Vera Claythorne, one of the guests thinks she is being offered a job as a secretary in the Island. It all starts with an invitation of eight strangers to the Island by a mysterious Mr. The novel revolves around the mysterious deaths of ten people in a remote Indian Island. Best Agatha Christie Books:Īnd Then There Were None is one of Agatha Christie’s best- selling novels. However, Christine later saves Leonard and, in an odd turn of events, kills him at the very end. The great controversy occurs when Leonard’s wife, Christine Vole, accepts to be a witness for the prosecution, thus building a very strong case against her husband. Leonard seeks the services of a sickly lawyer who does all he can to get him acquitted.
In this particular book, the main character, Leonard Vole, an inventor, is accused of the murder of his acquaintance, a rich lady who was killed a short while after she changed the content of her will to leave some of her wealth to Leonard. Witness for the Prosecution is one of the many books by Agatha that have been made into movies. Agatha Christie Books Made Into Movies/TV Her book, Witness for The Prosecution also won her the Edgar Award while her other book The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was voted the best crime novel ever by 600 writers of the Crime Writer’s Association. She was the first recipient of the Mystery Writers of America’s highest honor, the Grand Master Award in 1955. Her books have also been rated as the third most published books after Shakespeare’s and The Bible. Agatha Christie AwardsĪgatha has been listed in the Guinness World Book of Records as the best-selling novelist of all time. Some of the characters that appear in several of her books include the brainy and crafty Captain Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, both of whom are very gifted detectives. Agatha wrote both novels and short stories: she wrote 66 novels and 14 short stories. However, Agatha also wrote 6 romantics using the pen name Mary Westmaccot. Most of Agatha’s work revolves around solving murder cases and an assortment of other crimes. Her second marriage was to Sir Max Mallowan and it lasted until she died in 1976.
It was thought by many that she had disappeared in an effort to frame her husband and his lover for her murder, but she would later be diagnosed with amnesia. She would later be found at her a hotel having registered under Neele’s name. When Agatha discovered that Archie was having an affair with a certain Nancy Neele, and after Archie asked her for a divorce, she disappeared for a solid ten days, a period in which there were frantic efforts to find her. Her first marriage to Archibald Christie ended in 1928, and in a very dramatic way.
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