Agatha Christie

15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976

100 works on record

Biography

Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, in the United Kingdom, the daughter of a wealthy American stockbroker. Her father died when she was eleven years old. Her mother taught her at home, encouraging her to write at a very young age. At the age of 16, she went to Mrs. Dryden's finishing school in Paris to study singing and piano. In 1914, at age 24, she married Colonel Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. While he went away to war, she worked as a nurse and wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), which wasn't published until four years later. When her husband came back from the war, they had a daughter. In 1928 she divorced her husband, who had been having an affair. In 1930, she married Sir Max Mallowan, an archaeologist and a Catholic. She was happy in the early years of her second marriage, and did not divorce her husband despite his many affairs. She travelled with her husband's job, and set several of her novels set in the Middle East. Most of her other novels were set in a fictionalized Devon, where she was born. Agatha Christie is credited with developing the "cozy style" of mystery, which became popular in, and ultimately defined, the Golden Age of fiction in England in the 1920s and '30s, an age of which she is considered to have been Queen. In all, she wrote over 66 novels, numerous short stories and screenplays, and a series of romantic novels using the pen name Mary Westmacott. She was the single most popular mystery writer of all time. In 1971 she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Works

The Herb of death

1989

Murder for Christmas

1987

Ta grammata ton satana

1979

A Pocketful of rRye / 13 for Luck

1976

Love from a stranger

1936

Mystery Stories

English Creek

Heart earth

Favorite sleuths

E Photographia tou dolophonou

o trellos sampoter

Death Cruise

Ask A Policeman

Agatha Christie, tome 7

Agatha Christie, tome 13

Malice Domestic 9

Novels (Lord Edgware Dies / Sad Cypress)

Agatha Christie. 10, Les années 1953-1958

Apocrypha of Crime

1927-1997, coffret (3 fac-similés)

The Case of the Queenly Contestant; At Bertram's Hotel

Agatha Christie

Senior Sleuths

Slony pomni︠a︡t dolgo ; Zanaves ; Rasskazy

Novels (After the Funeral / Evil Under the Sun / Sad Cypress / Third Girl)

Murder to Music

Masterpieces of mystery and suspense

More Stories to Remember -- Volume II

The Evening standard second book of strange stories

Murder for Christmas and three other great mysteries

Beyond Pink

Rozhdestvo Ėrki︠u︡li︠a︡ Puaro

Agatha Christie, tome 11

Agatha Christie, tome 8

Rasskazy

Murder by the Brits

Murder in Mesopotamia. Death on the Nile. Murder in the house Vicariate . .

Victoria Villa

A Treasury of modern mysteries

English crime stories of today

Agatha Christie, tome 3

The Capture of Cerberus

The Man in the Brown Suit, 1924. Sparkling Cyanide, 1945 (IN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE) / (CHelovek v korichnevom kostjume. Sverkajuschij tsianid)

Villa Nachtigall. Sieben Kriminalgeschichten

oiser cage

Best book of mystery stories

Les années 1936-1937

Novels (And Then There Were None / Murder of Roger Ackroyd / Murder on the Orient Express / Peril at End House)

The Invincible Miss Marple (Body in the Library / Murder is Announced / Murder with Mirror)

Novels (After the Funeral / Appointment with Death)

Detective stories

Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror

Sleuths of the century

Detective Stories from the Strand

Hit parade of mystery stories

Patterns in literature -- America Reads

Oeuvres complètes (Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and a Selection of Entrées / Caribbean Mystery / Clocks / Seven Dials Mystery)

Mysterious Visions

Novels (Crooked House / Endless Night)

1940s Omnibus (Crooked House / N or M? / Sparkling Cyanide / Toward Zero)

Miss MARPLE

The Grand Tour

M for murder

Works (At Bertram's Hotel / Hercule Poirot's Christmas / Murder of Roger Ackroyd / Peril at End House)

Works (Elephants Can Remember / One, Two, Buckle My Shoe / Poirot Investigates)

Works (And Then There Were None / Big Four / Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side / Why didn't they ask Evans?)

Novels (Caribbean Mystery / Nemesis / They Do It With Mirrors)

Detectives And Young Adventurers The Complete Short Stories

And Then There Were None (adaptation)

Novels (Man in the Brown Suit / Sittaford Mystery)

Works (Sleeping Murder / Thirteen Problems)

Novels (A.B.C. Murders / Cards on the Table / Death Comes As the End / Murder on the Orient Express)

Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly

Agatha Christie Omnibus (Murder on the Links / Mysterious Affair at Styles / Secret Adversary)

Classic Detective Stories From a Suitcase of Suspense

Murder intercontinental

The mammoth book of twentieth-century ghost stories

Mystery and suspense

Akhnaton

The mousetrap and selected plays [4 plays]

Agatha Christie Omnibus 1920s Volume Two (Man in the Brown Suit / Poirot Investigates / Secret of Chimneys

The Amazing Miss Marple (4.50 From Paddington / Moving Finger / Murder is Announced)

Murder Most Foul

Alfred Hitchcock's daring detectives

Poirots Finest Cases

Senior Sleuths

Hickory, Dickory, Dock / Murder in Three Acts / Sad Cypress

The Oxford book of detective stories

Famous detective stories in large print

The McGraw-Hill reader -- issues across the disciplines -- Ninth edition

The essential Agatha Christie stories

The big book of female detectives

Little grey cells

And Then There Were None (adaptation)

Témoin à charge [8 stories]

Die mörderische Teerunde [6 stories]

Glencoe literature--the reader's choice--course 4

Mörderisches Grün

Hercule Poirot

Haunted Stories