Make a skit with dialogues of the character on the novel Crooked house by Agatha Christie
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Despite the fact that Golden Age detective fiction is enjoying a renaissance, and long forgotten authors have been excavated for our pleasure, it is the career writers, those who published across the decades, who are a mystery fan’s bread and butter. Some of them, like Gladys Mitchell, Rex Stout and Ngaio Marsh, may or may not have improved in their craft but seemed content to never vary their content or style. John Dickson Carr’s modernized his style and experimented a little with historical thrillers, but basically he remained the JDC of old until the bitter end. Finally, there were the authors, like Ellery Queen and Patrick Quentin, who divided their careers into significant periods and experimented often, with varying degrees of success.
Where, then, to place Agatha Christie? Of the group mentioned above, her career aligned most closely to Carr’s. She had her penchant for semi-political thrillers, but most of the time she turned out whodunits. And yet, there were some shifts in her timeline that are deserving of mention.
Agatha 2
The nine novels she wrote in the 20’s constitute Agatha Christie’s training period, and on retrospect, it was a bumpy ride. That decade produced one genuine classic – The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), a fairly conventional village mystery even for its time, in every way except the finale. The rest ranged from entertaining mysteries (Styles, Murder on the Links) and thrillers (The Man in the Brown Suit, The Seven Dials Mystery) to some odd hokum (The Big Four) and stylish mediocrity (The Mystery of the Blue Train).
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Answer:
Despite the fact that Golden Age detective fiction is enjoying a renaissance, and long forgotten authors have been excavated for our pleasure, it is the career writers, those who published across the decades, who are a mystery fan’s bread and butter. Some of them, like Gladys Mitchell, Rex Stout and Ngaio Marsh, may or may not have improved in their craft but seemed content to never vary their content or style. John Dickson Carr’s modernized his style and experimented a little with historical thrillers, but basically he remained the JDC of old until the bitter end. Finally, there were the authors, like Ellery Queen and Patrick Quentin, who divided their careers into significant periods and experimented often, with varying degrees of success.
Where, then, to place Agatha Christie? Of the group mentioned above, her career aligned most closely to Carr’s. She had her penchant for semi-political thrillers, but most of the time she turned out whodunits. And yet, there were some shifts in her timeline that are deserving of mention.
Agatha 2
The nine novels she wrote in the 20’s constitute Agatha Christie’s training period, and on retrospect, it was a bumpy ride. That decade produced one genuine classic – The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), a fairly conventional village mystery even for its time, in every way except the finale. The rest ranged from entertaining mysteries (Styles, Murder on the Links) and thrillers (The Man in the Brown Suit, The Seven Dials Mystery) to some odd hokum (The Big Four) and stylish mediocrity (The Mystery of the Blue Train).