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's dedication to crafting the perfect plot saw her dubbed the Queen of Crime and earned her a place in literary history. Nemesis was first published i... Read More
Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple's Last Case is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1976 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. Twenty-one year old New Zealander Gwenda Reed has recently married and now comes to England to settle down there. She believes that her father took her directly from Indi... Read More
Agatha Christie was a great crime writer of the 20th century. On 24 December 1914 Agatha married an aviator named Archibald Christie. They had a daughter named Rosalind in 1919. During the First World War, she volunteered to work in a red cross hospital. In 1917 she became a dispenser and turned to writing. Miss Marple's Final Cases is a collection of nine Miss Marple short stories. Published p... Read More
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. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introduced Hercule Poirot, her eccentric and egotistic Belgian... Read More
The Mystery of the Blue Train is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the United Kingdom by William Collins & Sons on 29 March 1928 and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. This novel features the first description of the fictional village of St. Mary Mead, which would later be the home of Christie's detective Miss Marple. It a... Read More
After the Funeral is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1953 under the title of Funerals are Fatal and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 18 May of the same year under Christie's original title. At its heart, After the Funeral is a story of England in transitioning times. The war has led to changes in all layers o... Read More
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan was an English writer. Christie's first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was published in 1920 and introduced the detective Hercule Poirot, who became a long-running character in Christie's works, appearing in 33 novels and 54 short stories. During the Second World War, Christie wrote two novels, Curtain and Sleeping Murder, intended as th... Read More
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan was an English writer. During the Second World War, Christie wrote two novels, Curtain and Sleeping Murder, intended as the last cases of these two great detectives, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. The Four Suspects is a short story in the book The Thirteen Problems. The tragedy occurred when Dr Rosen was found at the bottom of the stairs, possi... Read More
Agatha Christie was a great crime writer of the 20th century. She was born Agatha May Clarissa Miller on 13 September 1890 in Torquay, Devon, England. Her father was named Alvan Miller and her mother was called Clarissa Margaret. The family was well off. Sadly when Agatha was 11 her father died. On 24 December 1914 Agatha married an aviator named Archibald Christie. They had a daughter named Ro... Read More
The Secret Adversary is the second published detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in January 1922 in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in that same year. The ship Lusitana has been torpedoed and a stranger has given a young girl a packet containing an important document. The stranger dies, and the... Read More
Lord Edgware Dies is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in September 1933 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year under the title of Thirteen at Dinner. Attending a performance by impressionist Carlotta Adams, Hercule Poirot is approached by actress Jane Wilkinson. A few days later Lord Edgware is f... Read More
Agatha Christie was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. Her reputation rests on 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections that have sold over two billion copies. Christie's writing career began during the war after she was challenged by her sister to write a detective story. She produced The Mysterious Affair at Styles, which was turned down by two publishers... Read More
Famed crime novelist Agatha Christie published the classic Murder on the Orient Express in 1934. It first appeared in serialized form in the Saturday Evening Post from July to September 1933. Its themes include revenge, the reality of true evil, and the real meaning of justice. Fortunately, or unfortunately, as the case may be, one of the passengers happens to be Hercule Poirot, the Belgian det... Read More
The Pale Horse is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1961 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. When Mark goes to Much Deeping with the famous mystery writer, Ariadne Oliver, to a village fete organised by his cousin, he learns of a house converted from an old inn called the Pale Horse, now i... Read More
Agatha Christie was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. She married Archibald Christie in December 1914 but the couple were divorced in 1928. After he was sent to the Western Front in the First World War, she worked with the Voluntary Aid Detachment and in the chemist dispensary, giving her a working background knowledge of medicines and poisons. Christie's writing car... Read More
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club in November 1940, and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1941 under the title of The Patriotic Murders. It is one of several of Christie's crime fiction novels to feature both the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and Chief Inspector Japp. This i... Read More
Agatha Christie was an English writer of crime and romantic novels. She is best remembered for her detective stories including the two diverse characters of Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. She is considered to be the best selling writer of all time. In Peril at End House, retired detective Hercule Poirot becomes involved in the seeming murder attempts against Nick Buckley, the attractive young... Read More
Agatha Christie was an English writer of crime and romantic novels. She is best remembered for her detective stories including the two diverse characters of Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. She is considered to be the best selling writer of all time. Taken at the Flood was first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1948 under the title of There is a Tide... and in the UK by the... Read More
Agatha Christie was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. She married Archibald Christie in December 1914 but the couple were divorced in 1928. After he was sent to the Western Front in the First World War, she worked with the Voluntary Aid Detachment and in the chemist dispensary, giving her a working background knowledge of medicines and poisons. The ABC Murders was fi... Read More
Agatha Christie's writing career began during the war after she was challenged by her sister to write a detective story. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding was first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 24 October 1960. On Christmas Eve, Hercule Poirot finds a note on his bed with the above words scribbled on it. He is a guest of the Laceys, of whom are neither friends nor acqua... Read More