"Very few of us are what we seem", "The secret of getting ahead is getting started", "Never tell all you know - not even to the person you know best". These are but a few of Agatha Christie's famous quotes and our middle school pupils had the chance to do some research and find out what a charismatic personality the British writer was. In their presentations, they talked about her unusual education, her voluntary work during World War I, as well as her most popular novels.