Agatha Christie is the Queen of Crime, a
well known poison aficionada, and quite possibly the most homicidal
novelist who ever lived, yet rarely is her legacy connected with the
hardboiled tradition, that dark noble literature born of existential
philosophy, midcentury ennui, and the American West’s booming trench
coat industry. Instead, Christie and her works are lumped in on the side
of order and justice. A quick perusal of her archives and quotation
collections indicate that a large portion of the population looks to
her for a sense of hope, optimism, and encouragement, even. But running
just underneath that inspirational surface is a bubbling lava field of
darkness, one that permeates every aspect of Christie’s work, her
characters, and her prose. In honor of the great woman’s birthday (she
was born on September 15, 1890 in Torquay, England), we’ve rounded up a
small collection of Christie’s darkest, bleakest, most cynical,
Bogart-chewing-on-glass quotes. Together they give us a surprise ending,
a final twist of just the variety Christie herself made so famous:
Agatha Christie is, after all, one of the most noir authors who ever
lived and wrote.
Enjoy these pithy, world-weary lines, grab the nearest gimlet, and
raise a glass to the Queen of Crime. All crime. The coziest damn noir
you ever read.
“Never go back to a place where you have
been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it
will be destroyed.”
—An Autobiography (1977)
“One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this
world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave—our
own self.”
—A Daughter’s a Daughter (1952)
“Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.”
—And Then There Were None (1939)
“Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend.”
—The Mysterious Affair At Styles (1920) ... [mehr] https://crimereads.com/agatha-christie-hardboiled-philosopher/
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