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Agatha Christie


Born
in Torquay, Devon, England, The United Kingdom
September 15, 1890

Died
January 12, 1976

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Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) 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. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen
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And Then There Were None

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Murder on the Orient Expres...

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Death on the Nile (Hercule ...

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The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule...

4.03 avg rating — 185,375 ratings — published 1936 — 664 editions
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The Man in the Brown Suit (...

3.95 avg rating — 119,131 ratings — published 1924 — 330 editions
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The Body in the Library (Mi...

3.82 avg rating — 118,776 ratings — published 1942 — 522 editions
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3.87 avg rating — 108,802 ratings — published 1923 — 19 editions
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“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
Agatha Christie

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
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