Miss Jane Marple was an amalgam of several old ladies Agatha used to meet in villages she visited as a kid. She went on to be one of the first authors Penguin ever published, with fantastic results.įollowing the war Agatha continued to write and to travel with Archie, though sadly they were later to divorce and Agatha would remarry, Max Mallowan, the world famous archaeologist - a marriage that would last forty-six years.īy 1930, having written several novels and short stories, Agatha had created a new character to act as sleuth. Also that year the publisher, John Lane, who had liked The Mysterious Affair at Styles contracted Agatha to produce five more books. With the end of the war, Archie had found a job in the City and they had just enough to rent a flat in London and later that year on the 5th August, Agatha gave birth to their daughter, Rosalind. Hercule Poirot was born.ġ919 was a momentous year for Agatha. Although he was not based on any particular person, Agatha thought that a Belgian refugee, a former great Belgian policeman, would make an excellent detective for The Mysterious Affair at Styles. During the First World War there were Belgian refugees in most parts of the English countryside, Torquay being no exception.
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