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
Agatha Christie is one of the most popular writers in history. Almost four billion copies of her novels have been sold across the globe, and her book sales are beaten only by William Shakespeare. Here, we take a look at the life of the best-selling author, whose novels include some of the most recognisable characters in British literature, including Poirot and Miss Marple. The Thirteen Problems... Read More
Listed by the Guinness Book of Records as the bestselling novelist of all time, Agatha Christie has enthralled readers for decades with her skillfully sculpted stories and cunning characters. The Body in the Library was first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1942 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in May of the same year. The story starts with Mrs Dolly Bantry waki... Read More
Agatha Christie was a mystery writer who was one of the world's top-selling authors with works like Murder on the Orient Express and The Mystery of the Blue Train. She was born on September 15, 1890, in Torquay, England, Agatha Christie published her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920, and went on to become one of the most famous writers in history, with mysteries like Murder... 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. A Murder Is Announced is a work of detective fiction and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in June 1950 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in the same month. The story begins when in th... Read More
They Do It with Mirrors is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1952 under the title of Murder with Mirrors and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 17 November that year under Christie's original title. At the beginning of the story, Miss Jane Marple is visiting her old friend Ruth Van Rydock. They talk about Carrie Louise who i... Read More
A Pocket Full of Rye is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 9 November 1953. A Pocket Full of Rye opens with the death of Rex Fortescue, a successful but not universally liked financier. Curiously, rye is discovered in one of his pockets. In addition, it was not his afternoon tea that poisoned him but something that he had ea... Read More
Agatha Christie was born in Torquay, Devon 1890 to Clarissa Margaret Boehmer and a wealthy American stockbroker. She was brought up by both her mother and her sister. In the First World war, she trained and worked as a nurse helping to treat wounded soldiers. 4.50 from Paddington is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie, first published in November 1957 by Collins Crime Club. This work w... Read More
Agatha Christie was an English detective novelist and playwright. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly 3 billion copies, and her estate claims that her works come third in the rankings of the world's most-widely published books. A few years prior to the start of the story, Mrs Bantry, a friend of Miss Marple, sold her home,... Read More
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan was an English writer. In 1955, Christie was the first recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's highest honour, the Grand Master Award. Later the same year, Witness for the Prosecution received an Edgar Award by the MWA for Best Play. A Caribbean Mystery was first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 16 November 1964 and in the... Read More
At Bertram's Hotel is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 15 November. Reviews at the time of publication considered the denouement too far-fetched, but that it has "phenomenal zest and makes a reasonably snug read." Another reviewer called it "an ingenious mystery" reliant on Christie's skilful writing style. A review in 199... 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'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
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 Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan was an English writer. Christie's reputation as "The Queen of Crime" was built upon the large number of classic motifs that she introduced, or for which she provided the most famous example. Christie built these tropes into what is now considered classic mystery structure: a murder is committed, there are multiple suspects who are all concealing secr... Read More
A Christmas Tragedy is a short story in The Thirteen Problems collection, which was also published under the title The Tuesday Club Murders. The atmosphere of the on-coming tragedy was heightened when the hall porter died from pneumonia, followed soon after by one of the hydro's housemaids who died of blood poisoning. Miss Marple dates the tragedy from when Mr Sanders overheard her and two othe... Read More