Презентация по английскому языку на тему "Мастер детективного жанра (творчество Агаты Кристи)" (7-9класс)

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The Best-Selling author of all time
Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare…

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Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
15 September 1890
Torquay, Devon, England - 12 January 1976 (aged 85)
Winterbrook House, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England
Wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short
story collections
Author of the world’s longest-running play – The Mousetrap (since 1952)
the best-selling fiction writer of all time (more than two billion copies of her works)

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Was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon, and was home-schooled

Was married twice

During both World Wars, she served in hospitals as a nurse, so she knew lots about medicine and poisons

Spent each year on digs in the Middle East with her second husband, archaeologist

used her first-hand knowledge of those professions in her fiction

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Her most notable works:

Murder on the Orient Express

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Death on the Nile

The Murder at the Vicarage

Partners in Crime

The A.B.C. Murders

And Then There Were None

The Mousetrap

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The Mousetrap

Murder mystery opened in London's West End in 1952 and ran continuously until 16 March 2020 (up to the COVID-19 pandemic)


re-opened on 17 May 2021


The longest-running West End show, it has by far the longest run of any play in the world


29,500th performance having taken place in February 2024

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One of her most outstanding characters - Hercule Poirot
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
Famous as much for his magnificent moustaches as his little grey cells

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Miss Marple

The sweet little old lady from St Mary Mead
Lives her seemingly sheltered village life, in reality full of intrigue, secrets and crimes
Solves crimes that baffle the police, using her deduction and superior intellect

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Tommy & Tuppence

The only characters in the Christie canon to age and live their lives in real time
The two young sleuths who, jobless and restless after the end of World War I, set up the Young Adventurers Ltd
Consequently get mixed up with thefts, murders and international spies

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In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature
Memorial to Christie in
central London

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Explore Agatha Christie works – it is worth it!

Discover over 200 stories, from all-time classics to lost gems

Explore iconic Christie film & TV adaptations

Discover audiobooks and full cast radio adaptations

Immerse yourself in the world of Agatha Christie and theatre

Play detective with our official Christie games and apps

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