The Life of Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie's birth name was Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller.  She was born on September 15, 1890 in the English town of Troquay.  She died on January 12, 1976 in Wallingford.  She was nicknamed The Queen of Crime.  She married twice, first to Archibald Christie and then to Max E.L Mallowan.  She had 1 child with her first husband.  She was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1971 for her contributions to literature.  What is weird is that in 1926, she mysteriously disappeared for several days for no known reason, and that still remains unexplained today. Her play, The Mousetrap, was made the longest production of any kind in British Theatre history on April 12, 1958.  But it had actually opened in London on November 25, 1952.

She has wrote many novels during her life, and people have sold over 2 billion copies worldwide.  This makes her sales only surpassed by the Bible and Shakespeare's works.  She is definitely one of the best selling authors of all time.  Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was also her first novel to showcase her eccentric Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.  Her last published novel, Sleeping Murder, featured the famous sleuth known as Miss Jane Marple.  And since she has sold over 2 billion copies of her books, they have all been translated into over a hundred languages.  Lastly, her novel known as And Then There Were None remains as her number 1 best selling novel.

Setting for a New Book

I have started to read an Agatha Christie book for my novel.  She is a very well known and best selling mystery novelist who has made many books.  She has also made books with different detectives, but she still has Scotland Yard help them in most of her books.  The novel i am reading is titled Murder on the Orient Express, and it is also published as Murder in the Calais Coach.  The main detective in this book is the famous Hercule Poirot, who is her best known character and is featured in most of her mystery novels.  The book takes place on the Stamboul-Calais Coach, which poirot must take in order to get back to London due to his detective business.  On the train there are a number of interesting people who are also present, including a Princess Dragomiroff from Russia.  But most interesting of all is Poirot's curiosity about a passenger called M. Ratchett.

Poirot is curious towards this Ratchett because he has an air of malevolence about him, even though Poirot only saw him for the first time.  However, Poirot actually talks to him.  But what iix really interesting is what he says.  M. Ratchett thinks someone aboard the train is going to kill him.  But Poirot refuses to help him, why i still do not exactly know.

I think that this Ratchett character is in danger, seeing as it is a mystery novel, so something bad has to happen.  Do you think this Ratchett will be murdered, or do you think Poirot will stop the murderer before it is too late?  I personally think he will be murdered, but i also believe that Poirot will undoubtedly catch the murderer before the train stops its voyage.