Great people: Agatha Christie.

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller Mallowan, Lady Mallowan was born on September 1890, in Torquay, England. 

She was known as a detective story writer.

Murder on the Orient Express (1934), Death on the Nile (1937), The Murder at the Vicarage (1930) are famous novels written by Agatha Christie. Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple are main characters of these detective stories.

There are many different movies based on these books.

Agatha Christie died on January 12, 1976, in Winterbrook House, England.

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred nineteen.

                                                     Agatha Christie.

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“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.”

“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”

“Time is the best killer.”

“If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”

“One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”

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Detective fiction.

Detective fiction is a literary genre. It usually tells about crimes. The main character can be an investigator. Also, there are criminal and victims in these stories.

In a detective fiction, the plot can be different. The setting is described, too, and the characters may be quite ordinary.

Sherlock Holmes is a famous fictional detective by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Literature. Part hundred twelve.

                                                      Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Sherlock Holmes was a detective. He had a friend Dr. John H. Watson. Together they had different adventures.

There are many movies and cartoons about these characters.

Great people: Arthur Conan Doyle.

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland.

He was a writer. Arthur Conan Doyle wrote novels about characters, like Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Also, he wrote The Lost World (1912). 

Arthur Conan Doyle was married and had children.

He died on July 7, 1930, in Crowborough, Sussex, England.

Literature. Part twelve.

             The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.

This is long detective novel. There are many characters in this book. XIX century. Walter Hartright is a painter. Anne Catherick likes to wear white clothes. Woman whom daughter of Frederick Fairlie. Laura Fairlie is a niece of Mr. Fairlie. She is a fiencee and wife of Sir Percival Glyde.

Laura and Anne look alike. Anne has a mother Jane. Laura has an elder sister Marian Halcombe. Characters are changed.

Ills, death, and marriage, all of it you find in this novel. All these events occur in a few years. There are many films on this book.