Year of grace 1922. James Joyce publishes his masterpiece
Ulysses
on February 2, his birthday;
Marcel Proust draws his last breath (not without having scrupulously noted the details of his agony).
Meanwhile, in Cape Town, South Africa, a young British woman discovers the joys of surfing.
She wears a flowered bonnet, a silk swimsuit and gently mocks her husband Archie, who is knocked over by a wave.
“
Agatha, don't go away!
he cries to her;
but Agatha does not hear, nothing excites her so much as the danger that lurks, real or imaginary.
Soon, she would be dubbed the "
queen of crime
" and Winston Churchill would say of her "
that she is the woman to whom crime has paid the most since Lucrezia Borgia
".
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For the moment, she is only the wife of Archie Christie, after a whirlwind marriage on December 24, 1914. A century later, Agatha Christie will have sold more than two billion books – only the Bible and Shakespeare are ahead of her .
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