Agatha Christie, Woman of Mystery

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A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by John Escott.

What does the name ‘Agatha Christie’ mean? To many people, it means a book about a murder mystery – a ‘whodunnit’. ‘I’m reading an Agatha Christie,’ people say. ‘I’m not sure who the murderer is – I think it’s…’ But they are usually wrong, because it is not easy to guess the murderer’s name before the end of the book.

But who was Agatha Christie? What was she like? Was her life quiet and unexciting, or was it full of interest and adventure? Was there a mystery in her life, too?

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John Escott

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AGATHA CHRISTIE, WOMAN OF MYSTERY

Many people enjoy reading murder mysteries, because they are puzzles. Can we guess the murderer’s name before the detective tells us at the end of the book? Was the broken chair an accident, or is it an important clue? How did the murderer get into the house? Did he (or she) have a key? Why were there three coffee cups on the table?

Agatha Christie’s murder mysteries are famous all over the world. She wrote more than seventy books and they have sold millions of copies. There have been many television plays and films of her stories. Her detectives, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, are famous too – a short round Belgian with a black moustache, and a dear little old lady, who sees, hears, and remembers everything.

This is a story about Agatha Christie’s life. What kind of person was she? How much do we know about her? She was rich, famous, and twice married. And there was a mystery in her life, too …

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The publishers would like to thank the following for their kind permission to reproduce photographs: Alamy Images pp17 (Cuckoo Rock, Dartmoor/David Baker), 36 (Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple/Photos 12), 40 (Agatha Christie meets Queen Elizabeth II/Keystone Pictures USA); Bridgeman Art Library Ltd p10 (Agatha Christie, 10th March 1923 / The Illustrated London News Picture Library, London, UK); Corbis p29 (Agatha Christie/Bettmann); Getty Images pp4 (Torquay, 1922/Topical Press Agency), 25 (Detectives with Christie's abandoned car/H.F.Davies/Topical Press Agency), 26 (Newspaper article 1926/Hulton Archive), 26 (Agatha Christie in disguise/Hulton Archive), 35 (Agatha Christie with her husband/Popperfoto); Mary Evans Picture Library p13 (Colonel Archie Christie, c.1926/Illustrated London News Ltd); Rex Features p21 (David Suchet as Hercule Poirot); Ronald Grant Archive pp32 (Poster for Murder on the Orient Express/EMI), 38 (The Mousetrap theatre programme)

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Word count (main text): 5955 words

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