Agatha Christie

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Agatha Christie

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born
September 15, 1890 in Torquay, Devon, England, The United Kingdom

died
January 12, 1976

gender
female

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Edgar Allan Poe, Anna Katherine Green, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, GK Ches...more


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Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.

Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U.K., as the youngest of three. The Millers had two other children: Margaret Frary Miller (1879–1950), called Madge, who was eleven years Agatha's senior, and Louis Montant Miller (1880–1929), called Monty, ten years older than Agatha.

During the First World War, she worked at a hospital as a nurse; later working at a hospital pharmacy, a job that influenced her work, as many of the murders in her books are carried out with poison.

On Christmas Eve 1914 Agatha married Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. The couple had one daughter, Rosalind Hicks. They divorced in 1928, two years...more


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And Then There Were None
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 74,665 ratings — published 1939 — 63 editions
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Murder on the Orient Express
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 40,610 ratings — published 1933 — 57 editions
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The Mysterious Affair at St...
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 22,673 ratings — published 1920 — 328 editions
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Death on the Nile
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 21,363 ratings — published 1937 — 121 editions
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Murder at the Vicarage (Mis...
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 17,723 ratings — published 1930 — 111 editions
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd...
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 17,377 ratings — published 1926 — 131 editions
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The ABC Murders
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 13,876 ratings — published 1936 — 95 editions
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The Body in the Library (Mi...
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 10,186 ratings — published 1941 — 105 editions
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Evil Under the Sun (Hercule...
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 9,069 ratings — published 1940 — 28 editions
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A Murder Is Announced (Miss...
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 8,581 ratings — published 1950 — 77 editions
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The Mysterious Affair at St... Murder on the Links Poirot Investigates The Murder of Roger Ackroyd The Big Four The Mystery of the Blue Train Black Coffee
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Miss Marple (14 books)
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3.798499215929781 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 95,017 ratings
The Man In The Brown Suit Cards on the Table Death on the Nile Sparkling Cyanide
Colonel Race (4 books)
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3.8759954792756326 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 38,047 ratings
Parker Pyne Investigates Cards on the Table Mrs. McGinty's Dead Dead Man's Folly The Pale Horse Third Girl Hallowe'en Party
Ariadne Oliver (8 books)
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3.6302677084667607 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 31,228 ratings
The Secret Adversary Partners In Crime N or M? By the Pricking of My Thumbs Postern of Fate
Tommy and Tuppence (5 books)
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“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
Agatha Christie, An Autobiography

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
Agatha Christie

“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”
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