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Dame Agatha Christie Biography

in full Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, née Miller

(1890–1976)

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1920 The Mysterious Affair at Styles
1923 The Murder on the Links

1926 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
1927 The Big Four
1928 The Mystery of the Blue Train
1929 The Seven Dials Mystery
1930 The Murder at the Vicarage
1932 Peril at End House
1933 Lord Edgeware Dies
1934 Murder on the Orient Express
1934 Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
1936 The ABC Murders
1936 Cards on the Table
1926 Murder in Mesopotamia
1937 Death on the Nile
1938 Appointment with Death
1939 Ten Little Niggers
1938 Murder is Easy
1940 Sad Cypress
1941 Evil Under the Sun
1941 N or M?
1942 The Body in the Library
1943 The Moving Finger
1945 Sparkling Cyanide
1946 The Hollow
1947 The Labours of Hercules
1948 Taken at the Flood
1950 A Murder is Announced
1952 Mrs McGinty's Dead
1952 They Do It With Mirrors
1953 After the Funeral
1952 Hickory Dickory Death
1957 4.50 from Paddington
1958 Ordeal by Innocence
1959 Cat Among the Pigeons
1960 The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
1961 The Pale Horse
1962 The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
1963 The Clocks
1964 A Caribbean Mystery
1965 At Bertram's Hotel
1966 Third Girl
1967 Endless Night
1968 By the Pricking of My Thumbs
1969 Hallowe'en Party
1970 Passenger to Frankfurt
1971 Nemisis
1972 Elephants Can Remember
1973 Postern of Fate
1975 Curtain
1976 Sleeping Murder
Plays
1952 The Mousetrap
1953 Witness for the Prosecution

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Writer, born on September 15, 1890 in Torquay, Devon, SE England, UK. Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was the youngest of the three children. Under the surname of her first husband (Colonel Archibald Christie, divorced 1928), she wrote more than 70 detective novels, featuring the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, or the enquiring village lady, Miss Marple. Though she also wrote romance novels (under the name Mary Westmacott), Christie's success as an author of mysteries has earned her the the title the 'Queen of Crime'. In 1930 she married archaeology professor Max Mallowan, with whom she travelled on several expeditions. Her play The Mousetrap opened in 1952 at the Ambassador Theatre, and holds the record for the longest unbroken run in a London theatre. Several of her stories have become popular films, such as Murder on the Orient Express (1974) and Death on the Nile (1978). She was made a dame in 1971. In 1974, Agatha Christie made her last public appearance for the opening night of her play Murder on the Orient Express. She died on January 12, 1976.