Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of world-famous children's fiction, notably Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. He published Phantasmagoria and Other Poems in 1869, The Hunting of the Snark in 1876 and Sylvie and Bruno in 1889. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was first published in 1865. With its... Read More
Lewis Carroll is a pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, English logician, mathematician, photographer, and novelist, especially remembered for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass. His poem The Hunting of the Snark is nonsense literature of the highest order. He died of pneumonia following influenza on 14 January 1898 at his sisters' home, "The Chestnuts"... Read More
British author Daphne du Maurier published her first novel in 1931. From that point on, she produced a variety of novels, short stories, and non-fiction books. This lesson will look at her life and works. It will also define Gothic literature. Author Frank Baker believed that du Maurier had plagiarised his novel The Birds in her short story "The Birds. Du Maurier had been working as a reader fo... Read More
Lord Edgware Dies is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in September 1933 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year under the title of Thirteen at Dinner. Attending a performance by impressionist Carlotta Adams, Hercule Poirot is approached by actress Jane Wilkinson. A few days later Lord Edgware is f... Read More
Agatha Christie was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. Her reputation rests on 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections that have sold over two billion copies. Christie's writing career began during the war after she was challenged by her sister to write a detective story. She produced The Mysterious Affair at Styles, which was turned down by two publishers... Read More
Famed crime novelist Agatha Christie published the classic Murder on the Orient Express in 1934. It first appeared in serialized form in the Saturday Evening Post from July to September 1933. Its themes include revenge, the reality of true evil, and the real meaning of justice. Fortunately, or unfortunately, as the case may be, one of the passengers happens to be Hercule Poirot, the Belgian det... Read More
The Pale Horse is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1961 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. When Mark goes to Much Deeping with the famous mystery writer, Ariadne Oliver, to a village fete organised by his cousin, he learns of a house converted from an old inn called the Pale Horse, now i... Read More
Agatha Christie was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. She married Archibald Christie in December 1914 but the couple were divorced in 1928. After he was sent to the Western Front in the First World War, she worked with the Voluntary Aid Detachment and in the chemist dispensary, giving her a working background knowledge of medicines and poisons. Christie's writing car... Read More
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club in November 1940, and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1941 under the title of The Patriotic Murders. It is one of several of Christie's crime fiction novels to feature both the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and Chief Inspector Japp. This i... Read More
Agatha Christie was an English writer of crime and romantic novels. She is best remembered for her detective stories including the two diverse characters of Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. She is considered to be the best selling writer of all time. In Peril at End House, retired detective Hercule Poirot becomes involved in the seeming murder attempts against Nick Buckley, the attractive young... Read More
Agatha Christie was an English writer of crime and romantic novels. She is best remembered for her detective stories including the two diverse characters of Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. She is considered to be the best selling writer of all time. Taken at the Flood was first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1948 under the title of There is a Tide... and in the UK by the... Read More
Agatha Christie was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. She married Archibald Christie in December 1914 but the couple were divorced in 1928. After he was sent to the Western Front in the First World War, she worked with the Voluntary Aid Detachment and in the chemist dispensary, giving her a working background knowledge of medicines and poisons. The ABC Murders was fi... Read More
Agatha Christie's writing career began during the war after she was challenged by her sister to write a detective story. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding was first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 24 October 1960. On Christmas Eve, Hercule Poirot finds a note on his bed with the above words scribbled on it. He is a guest of the Laceys, of whom are neither friends nor acqua... Read More
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in June 1926 in the United Kingdom by William Collins, Sons and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company on 19 June 1926. It is the third novel to feature Hercule Poirot as the lead detective. The story begins the day before Roger Ackroyd’s murder, with the death of a prominent to... Read More
The Sittaford Mystery is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1931 under the title of The Murder at Hazelmoor and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 7 September of the same year under Christie's original title. It is the first Christie novel to be given a different title for the US market The novel was well-rec... Read More
Agatha Christie’s The Chocolate Box has Hercule Poirot escorting Chief Inspector Japp to Belgium. Virginie introduces Poirot into the household and he begins interviewing the servants about the meal served on the night of M. Déroulard's death. He suspects poison, but all ate from common serving dishes. In the study where the death occurred, Poirot spots an open but full and untouched box of cho... Read More
The Murder on the Links is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead & Co in the same year and in the UK by The Bodley Head in May 1923. Returning from Paris, Poirot learns that the body of an unknown man has been found, stabbed through the heart with the murder weapon. An examination shows he has the hands of a tramp, that he died before Renaul... Read More
Crooked House is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1949 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 23 May of the same year. The action takes place in and near London in the autumn of 1947. Christie said this and Ordeal by Innocence were her favourites amongst her own works. Maurice Richardson, in the 29 May 1949 issue of... Read More
Sad Cypress is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in March 1940 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The novel was well received at publication. One reviewer remarked, "it is economically written, the clues are placed before the reader with impeccable fairness, the red herrings are deftly... Read More
Death in the Clouds is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company on 10 March 1935 under the title of Death in the Air and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in the July of the same year under Christie's original title. Five minutes before Prometheus touches down in Croydon, the steward on board the small aeroplane tries t... Read More