Культурология. Горелова А.В - 33 стр.

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which she described her field explorations with her second husband, the British
archeologist, sir Max Mallowan. Her own characters were much less exotic:
doctors, lawyers, army officers, and clergymen. She set her stories in genteel
English homes. She confessed she could never manage miners talking in pubs
because she didn’t know what miners talked about in pubs.
In a Christie murder mystery neatness is everything. Agatha Christie, the
undisputed queen of the maze, laid her plots so precisely and dropped her false
leads so cunningly that few, if any readers could guess the identity of the
villain. Poison was a preferred method of dispatching a victim - frequently in
“quiet family surroundings”. She continued to publish one or two novels a year,
often plotting them in a hot bath while eating apples.
Born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in Torquay, she was the daughter of a
rich American and an English mother. Agatha had a very good singing voice,
but she gave up a stage career because of her shyness. In 1914 she married a
British airman, colonel Christie, and plunged into the war effort. Between
nursing and practicing pharmacy, she wrote her first detective story “The
Mysterious Affair at Styles” which introduced the 5 foot 4 inches retired police
officer Hercule Poirot. His egoism, eccentricities and the fact that for a long
time he had a Watsonian colleague called Hastings suggest that Christie was
strongly influenced by Sherlock Holmes.
Christie was a well-established writer when her controversial “The
Murder of Roger Ackroyd” was published in 1926. Publication of this novel
coincided with another scandal in the author’s otherwise scandal-free life. For 2
weeks in December 1926, Agatha Christie, aged 36, was officially a missing
person. A nationwide search led to a Yorkshire hotel where she was found
registered as Tessa Neele, the name of the woman colonel Christie married after
his divorce from Agatha two years later. Doctors said her disappearance was
caused by amnesia.
In 1930, on a trip to the Middle East, she found Max Mallowan, 14 years
her junior. Agatha Christie noted before their 25
th
anniversary that an
archeologist was the best husband any woman could have, as the older she got
the more interested he was in her.
The last few years in Dame Agatha’s life saw an upsurge in
Christiemania. “Murder on the Orient Express”, the film based on her novel,
was a huge box-office success that spurred even further the sales of her books.
It was an elderly spinster Jane Marple who remained her favourite
detective. Gifted with as many “little grey cells” as Poirot, Miss Marple also
possesses a village wisdom and homey psychological insight that made her
Agatha Christies alter ego.
People are never tired of reading Agatha Christie. Her “At Bertram’s
Hotel”, “Murder Is Easy”, “N. or M.” “They Do It With Mirrors”, “A Pocket
Full of Rye” and others are among the favourites.
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