The Queen of Crime
The Queen of Crime
Agatha Christie is the best-selling author of all time. She has sold over two billion books worldwide and has been translated into over 45 languages. In a writing career that spanned more than half a century, Agatha Christie wrote eighty novels and short story collections. She also wrote over a dozen plays, including The Mousetrap, which is now the longest running play in theatrical history.
How Christie Wrote
Agatha Christie said she never knew where the ideas for a new novel would spring from:
“Plots come to me at such odd moments, when ...
Mary Westmacott
To celebrate Agatha Christie’s centenary, Rosalind Hick’s, Agatha Christie's only daughter, wrote an essay on the Westmacott novels. We have reproduced this ...
Christie Facts
The following 75 facts were kindly supplied by John Curran to celebrate 75 years of Miss Marple in 2005:
1. In her early years Agatha ...