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Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

"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

  1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Read Online
  2. The Secret Adversary - Read Online
  3. The Murder on the Links
  4. The Man in the Brown Suit
  5. The Secret of Chimneys
  6. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
  7. The Big Four
  8. The Mystery of the Blue Train
  9. The Seven Dials Mystery
  10. The Murder at the Vicarage
  11. Giant's Bread
  12. The Floating Admiral
  13. The Sittaford Mystery
  14. Peril at End House
  15. Lord Edgware Dies
  16. Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
  17. Murder on the Orient Express
  18. Unfinished Portrait
  19. Three Act Tragedy
  20. Death in the Clouds
  21. The A.B.C. Murders
  22. Cards on the Table
  23. Murder in Mesopotamia
  24. Death on the Nile
  25. Dumb Witness
  26. Appointment with Death
  27. Hercule Poirot's Christmas
  28. Murder Is Easy
  29. Ten Little Niggers
  30. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
  31. Sad Cypress
  32. Evil Under the Sun
  33. N or M?
  34. The Body in the Library
  35. The Moving Finger
  36. Five Little Pigs
  37. Towards Zero
  38. Absent in the Spring
  39. Death Comes as the End
  40. Sparkling Cyanide
  41. The Hollow
  42. The Rose and the Yew Tree
  43. Taken at the Flood
  44. Crooked House
  45. A Murder Is Announced
  46. They Came to Baghdad
  47. They Do It with Mirrors
  48. Mrs McGinty's Dead
  49. A Daughter's a Daughter
  50. After the Funeral
  51. A Pocket Full of Rye
  52. Destination Unknown
  53. Hickory Dickory Dock
  54. The Burden
  55. Dead Man's Folly
  56. 4.50 from Paddington
  57. Ordeal by Innocence
  58. Cat Among the Pigeons
  59. The Pale Horse
  60. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
  61. The Clocks
  62. A Caribbean Mystery
  63. At Bertram's Hotel
  64. Third Girl
  65. Endless Night
  66. By the Pricking of My Thumbs
  67. Hallowe'en Party
  68. Passenger to Frankfurt
  69. Nemesis
  70. Elephants Can Remember
  71. Postern of Fate
  72. Curtain
  73. Sleeping Murder
  74. Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly

Short Story Collections

  1. Poirot Investigates
  2. Partners in Crime
  3. The Under Dog and Other Stories
  4. The Mysterious Mr Quin
  5. The Thirteen Problems
  6. The Listerdale Mystery
  7. Parker Pyne Investigates
  8. Murder in the Mews
  9. The Labours of Hercules
  10. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
  11. Poirot's Early Cases
  12. Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories
  13. Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories
  14. While the Light Lasts and Other Stories

Miscellany

  1. The Road of Dreams
  2. Come, Tell Me How You Live
  3. Star Over Bethlehem
  4. Poems
  5. The Times of London Anthology of Detective Stories
  6. Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
  7. The Scoop and Behind the Screen
  8. The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery

Broadcast works

  1. Behind The Screen
  2. The Scoop
  3. Wasp's Nest
  4. The Yellow Iris
  5. Three Blind Mice
  6. Butter in a Lordly Dish
  7. Personal Call

Stage works

  1. Black Coffee
  2. Ten Little Niggers
  3. Appointment with Death
  4. Murder on the Nile
  5. The Hollow
  6. The Mousetrap
  7. Witness for the Prosecution
  8. Spider's Web
  9. Towards Zero
  10. Verdict
  11. The Unexpected Guest
  12. Go Back for Murder
  13. Rule of Three
  14. Fiddlers Three
  15. Akhnaton
  16. Chimneys

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