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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.

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. ...more

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	And Then There Were None 4.28 avg rating — 1,222,800 ratings — published 1939 — 1117 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) 4.20 avg rating — 562,092 ratings — published 1934 — 934 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) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 380,983 ratings — published 1920 — 5685 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) 4.26 avg rating — 240,982 ratings — published 1926 — 28 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, #18) 4.12 avg rating — 233,301 ratings — published 1937 — 314 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 4.06 avg rating — 179,645 ratings — published 1930 — 182 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) 4.03 avg rating — 149,284 ratings — published 1936 — 657 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 3.95 avg rating — 105,851 ratings — published 1924 — 942 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 3.83 avg rating — 96,241 ratings — published 1942 — 493 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 on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2) 3.86 avg rating — 82,280 ratings — published 1923 — 14 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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