In 1914, at the age of 24, she married Achie Christie, a World War I fighter pilot. While he was off at war, she worked as a nurse. It was while working in a hospital during the war that Christie first came up with the idea of writing a detective novel. Although it was completed in a year, it wasn't published until 1920, five years later "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" gave the world the inimitable Hercule Poirot, a retired Belgian police officer who was to become one of the most enduring characters in all of fiction. With his waxed moustache and his "little grey cells," he was "meticulous, a tidy little man,always neat and orderly, with a slight flavour of absurdity about him."
推理小说欣赏
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19 世纪40 年代,美国作家埃德加· 爱伦· 坡( Edgar Allan Poe , 1809 —1849) 以5 部短篇小说开侦探小说之滥觞,创立了西方侦探小说的基本模式 爱伦· 坡“塑造了第一位坐在扶手椅里破案的侦探人物”,创造了逻辑推理的破 案方法,其中两部作品中虽没有出现大侦探杜宾,但同样运用了逻辑推理方法进 行“解谜”。 悬疑的气氛、离奇的情节、固定的人物和特定的背景 爱 伦· 坡首创了侦探小说情节推进的“‘6 步曲’:1 、侦探上场,2 、描述犯罪情 况和线索,3 、调查案情,4 、宣布破案,5 、解释破案经过,6 、结局。”[2 ] (P81282) 这6 要素在不同的侦探作品中出现的顺序不尽相同,但缺一不可,这 构成了侦探小说情节的基本模式。
He is also known for writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented, Professor Challenger.
He was a prolific writer whose other works
Holmes was ultimately featured in a total of 56 short stories - the last published in 1927 and four novels by Doyle, and has since appeared in many novels and stories by

Doyle's first work featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson was the novel A Study in Scarlet. Holmes was partially modelled on his former university teacher Joseph Bell. Doyle wrote to him.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.
Another of Christie‘s most wellknown and beloved characters was introduced in“Murder at the Vicarage“ in 1930. Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster in the quaint English village of St. Mary Mead, solved all kinds of mysteries with intense concentration and intuition. Featured in 12 novels, Miss Marple exemplified the cozy style, a form of mystery fiction that became popular in, and ultimately defined, the Golden Age of fiction in England during the 1920s and '30s.
我的天空里没有太阳，总是黑夜，但并不暗，因为有 东西代替了太阳。虽然没有太阳那么明亮，但对我来 说已经足够。凭借着这份光，我便能把黑夜当成白天。 我从来就没有太阳，所以不怕失去。 一天中，太阳会升起，同时还会落下。人生也一样， 有白天和黑夜，只是不会像太阳那样，有定时的日出 和日落。有些人一辈子都活在太阳的照耀下，也有些 人不得不一直活在漆黑的深夜里。人害怕的，就是本 来一直存在的太阳落下不再升起，也就是非常害怕原 本照在身上的光芒消失。 --《白夜行》
main compositions
Walk Into The White Night, is my favourite. A boy, Rouji,
and a girl, Yukiho, promised to stay with each other, rescue each other in their life with 15 years passing by, for they have done something wrong when they were young .Afterwards, they killed all the people who blocked them. The more people they kill, the more people they need to kill. They work together to prevent the policeman from catching them. In the fourteenth year they met each other, Rouji suicided to protect Yukiho. I will never forget the last two sentences: Yukiho is going upstairs with the help of banisters whose back is like a white ghost. She does not turn around even once.
Higashino Keigo 东野 圭吾
—— one of the brightest stars in the world of mystery novels
Higashino Keigo born in Osaka, he started writing
novels while still working as an engineer . He won the Edogawa Rampo Prize(江户川乱步奖), which is awarded annually to the finest mystery work, in 1985 for the novel Hōkago (After School) at age 27. Subsequently, he quit his job and started a career as a writer in Tokyo. In 1999, he won the Mystery Writers of Japan Inc（日本推理 作家协会奖） award for the novel Himitsu (The Secret). In 2006, he won the 134th Naoki Prize（134届直木奖） for Yōgisha X no Kenshin（The Devotion of the Suspect X）. His novels had been nominated five times before winning with this novel. He writes not only mystery novels but also essays and story books for children. The style of writing differs from his novels, but basically he does not use as many characters as in his novels.
Queen of detective novels
Agatha Christie was born Agatha May Clarissa Miller in Devon, England in 1890, the youngest of three children in a conservative, well-to-do family. Taught at home by a governess and tutors, as a child Agatha never attended school. She became adept at creating games to keep herself occupied at a very young age. A shy child, unable to adequately express her feelings, she first turned to music as a means of expression and, later in life, to writing.