Agatha Christie web site
Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 at 9:54 PM
Agatha Christie, that grand ol lady of crime fiction, has always been one of my favourite writers, and I have produced a web site giving the plots (and the solutions) of all 66 of her full length novels which may be visited HERE.
A short biography of Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language with another billion in 44 foreign languages and she is the most widely published author of all time in any language, out-sold by only the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 66 crime novels, 13 short story collections, 19 plays, and 6 novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.
Agatha Christie, born in Torquay on 15th September 1890, made a Dame in the 1971 honours list and died on 12th January 1976. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was written toward the end of the First World War, in which she served as a VAD. In it she created Hercules Poirot, the little Belgian detective who was destined to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes.
In 1926, after averaging a book a year, Agatha Christie wrote her masterpiece. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was the first of her books to be published by Collins and marked the beginning of author-publisher relationship which lasted for fifty years and well over seventy books. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was also the first of Agatha Christie's books to be dramatized - under the name Alibi - and to have a successful run in the West End. The Mousetrap, her most famous play of all, is the longest-running play in history.
Her stage play The Mousetrap, based on a short story entitled "Three Blind Mice", holds the record for the longest run ever in London, opening at the Ambassadors Theatre on November 25, 1952, and as of 2007 is still running after more than 20,000 performances. 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 filmed, some many times over (Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, 4.50 From Paddington), and many have been adapted for television and radio.
Her last book to be published in 1976 was Sleeping Murder, featuring the deceptively mild Miss Marple.
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