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Agatha christie
Born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller15 September 1890
Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England Pen name Mary Westmacott Occupation Novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet Genres Murder mystery, thriller, crime fiction, detective, romances Literary movement Golden Age of Detective Fiction Spouse(s) Archibald Christie (1914–1928)Max Mallowan (1930–1976; her death) Children Rosalind Hicks (1919–2004)
AGATHABorn into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon, Christie served in a hospital during the First World War, before marrying and starting a family in London. She was initially unsuccessful at getting her work published; but in 1920 The Bodley Head press published her novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles, featuring the character of Poirot. This launched her literary career.
The Guinness Book of World Records lists Christie as the best-selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly 4 billion copies, and her estate claims that her works come third in the rankings of the world's most-widely published books
Occupation
Novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet
most novels of agatha
Genres books : Murder mystery, thriller, crime fiction, detective, romances
Literary movement Golden Age of Detective Fiction
1920 The Mysterious Affair at Styles (her first book, which introduced Hercule Poirot) - Murder at Styles
In 1955, Christie was the first recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's highest honour, the Grand Master Award, and in the same year Witness for the Prosecution was given an Edgar Award by the MWA for Best Play. Most of her books and short stories have been adapted for television, radio, video game or comics, and over thirty feature films have been made based on her work
Christie is the author of the best with 100 million sales to date, making it the best in the world -. selling mystery ever, and one of the best selling books of all time
1930 The Murder at the Vicarage (introduced Jane Marple) - Murder at the Vicarage
1931 The Floating Admiral written by GK Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers and the other members of Detection Club.
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime is a 1983 British television series based on the short stories of the same name by Agatha Christie. It was directed by John A. Davis
Colonel Archibald Christie was a handsome and quite dashing officer in the Royal Flying Corps he is first husband agatha cristie
Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, CBE was a prominent British archaeologist, specialising in ancient Middle Eastern history, and the second husband of Dame Agatha ChristieBorn: May 6, 1904, Wandsworth, LondonDied: August 19, 1978, Wallingford,
Rosalind Margaret Clarissa Hicks
was the only child of author Agatha Christie and her first husband Archibald Christie
FATHER: Frederick Alvah Miller
MOTHER : clarissa margaret
Born in New York, USA on Jun 1880 to Frederick Alvah Miller and Clarissa Boehmer. He passed away on 1929 in Marseilles.
Born in England on 1879 to Frederick Alvah Miller and Clarissa Boehmer. Margaret Frary married James Watts and had a child
Agatha Christie's Poirot is a British television drama that aired on ITV from 8 January 1989 to 13 November 2013. David Suchet stars as the eponymous detective, Agatha Christie's fictional Hercule Poirot
On Saturday April 12th, 1958, her play The Mousetrap, which opened in London on November 25, 1952, became the longest running production of any kind in the history of British Theatre, beating out the five-and-a-half years of Chu Chin Chow.
She worked at a chemist's shop between 1915 and 1918 in the seaside resort of Torquay, England.
Agatha family home
Died 12 January 1976 (aged 85)Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England
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