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March 6, 2011 | History

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.

Website

http://www.agathachristie.com/

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The Moving Finger (Miss Marple)
2 editions - first published in 2002
The Clocks (Poirot)
2 editions - first published in 2002
The Blue Geranium (The Agatha Christie Collection: Marple)
2 editions - first published in 2002
The Complete Tommy and Tuppence
1 edition - first published in 2002
Khidaa al-Miraya
1 edition - first published in 2002
At Bertram's Hotel (Miss Marple)
2 editions - first published in 2002
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (Miss Marple)
2 editions - first published in 2002
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (Poirot)
2 editions - first published in 2002
And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie Audio Mystery)
1 edition - first published in 2002
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Poirot)
2 editions - first published in 2002
The Complete Superintendent Battle
1 edition - first published in 2002
How Does Your Garden Grow? (The Agatha Christie Collection: Poirot)
2 editions - first published in 2002
Die Kleptomanin
1 edition - first published in 2002
Nemesis (Miss Marple)
2 editions - first published in 2002
Laiel la yantahi =: Endless night.
1 edition - first published in 2002
Dix petits nègres, nouvelle édition
1 edition - first published in 2002
Das Böse unter der Sonne oder Rätsel um Arlena
1 edition - first published in 2002
The Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple)
4 editions - first published in 2002
Mörderblumen
1 edition - first published in 2002
Un meurtre est-il facile ?
1 edition - first published in 2002
Sparkling Cyanide
1 edition - first published in 2002
Dead Man's Mirror
2 editions - first published in 2002
The Poirot Collection
2 editions - first published in 2002
La telarana
1 edition - first published in 2002
They Do It with Mirrors (Miss Marple)
2 editions - first published in 2002
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (Poirot)
2 editions - first published in 2002
Ten Little Niggers (1939) / The Pale Horse (1961)
1 edition - first published in 2002
Bound to Talk
2 editions - first published in 2002
A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple)
2 editions - first published in 2002
Agatha Christie's Mysterious Affair at Styles
1 edition - first published in 2002
Tahariat Parker Pyne =: Parker Pyne investigates.
1 edition - first published in 2002
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
2 editions - first published in 2002 Borrow
Curtain (Poirot)
3 editions - first published in 2002 Borrow
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple)
4 editions - first published in 2002
Muerte En La Vicaria/Murder at the Vicarage
1 edition - first published in 2002
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
1 edition - first published in 2002 Borrow
Three Radio Mysteries
4 editions - first published in 2002
En El Hotel Bertram
1 edition - first published in 2001
Lord Edgware Dies (Poirot)
2 editions - first published in 2001
The Adventures of the Christmas Pudding and The Mystery of the Spanish Chest
1 edition - first published in 2001
Tercera muchacha
2 editions - first published in 2001
Miss marple y 13 problemás
1 edition - first published in 2001
Die Engel der Weihnacht
1 edition - first published in 2001
Le Train De 16h50 (Club Des Masques)
1 edition - first published in 2001
Manzanas, Las
1 edition - first published in 2001
Evil Under the Sun (Poirot)
2 editions - first published in 2001
N or M? (Tommy & Tuppence Chronology)
2 editions - first published in 2001
Sprechende Hoffnung - werdende Kirche. Den Glauben vorschlagen in der heutigen Gesellschaft
1 edition - first published in 2001
Postern of Fate (Tommy & Tuppence Chronology)
2 editions - first published in 2001
Un Triste Cipres
1 edition - first published in 2001
En unerwarteter Gast
1 edition - first published in 2001
Venganza de Nofref, La
1 edition - first published in 2001
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot)
2 editions - first published in 2001
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and The Mystery of the Spanish Chest
1 edition - first published in 2001
El templete de nasse house
1 edition - first published in 2001
Cinq Heures Vingt-Cinq (The Sittaford Mystery, in French)
1 edition - first published in 2001
Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot)
2 editions - first published in 2001
Meurtre en Mésopotamie
2 editions - first published in 2001
Die Tote in der Bibliothek. 4 Cassetten
1 edition - first published in 2001
Asesinato En Bardsley Mews
1 edition - first published in 2001
The Labours of Hercules (Poirot)
2 editions - first published in 2001
The Capture of Cerberus
1 edition - first published in 2001
El tren de las 4.50
3 editions - first published in 2001
Misterio de Las Siete Esferas, El
1 edition - first published in 2001
Poirot Investigates (Poirot)
2 editions - first published in 2001
Misterio de Pale Horse, El
1 edition - first published in 2001
Agatha Christie Mixed Prepack
1 edition - first published in 2001
Death in the Clouds (Hercule Poirot)
2 editions - first published in 2001
Der Mann im braunen Anzug
1 edition - first published in 2001
Sad Cypress (Poirot)
2 editions - first published in 2001
Enigmatico Sr. Quinn
1 edition - first published in 2001
Le crime de l'Orient-Express
2 editions - first published in 2001
Relojes, Los
1 edition - first published in 2001
Misterio de Sans Souci, El
1 edition - first published in 2001
Ba điseu bí tan: truyuen trinh thám
1 edition - first published in 2001
Five Little Pigs (Poirot)
2 editions - first published in 2001
Mistress McMginty Ha Muerto
1 edition - first published in 2001
Muerte En Las Nubes
1 edition - first published in 2001
El truco de los espejos
2 editions - first published in 2001
The Mystery of the Blue Train (Poirot)
2 editions - first published in 2001
Rächende Geister
1 edition - first published in 2001
Cuadro, El
1 edition - first published in 2001
Absent in the Spring and Other Novels: Absent in the Spring -- Giant's Bread -- The Rose and the Yew Tree (Mary Westmacott Omnibus, No. 1)
1 edition - first published in 2001
Der Fall der enttäuschten Hausfrau. Sechs Kriminalgeschichten
1 edition - first published in 2001
El enigmatico Martinez Roca. Quin
1 edition - first published in 2001
Problema En Pollensa
1 edition - first published in 2001
Matar es facil
1 edition - first published in 2001
The Secret Adversary (Tommy & Tuppence Chronology)
2 editions - first published in 2001
Telaraa, La
1 edition - first published in 2001
Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot)
3 editions - first published in 2001
La Toile d'araignée
1 edition - first published in 2001
Murder in Mesopotamia (Poirot)
2 editions - first published in 2001
Der Todeswirbel
1 edition - first published in 2001
Das Agatha Christie Lesebuch
1 edition - first published in 2001
By the Pricking of My Thumbs (Tommy & Tuppence Chronology)
2 editions - first published in 2001
Un Punado de Centeno
1 edition - first published in 2001
Le Crime d'Halloween
1 edition - first published in 2001
Dernière énigme
1 edition - first published in 2001
BBC Presents: Poirot Box Set: Murder in Mesopotamia, Poirot, Thirteen at Dinner
1 edition - first published in 2001
And Then There Were None
2 editions - first published in 2001

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Time

20th century, 1810-1890, 1952-, Elizabeth 2, 1984, IWC kellot, Replica IWC kellot, Replica IWC kellot Outlet, Replica IWC kellot verkossa, The Middle Ages, Written by Agatha Christie after coming back from a winter in Egypt., fake IWC kellot, mid to late 1960s I believe, published in 1971

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Alternative names

Agatha Christie Mallowan
Agatha. Christie
Agatha Miller Christie
AGATHA. CHRISTIE
Agatha, Christie
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976
Christie Dame Agatha.
Christie, Agatha Dame Agatha.
Agatha Chr.istie
CHRISTIE, Agatha Dame.
CHRISTIE, AGATHA, 1890-1976.
Christie
Mary Westmacott (Agatha Christie)
Dame Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie.

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