Agatha Christie was an English author best known for her detective novels. Some of her most famous works introduced characters like Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie drew from her own experiences traveling with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, including settings in the Middle East, like Murder in Mesopotamia, which was set at an archaeological dig site in Mesopotamia. Several other novels also featured archaeological elements or characters.

1. AGATHA
CHRISTIE
NAME : DEEPANSHA SINGH
CLASS : VII – A
ROLL NO. : ⑬

2. CONTENTS
Early Life
First Novel
Other Novels
Marriages and Later Life
Famous Works
Works with Archaeological Effects

3. Early Life
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller , DBE (born ; 15
September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English crime
writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote
six romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she
is best remembered for the 66 detective novels and 14
short story collections she wrote under her own name,
most of which revolve around the investigations of such
characters as Hercule Poirot, Miss Jane
Marple and Tommy and Tuppence. She also wrote the
world's longest-running play, The Mousetrap.

4. Born to a wealthy upper-middle-class family
in Torquay, Devon, Christie served in a hospital
during the First World War, before marrying and
starting a family in London. Although initially
unsuccessful at getting her work published, in
1920, The Bodley Head press published her
novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles, featuring the
character of Poirot. This launched her literary
career.

5. First Novel
Christie had long been a fan of detective novels,
having enjoyed Wilkie Collins' The Woman in
White and The Moonstone as well as Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle's early Sherlock Holmes stories.
She wrote her own detective novel “The
Mysterious Affair at Styles”, featuring Hercule
Poirot. A former Belgian police officer noted for
his twirly large "magnificent moustaches" and
egg-shaped head, he was a refugee to Britain
after Germany invaded Belgium, inspired by real
Belgian refugees in Torquay.

6. Other Novels
Christie's second novel, The Secret Adversary (1922),
featured new detective couple Tommy and Tuppence.
Again published by The Bodley Head, it earned her
£50. A third novel again featured Poirot, Murder on
the Links(1923), as did short stories commissioned by
Bruce Ingram, editor of Sketch magazine. In order to
tour the world promoting the British Empire
Exhibition, the couple left their daughter Rosalind
with Agatha's mother and sister. The pair traveled to
South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii. They
learned to surf prone in South Africa, then
in Waikiki were among the first Britons
to surf standing up.

7. Marriages and Later Life
 First, she married Archie Christie but after some
happy years Archie felt in love with Nancy Neele
asked for divorce from Agatha. They separated from
each other in 1928.
 In 1930, Christie married archaeologist Max
Mallowan after joining him in an archaeological dig.
Their marriage was always happy, continuing until
Christie's death in 1976. Max introduced her to wine,
which she never enjoyed, preferring to drink water in
restaurants. She tried unsuccessfully to make herself
like cigarettes by smoking one after lunch and one
after dinner every day for six months.

8. Famous Works
 The world's best-selling mystery writer, and often referred
to as the "Queen of Crime", Agatha Christie is considered
a master of suspense, plotting, and characterisation.
 Agatha Christie's first novel The Mysterious Affair at
Styles was published in 1920 and introduced the long-running
character detective Hercule Poirot, who appeared
in 33 of Christie's novels and 54 short stories.
 Well-known Miss Marple was introduced in The Thirteen
Problems in 1927 (short stories) and was based on
Christie's grandmother and her "Ealing cronies". Both Jane
and Gran "always expected the worst of everyone and
everything, and was, with almost frightening accuracy,
usually proved right.“ Miss Marple appeared in 12 of
Christie's novels.

9. Works with Archaeological
Effects
 Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
Christie's Murder in Mesopotamia is the most
archaeologically influenced of all her novels as it is set in the
Middle East at an archaeological dig site and associated
expedition house. The Main characters included an
archaeologist, Dr. Eric Leidner, as well as his wife, multiple
specialists, assistants and the men working on the site. The
novel is most noted for its careful description of the dig site
and house, which showed the author had spent much of her
own time in very similar situations herself. The characters in
this book in particular are also based on archaeologists
Christie knew from her personal experiences on excavations
site.

10.  Appointment with Death (1938)
Appointment with Death is set in Jerusalem and its
surrounding area. The death itself occurs at an old
cave site and offers some very descriptive details of
sites which Christie herself would have visited in
order to write the book.
 Death on the Nile (1937)
Death on the Nile takes place on a tour boat on the
Nile. Many archaeological sites are visited along the
way and one of the main characters is an
archaeologist, Signor Richetti.
 They Came to Baghdad (1951)
They Came to Baghdad was inspired by Christie's own
trips to Baghdad with Mallowan, and involves an
archaeologist as the heroine's love interest.