Agatha Christie, the queen of mystery novels and author of And Then There Were None, used both types of conflict and irony to teach the theme that justice will be served. Christie became the first grandmaster recognized by the Mystery Writers of America. Born as Agatha Christie May Clarissa Miller in Devon, England. Agatha was born on September 15, 1890. She grew up in a seaside town in Devon called Torquay. Christie was the youngest in the family and was probably alone a lot. Because of her loneliness, she was very imaginative in creating playmates who, to her alone, were real as people (“Christie, Agatha,” 176; Stade and Karbiener, 76). Growing up, Christie was privately home schooled. She was homeschooled right after the death of her father, Fredrick Alvah Miller. His teacher was his mother, Clarissa Boehmer Miller. In addition to being taught by her mother, her mother also encouraged her to write and read more often. If she was at home and had nothing to do, her mother would make her write a story. This is what helped Christie become a good writer. Christie believed that it was better to think of a story rather than write it because it was easier. Later, during her teenage years, Christie went to music school in Paris, then realized she didn't have that operatic voice (Stade and Karbiener, 76; Kunitz, 279 years). Christie's first husband was a pilot named Colonel Archibald Christie. They had a daughter, Rosalind Christie. While Christie's husband was flying, she worked as a nurse for the Torquay Red Cross during the First World War. In 1928, Mr. and Mrs. Christie divorced, and she remarried shortly afterward to an archaeologist, Max Mallowan. Christie and her husband took many trips to Syria and Iraq just for fun. While she was going on a trip... middle of paper... it was all over” (Christie 35). Now she knows why she is on the island and thinks she is going to die, but she strives to find and catch the killer before he catches her. She finds a clue about the killer and tries to help others, but it didn't work well. In the novel, she says to others "'don't look at me like that!...as if...isn't that damn funny?' » (Christie 186). Knowing what she knows about the death of everyone symbolizing the poem Ten Little Soldiers, she finds her way to the end but ends up hanging herself. Works Cited “Christie, Agatha”. Literary lifelines. 1998. Print. Christie, Agatha. And then there wasn't one. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1939.Print.Kunitz, Stanley J., ed. 20th century authors. New York: The HW Wilson Company, 1973. Print. Stage, George and Karen, Karbiener., eds. British Writers. 2003. Print