The Queen of Crime

Agatha Christie is the best-selling author of all time. She has sold over two billion books worldwide and has been translated into over 45 languages. In a writing career that spanned more than half a century, Agatha Christie wrote eighty novels and short story collections. She also wrote over a dozen plays, including The Mousetrap, which is now the longest running play in theatrical history.

Happy 120th Birthday!

We're going to need a very large cake for that many candles, good job we've got till September to prepare...

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Mary Westmacott

To celebrate Agatha Christie’s Centenary, Rosalind Hick’s, Agatha Christie's only daughter, wrote an essay on the Westmacott novels. We have reproduced this ...

Biography

Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born on 15 September 1890 in Torquay, England. Her father, Frederick, was an outgoing American with an independent income. Her ...

75 Facts

The following 75 facts were kindly supplied by John Curran to celebrate 75 years of Miss Marple in 2005:

1. In her early years Agatha ...

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