Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller • Born September 1890 (Devon, England) • WW I (nurse) • First marriage (disappearance) – Archibald Christie – Nancy Neele > Teresa Neele – Agatha Christie and the Missing Eleven Days
• Second marriage (Travelling) • Died January 1976 (85)
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Murder mystery (whodunits) Thriller Crime fiction Detective (Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple) • Romances (Mary Westmacott)
Characters • Anthony James "Tony" Marston – Rich, spoiled, good-looking – Accused of running over and killing two children
Characters • Thomas Rogers – The butler – Dominated his wife
• Mrs. Ethel Rogers – The cook – Scared of something
• Accused of killing their former employer, the elderly Miss Jennifer Brady, by withholding her medicine, in order to inherit her money
Characters • General John Gordon Macarthur – A retired World War I hero – Accused of killing a younger officer named Arthur Richmond (wife’s lover) by assigning him to a suicide mission.
Characters • Emily Caroline Brent – A rigid and repressed elderly woman of harsh moralistic principles – Accused of being responsible for the death of her maid, Beatrice Taylor, as punishment for becoming pregnant out of wedlock.
Characters • Dr. Edward George Armstrong – A surgeon – Accused for the death of his patient, Louisa Clees, while operating under the influence of alcohol
Characters • William Henry Blore – A retired police inspector and now a private investigator – Accused of having an innocent man, James Landor, sentenced to life imprisonment as a scapegoat after having been bribed
Characters • Philip Lombard – A soldier of fortune – Accused of causing the deaths of a native Eastern African tribe when he stole food from the tribe
Characters • Vera Elizabeth Claythorne, – A secretary, and ex-governess – Accused of letting young Cyril swim out to sea and drown so that his uncle, Hugo Hamilton, could inherit his money and marry her
Characters • Justice Lawrence John Wargrave – A retired judge – Accused of murder because of his influence during the trial of an accused murderer named Edward Seton
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