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Agatha Christie


Born
in Torquay, Devon, England, The United Kingdom
September 15, 1890

Died
January 12, 1976

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Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen
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And Then There Were None

4.27 avg rating — 1,612,556 ratings — published 1939 — 1056 editions
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Murder on the Orient Expres...

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Death on the Nile (Hercule ...

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Murder at the Vicarage (Mis...

4.04 avg rating — 213,506 ratings — published 1930 — 490 editions
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The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule...

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The Man in the Brown Suit (...

3.95 avg rating — 125,149 ratings — published 1924 — 10 editions
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The Body in the Library (Mi...

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The Mysterious Affair at St... The Murder on the Links The Murder of Roger Ackroyd The Big Four The Mystery of the Blue Train Black Coffee: A Mystery Pla... Peril at End House
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Quotes by Agatha Christie  (?)
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“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
Agatha Christie

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

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