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Agatha Christie During World War I

Dame Agatha Christie is best known for her detective novels and is often touted as one of the best-selling novelists of all time. But she wasn’t always a writer. During the first World War, she spent some time as a nurse in the Torquay region of England, one of the bloodiest places to be at the time. It was her job to care for patients, having to wash them and ensure their amputations were clean. She once wrote that, “I would wash away all the blood, and stick the limb in the furnace myself.” Many say it’s what inspired so many of the macabre scenes in her books.