Photos from open sources It turns out, reading the detective stories of Agatha Christie, you can hardly not from the first pages to find out the name of the killer. Scientists from Irish National University with colleagues from the University Queens found a certain formula, using which, the name of the offender can identify at the beginning of the detective story. Experts in their work relied on 26 Agatha Christie bestsellers.
Specialists paid attention to the vocabulary that was used author, on methods of killing, as well as on vehicles, used by the heroes of the works. All this helped researchers to derive their “formula.”
Agatha Christie’s main villain is always present in the first half of the detective. It is easy to trace his emotional connection with victim: either it is a spouse or someone from relatives.
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The offender is usually a woman, if in the work land transport is described. If the heroes make the journey on the ship, the killer is a man. A man should be suspected in if the murder was committed by strangulation. Woman in 75 percent of cases will be a killer if the action of the novel takes place in a country house, where it was committed the crime. Scientists also noticed that the author uses vocabulary with strongly expressed negativity, describing stories where killers are women, and something everyday helps to convict them. To catch male killers succeeded by logical reasoning.
In the novels featuring Hercule Poirot, the villain is already mentioned at the beginning of the book. In detectives about old Miss Marple, where the main money and love affairs become a motive for murder, not immediately a murderer appears.
This study of specialists was dedicated to the 125-year-old the anniversary of the birth of the famous writer. Detectives Christie’s agates were repeatedly filmed. By the number of publications the books of this author are second only to the works of Shakespeare and the Bible.
Curious that Agatha Christie did not write her works on her own, as she suffered from dysgraphia (inability write lyrics), so all her wonderful novels appeared dictated.
