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Agatha Christie (1890–1976) was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. Her reputation rests on 66 detective novels and 15 short-story collections that have sold over two billion copies, an amount surpassed only by the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare. [ 1] She is also the most translated individual author in ...
Print (hardback & paperback) Pages. 250. Preceded by. A Murder Is Announced. Followed by. They Came to Baghdad. Three Blind Mice and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1950. [ 1] The first edition retailed at $2.50.
The Moving Finger (series) The Body in the Library is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1942 [ 1] and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in May of the same year. [ 2] The US edition retailed at $2.00 [ 1] and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence. [ 2]
The A.B.C. Murders. The A.B.C. Murders is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, featuring her characters Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp, as they contend with a series of killings by a mysterious murderer known only as "A.B.C.". The book was first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on ...
The Mysterious Affair at Styles is the first detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie, introducing her fictional detective Hercule Poirot.It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 [1] and in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head (John Lane's UK company) on 21 January 1921.
A Caribbean Mystery is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 16 November 1964 [ 1] and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. [ 2][ 3] The UK edition retailed at sixteen shillings (16/-) [ 1] and the US edition at $4.50. [ 3]
And Then There Were None. And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie, who described it as the most difficult of her books to write. [ 2] It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1939, as Ten Little Niggers, [ 3] after an 1869 minstrel song that serves as a major ...
Agatha Christie. 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. She also wrote the world's longest-running ...