The Web Poetry Corner - Joyce Hemsley - Dame Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Christie
by
Joyce Hemsley
Series of famous
British names:
DAME AGATHA CHRISTIE
writer of detective novels,
born in Devon, England, eighteen ninety
died in England, nineteen seventy-six.
Agatha was home-taught by a Governess.
She married Archie Christie, and worked
as a nurse in the First World War. Later
they were divorced. In nineteen thirty
she was married to Max Mallowan...During
her lifetime Agatha Christie wrote at
least seventy-nine novels, short stories
and plays, each having a mysterious plot,
with character names such as "Miss Marples"
and "Poirot." London - nineteen fifty-two,
came her show "The Mousetrap", the longest
running show on the map. Middle-class
murders were her specialty, many made into
films eventually. In the year previous to
her death, an older novel was revived,
"The Orient Express."
It is true that one hundred million copies
of her books have been sold. The world still
enjoys them. They will never grow old.
We bow down to her outstanding style.
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Dame of the British Empire.