Agatha Christie

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Agatha Christie (born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller September 15, 1890 – died January 12, 1976) was an English author best known for her crime novels and her fictional characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote plays and romance novels.

Called the "Queen of Crime" by many of her fans, she was also cited by The Guinness book of World Records as the best selling author of all time along with another English author—Shakespeare. Her worldwide book sales total roughly 4 billion books:UNESCO has called her the most widely translated author in history.


The Author's Life

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Adaptation Of Her Works Into Film

Critical Acclaim

List of Novels

Hercule Poirot:

  • The Mysterious Affair at Styles
  • Murder on the Links
  • The Big Four
  • Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The: Hercule Poirot Investigates
  • The Mystery of the Blue Train
  • Peril at End House
  • Murder in Mesopotamia
  • Murder on the Orient Express
  • Murder in Three Acts
  • Death in the Clouds
  • ABC Murders, The
  • Dumb Witness
  • Cards on the Table
  • Death on the Nile
  • Appointment with Death
  • Hercule Poirot's Christmas
  • One Two, Buckle My Shoe
  • Sad Cypress: A Hercule Poirot Novel
  • Evil under the Sun
  • Five Little Pigs
  • The Hollow
  • Taken at the Flood
  • Mrs. McGinty's Dead
  • After the Funeral
  • Hickory Dickory Dock
  • Dead Man's Folly
  • Cat Among the Pigeons
  • Clocks, The
  • Third Girl
  • Hallowe'en Party
  • Elephants Can Remember
  • Curtain

Mrs. Marple:

Other:

List of Short Stories

List Of Adaptations For Film

Plays

  • And Then There Were None
  • Appointment with Death
  • The Mousetrap
  • Go Back for Murder
  • Chimneys

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  1. Dame Agatha Christie Free full-text article from Encyclopedia Britannica Online.