Lelobooks Excerpts By Crime Author, Agatha Christie

Recognized as the “Queen of Crime”, Agatha Christie holds the Guinness Book of World Records for the best selling novelist of all times, with her novels, which having been sold off with approximately 4 billion copies. While at the age of 24, when she was working as a nurse, she gave it a thought to writing and within one year, she completed her first book, with the subject of detection. However, this detective novel by her was published in 1920, five years later.

Thereafter, Agatha became the acknowledged Queen of the Golden Age and all in all she has penned about 66 novels, innumerable short stories and screenplays and a series of romantic novels, using the pen name, Mary Westmacott. Even many of her works have been translated into the feature films and among all the most notable being Murder on the Orient Express (1974). This great Crime writer’s works have been translated in over than 100 languages. In a nutshell, Agatha Christie is acknowledged as the single most popular mystery writer of all time.

The author was awarded the high honor of fetching a Dame of the British Empire. To me also, what appeals me the most about her writings is that the way the writer writes, leaving around small clues all over the novel, along with her style of description, as while reading you will find yourself as sitting and attending an English play.

So, just do not miss out this year, the International  Agatha Christie Festival, 2014, which has been decided to be held in September from 14th to 2st, based at Torre Abbey in Torquay. The chief guest of the festival is the author, Sophie Hannah.

So, here I have come up to you with two of her most amazing novels of all times.

 1. And Then There Were None

The novel by Agatha Christie, adapted into a Hindi movie (Gumnaam – 1965). It is probably the only novel by her which has been translated into Hindi feature film. It is the best selling novel with 100 million sales till date and has  its main plot which has been constructed on the nursery rhyme 10 Little Niggers.

The novel has a story of 10 strangers, accountable for an assortment of crimes, who are lured into an Island on the pretext of different reasons. They are stuck on the island due to bad climatic conditions when one by one all the guests killed in a similar way, in which the characters in the nursery rhyme die. And Then There Were None is one of Agatha Christie’s best-known works and you’ll find it fascinating just similar to that of those Alfred Hitchcock suspense movies. 

2. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

This book is claimed to be as one of utter brilliance and the author has penned in an advanced way as compared to the then British Crime literature in regard with the main plot and the charming characters. The novel revolves around the demise of Roger Ackroyd and the following story seems to be connected with the series of deaths. This is one of the best Hercule Poirot mysteries and you will remain overwhelmed when the story comes to its closing stages.

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