Agatha Christie

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كريستى، اجاثا ميلر،, アガサ クリスチィ, Agatha Chrisitie Mallowan, and 67 others Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, アガサ クリスティー, Ajāthā Kirīstī, אגאתה קריסטי, Agatha Clarissa Mary Miller Christie, كريستى، اجاتا،, Agatha Mallowan, Agata Krisṟṟi, , Agatha Miller, אגתה קריסטי, Agatha Mary Clarisa Miller Christie, Agata Kristi, Agatha Christie-Mallowan, Mērija Vestmakota, アガサ クリスティ, Агата Мэри Кларисса Миллер, Ajiasha Kelisidi, Agatha Chritieová, Ajiasha, Агата Кристи, 阿加莎 克里斯蒂, Aghatha Kristi, Āġātā Krīstī, Agatha Miller, كريستي، أجاتا،, كريستي، أغاتا،, Agatha Mallowan Christie, Agatha Mary Clarisse Miller, A. Kristi, Agatha Miller Christie, اجاثا كريستى،, Н. А Богомолова, A クリスティー, Agathe Marie Clarissa Miller, アガサ・クリスティ, أجاثا كريستي،, Agaṭah Krisṭi, Akatā Kir̲isṭi, אגאתה כריסטי, A クリスティ, Agatha M.C. Miller, Agatha Christie, كريستي، أجاثا،, 阿加莎, Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller Christie, Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller, كريستى، اجاثا،, Mary Westmacott, Agata Christie, אגתה כריסטי, Агата Мэри Кларисса Маллоуэн, Agatha Christie Mallowan, А Кристи, אגטה כריסטי, Mary Clarissa Miller, Ajiasa Kelisidi, Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller Christie Mallowan, كريستى، أجاثا،, كريستي، أغاثا،, A. |q Kristi, A-ga-ta Kri-xti, आगाथा क्रिस्टी, Agatha Clarissa Mary Christie, أجاتا كريستي،, Agathe Christie, Agatha Kristi, Agatha)، كريستى، أجاثا (Christie
Born:
Sept. 14, 1890
Died:
Jan. 11, 1976

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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) 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 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 Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies. Christie was born into a wealthy upper middle class family in Torquay, Devon, and was largely home-schooled. She was initially an unsuccessful writer with six consecutive rejections, but this changed in 1920 when The Mysterious Affair at Styles, featuring detective Hercule Poirot, was published. Her first husband was Archibald Christie; they married in 1914 and had one child before divorcing in 1928. Following the breakdown of her marriage and the …

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