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The Web Pages On Queen Of Crimes
I have three treasurers,Guard them and keep them safe.
The First is Love.
The second is never too much.
The Third is never be the first in the world.
Through Love one has no fear
Through not doing too much one has amplitude of reserve power
Through not presuming to be the first in the world, one can developone`stalent and let it mature.(Agatha Christie)
From my childhood I am an ardent reader of detective stories havingany sort of suspense. I started with the Books written in my mothertounge i.e. Kannada.
As a schoolboy I used to fancy, value very much the intelligence,trickyways and daring quality possessed by the detective who wouldsolve all sorts of mysteries.
When I was able to read English I started with SextonBlake.Then Iswitched on to the Aurther Conandyle.Accidently I happen to see the Bookpurcahsed by my uncle by name Murder of Roger Ackroyd.The name of theauthor sounded some what strange to me.I read the book I was thrilledand my excitement grew page after page, reading the plot,thesuspense,last solving the mystery impressed so much from that day Istarted hunting for getting and gathering the Books written by AgathaChristie.I read one by one which were available. It was not possibleto get many of her books as I was staying in a small village, whicheven lacked electricity in those days. As I read her books I becamean ardent admirer of Queen of crimes. I liked her style, the verychaste language the suspense, the presentation of the case and aboveall the development of the characters. All her characters appear tome as live. I am not a critic or a commentator, I am onlyan admirer.With very great difficulty I got her address and wrote her, I wasfortunate to get her reply.I have published both the letters on myweb site.
Agatha Christie had written 85 novels, which have been translatedinto 103 languages.Besides she had written many shortstories,plays.Her novels are also published under the name of MaryWestmacott.Her play"The Mouse Trap" aningenious,entertaining and well constructed murder mystery(based onher story"Three Blind Mice") is staged at London since 1952.It hasbroken the record for the logest running play in London.The play hadbeen performed in atleast 41 countries.Mr.Peter Saunders haspresented Agatha`s most successful plays.Each year on the anniversaryof the opening ,production restaged by a new director with the changein the cast.The success of The Mouse Trap is to put it mildly thereis a bit of something in it for almost everbody, people of differentage groups and tastes can enjoy seeing it.
Who ever said that the crime doesn`t pay couldn`t have taken into account the amazing literary career of Dame Agatha Christie who died at the age of 85 at her home in Wallingford, England.In the highly competitive crime fiction genre, she established for herself a unique position.Her writing career and popularity spanned more than 40 years and she always managed to retain a sense of topicality. Her well planned plots reflected the changing world outside.From the butler did it setting of her earlier books she moved with the changing times to accomodate contemporary themes and situations.The 39-45 conflict, the Cold war, Air Craft hijackings and the deadly gambit of esponage and counter esponage have all in turn provided back drops to her plots.To put these plots into the motion she created a refreshingly assorted cast of charcters.The best of these egg-headed, resplendently moustachioed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, and the sharp witted English village spinster, Miss.Marple rank amongst the best known fictional personalities.
The essence of Agatha`s style and technique was to distil and refine the sordid and violent world of crime to get an entertaining.However she put an end to her most famous character Hercule Poirot in her last novel Curtain, perhaps she wanted to save him from the bathetic fate of being written about by some one else after she was dead..
A UNESCO report in 1962, March stated that Agatha Christie was now the most widely read British authour in the world, with Shakespeare coming a poor second.Any one canimagine her popularity.
Agatha Christie had equal talent even in poetry, she did enjoyrelieving her feelings in poetry which shaped a pleasant little lyricpoem. I quote what one of her critic has stated about this talent.
"Agatha Christie`s talent for poerty was genuine, butmodest and of no startling originality the finest poerty is made notout of feeling but out of words and Agatha Christie was notsufficiently in lovewith words to become a poet of real distinction.She did, however enjoy relieving her feelings in verse and in doingso occasionally produced a pleasant little lyric poem."
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