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Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (18901976) English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Also wrote six romances under the name Mary Westmacott Best known for the 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections she wrote under her own name The Guinness Book of World Records lists her as the best-selling novelist of all time Her novels have sold roughly 2 billion copies, and her works come third in the rankings of the world's most-widely published books

Agatha Christie Biography Birth: 15 September 1890 in Torquay, Devon (South West England) Family: - wealthy upper middle-class family - two siblings (Margaret and Louis) - her father Frederick was often ill, suffering from a series of heart attacks, and in November 1901 he died (age 55), leaving the family devastated Education: - educated at home, with later studies in Paris, France - she taught herself to read at five years old

Agatha Christie Biography 2 She met Archibald Christie, they got married in 1914 and they had a daughter together At the outbreak of World War I, Archie was sent to France to do battle with the German forces. Agatha also involved herself in the war effort, joining the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) and attending to wounded soldiers at the hospital in Torquay. In 1928 Archie asked Agatha for a divorce, because he was in love with another woman, Nancy Neele In 1930 she married archaeologist Max Mallowan, having met him in an archaeological dig.

Agatha Christie Biography 3 (Disappearance) Disappeared from her home, leaving behind a letter for her secretary saying that she was going to Yorkshire. Her car was later found with an expired driving licence and clothes. The Home Secretary, pressured police, and a newspaper offered £ 100 reward. Over a thousand police officers, 15, 000 volunteers and several airplanes scoured the rural landscape. Someone even gave a spirit medium one of Christie's gloves to find the missing woman. Others visited the house in Surrey, later using the scenario in her book Unnatural Death. Her disappearance featured on the front page of The New York Times. Found on 14 December 1928, at the Swan Hydropathic Hotel in Harrogate, Yorkshire, registered as Mrs Teresa Neele Diagnosed as suffering from amnesia-opinion remains divided as to why she disappeared

Agatha Christie Biography 4 Death: 12 January 1976 (age 85) from natural causes at her Winterbrook House in Cholsey

Agatha Christie: Her Work Motivations: -Her lifelong shyness led her to the literary world -She enjoyed fantasy play and creating characters as a child Inspiration: The world she knew and saw, drawing on the military gentlemen, lords and ladies, spinsters, widows and doctors of her family’s circle of friends Characters: Hercule Poirot, Miss Jane Marple, and Tommy and Tuppence Books: -82 - detective novels -6 romance novels -19 plays The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

Agatha Christie: Bibliography

Film’s based on Agatha Christie’s books ü ü ü ü Alibi The Alphabet Murders Appointment with Dead Man's Folly Death on the Nile Evil Under the Sun Lord Edgware Dies Murder at the Gallop Murder in Three Acts Murder Most Foul Murder on the Orient Expres Thirteen at Dinner The Body in the Library The Mirror Crack'd ü ü ü Murder Most Foul Murder with Mirrors Murder, She Said Shubho Mahurat Adhey Kangal Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple And Then There Were None Desyat Negrityat The Great Alibi Gumnaam Sabotage Ten Little Indians Witness for the Prosecution

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