Murder She Wrote, But Did You Know This About Her?

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    • Publish Date: May 27 2016 1:26PM
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Murder She Wrote, But Did You Know This About Her?

Christie taught herself to read at 5 and had little formal education until she was 15 or 16, when she was sent to a finishing school in Paris. 

The intrepid writer may well have been among the first Britons to surf standing up — she was introduced to the sport in Cape Town in the 1920s

She was investigated by MI5 for using the name Bletchley, the name of Britain’s top-secret code breaking centre, in her novel ‘N or M’?
 
Her intimate knowledge of poisons, her weapon of choice, was picked up during her stint as an apothecary’s assistant during World War I. Pharmaceutical Journal noticed, and wrote of her debut work : “This novel has the rare merit of being correctly written.” 
 
In 1976, she helped solve a crime posthumously, when a nurse noticed that the symptoms of a 19-month-old patient resembled that of victims of thallium described in ‘The Pale Horse’. Her observation was found to be correct, and the girl’s life was saved. 
 
She might also have inspired a murderer or two. In a 1977 case of a Frenchman arrested for murdering his aunt using atropine eye drops, a Miss Maple mystery with the passages on poison underlined were found in his apartment.
 
Now read this 
 
 
 

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