Agatha Christie

Born

in Torquay, Devon, England, The United Kingdom

September 15, 1890

Died

January 12, 1976

Website

http://uk.agathachristie.com/

Genre

Mystery, Crime, Thriller

Influences

Edgar Allan Poe, Anna Katherine Green, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Ch ...more

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Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.

Agatha Christie is the best-selling author of all time. She wrote eighty crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and several other books. Her books have sold roughly four billion copies and have been translated into 45 languages. She is the creator of the two most enduring figures in crime literature-Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple-and author of The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theatre.

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 (1879–1 ...more

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	And Then There Were None 4.25 avg rating — 586,819 ratings — published 1939 — 563 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1) 3.98 avg rating — 190,286 ratings — published 1920 — 1400 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10) 4.16 avg rating — 272,329 ratings — published 1934 — 607 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple #1) 4.04 avg rating — 116,915 ratings — published 1930 — 253 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4) 4.22 avg rating — 106,893 ratings — published 1926 — 355 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #17) 4.09 avg rating — 89,410 ratings — published 1937 — 325 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Man in the Brown Suit (Colonel Race #1) 3.96 avg rating — 68,017 ratings — published 1924 — 174 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13) 3.99 avg rating — 70,406 ratings — published 1936 — 293 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Body in the Library (Miss Marple #3) 3.85 avg rating — 50,722 ratings — published 1942 — 246 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #24) 3.96 avg rating — 37,291 ratings — published 1941 — 224 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Agatha Christie

“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 Christi

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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

tags: love

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“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

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Polls

March 2015 New School Classic Poll

Which book should we choose for our March 2015 New School group read?

1925, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, 194 pages

11 votes, 23.4%

1957, The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 320 pages

7 votes, 14.9%

1914, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages

4 votes, 8.5%

1959, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, 311 pages

4 votes, 8.5%

1934, Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, 322 pages

4 votes, 8.5%

1938, The Long Valley by John Steinbeck, 142 pages

3 votes, 6.4%

1959, A Separate Peace by John Knowles, 204 pages

3 votes, 6.4%

1921, The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer, 274 pages

2 votes, 4.3%

1996, Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, 432 pages

2 votes, 4.3%

1944, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, 351 pages

2 votes, 4.3%

1957, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 304 pages

2 votes, 4.3%

1920, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, 305 pages

1 vote, 2.1%

1958, Night by Elie Wiesel, 115 pages

1 vote, 2.1%

1981, Loitering With Intent by Muriel Spark, 217 pages

1 vote, 2.1%

1902, The Four Feathers by A.E.W. Mason, 284 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

1905, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, 351 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

47 total votes

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