góry-i-pustynie: Agatha Christie

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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan, Lady Mallowan (née Miller, 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), usually known by her first married name, Agatha Christie, was an English author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot (with the novel debut being The Mysterious Affair at Styles in 1920), Tommy and Tuppence (with the novel debut being The Secret Adversary in 1922), and Miss Marple (with the novel debut being The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930). She is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of all time, particularly in the mystery genre. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fict…

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Colonel Archibald Christie (30 September 1889 – 20 December 1962) was a British businessman and military officer. He was the first husband of mystery writer Dame Agatha Christie; they married in 1914 and divorced in 1928. They separated in 1927 after a major rift due to his infidelity and obtained a divorce the following year. During that period Agatha wrote some of her most renowned detective novels. Shortly after the divorce, Christie married Nancy Neele, and the couple lived quietly for the rest of their lives. Christie became a successful businessman and was invited to be on the board of directors of several major companies.

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The disappearance of Agatha Christie was the widely publicised eleven-day absence of the English writer Agatha Christie in December 1926. At the end of 1914, she married the Royal Flying Corps officer Archibald Christie, with whom she had her only child, a daughter, Rosalind Hicks. In 1916, the aspiring writer finished her first detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and by the mid-1920s, had established herself as a recognised author of detective and thriller fiction, with her fame and royalties steadily growing. At the start of 1926, at her husband's insistence, the Christies bought a mansion in Sunningdale called "Styles". During this period Archie began an affair with an offi…

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The Murder at the Vicarage is a mystery novel by the British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 20 October 1930 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence and the US edition at $2.00. It is the first novel to feature the character of Miss Marple and her village of St Mary Mead. The character had previously appeared in short stories published in magazines, from December 1927. These earlier stories were collected in book form in The Thirteen Problems in 1932. In 2025, BBC included the novel in its list of '10 of the most ingenious murder mysteries ever committed to page or…

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The Thirteen Problems is a short story collection by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by Collins Crime Club on 18 June 1932 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1933 under the title The Tuesday Club Murders. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. The thirteen stories feature the amateur detective Miss Marple, her nephew Raymond West, and her friend Sir Henry Clithering. They are the earliest stories Christie wrote about Miss Marple, the individual stories having originally appeared in various magazines between 1927 and 1931. The main setting for the frame story is the fictional village of St Mary Mead.