Agatha Christie was an English detective novelist and playwright. Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE was born on September 15, 1890, in Torquay, United Kingdom.
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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.
Agatha Christie died peacefully on 12 January 1976 at age 85 from natural causes at her home at Winterbrook House. Christie’s novel And Then There Were None is one of the top-selling books of all time, with approximately 100 million copies sold.
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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).
Agatha Christie’s first major recognition came with “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” (1926), which was followed by some 75 novels that usually made best-seller lists and were serialized in popular magazines in England and the United States.
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