Agatha Christie has written at least 890 books. Their most popular book is And Then There Were None with 1239 saves with an average rating of 4.23⭐.
They are best known for writing in the genres Classics, Fiction, and Mystery.
mysterious, Adventurous, and challenging are their most common moods.
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 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.
As of June 2018, Christie has retained her crown as the world’s [most translated author][1] with a total of 7,236 translated versions of her works are on record with the UNESCO Translationum Index.
[1]: https://www.tomedes.com/translator-hub/most-translated-author.php
2021 • 9 Readers • 4.3
2022 • 9 Readers • 4
#34 of 46 in Hercule Poirot
1955 • 9 Readers • 200 pages • 3.5
1971 • 9 Readers • 235 pages • 3.3
#3 of 14 in Miss Marple
1942 • 8 Readers • 224 pages • 4.8
#4 of 46 in Hercule Poirot
1926 • 8 Readers • 3.8
#20 of 14 in Hercule Poirot Short Story
1923 • 8 Readers • 29 pages • 3.2
#1 of 46 in Hercule Poirot
1920 • 8 Readers • 222 pages • 3.5
#1-51 of 14 in Hercule Poirot Short Story
1999 • 8 Readers • 4.3
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2010 • 8 Readers • 292 pages • 3.8
#23 of 14 in Hercule Poirot Short Story
1923 • 7 Readers • 3.7
1944 • 7 Readers • 100 pages • 4
2022 • 7 Readers • 384 pages • 5
1939 • 7 Readers • 196 pages • 4.1
#22 of 14 in Hercule Poirot Short Story
1923 • 7 Readers • 3.3
1958 • 7 Readers • 100 pages • 3.3
7 Readers • 5
#1-12 of 14 in Miss Marple
2013 • 6 Readers • 3,600 pages • 4.5
6 Readers • 3.8
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#10 of 46 in Hercule Poirot
1934 • 6 Readers • 7 pages • 4
#1 of 46 in Hercule Poirot
1920 • 6 Readers • 198 pages • 3.7
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1934 • 6 Readers • 320 pages • 3.3
1939 • 6 Readers • 400 pages • 4
1939 • 6 Readers • 222 pages • 3.5
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2021 • 6 Readers • 272 pages
6 Readers • 3.9
1946 • 6 Readers • 296 pages • 4
1948 • 5 Readers • 100 pages • 3.8
1925 • 5 Readers • 35 pages • 4.7
1944 • 5 Readers • 336 pages • 4.2
2014 • 5 Readers • 287 pages • 4.5
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1995 • 5 Readers • 352 pages • 4
2013 • 5 Readers • 160 pages
2020 • 5 Readers • 306 pages • 3.3
1977 • 5 Readers • 576 pages • 5
#12 of 46 in Hercule Poirot
1935 • 5 Readers • 253 pages • 4.5
#3 of 14 in Miss Marple
1942 • 5 Readers • 173 pages • 2.8
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1924 • 5 Readers • 100 pages • 4
1930 • 5 Readers • 320 pages • 3.5
#13 of 14 in Hercule Poirot Short Story
1923 • 5 Readers • 1 page • 3.8
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1923 • 5 Readers • 44 pages • 3.3
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14 Miss Marple
1941 • 5 Readers • 100 pages • 4.5
1999 • 4 Readers • 155 pages • 5
1949 • 4 Readers • 190 pages • 3
14 Hercule Poirot Short Story
1936 • 4 Readers • 100 pages • 3.2
2012 • 4 Readers • 40 pages • 4.3
#11 of 14 in Hercule Poirot Short Story
1923 • 4 Readers • 4
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#3 of 14 in Miss Marple
1942 • 4 Readers • 184 pages • 3.7
#13 of 14 in Miss Marple
1976 • 4 Readers • 242 pages • 4.7
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2022 • 4 Readers • 3.9
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1923 • 4 Readers • 4
#6 of 14 in Miss Marple
1952 • 4 Readers • 5
4 Readers • 4.2
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#2 of 9 in Mr. Harley Quin
1924 • 4 Readers • 46 pages • 4.3
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14 Miss Marple
1942 • 4 Readers • 30 pages • 5
14 Miss Marple
1941 • 4 Readers • 4.7
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#13 of 46 in Hercule Poirot
1936 • 4 Readers • 224 pages • 4.3
2010 • 3 Readers • 401 pages • 4
#10 of 46 in Hercule Poirot
1934 • 3 Readers • 288 pages • 3.8
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#SS-8 of 14 in Miss Marple
1930 • 3 Readers • 25 pages • 4.5
#4 of 14 in Hercule Poirot Short Story
1923 • 3 Readers • 23 pages • 2.3
1933 • 3 Readers • 303 pages • 4
#4 of 3 in Agatha Christie Graphic Novels
1995 • 3 Readers • 44 pages • 4.5
1937 • 3 Readers • 218 pages • 3.3
#41 of 46 in Hercule Poirot
1969 • 3 Readers • 4
1977 • 3 Readers • 880 pages • 4.7
1978 • 3 Readers • 264 pages • 4.7
1949 • 3 Readers • 3
1929 • 3 Readers • 841 pages • 4.3
2016 • 3 Readers • 10h 10m • 4.3
#SS-14 of 14 in Miss Marple
1934 • 3 Readers • 28 pages • 4
#SS-20 of 14 in Miss Marple
1956 • 3 Readers • 3.5
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#1 of 46 in Hercule Poirot
1920 • 3 Readers • 206 pages • 3.3