(I won’t give away the titles.) In the first a series of murders takes place in a picture-postcard English village: the common factor between the victims is that they are all people who have in some way upset a pompous and ridiculously self-important gentleman - however, he is not the killer.
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The first comes from a novel written in her floruit period, the late 1930s, the second from one of her 1960s offerings, when her powers had started declining. Here are two examples of Christie’s startlingly unorthodox way of thinking. Some form of deadly deception is always central to all Christie’s novels and that is linked to a single, fascinatingly clever idea which readers remember long after they have closed the book. Murder on the Orient Express managed to capture the popular imagination in 1934 when it was first published, then again in 1974 when the film adaptation of the book became the most successful British film ever made and, again, in 2014 when it was announced that celebrated film director Ridley Scott was planning yet another cinematic version.
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She is famous of course for her plots, which are ingenious, absorbing and worked out in meticulous detail – no mean feat given that at the time she was writing, a manual Corona typewriter was the height of technological invention! Agatha Christie’s plots are unpredictable and, frequently, strikingly original. Since then her eighty-two books have never been out of print and she continues to enjoy a large and devoted international following. Agatha Christie wrote her first novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles in 1916, though it was only published in 1920. As the author of nine murder mysteries who has dared follow in the illustrious footsteps of Agatha Christie, I am struck by the fact that the whodunnit ‘formula’ she invented and polished to perfection is now 100 years old.