Agatha Christie was an English detective novelist and playwright whose books have sold more than 100 million copies and have been translated into some 100 languages. Educated at home by her mother, Christie began writing detective fiction while working as a nurse during World War I. They Came to Baghdad is an adventure novel by Agatha Christie, first published in the United Kingdom by the Colli... Read More
Agatha Christie's first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introduced Hercule Poirot, her eccentric and egotistic Belgian detective. Christie’s first major recognition came with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, which was followed by some 75 novels that usually made best-seller lists. In 1955, Christie was the first recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's highest honour, the Grand Master... Read More
Dumb Witness is a detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 5 July 1937 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year under the title of Poirot Loses a Client. In The New York Times Book Review, Kay Irvin wrote that "Agatha Christie can be depended upon to tell a good tale. Even when she is not doing her mo... Read More
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan was an English writer. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon. Before marrying and starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospi... Read More
Watership Down is a survival and adventure novel by English author Richard Adams. He studied modern history at university before serving in the British Army during World War II. Afterwards, he completed his studies, and then joined the British Civil Service. In 1974, two years after Watership Down was published, Adams became a full-time author. In the Sandleford warren, Fiver, a young runt rabb... Read More