She wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in Romance. "My own ten would certainly vary from time to time because every now," she wrote in 1972, in response to a Japanese translator's list of her top books, "and then I re-read an early book for some particular reason, to answer a question that has been asked me perhaps, and then I alter my opinion-sometimes thinking it is much better than I thought it was-or not so good as I had thought. Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie is the best-selling author of all time. Her debut, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was published in 1920 and introduced Inspector Hercule Poirot, a character who would go on to feature in half of her novels, in addition to fifty short stories and two plays.Ī few years before she passed away in 1976 at the age of 85, Christie shared a list of her own top 10 works. Lancaster who mystifies her with talk about 'your poor child' and 'something behind the fireplace'. By age 18, she was crafting short stories, and during World War I, she started writing detective novels. By the Pricking of My Thumbs Agatha Christie 3.77 20,278 ratings1,366 reviews While visiting Tommy's Aunt Ada at Sunny Ridge Nursing Home, Tuppence encounters some odd residents including Mrs.
Now considered "the queen of mystery," Christie was born into a well-off middle class family in south west England, and taught herself to read by age five. Many of her novels went on to be adapted into TV shows and films-with the most recent being Death on the Nile, directed by Kenneth Branagh. Agatha Christie was a prolific writer, putting out 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections over the course of her illustrious career.
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