How Does Agatha Christie Create Suspenseful Literature

They call her the “Queen of Crime.” By her, one can only imagine that it is Agatha Christie. As Joan Acocella once said, “This mystification game is a standard device of suspense literature, but nobody did it quite like Christie” (Acocella 21). Christie’s ability to create suspenseful literature helped portray her unique mysterious works. Two fine examples of her suspenseful literature are “A Christmas Tradgey” and “The Strange Case of Sir Andrew Carmichael.” These two works not only portray how Christie was an excellent crime writer, but also portray a past side of her that brings the short stories to life. Agatha Christie’s past life experiences contributed to her formation of short stories with similar characters, plot, and theme. Picture this. A mother who reads her daughter bedtime stories every night, only to realize that these stories were shaping how her daughter felt about stories. Every time

Her first detective work was The Mysterious Affair at Styles. The production of this work was mainly due to the fact that he sister told her she could not write a good detective story. In reality, her sister did not like the path of writing Christie was going for, so she wanted to make a bet with her so she could change her writing genre. At the start of her career, a writer named Eden Philpotss offered shrewd advice: “The artist is only the glass through which we see nature, and the clearer and more absolutely pure that glass, so much the more perfect picture we can see through it. Never intrude yourself” (About Agatha Christie). This mentor was expressing the idea that no matter how you feel about a particular situation, as long as you stay true to yourself people will understand your point of view. That is what Agatha Christie was able to accomplish. Though her sister’s bet did not have the best intentions, it allowed Christie to find her dedication for writing detective