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Agatha Christie (1890-1976)

Detective Fiction's
"Queen of Crime"

Agatha Christie! What a legend! What a devious and cunning mind!

Starting at the age of twenty-five and writing her last novel at the age of eighty-three, she produced an unbelievable eighty detective novel along with some romance novels under the name of Mary Westmacott as well as plays and short stories. Most of her books and short stories have been made into movies, some many times over, such as Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, 4.50 From Paddington, and many have been adapted for television, radio, video games and comics.

With an estimated sells of two billion copies of her work, it is no wonder she has been called the best-selling book writer of all time, and the best-selling writer of any kind second only to William Shakespeare. She is truly the "Queen of Crime".

Ann Rule has been called the "Queen of True Crime".  She was born forty-five years after Agatha Christie.  In 1969, when Ann started her first writing job for the True Detective magazine, the editor suggested she write under a male name in order to be taken seriously as a crime writer.

It took Agatha Christie five years to get her first book published. Does anyone know what kind of problems she might have encountered? If so, the information would be greatly appreciated.  Just click on this link Contact Us

Agatha Christie's first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, published in 1920, can be read FREE online in its entity Click Here. In this novel she introduces Hercule Poirot, a fictional Belgian detective who appears in thirty-nine of her novels including one of her most famous, Murder on the Orient Express (1934). Hercule Poirot's last case, written forty years prior to it being published in 1975, was in Curtain.

Her second most popular fictional character was Miss Marple, an elderly spinster who acts as an amateur detective. Miss Marple first appearance in a full-length Christie novel was The Murder at the Vicarage (1930). Miss Marple's last case, Sleeping Murder, was also written forty years prior to it being published in 1976.

Other novels featuring Detective Hercule Poirot:

• The Murder on the Links (1923)

• 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 also Thirteen at Dinner (1933)

• Three Act Tragedy also Murder in Three Acts (1935)

• Death in the Clouds also Death in the Air (1935)

• The A.B.C. Murders also The Alphabet Murders (1936)

• Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)

• Cards on the Table (1936)

• Dumb Witnessalso Poirot Loses a Client also Mystery at Littlegreen House also Murder at Littlegreen House (1937)

• Death on the Nile (1937)

• Appointment with Death (1938)

• Hercule Poirot's Christmas also Murder for Christmas also A Holiday for Murder (1938)

• Sad Cypress (1940)

• One, Two, Buckle My Shoe also An Overdose of Death also The Patriotic Murders (1940)

• Evil Under the Sun (1941)

• Five Little Pigs also Murder in Retrospect (1942)

• The Hollow also Murder After Hours (1946)

• Taken at the Flood also There is a Tide (1948)

• Mrs. McGinty's Dead also Blood Will Tell (1952)

• After the Funeral also Funerals are Fatal also Murder at the Gallop (1953)

• Hickory Dickory Dock also Hickory Dickory Death (1955)

• Dead Man's Folly (1956)

• Cat Among the Pigeons (1959)

• The Clocks (1963)

• Third Girl (1966)

• Hallowe'en Party (1969)

• Elephants Can Remember (1972)

Other novels featuring Miss Marple:

• The Body in the Library (1942)

• The Moving Finger also The Case of the Moving Finger (1942)

• A Murder is Announced (1950)

• They Do It with Mirrors also Murder with Mirrors (1952)

• A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)

• 4.50 from Paddington also What Mrs. McGillycuddy Saw also Murder She Said (1957)

• The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side also The Mirror Crack'd (1962)

• A Caribbean Mystery (1964)

• At Bertram's Hotel (1965)

• Nemesis (1971)

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