Agatha Christie, the “Queen of Crime”, has sold more books than any other writer of detective stories. Written in clear, unpretentious English, her books are intriguing puzzles which lead the bemused reader through shoals of red herrings until the murderer’s identity is revealed in the final chapter. She hated violence, and saw detective stories as modern morality tales about “the hunting down of Evil and the triumph of Good”.

Chriistie was born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller on 15 September 1890 at her parents’ home just outside Torquay. On Christmas Eve 1914 she married RFC pilot Archie Christie, but they were separated by the First World War, and were not to live together until 1918. During the war, Christie worked …

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Willis, Chris. "Agatha Christie". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 July 2001
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Articles on Christie's works

1. A Caribbean Mystery
2. A Murder is Announced
3. Absent in the Spring
4. At Bertram's Hotel
5. Crooked House
6. Curtain: Poirot's Last Case
7. Dead Man's Folly
8. Death on the Nile
9. Endless Night
10. Hallowe'en Party
11. Mrs. McGinty's Dead
12. Murder in Mesopotamia
13. Murder on the Orient Express
14. Nemesis
15. Ordeal by Innocence
16. Peril at End House
17. Sleeping Murder
18. The Body in the Library
19. The Mousetrap
20. The Moving Finger
21. The Murder at the Vicarage
22. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
23. The Mystery of the Blue Train
24. The Pale Horse
25. Towards Zero

Related Groups

1. Crime, Detective, Spy/ Thriller Fiction