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A comprehensive biography of the best-selling fiction writer of all time, known for her detective novels and plays featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Learn about her life, career, awards, adaptations, and personal relationships.
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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie DBE (15 September 1890 –...
- Agatha Christie Bibliography
Agatha Christie (1890–1976) was an English crime novelist,...
- Archie Christie
Archie Christie, 1909, after graduating from the Royal...
- Rosalind Hicks
Rosalind Margaret Clarissa Christie was born on 5 August...
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- Max Mallowan
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- Agatha Christie (Disambiguation)
Agatha Christie: Behind the Screen, a 1986 VCR-based...
- Agatha Christie: a Life in Pictures
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures is a 2004 BBC Television...
- Hercule Poirot
Hercule Poirot (UK: / ˈ ɛər k juː l ˈ p w ɑːr oʊ /, US: / h...
- Adaptations of Agatha Christie
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Agatha Christie (1890–1976) was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. Her reputation rests on 66 detective novels and 15 short-story collections that have sold over two billion copies, an amount surpassed only by the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare. [ 1 ]
3 days ago · Agatha Christie (born September 15, 1890, Torquay, Devon, England—died January 12, 1976, Wallingford, Oxfordshire) was an English detective novelist and playwright whose books have sold more than 100 million copies and have been translated into some 100 languages.
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- Agatha Christie was an English detective novelist and playwright. She wrote some 75 novels, including 66 detective novels and 14 short story collec...
- Agatha Christie began writing detective fiction while working as a nurse during World War I (1914–18). She began her debut novel, The Mysterious Af...
- Agatha Christie’s most famous novels include And Then There Were None (1939), Murder on the Orient Express (1933), and The ABC Murders (1936). Her...
- After her husband, Col. Archibald Christie, asked for a divorce, Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared for nearly two weeks. On December 4, 1926...
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It all depends. If you are looking for a novel or a play, write the British title for it. If you don't know what the original name is, try looking for the novel's name in your language (e.g. L'heure zero for Towards Zero) and it will appear! For now we have translations in Italian, Swedish, French, Czech and German.
Let's say you want to know something about Dr Sheppard from The Murder of Roger Ackroyd or Superintendent Spence. Try searching for the name with or without the title. In general, the titles of articles of characters tend to bear the names exactly as Agatha Christie used them. She understood British conventions of her time regarding when to use a t...
Do you like female sleuths? - then try Murder at the Vicarage - featuring Miss Jane Marple- the unassuming spinster with a mind like a steel trap.If you prefer your detectives male (and egotistical Belgians in particular) then Hercule Poirot is your man - start with The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Christie's first novel) or the ground-break...If you are looking for some masterpieces of adrenaline, why not check out The Secret Adversary?, the first Christie novel featuring the adventurous couple by the name of Tommy and Tuppence.Other Christie gems include The A.B.C. Murders (serial killing with a difference), Cat Among the Pigeons (murder at an elite girls' boarding school), And Then There Were None (10 strangers doomed t...Spelling and grammar
Agatha Christie was an English writer (even if her fatherwas American), therefore this wiki uses British English spelling and grammar.
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Pages for works written Christie uses the original British title, unless another title is in more use today, for example And Then There Were None.
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This wiki contains spoilers for many of the works by Christie. One exception is the stage play The Mousetrap. Since the audience of the play in the West End is asked not to spoil the ending, neither does this wiki.
And Then There Were None is the best-selling crime novel of all time, and made Agatha Christie the best-selling novelist, according to the Agatha Christie Estate. [2] It is Christie's best-selling novel, with more than 100 million copies sold; it is also the world's best-selling mystery and one of the best-selling books of all time ...
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Apr 22, 2024 · Dubbed the “Queen of Mystery,” Agatha Christie was an author and playwright known for books such as Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, as well as characters like Hercule ...
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The first detective novel by Agatha Christie, introducing Hercule Poirot. Learn about the plot, the composition, the publication, and the reception of this classic crime story.
