{"id":42093,"date":"2019-03-28T15:46:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T15:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=42093"},"modified":"2019-03-28T15:46:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T15:46:37","slug":"holy-grail-crime-writers-agatha-christies-mysteries-strike-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/business-culture\/holy-grail-crime-writers-agatha-christies-mysteries-strike-yet","title":{"rendered":"Holy grail for crime writers: Agatha Christie\u2019s mysteries strike yet again"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Mirror Crack\u2019d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> comes to Cardiff,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0yet another theatre adaption of her work. W<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">hat makes Christie an enduring writer?<\/span><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42179\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42179\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-42179 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/header-1-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"Crime feature image\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-42179 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/header-1-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"Crime feature image\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><\/noscript> The Mirror Crack&#8217;d is a stage adaption produced by Wales Millennium Centre and Wiltshire Creative Production.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The curtain drops and the crowd sits still. A sense of victory fills the air as the mystery that has just unravelled in front of the the audience leaves them stunned. Christie\u2019s Miss Marple has done it again. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Mirror Crack\u2019d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">adapted for the stage showing at New Theatre till 6 April,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is just one of the many stories written by Agatha Christie that get a similar reaction. Trailing only the Bible<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and Shakespeare, Christie\u2019s detective novels remain bestsellers even today, 43 years after her death. So, what makes her such an enduring writer? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For me, Christie\u2019s enduring appeal is the result of several factors. Chief amongst these is her ability to shape superb mysteries. She achieves the holy grail for crime writers: simple yet clever plots that turn on that most fiendish of devices, human nature,\u201d said Dr Katherine Stansfield, a crime writer and poet. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The Mysterious Affair at Styles<\/em> was where Christie&#8217;s writing career started. The novel took a long time to publish, and when it was finally published in 1920, the crime fiction genre was already booming with the emergence of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle&#8217;s detective creation.\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42246\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/4-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42246\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/4-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Mysterious Affairs at Styles<\/em> was a result of a bet Christie had with her sister to write a good detective novel.The end of World War I saw detective stories gain quick momentum among readers because of the investigative plot, the &#8216;whodunnit&#8217; and &#8216;all&#8217;s well that ends well&#8217; narratives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChristie\u2019s enduring success can be traced to the fascinating variations she weaved into her stories, the locations (often exotic) and the unexpected twists in her tales,\u201d said Dr Alexandra Phillips, Course Tutor, Women and Crime Fiction at Cardiff University.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cCrime and punishment is a genre that requires no generation bound relativity. Her plots and characters are so well thought out. I think Christie just works because everyone likes to be surprised and she does that perfectly,\u201d said Rama Panchanadikar, a literature student at the University of Bristol and an avid reader of Christie novels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Characterisation is another important element of Christie\u2019s longevity. \u201cOne of the criticisms made about Christie\u2019s writing is that she creates stereotypical characters whose purpose is to play their part in the unravelling of the crime, rather than to be of interest in themselves. But there is more to Christie than this<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u201d says Dr Phillips.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42173\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42173\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42173\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/3-1-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42173\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/3-1-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript> Hercule Poirot appears in 33 novels, a play and 50 short stories.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many of the characters in her novel are found from her own life and based on real people, but her most famous and beloved characters, Hercule Poirot, was born out of the many Belgian refugees residing in the English countryside and Miss Marple, inspired by the grandmothers and aunts Christie came across as a child.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHercule Poirot and Miss Marple are cultural icons who have become synonymous with detection, and that speaks volumes about Christie\u2019s ability to give life to fictional individuals, to make them real,\u201d said Dr Stansfield. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAs a Belgian, Poirot represented the \u2018other\u2019 in the country-house settings to which he was summoned and as an older woman, Miss Marple, was often belittled and under-estimated,\u201d said Dr Phillips.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Christie&#8217;s work includes almost 70 novels, 28 collections of short stories and nearly 15 plays. Moreover, she also wrote poems, engaged in broadcast shows and has published two autobiographies. With such an abundance of literature to her name, it is hardly surprising that her works are being read even today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHer understanding of people and human behaviour is what makes her work easily adaptable to the big screen, and by choosing to write crime fiction, she had the perfect genre to explore this,\u201d said Dr Stansfield.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Mirror Crack\u2019d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, is just one of the many stage adaptations of Agatha Christie\u2019s novels. Her work is not new to being adapted for the big screen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Moreover, the relatively simple clue-puzzle format, which focuses on action rather than character development, seems to be easily adapted to performance. This is evident in the phenomenal success of The Mousetrap, which premiered in 1952 and is the longest-running show in London&#8217;s West End,&#8221; said Dr Phillips.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42171\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42171\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42171\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/2-3-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42171\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/2-3-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript> Christie&#8217;s longest running play, completed its 25,000th show in November 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cChristie didn\u2019t venture into outlandishly complicated plot twists but merely explored human connection. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Christie exploited the fundamental flaws that we all bear and she did so effortlessly,\u201d said Dr Stansfield. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The structure and social conventions that her novels hold, many of which are still in relevance today, makes her work evergreen and easy to adapt to the big screen. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe core ideas of her work lend themselves to contemporary concerns, making them excellent vehicles for adaptations that speak to the now. Sarah Phelps\u2019 recent re-working of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ABC Murders<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for the BBC which explored themes of far right extremism is a great example of this,\u201d said Dr Stansfield. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, some of Christie\u2019s fans had something else to say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAdaptation is a tricky task, according to me, because I believe that the visual experience you get as a reader is something different compared to watching it on television or in a theatre,\u201d said Olivier Gonzalez, an active participant of the Agatha Christie Community Forum from Mexico. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI think it isn\u2019t about if it\u2019s better or not. Literature will always be superior to film, because literature was born before,\u201d said Johann Ekman, a participant of the Agatha Christie Community Forum from Sweden. \u201cIf I\u2019m being specific to Christie, the desire to solve a mystery, that too before the author, in a way, remains common in every generation and that\u2019s so thrilling!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42170\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42170\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42170\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/1-1-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42170\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/1-1-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript> Agatha Christie was made a Dame in the year 1971, five years before her death.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Christie was a well-established writer by the end of the 1930 and her work heavily influenced the genre she wrote in as well as other types of writing that emerged from her style of work, for example, the &#8216;hard-boiled&#8217; detective genre in U.S.A. By the early 1930, Christie\u2019s writing reflected the changing social and political setting, as the Second World War approached. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cCertainly, changes in society since the nineteenth century have opened up careers in crime writing for women writers, who no longer face the enormous challenges faced by authors such as Mary Braddon<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u201d said Dr Phillips. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe talent of women crime writers over the years, as well as their sheer number, from Christie and her peers to those writing in the present day (such as Val McDermid, Sue Grafton and Sara Paretsky), must be an inspiration to everyone with literary ambitions,\u201d she added. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The gripping psychological drama of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Mirror Crack\u2019d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> may end next week, but one thing that remains evergreen is Christie\u2019s legacy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 50.00%;padding-top: 0;height: 0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With yet another theatre adaption of her crime stories, Agatha Christie&#8217;s legacy continues even today, 43 years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":358,"featured_media":42179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"coauthors":[586],"class_list":["post-42093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-culture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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