![]() Following a trip to Cairo in 1907-8 with her mother, she produced her first full-length fictional work, Snow Upon the Desert, based on her experiences as a debutante in Egypt. In fact, romance novels were Christie’s first passion. As her grandson Matthew Prichard puts it, using a pseudonym allowed her to “better explore the human psychology she was so intrigued by, freed from the expectations of her mystery fans.” Not an uncrackable code, but more than enough to distance the work from the creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie even changed her handwriting on the Westmacott manuscripts to avoid detection.īut why go to all that trouble? Success, certainly at the level that Christie experienced it (she has sold more than two billion copies of her novels to date), was both a blessing and a curse. “Mary” was Christie’s middle name and “Westmacott” was borrowed from distant relatives. However, Rowling was unmasked almost immediately, while Christie – employing the cunning of her most slippery fictional killers – kept her Westmacott identity a secret for 15 years. We recently saw JK Rowling do a reverse-Christie, essentially, by taking a stab at crime writing post-Harry Potter with her Cormoran Strike series under the pen name Robert Galbraith. ![]() To the dedicated reader, they can reveal plenty about the context in which she was writing – and about the woman herself.Ĭhristie was hardly the first successful writer to try out new material under a pseudonym, nor the last. But the six Westmacott books are still fascinating mysteries. Her name has even been bandied about at the trial of the century, albeit in the new form of “ Wagatha Christie”.īut what about Christie’s secret second writing life as a romance novelist under the nom de plume Mary Westmacott? This Sunday, BBC Radio 4 will dramatise her first Westmacott novel, Giant’s Bread, which features fewer dead bodies than we’re used to with Christie. Right now, Chichester Festival Theatre is staging the queen of crime’s fiendish Murder on the Orient Express, with Henry Goodman donning the brilliant Belgian detective’s famous moustache, while Kenneth Branagh is planning a third in his Poirot-based film franchise. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Agatha Christie and her perfectly plotted whodunits will always be catnip to adaptors. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. ![]()
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