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Agatha Christie


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

Died
January 12, 1976

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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.

More than seventy detective novels of British writer Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie include The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and And Then There Were None (1939); she also wrote plays, including The Mousetrap (1952).

This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author.
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Average rating: 4.02 · 6,086,216 ratings · 367,939 reviews · 5,271 distinct worksSimilar authors
And Then There Were None

4.28 avg rating — 1,222,800 ratings — published 1939 — 1117 editions
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Murder on the Orient Expres...

4.20 avg rating — 562,092 ratings — published 1934 — 934 editions
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The Mysterious Affair at St...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 380,983 ratings — published 1920 — 5685 editions
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd...

4.26 avg rating — 240,982 ratings — published 1926 — 28 editions
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Death on the Nile (Hercule ...

4.12 avg rating — 233,301 ratings — published 1937 — 314 editions
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Murder at the Vicarage

4.06 avg rating — 179,645 ratings — published 1930 — 182 editions
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The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule...

4.03 avg rating — 149,284 ratings — published 1936 — 657 editions
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The Man in the Brown Suit

3.95 avg rating — 105,851 ratings — published 1924 — 942 editions
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The Body in the Library

3.83 avg rating — 96,241 ratings — published 1942 — 493 editions
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The Murder on the Links (He...

3.86 avg rating — 82,280 ratings — published 1923 — 14 editions
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The Mysterious Affair at St... The Murder on the Links The Murder of Roger Ackroyd The Big Four The Mystery of the Blue Train Black Coffee: A Mystery Pla... Peril at End House
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The Thirteen Problems Murder at the Vicarage The Body in the Library The Moving Finger A Murder Is Announced They Do It With Mirrors A Pocket Full of Rye
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The Man in the Brown Suit Cards on the Table Death on the Nile Sparkling Cyanide
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Parker Pyne Investigates Cards on the Table Mrs. McGinty's Dead Dead Man's Folly The Pale Horse Third Girl Hallowe'en Party
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The Secret of Chimneys The Seven Dials Mystery Cards on the Table Murder Is Easy Towards Zero
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“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

“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, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

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

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