Agatha Christie
15 September 1890 - 12 January 1976
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, in the United Kingdom, the daughter of a wealthy American stockbroker. Her father died when she was eleven years old. Her mother taught her at home, encouraging her to write at a very young age. At the age of 16, she went to Mrs. Dryden's finishing school in Paris to study singing and piano. In 1914, at age 24, she married Colonel Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. While he went away to war, she worked as a nurse and wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), which wasn't published until four years later. When her husband came back from the war, they had a daughter. In 1928 she divorced her husband, who had been having an affair. In 1930, she married Sir Max Mallowan, an archaeologist and a Catholic. She was happy in the early years of her second marriage, and did not divorce her husband despite his many affairs. She travelled with her husband's job, and set several of her novels set in the Middle East. Most of her other novels were set in a fictionalized Devon, where she was born.
Agatha Christie is credited with developing the "cozy style" of mystery, which became popular in, and ultimately defined, the Golden Age of fiction in England in the 1920s and '30s, and age of which she is considered to have been Queen. In all, she wrote over 66 novels, numerous short stories and screenplays, and a series of romantic novels using the pen name Mary Westmacott. She was the single most popular mystery writer of all time. In 1971 she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
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Murder on the Orient Express
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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The ABC Murders
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
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The Secret Adversary
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Death on the Nile
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At Bertram's Hotel
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Curtain: Poirot's last case
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Sparkling Cyanide
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The Clocks
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Mirror crack'd from side to side
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A murder is announced
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Sleeping Murder
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Nemesis
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Evil Under the Sun
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The Body in the Library
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Murder at the Vicarage
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Mrs. McGinty's dead
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Peril at End House
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Murder in Mesopotamia
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Death in the air
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The Big Four
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A Caribbean Mystery
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The Moving Finger
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A pocket full of rye
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Elephants Can Remember
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Towards Zero
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And Then There Were None
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Appointment with Death
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Endless Night
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Third girl
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They Came to Baghdad
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Parker Pyne investigates
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Ordeal by Innocence
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After the Funeral
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Five little pigs
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Dead man's folly
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Death Comes as the End
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They Do It With Mirrors
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Passenger to Frankfurt: an extravaganza
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The murder on the links
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Cat Among the Pigeons
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The Seven Dials Mystery
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The Hollow
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The Sittaford Mystery
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Lord Edgware dies
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Sad Cypress
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Murder in three acts
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The Labours of Hercules
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Poirot loses a client
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By the pricking of my thumbs
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Partners in Crime
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The Man in the Brown Suit
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N or M?
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The Mystery of the Blue Train
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Hallowe'en party
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The Pale Horse
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Cards on the table
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Postern of fate
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There is a tide
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Murder for Christmas
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Agatha Christie
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Murder in the mews
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Poirot investigates
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Destination Unknown
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Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
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The Secret of Chimneys
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One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
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The thirteen problems
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The Listerdale Mystery
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Witness for the prosecution: a play in three acts.
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Ten little niggers: a play in three acts.
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Come, tell me how you live
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Spider's Web
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The Mousetrap and Other Plays
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The Unexpected Guest: a play in two acts.
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Easy to kill
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Hickory Dickory Death
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Agatha Christie Crime Collection
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Miss Marple's Final Cases
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Funerals Are Fatal
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The Mousetrap: a play in two acts.
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Crime Collection
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The adventure of the Christmas pudding: and a selection of entrées
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Black Coffee
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Murder at Hazelmoor
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The Regatta Mystery
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The Golden Ball and Other Stories
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Curtain & The mysterious affair at Styles
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The labors of Hercules
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Dead Man's Mirror
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Three blind mice and other stories
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A holiday for murder
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Double Sin and Other Stories
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The Under Dog and Other Stories
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Miss Marple: the complete short stories
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Ten little Indians: a mystery play in three acts
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Christie Murder boxed set
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Agatha Christie's Poirot
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| March 6, 2011 | Edited by Rena Beck | Update photos |
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