The three goddesses of the four goddesses of the cold year
Agatha. Grandma Christie has always been one of the three goddesses in the minds of the four women, and friends who like detective novels must be familiar with her, Agatha Mother is known as one of the best-selling novelists in human history, and her novels are second only to the Bible and Shakespeare's works in global sales.
Britain's great queen of detectives
Agatha's mother-in-law received too many honors for her creations, such as: member of the Royal Society of Literature, knighted, called "Queen of Detectives" by the Queen of England, awarded the "Order of the British Empire" and so on.
According to incomplete statistics, Agatha's mother-in-law wrote a total of 68 novels and 21 collections of short stories and novellas in her lifetime, in addition to plays, poetry collections and autobiographies. She has also portrayed a number of classic detectives such as Hercule. Poirot (Big Pineapple), Miss Marple, Mr. Quinn, Parker. Mr. Pan, Mr. and Mrs. Tommy and other amateur detectives, etc.
Many Agatha fans consider reading her novels to be a pleasure. The fog or strange things she set up at the beginning will affect everyone's emotions and read it involuntarily, and then you will find that the plot has ups and downs, everyone's speculation about the murderer will continue to change, and in the end, everyone will be lost in the trap of Agatha's mother-in-law, and when the murderer is revealed, he will be really surprised.
Therefore, reading the mother-in-law's novel to guess the real murderer is one of the greatest pleasures, and the final ending will always have accidents, and sometimes there will be a feeling of being properly "played" by the naughty Agatha mother-in-law. The four girls themselves have many times when reading the final ending, it seems that the mischievous smile of the mother-in-law appears in front of her.
Hey, you're being "played" by me again, right?
Another great love of Agatha's novels is the setting of her novels, sometimes in a gloomy and rainy London, sometimes in a small town or village with a strong British customs, sometimes in a palatial high-end hotel, sometimes in a ghostly cliff, and sometimes just a small carriage. She also often places the location of the case in many scenic spots and natural customs, which will make people fascinated after reading it, and also think of the attractions in these novels to punch in.
Hercule. Poirot is the most successful and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people created by his mother-in-law, he has the pursuit of symmetry and meticulous obsessive-compulsive disorder, for example, the two boiled eggs he eats must be the same size, for his face asymmetry and distressed for a long time, and finally came up with a way to keep the lips to comb into a symmetrical look on both sides, all the furnishings must be neat and tidy.
The little gray cells, the mantra of the big pineapple, were his source of energy and motivation for solving crimes, and he was a quick-witted, delicate-minded little Belgian, though often recognized as French. It's also interesting to note that his name, which is interesting and difficult to pronounce in pure Belgian, was once joked by a little English girl that his name was a kind of noise.
Hercule Poirot
As a Poirot detective who enjoys a high international status and reputation, he has his own small arrogance, small spirit and some small temper,
In the case of the "Masked Woman," for example, he used to boast of himself: "Those criminals are so afraid of Hercule. Poirot, sometimes I wish my personality wasn't so noble..."
In his "Double Sins" case, he heard that Inspector Japp had been given a famous name and went north to give a lecture tour, and Poirot became jealous and lost his temper and claimed to retire and no longer help the police solve the case.
The big pineapple in the whole case seemed to have become an arrogant little princess, willfully releasing his jealousy and dissatisfaction, but when he heard Inspector Jap give him all the praise in his speech, he was deeply moved.
Of course, it seems that those words of praise have also made him very useful: talented, unparalleled, highly respected, elderly, the most intelligent, resourceful, persevering, meticulous, astute, extraordinary, dominant, etc.
Double Sin Excerpt
Coincidentally, Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes is also arrogant and delicate, and he is also "quite critical" of the police's "greed" for his own credit, for example, in the "study of blood words", the police asked him for help, and he once proudly said: "If I solve the case, they (the police) will take all the credit for themselves, but you can still look at it, at least you can laugh at them." ”
Blood lettering research
It seems that whether it is a big pineapple or Holmes, when he finds a new case, he is so stupid and can't hold back, but his mouth is never spared, so cute!
PS: Although the British "Poirot" series is very classic, it is recommended that you first read the original novel, because the case is slightly adapted in the play, and it will be more ups and downs when reading the novel.