One of the tricks up his sleeve, "mc-guffins" secret weapon or literary most popular and used by Agatha Christie is the disturbing lyrics cradle that underlie the argument of many of its mysteries. From simple symbolic use of the tune to highlight some aspects of the ongoing police investigation, until the proper use of criminal turn one of these songs to make their killings coincide with the point of it. Once you hear these traditional nursery rhymes used by the author is bound to reread some of these novels while the pace rattles your brain child, and thus terrifying, the song which bears the weight of the frame. Thanks to the Internet as we currently have unlimited access to any musical note ever composed or recorded in the history of mankind, let's make a "TOP 8" of the best lullabies used by Christie and immortalized by her through her novels and stories:
(Note: All videos "Youtuberos" that accompany the songs are HORRORS )
8 - Hickory Dickory Dock " (hear it in the novel " Murder On The Street Hickory 1955).
This short tune is the title of this story set in a dorm full of suspects. Despite this, the relationship of the song with the plot developed in the novel is only tangential, reason is so low on our ranking. The book itself, with multiple suspects and smuggling of gems such as the core base, is a delight.
7 - "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary" (hear it in the short story "How does your garden grow" , written in the 20's and collected in 1974 in volume "Poirot's Early Cases ").
In this case if there is a relationship a little more direct. The thing about "How grows the garden?" which is part of the lyrics of this sinister tune-in fact how a character looks a flower that lacks a significant portion, "is vital to Hercules Poirot discover the key to this mystery that includes the possible participation of Russian spies and murder by poisoning. As for the song itself, the Wikipedia you can read the different interpretations that have had throughout history. including obscure references to Mary I of Inglarerra-one that is already famous for being connected with the urban legend of "Bloody Mary " mirror, or at very Santiago de Compostela .
6 - "THERE WAS A CROOKED MAN" (The hear in the novel "The Crooked House" , 1949)
In this case we find ourselves with a metaphorical use of the song. "There was a crooked man ... / And they all lived in a crooked house" , is a reflection of the passions, dark goings and legendary bad luck that has plagued from always at the family home Leonides, protagonists of the novel, living in a huge house looks crooked, like the life of its inhabitants. "The Crooked House" -a personal favorite of Christie's, in fact, an almost forgotten masterpiece that must claim and put beside the great classics of the author.
5 - "THIS LITTLE PIG WENT TO MARKET" (The hear in the novel "Five Little Pigs" , 1942)
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of the most legendary Poirot cases in which your task is to clarify a crime many years ago in the past and killed him by hanging an innocent man, also known connection to this popular ditty. In this case the Belgian detective used the tune in his brain to reorder the facts concerning the suspected poisoning of painter Amyas cral. This novel was a pioneer in the use of "multiple points of view on any given" so imitated later in the detective genre, and not police, too, if we remember Rashomon Kurosawa of "- and still being one of the best eccentric cycle researcher of "little gray cells."
4 - "THREE BLIND MICE" (hear it in the play "The Mousetrap" , released in 1952)
This sinister melody has always been the basis of the history contained in "The Mousetrap" the play Agatha Christie's most famous and has been performed continuously throughout the world since its release, "In fact now and to 16 this month, we a new assembly in the Queen Victoria Theatre of Madrid, which review will go up soon. First was a radio play Christie then converted into a short story (both named as the song: "Three Blind Mice" ) and finally led to the famous theatrical piece in which the tragic and gruesome story of three brothers in a farm relate to this black lullaby about three mice who are out of line. During the work is sung several times this letter, that some factors associated with Mary I of England, this woman, and always through the execution of three bishops.
3 - "ONE TWO, \u200b\u200bBUCKLE MY SHOE " (The hear in the novel" Death Visits the Dentist ", 1940)
With little variation in verse the queen of crime used this rhyme as structural part of this work starts with the alleged suicide of Poirot's dentist. In the end, of course, things are entangled with more assassination attempts and a brilliant explanation of the initial crime. "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" -like with "Murder On The Street Hickory," the song title the novel in the original version, is the typical rhyme that children are learning to count.
2 - "Sing a Song of Sixpence" (The hear in the novel "A Fistful of Rye" , 1953)
Ms. Christie made references to this lullaby in several of his short stories (including one in 1929, is named like the song) but the letter in verse of this tune early eighteenth century never had better use this novela Miss Marple: "A Fistful Of Rye" . The murderer of this work, for me one of the most terrifying villains created by the author, is having its list of bodies making literal references to the rhymes of the song, one of which illustrates a curious old custom: that of making cakes with live birds! The novel, needless to say, is a marvel that includes an unforgettable final.
1 - "TEN LITTLE INDIANS / NIGGERS" (The hear in the novel "Ten Little Indians", also known as "... And Then There Were None" and published in 1939)
The most controversial song and also used by Christie famous we can hear and feel as the main basis of the plot in this masterpiece of impeccably now known as "... And Then There Were None" . The ten little original song have been replaced in both the lyrics of the song as on the novel by Agatha Lady Indians and even soldiers, because we know that raw political correctness in these dark days (In fact it did not include video the modern version of "Ten Little Indians" has nothing to do with the original that appears in the novel) in any case is the most famous song used by Christie and we are talking about selling the work of the author. A locked room mystery and oppressive atmosphere that has been imitated a thousand times and never equaled. And where are invited to an island slowly dying like the 10 Negritos of the original song. In this LINK of Wiki you can read all the letters in the rhyme over the years, including that which became the title of the work.
To finish, two recommendations :
Posted a couple of months ago, the English edition of "The Secret Papers of Agatha Christie" is mandatory. Especially for fans of the English author, because we analyze the seventy-three private notebooks Christie left at his death and were still gathering dust in the mansion that now inhabit their heirs.
Among them we find not only outlines, summaries, lists of characters and, ultimately, the creative process for most of his works, making it sometimes a little dry for beginners, it is true-but is dotted with photographs of the documents, notes that clarify some points related biographical time when novels were written and gift, two unpublished short stories featuring Poirot who had stayed in the drawer of the sleeping Mrs. Christie sleep of the righteous. And on the subject that occupies this input, we have a chapter devoted to lullabies which speaks of the novels discussed here and some that I have left, and other nursery rhymes that Christie had outlined in his notes and never used in any work.
And just for starters, this week the newspaper "El Mundo" begins publishing again 20 of the most famous novels of the author, every Saturday and Sunday and a good price. A golden opportunity to delve into the fascinating world of Christie for laymen and also to fill gaps. Case begins with "Murder On The Orient Express" a euro and Saturday May 15 will "Death on the Nile" and "Ten Little Indians" together as if they were a single delivery. Only with these three jewels a newcomer to Christie has more than enough to get an idea of \u200b\u200bthe case and ask for more, and more and more.
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