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Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie born on September the 15th 1890 in Torquay, England. Christie is hailed as the Queen of the Golden Age of crime fiction and the unrivalled champion writer of cosy crime fiction. Christie had no period time were she was a new writer trying to make it big instead Christies career started off with a bang with her first novel ¡§The Mysterious Affair at Styles¡¨ which was written during WW1 (1914-1918) but later published in 1920. Christie¡¦s career was at its peak between the years of 1922-1926, during this time her most renowned detective Hercule Poirot was flourishing and stories featuring Tommy and Tuppence were at their height.

PLOT AND STYLE:

The way in which Agatha Christie shapes her plot in her stories and novel is not unique to her. The way in which her plot is designed is that she has a plot within a plot, the first and smaller of the two is the introduction to crime committed or the crime being committed. The second and main plot involves the detectiv...

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