(One may, however, get the impression that most of the 213 refer to the Roger Ackroyd trick.) Chapter 1 A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED Between 7:30 and 8:30 every morning except Sundays, Johnnie Butt made the round of the village of Chipping Cleghorn on his bicycle, ... victim and somebody else is a detective - and then they turn the lights The novel introduced Hercule Poirot, one of Christie’s most enduring characters. A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED Agatha Christie . The world-renowned Belgian private detective, unsurpassed in his intelligence and understanding of the criminal mind, respected and admired by police forces and heads of state across the globe. Work from both writers appear in the new issue of … Agatha Christie began writing detective fiction while working as a nurse during World War I (1914–18). London: Collins crime club, 1950. Her work strikes a … Agatha Christie . It was partly thanks to a bet with her sister that Agatha Christie wrote her first detective novel, and 100 years since it was published she is as popular as ever. Christie A. “An Agatha Christie” is a detective story par excellence. The … This combination photo shows mystery writers Agatha Christie in 1957, left, and Raymond Chandler in 1946. Chapter 1 I first came to know Sophia Leonides in Egypt towards the end of the war. 2 Agatha Christie: Power and Illusion Conan Doyle, with 151, Dorothy Sayers, 149 and Raymond Chandler, 137. She began her debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1916 and published it after the end of the war, in 1920. She held a fairly high administrative post in one of the Foreign Office departments out there. Chapter 1 SITTAFORD HOUSE Major Burnaby drew on his gum boots, buttoned his overcoat collar round his neck, took from a shelf near the door a hurricane lantern, and cautiously opened the front door of his little bungalow and peered out. A murder is announced. Agatha Christie . Famous as much for his magnificent moustaches as his little grey cells.