What did Agatha Christie study?

Agatha Christie was largely home-schooled by her parents and received very little formal education. She was taught to read, write, and perform basic arithmetic by her parents and sister. Later, she spent some time studying in Paris, France.

Agatha Christie was an English detective novelist and playwright known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, especially those centered around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE was born on September 15, 1890, in Torquay, United Kingdom.  Educated at home by her mother, Christie began writing detective fiction while working as a nurse during World War I.

Some of Agatha Christie’s notable film adaptations include And Then There Were None (1939; film 1945), Murder on the Orient Express (1933; film 1974 and 2017), Death on the Nile (1937; film 1978), and The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side (1952; film [The Mirror Crack’d] 1980).

In 2013, Agatha Christie was voted the best crime writer, and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd the best crime novel ever by 600 professional novelists of the Crime Writers’ Association.