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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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Genre
Mystery, Crime, Thriller

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


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 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in Romance. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author, having been translated into at least 103 languages. She is the creator of two of the 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.

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Average rating: 4.01 · 4,572,902 ratings · 243,608 reviews · 2,533 distinct works • Similar authors
And Then There Were None
4.26 avg rating — 900,433 ratings — published 1939 — 759 editions
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The Mysterious Affair at St...
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Murder on the Orient Expres...
4.18 avg rating — 414,370 ratings — published 1934 — 723 editions
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd...
4.24 avg rating — 170,013 ratings — published 1926 — 475 editions
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Murder at the Vicarage (Mis...
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Death on the Nile (Hercule ...
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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 Christie
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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, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
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“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist
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