Good Morning Quote

"Well, I've always had a secret hankering to be a detective!"

"The real thing—Scotland Yard? Or Sherlock Holmes?"

"Oh, Sherlock Holmes by all means. But really, seriously, I am awfully drawn to it. I came across a man in Belgium once, a very famous detective, and he quite inflamed me. He was a marvellous little fellow. He used to say that all good detective work was a mere matter of method. My system is based on his—though of course I have progressed rather further. He was a funny little man, a great dandy, but wonderfully clever."

*The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) CHAPTER 1. I GO TO STYLES

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"The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes."
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"One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one."—An Autobiography (1977).

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“I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly you find—at the age of fifty, say—that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about.... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.”—An Autobiography (1977).

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'"And now, messieurs et mesdames," said Poirot rapidly, "I will continue with what I was about to say. Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seeker after it. I am much aged, my powers may not be what they were." Here he clearly expected a contradiction. "In all probability this is the last case I shall ever investigate. But Hercule Poirot does not end with a failure. Messieurs at mesdames, I tell you, I mean to know. And I shall know - in spite of you all."' (from The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926)


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~~ Dame Agatha Christie, 1890-1976, English detective story writer, b. Sept. 15, 1890, Torquay, Devon, as Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller.

"Born in the family home Ashfield in Torquay, Devon, England on 15 September 1890, Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was the youngest of the three children born to Clarissa ‘Clara’ Margaret née Boehmer (1855-1926) and American Frederick Alvah Miller (1846-1901), who died when Agatha was just ten years old...." (Source: http://www.online-literature.com/agatha_christie/)


Christie also published novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.
She was named Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire, in 1971.(source: reference.com)

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Agatha Christie Discusses Miss Marple & Hercule Poirot Literary discussion animation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWSTC_8TPlU

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Monty Python's "Agatha Christie Sketch"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0BuKYiwhVQ
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PIX:

http://images.google.com/images?q=Agatha%20Christie&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

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*The Mysterious Affair at Styles -- The first story featuring detective Hercule Poirot. (Fiction, 1920, 201 pages)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/863/863-h/863-h.htm