"Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie", DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English crime novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. She also wrote six romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best known for the 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections she wrote under her own name, most of which revolve around the investigations of such characters as Hercule Poirot, Jane Marple, Parker Pyne, Harley Quin/Mr Satterthwaite, and Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. She wrote the world's longest-running play, The Mousetrap.
Born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon, Christie served in a hospital during the First World War, before marrying and starting a family in London. She was initially unsuccessful at getting her work published; but in 1920 The Bodley Head press published her novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles, featuring the character of Hercule Poirot. This launched her literary career.
The Guinness Book of World Records lists Christie as the best-selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly 2 billion copies, and her estate claims that her works come third in the rankings of the world's most-widely published books, behind Shakespeare's works and the Bible. According to Index Translationum, she remains the most translated individual author – having been translated into at least 103 languages. And Then There Were None is Christie's best-selling novel with 100 million sales to date, making it the world's best-selling mystery ever, and one of the best-selling books of all time. In 1971, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.
In 2013, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was voted the best crime novel ever by 600 fellow writers of the Crime Writers' Association.
Christie's stage play The Mousetrap holds the record for the longest initial run: it opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London on 25 November 1952 and as of 2012 is still running after more than 25,000 performances. In 1955, Christie was the first recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's highest honour, the Grand Master Award, and in the same year Witness for the Prosecution was given an Edgar Award by the MWA for Best Play. Most of her books and short stories have been adapted for television, radio, video games and comics, and more than thirty feature films have been based on her work.
Here are some books, written by Agatha Christie:
Excerpt from Wikipedia
Novels
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Read Online
- The Secret Adversary - Read Online
- The Murder on the Links
- The Man in the Brown Suit
- The Secret of Chimneys
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- The Big Four
- The Mystery of the Blue Train
- The Seven Dials Mystery
- The Murder at the Vicarage
- Giant's Bread
- The Floating Admiral
- The Sittaford Mystery
- Peril at End House
- Lord Edgware Dies
- Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
- Murder on the Orient Express
- Unfinished Portrait
- Three Act Tragedy
- Death in the Clouds
- The A.B.C. Murders
- Cards on the Table
- Murder in Mesopotamia
- Death on the Nile
- Dumb Witness
- Appointment with Death
- Hercule Poirot's Christmas
- Murder Is Easy
- Ten Little Niggers
- One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
- Sad Cypress
- Evil Under the Sun
- N or M?
- The Body in the Library
- The Moving Finger
- Five Little Pigs
- Towards Zero
- Absent in the Spring
- Death Comes as the End
- Sparkling Cyanide
- The Hollow
- The Rose and the Yew Tree
- Taken at the Flood
- Crooked House
- A Murder Is Announced
- They Came to Baghdad
- They Do It with Mirrors
- Mrs McGinty's Dead
- A Daughter's a Daughter
- After the Funeral
- A Pocket Full of Rye
- Destination Unknown
- Hickory Dickory Dock
- The Burden
- Dead Man's Folly
- 4.50 from Paddington
- Ordeal by Innocence
- Cat Among the Pigeons
- The Pale Horse
- The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
- The Clocks
- A Caribbean Mystery
- At Bertram's Hotel
- Third Girl
- Endless Night
- By the Pricking of My Thumbs
- Hallowe'en Party
- Passenger to Frankfurt
- Nemesis
- Elephants Can Remember
- Postern of Fate
- Curtain
- Sleeping Murder
- Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly
Short Story Collections
- Poirot Investigates
- Partners in Crime
- The Under Dog and Other Stories
- The Mysterious Mr Quin
- The Thirteen Problems
- The Listerdale Mystery
- Parker Pyne Investigates
- Murder in the Mews
- The Labours of Hercules
- The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
- Poirot's Early Cases
- Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories
- Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories
- While the Light Lasts and Other Stories
Miscellany
- The Road of Dreams
- Come, Tell Me How You Live
- Star Over Bethlehem
- Poems
- The Times of London Anthology of Detective Stories
- Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
- The Scoop and Behind the Screen
- The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery
Broadcast works
- Behind The Screen
- The Scoop
- Wasp's Nest
- The Yellow Iris
- Three Blind Mice
- Butter in a Lordly Dish
- Personal Call
Stage works
- Black Coffee
- Ten Little Niggers
- Appointment with Death
- Murder on the Nile
- The Hollow
- The Mousetrap
- Witness for the Prosecution
- Spider's Web
- Towards Zero
- Verdict
- The Unexpected Guest
- Go Back for Murder
- Rule of Three
- Fiddlers Three
- Akhnaton
- Chimneys
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