Agatha Christie: first book rejected more than 20 times

Agatha Christie’s first mystery novel received over 20 rejections, and then her first publisher, Bodley Head, sat on her book for 18 months before agreeing to publish it. She went on to write a further 90 titles.

Christie has been called by the Guinness Book of World Records as the best-selling writer of books of all time and the best-selling writer of any kind, along with William Shakespeare. Her work has been translated into more languages than Shakespeare, while The Mousetrap, written as a bir