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Frame-up and dowry are commonly used in detective novels, and murders carried out to frame the stolen goods are one of the manifestations of twisted and perverted psychology.
Conan Doyle's The Mystery of Thor's Bridge is a short and elaborate work. It tells the story of a woman who, out of the pain of jealousy, frames a love rival at the cost of her life. Mr. Gibson, the king of the gold mines, has long since lost his love for his wife, but his cruel attitude has not yet extinguished his wife's loyalty and enthusiasm for him. This tension reached its peak when the beautiful and gentle governess appeared. The jealous wife plotted a suicide attempt on the Thor Bridge, sinking the gun into the water by means of a crash, leaving enough evidence and motives to convict the female teacher.
Grandma's "Zero Hour" is similar to it, but it is written more coldly. The romantic tennis player divorced and remarried, but he still maintained a friendly relationship with his ex-wife. The rich widow who entertained everyone on a vacation died, while the ex-wife, who was in an ordinary financial situation, was suspected of committing a major crime as heir. In the end, the tennis player Neville, because of the jealousy in his heart, will not hesitate to frame his ex-wife with murder, hoping that she will pay the price of betraying himself. It also dissects Neville's antisocial personality as a child and the psychological distortions that have intensified as an adult.
Although money is the motive for most crimes, love killing seems to be the main cause of framing and grafting.
The material for the creation of the novel may come from life, but the content and plot are fictional. But we have to mention a real puzzle, and that is the mystery of Agatha Christie's disappearance in 1926. This year, the 36-year-old grandmother was smooth in writing, but she suffered a heavy blow in her life. The beloved mother died, the handsome husband cheated, and she was in a helpless situation. Agatha, who had originally deprecated herself as a "golf widow", found that her husband had met a woman named "Neil" on the course, and had reached the point of a showdown with her, intending to divorce and remarry.
On a winter night in December, Agatha's Morris car was found by the pond, her luggage and documents were in the car, but no one was seen. A nationwide campaign to find the Queen of Detectives was launched, and Conan Doyle was alarmed. Agatha's husband's affair was subsequently exposed, and he himself became the biggest suspect. Archie was under great pressure, no one believed Agatha would commit suicide, and all indications were that she seemed to be gone. After more than ten days of searching and suffering, Agatha, a red-haired lady who calls herself Mrs. Neil, is found at a health facility in Yorkshire.
Claiming to be amnesiac, Agatha refused to talk about it all her life, and two years later she divorced Archie, who eagerly married the real Neil. Did she do this to humiliate her husband or to prove that as a detective novelist she was equally capable in reality? After the divorce she created an old virgin detective we know well, Miss Marple. What happened to Agatha, who has always considered herself a "married woman" rather than a "well-known writer", was perhaps the most unsolvable mystery in the detective fiction world? The Queen of Detectives has finally played a villain in her life.