Essays on Agatha Christie

Comparison of the movie and book

Agatha Christie wrote the short story Witness for the Prosecution and published in 1948 Mead and Company. Billy Wilder directed a movie by the same title and released it on 17th December 1957 after studying and internalizing the contents of the story. Leonard Vole is detained for the killing of Emily French, an affluent older widow. Mrs. French had made him a principal heir not knowing that Leonard was a married man and with a family. The fact that Mrs. French him a beneficiary becomes a disgusting factor particularly for his wife, Romaine, and Leonard’s defense become even harder. Things become tough for ...

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Introduction Dame Agatha Christie is perhaps the most renowned English writer famous for her exceptionally well-written detective stories. It won’t be incorrect to state that Christie was an extremely popular author of the twentieth century who wrote more than eighty books. Her most well-liked characters were Hercule Poirot (a self-centered Belgian), and Miss Jane Marple (an old bachelor). Both these characters were detectives and got featured in a majority of Christie’s books. It won’t be incorrect to state that the woman changed the crime scene literature forever and no other writer enjoys the ...

Agatha Christie is synonymous with detective fiction in virtually every country on Earth. Her mystery novels, which have sold billions of copies, have introduced some of the most memorable literary characters in the genre, including Auguste Poirot and Miss Marple. It is possible that unhappiness in her personal life (she divorced Christie after discovering that he had been unfaithful) contributed to the development of her style and her prolific output. The discipline of writing offered an escape that accorded with her predilection for privacy. She and her first husband, Archibald Christie, moved to London shortly before World War I ...