Character Analysis: The Unicorn And The Wasp

“The Unicorn and the Wasp”
Known as the “Queen of Mystery”, Agatha Christie has written over seventy detective novels, and fourteen short stories (Wikipedia). Her first novel, The Mysterious Affairs at Styles, was originally written as a dare but was later published in 1920. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, And Then There Were None, and Murder on the Orient Express are the most known and read of her many books. In the 2008 Doctor Who episode “The Unicorn and the Wasp”, the writers used Agatha Christie’s life as building blocks for the story line. During the show, the main character called The Doctor travels in time to 1926 for an elegant cocktail party. At the party, people start mysteriously dying and it 's up to Agatha and The Doctor to find out who is behind the murders. Within this episode are events related to Agatha’s life, cleverly placed book title references, and minor plots from some of her works the contribute to the realism of the episode.
The Doctor Who episode “The Unicorn and the Wasp” had many numerous correlations with Agatha Christie 's actual life. Around 10:00 pm, December 3rd, 1926 Agatha Christie was reported missing. Christie’s car was found on the side of the road abandoned. Although the episode shows a warm and sunny day, it was actually winter when Agatha vanished. The episode is purposely set on December 3 1926, “The date on this newspaper. What about it? It 's the day

Agatha Christie wrote over seventy novels and was only ever outsold by William Shakespeare and the Bible. She died in January 12, 1976. Thirty two years after the novelist passed away, the creators and writers of Doctor Who’s “The Unicorn and the Wasp’ paid tribute to Agatha Christie’s life and her