Title: Agatha Christie, Woman of Mystery
Author: JOHN ESCOTT
Publisher (level): OXFORD (2)
Summary:
This is a story about Agatha Christie’s life. She wrote more than seventy books and they have sold millions of copies, so she famous all over the world. But her life was not always happy. She was a sickly girl in her childhood and didn’t play actively, so she wrote novels constantly. Then she sent her novels off to magazines again and again. But they sent those back with a letter ‘We can’t publish it ・・’. She stopped writing and often went to dance parties. At one party, she met a man and went out with him. His name is Reggie. But he had to go Hong Kong for two years. She and he promised to marry when he come back. In 1914, when she was 24, England was suddenly at war with Germany. She went to work as a volunteer nurse at the hospital. She learned kinds and effect of poisons and met one man. His name is Archibald. She apologized to Reggie and she married Archibald. At the same time she wrote novels again by using the knowledge she got at the hospital. Those were detective novels. After, Archibald had an affair and they got a divorce, so she was absorbed in writing. Her works admitted by all over the world gradually and she was famous at last. But nobody knows the reason why she died.

Evaluation: 5 stars
I was well impressed by her efforts and strong heart. She faced a lot of troubles, but even so she studied very hard and realized her dream that she had had. I thought that we must not give up realizing our dream. I want to read her works at once.