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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE ( née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
Agatha Christie, English detective novelist and playwright whose books have sold more than 100 million copies and have been translated into some 100 languages. Her first novel, in 1920, introduced her eccentric and egotistic Belgian detective Hercule Poirot; Miss Jane Marple first appeared in 1930.
Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time. She is best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, as well as the world’s longest-running play – The Mousetrap .
Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist in history, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime.
Writer: Les petits meurtres d'Agatha Christie. Agatha was born as "Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller" in 1890 to Frederick Alvah Miller and Clara Boehmer. Agatha was of American and British descent, her father being American and her mother British. Her father was a relatively affluent stockbroker.
Dec 21, 2022 · The Queen of Crime, the creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, the best-selling novelist of all time — even people who don’t read detective novels know the name Agatha Christie. In her long and prolific career, Christie wrote 66 novels and 14 short story collections, as well as several plays, one of which, The Mousetrap, is the ...
Nov 29, 2019 · Agatha Christie (September 15, 1890 – January 12, 1976) was an English mystery author. After working as a nurse during World War I, she became a successful writer, thanks to her Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple mystery series. Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time, as well as the most-translated individual author of all time.
Articles. Who was Agatha Christie? Here are 12 clues. The “Queen of Crime” Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time. In 66 novels, 14 short-story collections, and 20 stage...
Sep 10, 2020 · Agatha Christie is a character in the David Tennant Doctor Who episode "The Unicorn and the Wasp," where she helps the Doctor and his companion Donna Noble solve a series of murders that parallel her works and the board game Clue(do). Fenella Woolgar played Christie.
Oct 25, 2020 · One day she began Agatha Christie’s “Cat Among the Pigeons,” a murder mystery set at an English girls’ boarding school. I was entranced by the seemingly incongruous details: a fortune in smuggled...
