POIROT i wondered about the name many times.In every age its very interesting to hear detective stories.it inspires every one.actually it arouses our mental possibilities withina limiting environment exclusively provided by the author.

R u wondering why iam not mentioning about HOMES or DOYAL it is not so but iam thinking they dont need a description about me.........hi iam not disappoointing AGATHA's fans.DOYAL's approach is quite different .And i cant write about the feeling that we get from dat.Detective stories r very hard to write in a perfection.t needs something beyond our common................

Agatha Christie remains the most popular novelist in history, with over two billion of her books sold at a conservative estimate. The rejacketing of her books and new adaptations of Poirot and Marple on ITV have all ensured that the magic of her storytelling continues to reach a contemporary audience and that she continues to be recognised as the undisputed 'Queen of Crime'.

It is important to find ways of showing new audiences the continuing relevance of my grandmother's timeless stories of moral corruption, murder and deceit and the ease with which she can speak to modern society is evident in recent and forthcoming adaptations of her works. Kevin Elyot's new stage adaptation of And Then There Were None opened in the West End in October 2005 to excellent reviews, The Agatha Christie Theatre Company launched with a hugely successful National touring production of The Hollow and another innovative interpretation of this classic mystery was launched worldwide...

QUEEN OF CRIMEAgatha Miller was born in Torquay, England on September 15, 1890. In 1914 she married Colonel Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. The couple had one daughter, Rosalind, before their divorce in 1928.

In a writing career that spanned more than half a century, Agatha Christie wrote 80 novels and short story collections. She also wrote over a dozen plays, including The Mousetrap, which opened in London on November 25, 1952, and is now the longest continuously running play in theatrical history and And Then There Were None, which is opening in the West End in a new adaptation by Kevin Elyot in 2005.

Christie's first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), was also the first to feature her eccentric Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Surely one of the most famous fictional creations of all time, Poirot's 'little grey cells' triumphed over devious criminals in 33 novels and 54 short stories. Christie's last published novel, Sleeping Murder (1976), featured her other world-famous sleuth, the shrewdly inquisitive Miss Jane Marple of St. Mary Mead. Miss Marple was created 75 years ago, and has appeared in twelve novels, and 20 short stories, since her debut in The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930.

Both Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple have been widely dramatized in feature films and made-for-TV movies. Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Witness for the Prosecution (1957), And Then There Were None (1945), and Death on the Nile (1978) are a few of the successful films based on her works.

Agatha Christie also wrote six romantic novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. She wrote nonfiction as well - four books including Agatha Christie an Autobiography and an entertaining account of the many archeological expeditions she shared with her second husband, Sir Max Mallowan. In 1971, she achieved her country's highest honor when she received the Order of Dame Commander of the British Empire. Agatha Christie died peacefully at home on January 12, 1976 after a short cold.

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This brilliant Belgian detective had a long and glorious career, starring in thirty-three novels and fifty-four short stories. Hercule appeared in Agatha Christie's first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, published in 1920. Before his escape to England during WWI, Poirot, a retired Belgian police officer, was a celebrated private detective on the Continent. During these years, Poirot became acquainted with Arthur Hastings who would later become his trusted sidekick and the occasional narrator of his investigations.

Here is how Hastings first described Poirot in The Mysterious Affair at Styles: "He was hardly more than five feet four inches but carried himself with great dignity. His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it a little on one side. His moustache was very stiff and military. The neatness of his attire was almost incredible; I believe a speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound." "Peril to the detective who says: does not matter As Poirot's career progressed he moved into Whitehaven Mansions, chosen for its symmetry and hired the terrifyingly efficient Miss Felicity Lemon as his secretary. From here he employed his infamous 'little grey cells' to solve a dazzling array of complex crimes including some of Agatha Christie's most famous novels: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express, and Death on the Nile. His investigative methods were characterised by the active pursuit of the psychology of the murderer, noting tiny details and freudian slips by asking a series of seemingly pointless questions.

Poirot finished every case with a dramatic dénouement which satisfied his egotism and confirmed once again that he was "the greatest mind in Europe" (Three Act Tragedy). His love of elegance, beauty and precision and eccentric mannerisms were often ridiculed by the local bumbling policemen, but it is always Poirot who has the last word.

By his final appearance in Curtain (1975), Poirot was confined to a wheelchair, although his little grey cells remained as sharp as ever. Upon his death, Hercule Poirot became the only fictional character ever to be honored with an obituary on the front page of The New York Times. "I admit freely and without hypocrisy that I am a great man." Hercule Poirot

Miss Jane Marple doesn't look like your average detective. Quite frankly, she doesn't look like a detective at all. But fans of Agatha Christie's novels know only too well that looks can be deceiving, for the mild-mannered spinster sleuth is as adept at solving murders that baffle Scotland Yard as she is at unravelling village secrets.

From the picturesque background of rural England in mysteries like The Body in the Library and The Murder at the Vicarage to the luxury of a London hotel in At Bertram's Hotel and on one occasion in the exotic setting of a Caribbean island with A Caribbean Mystery, Miss Marple is the match of every murderer she meets. "She God ever made." It wasn't until 1930 that Agatha Christie created a detective who rivalled Hercule Poirot in the public's affections. Agatha Christie said that the character of Miss Marple was inspired by Dr Sheppard's shrewd and shrewish sister in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and certain friends of her grandmother - and indeed her own grandmother - of whom Agatha Christie once said "[she] expected the worst of everyone and everything and was with almost frightening accuracy, usually proved right."

In appearance, Miss Marple is a tall, thin woman with a pink, wrinkled face, pale blue eyes and snowy white hair which she wears piled upon her head in an old-fashioned manner. Her innocuous appearance, meandering conversation and ever-present knitting needles often mislead people into underestimating her as simply a "dithering old maid." Those who really know her recognize that she is a sharp observer of human nature with "an uncanny knack of being always right."

Despite a lifetime spent in peaceful St. Mary Mead, Miss Marple 's attitude is surprisingly worldly and she seems familiar with all the seven deadly sins. As she often points out, village life provides countless opportunities to observe every evil trait in human nature. Drawing parallels between the everyday mysteries that puzzle her neighbours, and cases of national importance, Miss Marple's logical mind pieces together the clues with unnerving accuracy.

When she created Miss Marple, Agatha said that she did not expect that she would continue writing about her for the rest of her life but from the moment that this "typical old maid of fiction" made her first appearance, Christie's readers were hooked. Miss Marple appeared in a total of twelve novels and 20 short stories and celebrated her 75th anniversary in 2005. "There is a great deal of wickedness in village life." Miss Marple

Tommy Beresford, an unimaginative but charming young man, encounters a childhood friend, Tuppence Cowley, after he is released from service in WWI. Jobless, they decide to start 'Young Adventurers Ltd.' promising potential clients that they are : "Willing to do anything. Go anywhere...No unreasonable offer refused." The Jazz Age duo marry at the end of their first adventure, The Secret Adversary (1922).

In the short story collection, Partners in Crime, we meet Tommy and Tuppence after six years of marriage, bored and in need of a new challenge they take over the nearly-bankrupt detective agency 'Blunt's International Detective Agency' and solve cases in the manner of assorted great detectives including Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown and Hercule Poirot. Ten years later in their next novel they have a set of twins, Deborah and Derek Beresford, and later they also adopt a daughter, Betty Beresford. "Willing to do anything, go anywhere... No unreasonable offer refused" The Beresfords age gracefully in the course of their last three books: N Or M?, By The Pricking of My Thumbs and Postern of Fate, where they are seen as retired grandparents who still love a good mystery. To the end, Tommy remains the slower thinker whose natural caution serves as the perfect foil to Tuppence's impetuous nature.