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Agatha Christie
said
I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
— LIFE magazine (14 May 1956)
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
- Fame91.1
- Momentum10.0
- Global rank#138
Source-basedFalling
- Fame91.1
- Momentum10.0
- Global rank#138
- United Kingdom rank#15
- Writers rank#24
- Wikipedia262.7K
Lived 1890–1976, aged 86United Kingdom
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She built the architecture of the modern whodunit — misdirection as precision craft, the least-likely-suspect reveal, the closed circle of guilt. Her books have sold over two billion copies, making her the best-selling novelist in history, and The Mousetrap has run in London's West End since 1952 without closing.
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Born into a wealthy family in Torquay in 1890, Christie was home-schooled and faced six straight rejections before The Mysterious Affair at Styles introduced Hercule Poirot in 1920. She married Archibald Christie in 1914; after her mother's death and the collapse of that marriage in 1926, she disappeared for 11 days, making international headlines. Working in hospital dispensaries during both world wars gave her an expert's knowledge of poisons. In 1930 she married archaeologist Max Mallowan and spent months each year on digs in the Middle East, details that seeped into her fiction. She create…
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Agatha Christie
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Oh dear, I never realized what a terrible lot of explaining one has to do in a murder!
— Spider's Web (1956)
Agatha Christie
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I have given them life instead of death, freedom instead of the cords of superstition, beauty and truth instead of corruption and exploitation.
— Akhenaten, as portrayed in Akhnaton (1937); Christie later revised the play slightly in 1972, and it was published in 1973.
Agatha Christie
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The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as “The Styles Case” has now somewhat subsided.
— Captain Arthur Hastings, first paragraph
Agatha Christie
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The fellow is an absolute outsider, anyone can see that. He's got a great black beard, and wears patent leather boots in all weathers!
— This is the first story featuring "Hercule Poirot".
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Historical33.5
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