![]() ![]() ![]() She was initially an unsuccessful writer with six consecutive rejections, but this changed in 1920 when The Mysterious Affair at Styles, featuring detective Hercule Poirot, was published. ![]() Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.Ĭhristie was born into a wealthy upper middle class family in Torquay, Devon, and was largely home-schooled. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. A writer during the " Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End since 1952. Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE ( née Miller 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. ![]()
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