Título: Agatha Christie
Seção: Critical reception and legacy
Background: Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan,  (nee Miller; 15 September 1890 - 12 January 1976) was an English writer. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie also wrote the world's longest-running play, a murder mystery, The Mousetrap, and six romances under the name Mary Westmacott. In 1971 she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her contribution to literature.

Conteúdo: Christie had long been a fan of detective novels, having enjoyed Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White and The Moonstone, as well as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's early Sherlock Holmes stories. She wrote her own detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, featuring Hercule Poirot, a former Belgian police officer noted for his twirly large "magnificent moustaches" and egg-shaped head. Poirot had taken refuge in Britain after Germany invaded Belgium. Christie's inspiration for the character stemmed from real Belgian refugees who were living in Torquay and the Belgian soldiers whom she helped treat as a volunteer nurse in Torquay during the First World War.  Agatha began working on The Mysterious Affair at Styles in 1916, writing most of it on Dartmoor. Her original manuscript was rejected by such publishing companies as Hodder and Stoughton and Methuen. After keeping the submission for several months, John Lane at The Bodley Head offered to accept it, provided that Christie change the ending. She did so, and signed a contract which she later felt was exploitative. It was finally published in 1920.  Christie, meanwhile, settled into married life, giving birth to her only child, daughter Rosalind Margaret Hicks, in August 1919 at Ashfield, where the couple spent much of their time, having few friends in London. Archie left the Air Force at the end of the war and started working in the City financial sector at a relatively low salary, though they still employed a maid.  Christie's 

user: What is Agatha's legacy?

assistant: The Guinness Book of World Records lists Christie as the best-selling novelist of all time.

user: What is the name of one of her famous novels?

assistant: Agatha began working on The Mysterious Affair at Styles in 1916,

user: Was this a successful novel?

assistant: Her original manuscript was rejected by such publishing companies as Hodder and Stoughton and Methuen.

user: Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?

assistant: Christie occasionally inserted stereotyped descriptions of characters into her work,

user: What are some of those descriptions?

assistant: For example, she described "Hebraic men with hook-noses wearing rather flamboyant jewellery"

user: Are there other interesting descriptions?

assistant: one of the more unsympathetic characters is "a Whitechapel Jewess with dyed hair and a voice like a corncrake

user: What was the critical reception?

assistant: Jewish characters are often seen as un-English (such as Oliver Manders in Three Act Tragedy), but they are rarely the culprits.