The mysterious affair at styles
She also
wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but is best remembered for her 80 detective
novels and her successful West End theatre plays.
On the Christmas Eve in 1914, Agatha married an aviator, Archibald Christie. their daughter,
Rosalind, was born in 1919. On discovering extramarital affair, she divorced him in 1928. In the
same year Christie's beloved mother died.
During World War I she worked in a Red Cross Hospital in Torquayas a hospital dispenser,
which gave her a knowledge of poisons. It was to be useful when she started writing mysteries.
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).
The Christies bought a house and named it 'Styles' after the first novel.In 1930, Christie married
with Max Mallowan. Their marriage was especially happy. Sir Max Edgar LucienMallowan,
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