Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie was born in Torquay, Devon, England, on 15 September
1890. She
was an English writer. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie’s first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was published in 1920 and introduced the detective Hercule Poirot
, who became a long-running character in Christie’s works, appearing in 33 novels and 54 short stories.
Miss Jane Marple, introduced in the short-story collection The Thirteen Problems in 1927, was based on Christie’s grandmother and her “Ealing cronies”. Both Jane and Gran “always expected the worst of everyone and everything, and were, with almost frightening accuracy, usually proved right.” Marple appeared in 12 novels and 20 stories.
She died on 12 January 1976, at the age of 85, in Winterbrook, Oxfordshire, England.
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| Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
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| Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
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| Evil Under the Sun (1941)
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| They Came to Bagdad (1951)
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| After the Funeral (1953)
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| Endless Night (1967)
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| And Then There Were None (1939)
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