Who was Agatha Christie? What did she contribute? Give specific examples of her work. How is her work still important today?
She was a writer. She wrote plays. The plays were about mysteries. One of the plays was called Mousetrap. I saw a performance of Mousetrap at Wardlaw-Hartridge. The actors were kids from Wardlaw-Hartridge school. It was about a bunch of people who were invited to a guesthouse and a bad guy showed up and pretended to be a detective. Then somebody got murdered. The pretend detective was the murderer, because the people he lived with abused him. So he killed his foster mom, and Mrs. Boyle who was the judge who sent him there. He tried to kill his former teacher, Ms. Waring, because she found out too late and didn’t stop the abuse.
Agatha Christie also wrote short stories and novels. Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None were two novels. The Orient Express is similar to Mousetrap because the train got stuck in the snow and there was a murder. Also, the people got stuck in the house and there was a murder in the play Mousetrap. And Then There Were None is similar because people were invited to a house and got murdered. A story by Agatha Christie’s mother “Mrs. Jordan’s Ghost” is similar because her ghost shows up every time a piece of music in played, and in Mousetrap the bad guy showed up when a piece of music was played and it was “Three blind mice.”
Agatha grew up in Torquay, England in the 1890s. She got inspired by her mother because she told her mystery stories.
Sources consulted: Brainpop.com; and Agatha Christie, Writer of Mystery book by Carol Dommermuth-Costa. 
