Year of Grace 1922: James Joyce publishes his masterpiece Ulysses on February 2, his birthday; Marcel Proust takes his last breath (not without meticulously recording the details of his agony). Meanwhile, in Cape Town, South Africa, a young British woman discovers the joys of surfing. She wears a flowery hat, a silk bathing suit and gently teases her husband Archie, who is knocked over by the tide. “ Agatha, don’t leave. she cries to him; but Agatha does not listen, nothing excites her so much as the danger that lurks, real or imagined. Soon he will be called “ queen of crime and Winston Churchill would say of him: that she is the woman to whom crime has paid the most since Lucrezia Borgia “.
So far she is only Archie Christie’s wife, 1914. on December 24 after a stormy marriage. A century later, Agatha Christie will sell more than two billion books. only the Bible and Shakespeare predate it. We have often thought…
Source: Le Figaro
