She has been quoted as saying, “There is nothing like boredom to inspire you to write.” She had written a number of short stories by the time she was 17. She was very clever at inventing ways to keep occupied. Her first published writing happened when she was 11. Although she did not have the social experience of public school, she studied dance and piano as a teenager. Her father was her primary teacher, but her mother was a storyteller-and gave strong encouragement for Agatha to write.Īlthough she became a prolific writer, she claimed she really did not have much in the way of lessons other than arithmetic. She was home-schooled, which was a lot more uncommon at the turn of the 20th century than it is now.
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She taught herself how to read at five years old even though her mother didn’t want her to do so until she was eight. Agatha grew up in the town of Torquay in southwest England. The Witness for the Prosecution and Other StoriesĪ Fruitful Sunday and Other Short StoriesĪgatha Christie was born in Ashfield. The Listerdale Mystery and Eleven Other Stories The Rose And The Yew Tree (As:Mary Westmacott)Ī Daughter's a Daughter (As: Mary Westmacott) The Sittaford Mystery / The Murder at HazelmoorĪnd Then There Were None / Ten Little IndiansĪbsent in the Spring (As:Mary Westmacott) The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan One, Two, Buckle My Shoe / Overdose of Death Hercule Poirot's Christmas / Holiday for Murder / Murder for Christmas They've already murdered twice There is certainly no shortage of suspects as Miss Marple uses her intuitive powers to unmask a killer.Murder on the Orient Express / Murder in the Calais Coach The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side Someone will stop at nothing to kill film star Marina Gregg. She finds an extended family and a reformatory of young criminals where violence seems just below the surface. They Do It With Mirrors Miss Marple visits the rambling country mansion of an old friend who may be in danger from an unknown killer. Then Major Palgrave is found dead and once more Miss Marple is back in her element. A Caribbean Mystery Miss Marple is finding her luxury holiday in Barbados sadly dull. Almost immediately the train chugs away, leaving a shocked Mrs McGillicuddy to realise that she has witnessed a murder. In the carriage opposite, the window blind suddenly snaps up, revealing a tall, dark man strangling a woman to death. On the way, the train draws to a halt and another train draws alongside it. 4.50 From Paddington Elspeth McGillicuddy is travelling on the 4.50 train from Paddington, London to St Mary Mead to visit her old friend, Miss Marple. Beneath the well-polished Edwardian faade, Miss Jane Marple can sense something sinister Nemesis Set in the mid 1950s, Nemesis was Agatha Christies last and one of her most complicated Miss Marple stories.A recently dead friend asks Miss Marple to investigate a crime.There are no clues just a coach tour of historic homes and gardens. She loved the place as a girl and is delighted to find it remarkably unchanged. Miss Marple is staying at Bertram's Hotel in London. Was she murdered or is she yet to be killed? At Bertrams Hotel London, the mid 1950s. A couples dream home becomes a nightmare when the young wife sees a vision of a strangled woman in the hall. Sleeping Murder (Parts 1 and 2) Devonshire, the mid 1950s. But when he is found dead in the vicars study, Miss Marple wonders why so many people want to confess. No one likes Colonel Protheroe in fact most people hate him, including his own family. The Murder at the Vicarage St Mary Mead, the mid 1950s. A nursery rhyme comes true in a grotesque double murder and only Miss Marple can see the connection. A Pocketful of Rye (Parts 1 and 2) The Home Counties, late 1940s. But when the lights go out at the appointed hour no-one thinks its a joke any more. A Murder Is Announced (Parts 1, 2 and 3) The village of Chipping Cleghorn is intrigued by the local newspaper prediction of a murder at Little Paddocks. The Moving Finger (Parts 1 and 2) A nasty case of poison-pen letters brings Miss Marple to the East Anglian village of Lymston. Oozing period atmosphere, star-studded casts and swimming with red herrings, Joan Hickson stars as the definitive Miss Marple in this complete twelve disc collection including every episode from the original popular BBC series, filmed entirely on location.EPISODES The Body In The Library (Parts 1, 2 and 3) Who is the mystery blonde lying strangled in the library of Gossington Hall? Fortunately for the Bantrys, Miss Marple is their neighbour. Agatha Christie's most popular character has her own techniques to deal with mysteries through observation, polite questioning, a keen insight into the human mind - and the reassuring click of knitting needles.
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