How did Agatha Christie start writing stories?

Answer 1

During the First World War, Agatha Christie worked in a pharmacy. Most of the murders in her books are by poison, as she learned a great deal about the effects of different poisons during that time. Also, it's very interesting to visit Agatha Christie's holiday home in Devon (called Greenway). The similarities between the surrounding area and the settings for her novels are remarkable. Many of her stories are set in Devon, on boats, on islands, or near the coast. There are many coves, creeks and boathouses around Dartmouth, and lots of steep paths along the river and coastline. There is also a link between the Kingswear - Paignton steam train and the Orient Express. Some of the links are explicit. For example, at the beginning of And Then There Were None, the red hills are commented upon (the soil in Devon is much redder than that in the rest of the country) and in Five Little Pigs Elsa Greer is now Lady Dittisham. Dittisham (pronounced 'Dit-sam') is a village directly opposite Greenway, accessible by the Dittisham-Greenway boat, which takes passengers from one side of the river to the other. Later on in her career, after her marriage to Max Mallowan, she also set mysteries in more exotic places, possibly (probably?) as a result of accompanying her husband on his archaeological digs.

Answer 2

Agatha Christie wrote her first detective novel, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles," during World War I while working as a nurse. The novel was published in 1920 and introduced the iconic detective Hercule Poirot. Christie's passion for writing and storytelling developed at a young age and she found success as a mystery writer early in her career.

Answer 3

when agatha was 21 her sister, Madge egged her on to write a novel, saying (and knowing of agatha's love of mysteries particularly Sherlock homes) that it is impossible to write a murder mystery novel in which the reader wont figure out the who the murderer is. Agatha decided to prove her wrong and had her first novel, 'the mysterious affair at styles' published four years after she wrote it was HUGELY popular.

Answer 4

She Used to Live in Devon where the book takes places. Also she had a knowledge and history of working with potions because she worked as a nurse during WW1 so that inspired her to make one of the murders like that. Also she liked to swim as a child and almost drowned, like how Vera Claythorne

kept getting bad memories of the child she drowned. Agatha is also an world famous murder mystery writing. However, Soldier Island does not exist.

Answer 5

I think she tried to express some of her methods (and frustrations) through the character of the murder mystery novelist Ariadne Oliver. If Mrs. Oliver is any example, she could, on the spot, and with practically no prompting, spin off half-a-dozen ideas for stories. However, a close reading of her stories shows that the starting point for many of them was the question of what assumptions the reader was likely to make. Once she had figured out that people were likely to subconciously rule out one of the suspects for some reason, she would write the story to encourage the reader to do so, and then reveal at the end that it was the person that had been ruled out who was in fact the culprit. The broad variety of such assumptions which she was able to exploit, some of them quite audaciously, is what makes her a genius at the genre. Each story in its own way takes advantage of our prejudices and then leaves us at the end saying, "I should have known."

Answer 6

Not sure exactly overall but I know her frequent use of poison as the murder weapon was influenced from her time working in a pharmacy.

Answer 7

Her sister Madge who sold some short stories to a magazine. Then her mother who recommended her to write something when she was bored during having a flu (or some illness like that).