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She was born -
She studied music and piano -
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As volonteer she helped injured soldiers
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Archie was an aviator who met at a party -
She was writing her first detective novel -
She introduced Hercules Poirot, a Belgian detective who appears in 33 of her mystery novels. -
Her husband asked her for a divorce because he was in love with another woman. -
Agatha disappeared for 11 days and nobody knew where she was. The police found her car in Newlands Corner with her clothes inside. More than a thousand police officers, 15,000 volunteers, and several aeroplanes searched for her in the area. -
She was found in a small hotel explaining to the police that she had lost her memory. -
Agatha and Archibald dicorced -
She married her second husband, Max Mallowan, an archaeologist. She accompanied Mallowan on his archaeological expeditions, and her travels with him contributed background to several of her novels set in the Middle East. -
That year she published “The murder at the Vicarage” which was dedicated to her daughter. In this novel, Agatha introduced Miss Marple, an old lady who acts as an amateur detective who solves mysteries with her intuition. She appeared in 12 novels. -
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As she was working in the pharmacy she learned about drugs and poisons and she used this information to kill the characters of her novels.
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It was her final novel -
Christie died peacefully at age 85 from natural causes at her home.