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- Full name: (Dame) Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
- Born: September 15, 1890
- Birthplace: Torquay, England
- Died: January 12, 1976
- Marriage(s): 2; Colonel Archibald Christie (m. 1919, d. 1926) and Max Mallowan (m. 1930) http://www.biography.com/articles/Dame-A...
- Children: 1; Rosalind Christie Hicks
- Worth an estimated £ 10m when she died January 12, 1976
- Received no formal education, was schooled at home by private tutors
- Named best-selling mystery novelist of all time
- Only female dramatist ever to have had 3 plays running simultaneously in London’s West End
- One of Christie's fictional detectives, Hercule Poirot, was so popular that he received a full-page obituary in The New York Times after his 'demise.'
- Her work has been adapted into nearly every entertainment format: Film/ Movies, Stage, Cartoons, PC and Video Games.
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The '"Queen of Crime,"' Agatha Christie was a prolific writer of novels, short stories and plays.
Best remembered for her 80 "cozy" mystery and detective-fiction novels and her successful West End theater screenplays, Christie also wrote romances under the name 'Mary Westmacott' as well as non-fiction under her own name. Her mysteries, particularly those featuring Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple made her one of the most important writers of her era.
Christie revolutionized the mystery genre and sold roughly two billion copies of her work by 1950 http://us.agathachristie.com/about-christie/the-queen-of-crime/ alone. Although it is impossible to calculate the exact number of her books sold during her lifetime and since her death, it has been said that only the Bible has outsold her creations.
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Bibliography of Agatha Christie's Detective Hercule Poirot Mystery Novels/Short Stories
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles [1920]
- The Murder on the Links [1923]
- Poirot Investigates [1924]
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd [1926]
- The Big Four [1927]
- The Mystery of the Blue Train [1928]
- Peril at End House [1932]
- Lord Edgware Dies [1933]
- Murder on the Orient Express [1934]
- Three Act Tragedy [1934, UK] / Murder in Three Acts [1935, US]
- Death in the Clouds / Death in the Air [1935]
- The ABC Murders / The Alphabet Murders [1936]
- Murder in Mesopotamia [1936]
- Cards on the Table [1936]
- Dumb Witness [1937]
- Death on the Nile [1937]
- Murder in the Mews [1937]
- Appointment with Death [1938]
- Hercule Poirot's Christmas [1939]
- Sad Cypress [1940]
- One, Two, Buckle My Shoe [1940]
- Evil under the Sun [1941]
- Five Little Pigs [1942]
- The Hollow [1946] / Renamed "Murder after Hours" in a 1954 edition
- The Labours of Hercules [1947]
- There is a Tide / Taken at the Flood [1948]
- Mrs. McGinty's Dead / Blood Will Tell [1952]
- Funerals are Fatal / After the Funeral [1953]
- Hickory Dickory Dock / Hickory Dickory Death [1955]
- Dead Man's Folly [1956]
- Cat among the Pigeons
- More titles will be added shortly.
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Bibliography of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple Mystery Novels/Short Stories
- The Murder at the Vicarage
- The Thirteen Problems
- The Body in the Library
- The Moving Finger
- A Murder Is Announced
- They Do It with Mirrors
- A Pocket Full of Rye
- 4:50 from Paddington
- The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
- A Caribbean Mystery
- At Bertram's Hotel
- Nemesis
- Sleeping Murder
- Miss Marple's Final Cases
- The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (includes Poirot stories as well)
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Bibliography of Agatha Christie's Other Mystery Fiction Works
- The Man in the Brown Suit
- The Secret of Chimneys
- The Seven Dials Mystery
- The Mysterious Mr.Quin
- The Sittaford Mystery
- The Hound of Death
- The Listerdale Mystery
- Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
- Parker Pyne Investigates
- Murder Is Easy
- And Then There Were None
- Towards Zero
- Death Comes as the End
- Sparkling Cyanide
- Crooked House
- They Came to Baghdad (spy genre mystery/international thriller)
- Destination Unknown
- Ordeal by Innocence
- The Pale Horse
- Endless Night
- Passenger to Frankfurt
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Agatha Christie Film Adaptations
- The majority of links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.
- IMDb: Agatha Christie Complete Filmography
- 1945: Ten Little Indians
- 1965: The ABC Murders
- 1974: Murder on The Orient Express
- 1997: The Pale Horse
- 1978: Death on the Nile
- 1989-2008: Poirot
- 2003: Sparkling Cyanide
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Agatha Christie Personal Timeline
- September 15, 1890: Born in Torquay, Devon, England.
- 1914: Marries Archibald Christie
- 1917: Becomes a qualified dispenser (pharmacist/chemist)
- 1917: Writes first novel on a dare from sister--The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- 1919: Daughter Rosalind born
- 1921: The Mysterious Affair at Styles is finally published to critical acclaim after 4 years of rejection
- 1948: Becomes first crime novelist to have a million of her titles published on the same day-"a Penguin Million"
- 1928: Divorces Christie
- 1930: Marries Max Mallowan
- 1952: The Mousetrap opens in London (is still running today)
- 1971: Is made Dame Commander Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II
- 1976: Dies
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@GraemeHawkins09 My absolute favorites: Agatha Christie and Jane Austen. :)
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A DAUGHTER'S A DAUGHTER, penned by Agatha Christie under an alias, will get West End premiere Dec.14-Jan.9. http://bit.ly/5Qo7pb
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