She was reportedly based on the author's own grandmother. Marple was featured in 17 novels, the first being Murder At The Vicarage (1930) and the last Sleeping Murder (1977). Both Poirot and Marple did not have any family life, but Poirot also travelled much. She was born and lived in the village of St. Miss Marple, an elderly spinster, was a typical English character, but when Poirot used logic and rational methods, Marple relied on her feminine sensitivity and empathy to solve crimes. It is 'up to them' - as you say over here."' Behind the apparently separate details is always a pattern, which only Poirot is able to see.
Poirot draws conclusions from observing people's conduct and from objects around him, creating a chain of facts that finally reveal the murderer. Poirot was an amiably comic character with egg-shaped head, eccentric whose friend Captain Hastings represents the "idiot narrator" - familiar from Sherlock Holmes stories.
The Christies bought a house and named it 'Styles' after the first novel. Christie's first detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introduced Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective, who appeared in more than 40 books, the last of which was Curtain (1975). It was to be useful when she started writing mysteries. During World War I she worked in a Red Cross Hospital in Torquayas a hospital dispenser, which gave her a knowledge of poisons. In 1914 Christie married Archibald Christie, an officer in the Flying Royal Corps their daughter, Rosalind, was born in 1919. Encouraged by Eden Philpotts, neighbor and friend in Torquay, she devoted herself into writing and had short stories published. When Christie's mother took her to Cairo for a winter, she wrote there a novel. In her books Christie seldom referred to music, although her detectives, Poirot and Miss Marple, show interest in opera and Poirot sings in The A.B.C. Christie was an accomplished pianist but her stage fright and shyness prevented her from pursuing a career in music. At sixteen she was sent to school in Paris where she studied singing and piano.
Christie was educated home, where her mother encouraged her to write from very early age. Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976) was born in Torquay, in the county of Devon, as the daughter of Frederick Alvah Miller, an American with a moderate private income, and Clarissa Miller.
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