BRIEF HISTORY OF AGATHA HISTORY

1. JAGRAN LAKECITY UNIVERSITY
History of Mass Media
Assignment On
Agatha Christie(Queen of Crime)
SUBMITTED TO SUBMITTED
BY
PRABUDDH BANERJEE HONEY

2. AGATHA LIFE HISTORY
• Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born on 15 September 1890 in Torquay, Devon, South
West England into a well off middle class family.
• In 1914 she was married with Colonel Archibald Christie. He was an aviator in the Royal
Flying Corps.
• The couple had one daughter, Rosalind, before their divorce in 1928.
• She wrote her own first detective novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles featuring Hercule
Poirot .
• She trained and worked as a nurse helping to treat wounded soldiers, during first world
war.
• In 1930, she again married with Max Mallowan .
• She is the author of 80 crime novels and collection of short stories, 19 plays, and six novel
written under the name of Mary Westmascott.

3. • Her novels listed as the best-selling novelist of all time by the Guinness
Book of World Records .
• Her novels have sold roughly 2 billion copies, her works come third in the
rankings of the world's most-widely published books after the bible and
William Shakespeare books.
• Remains the most-translated individual author – having been translated
into at least 103 languages.
• Christie's best-selling novel was “Then There Were None ” with 100 million
sales to date, making it the world's best-selling mystery ever, and one of the
best-selling books of all time.

4. • Agatha Christie’s first novel , The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was written towards the
end of world war 1.
• She created a character in his novel named as Hercule poirot, the little Belgian
detective who was detective was the most popular detective in crime fiction since
Sherlock Holmes.
• In 1926, she wrote a masterpiece, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was published by
Collins.
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first
published in June 1926 in the United Kingdom by William Collins, Sons.

5. THE MOUSETRAP (1952)
Mousetrap, her famous play of all, opened in 1952.
Mousetrap is the murder mystery play. It is the longest and continuous running play of this era.
Over 25,000th performance taking place on 18 November,2012.
Such plays are The Yellow Iris, Three Blind Mice, Butter in a Lordly Dish, Personal Call

6. MISS MARPLE
• Jane Marple usually referred as Miss Marple, it is a fictional
character used many times in the novel.
• The Murder of Vicrage was the first introducing play of Miss Marple.
• Several novels are their featuring Miss Marple like The Murder at
the Vicarage (1930),The Body in the Library(1942),The Moving
Finger(1943),A Murder is Announced(1950), They Do It with Mirrors
or Murder with Mirrors (1952), A Pocket Full of Rye(1953),4.50 from
Paddington or What Mrs. Mac Gillicuddy Saw ! (1957),The Mirror
Crack'd from Side to Side or The Mirror Crack'd (1962),A Caribbean
Mystery (1964),At Bertram's Hotel (1965),Nemesis (1971),Sleeping
Murder (written around 1940, published 1976).
• Some short stories collection are also their, The Thirteen
Problem, The Tuesday Club Murders, The Regatta Mystery .

7. HERCULE POIROT
• This is well known character introduced in the novel by Agatha Christie.
• He is a fictional Belgian detective character. Most famous and long lived character,
appearing in 33 novel and one play(black coffee).
• His name also includes in more than 50 short stories.
• Hercule Poirot first appeared in The Mysterious Affair at Styles(published in 1920)
and exited in CURTAIN (published in 1975).

8. FILM & THEATRE ADAPTATION AGATHA’S
WORK
Christie wrote 16 plays based on her novels. The first theatrical version of her
mystery opened in London in May 1928. An adaptation of her 1926 detective novel
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd .
Three stage adaptations she herself made of novels featuring poirot followed:
Appointment with Death(1945), Death on the Nile(1946) and The Hollow(1951).

9. MOVIES BASED ON AGATHA’S WORKS
• Murder , She Said was released in 1961. This movie directed
by George Pollock. This movie was loosely adapted from
Christie’s novel “4.50 from Paddington’’.
• Murder At The Gallop was released in 1963. Metro Goldwyn
Mayer was the director of this movie. The film stars Margaret
Rutherford as Miss Jane Marple in movie.
• Ten Little Indian was released in 1965. George Pollock was
the director of this movie. The original title was Ten Little
Niggers, then it was switched to Ten Little Indians.
• Evil Under The Sun was released in 1982. Guy Hamilton was
the director of this movie. Detective Poirot who tries to solve
the murder case of an actress at a Balkan resort.

10. THREE BLIND MICE ( PLAY )
• It’s a half-hour radio play was written by Agatha Christie and
broadcast on BBC light at 8 o’clock in evening time on 30th may,
1947.
• This short story based on a real-life crime tragedy, Dennis O’Neill
Case.
• Dennis O'Neill was a 12-year-old Welsh boy whose death at the
hands of his foster parents led to an enquiry into and overhaul of
fostering provisions in the United Kingdom.
• This program is presented in the honour of eightieth birthday
of Queen Mary.

11. COLLECTION OF SOME SHORT STORIES, PLAY,
RADIO PLAYS
SHORT STORIES
• The Under Dog and Other Stories
• The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
• Double Sin and Other Stories
• The Golden Ball and Other Stories
• Poirot's Early Cases
• Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other
Stories
• Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other
Stories
• The Harlequin Tea Set
• While the Light Lasts and Other Stories
PLAYS
And Then There Were
None
Appointment with Death
Murder on the
Nile/Hidden Horizon
The Hollow
The Mousetrap
Witness for the
Prosecution
Spider's Web
A Daughter's a Daughter
RADIO PLAY
• Wasp's Nest
• The Yellow Iris
• Three Blind Mice
• Butter in a Lordly
Dish
• Personal Call

12. AGATHA CHRISTIE DIED
(12TH JANUARY,1976)
• 1976: Crime writer Agatha Christie dies
• The most popular novelist in the world, Dame Agatha Christie, has died leaving
rumours of a multi-million pound fortune and a final book waiting to be published.
• She died at her home in Wallingford in Oxfordshire, aged 85.
• She is buried in the nearby churchyard of St Mary's, Cholsey.
• She was survived by her only child, Rosalind Margaret Hicks.