, when the stage performances had to be temporarily discontinued during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Archibald Christie, asked for a divorce, Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared for nearly two weeks. Meant for teachers to use in the classroom -- lots of pages in the back giving them ideas on how to incorporate the book in their curriculum. Shortly afterwards, Max was sent out to Cairo as a squadron leader in the Directorate of Allied and Foreign Liaison, leaving Agatha – now volunteering in the dispensary at University College Hospital - alone for the duration of the war, despite concerted efforts to arrange work overseas near her husband. Her biographer Janet Morgan has commented that, despite "infelicities of style", the story was "compelling". The atmosphere of the Middle East was not lost on her, as can be seen in novels such as Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile (inspired by a trip with Max and Rosalind), Murder in Mesopotamia, Appointment With Death and They Came to Baghdad as well as many short stories, including several of the Parker Pyne tales, featuring a civil servant turned happiness consultant.

Christie was unhappy about becoming "an employed wage slave", [14] : 428 and for tax reasons set up a private company in 1955, Agatha Christie Limited, to hold the rights to her works. Trading Address (Warehouse) Unit E, Vulcan Business Complex, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EB.

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