Agatha Christie (Radio Edit)
You're Dead to Me
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The Mysterious Affairat Styles
The most important thing from Agatha as a crime writer is what she gets up to in World War I. She writes her first book that gets published, which is called The Mysterious Affairat Styles. It features a death by poisoning and it also features a young lady who works in a hospital dispensary. And we get her first detective novel written soon after this. So this is Agatha, again, drawing on experiences and what's happening in society. But she's also writing against type. She doesn't want to write a hero. In terms of her private life, the marriage with Archie Sowers quite quickly. She's trying to be a housewife, but he quickly gets bored.
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