Agatha Christie

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anyone enter her beloved secret world (Gill, p.2). Frustrated by her extreme introverted ways, Christie attempted turning to music as a way of expressing herself. This strategy, however, proved to be an ineffective means as she would become stiff and feel inept while performing in front of even small audiences (Gill, p. 3). Christie, feeling like a failure with speech and music, turned to the world of writing. Christie would later say that: "Writing, unlike speaking and playing the piano, is an act of solitude and silence" (Gill, p. 2). Christie thus began to compose with pen. She began with poetry and at age seventeen, the Poetry Review published a few of her poems. Short stories became her next effort, and after completing several of them, she tried writing a novel set in Cairo called Snow Upon the Desert (Gill, p. 5). After an agent read her manuscript and told her that he could not use it, he advised Christie to write a difficult novel. She rejected this notion, however ...

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develops a range of characters who don't follow the statistical norm (Gill, p.7). One such critic stated: "In a Christie novel, young men are often frivolous sex objects, while young women are the solid breadwinners," and continues to note that Christie's heroines and murderesses are hard-headed and ambitious, while her 60-and-over characters are all fascinating with very active social lives (Gill, p. 8). Other critics feel Christie's characters are your everyday, run of the mill, even boring types of people such as lawyers, doctors, secretaries, accountants, and housewives (C.L.C., Vol. 6, p. 110).
The majority of Christie's mystery novels have basically five main series, each ...

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