She was one of 20th century most famous novelists. To her million of readers, Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie was one of the most entertaining writers of detective fiction of her generation.
By 1950, Agatha Christie was reportedly the best-selling English author in Turkey. Back in the West, she was regarded "one of the two main pillars form of literature the language has yet produced."
Critic Eve Auchincloss observed, "There is an emotional satisfaction in Agatha Christie's fictions, something like that found in music with its building tension and resolutions."
Journalist Julian Symons noted, "(Agatha Christie was) the creator of the most cunningly deceptive fictional plots of the half-century in which she reigned."
And in one of the most traumatic quarter centuries in history, Agatha Christie was working as a volunteer with the Red Cross hospital. During World War I and World War II, her hospital work was said allowed Agatha to gain knowledge on poisons which she would eventually write about in her novels.
The 1926 publication of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd marked her rise to fame. Her two most famous detectives were M. Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple.
Time magazine remarked, "The reader surrenders to an enigma in which the foul act of murder seems less a sin against man or God than a breach of etiquette."
The film Murder on the Orient Express was produced in 1974, based on Agatha Christie's best-selling novel Murder in the Calais Coach and became a box office hit. Its success led to more of her books been sold.
In 1979, the world's most popular queen of crime became the subject of the movie Agatha. Vanessa Redgrave was praised for the "sensitively displays (of) a troubled, if rather elegant, Agatha Christie."
By 1950, Agatha Christie was reportedly the best-selling English author in Turkey. Back in the West, she was regarded "one of the two main pillars form of literature the language has yet produced."
Critic Eve Auchincloss observed, "There is an emotional satisfaction in Agatha Christie's fictions, something like that found in music with its building tension and resolutions."
Journalist Julian Symons noted, "(Agatha Christie was) the creator of the most cunningly deceptive fictional plots of the half-century in which she reigned."
And in one of the most traumatic quarter centuries in history, Agatha Christie was working as a volunteer with the Red Cross hospital. During World War I and World War II, her hospital work was said allowed Agatha to gain knowledge on poisons which she would eventually write about in her novels.
The 1926 publication of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd marked her rise to fame. Her two most famous detectives were M. Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple.
Time magazine remarked, "The reader surrenders to an enigma in which the foul act of murder seems less a sin against man or God than a breach of etiquette."
The film Murder on the Orient Express was produced in 1974, based on Agatha Christie's best-selling novel Murder in the Calais Coach and became a box office hit. Its success led to more of her books been sold.
In 1979, the world's most popular queen of crime became the subject of the movie Agatha. Vanessa Redgrave was praised for the "sensitively displays (of) a troubled, if rather elegant, Agatha Christie."
