1. Agatha christie
BornAgatha Mary Clarissa
Miller
15 September 1890
Wallingford, Oxfordshire,
England Pen name Mary
WestmacottOccupation
Novelist, short story writer,
playwright, poet Genres
Murder mystery, thriller, crime
fiction, detective, romances
Literary movement Golden
Age of Detective Fiction
Spouse(s)Archibald Christie
(1914–1928)
Max Mallowan (1930–1976; her
death)Children Rosalind Hicks
(1919–2004)
2. AGATHA
Born into a wealthy upper-
middle-class family inTorquay,
Devon, Christie served in a
hospital during the FirstWorld
War, before marrying and
starting a family in London.
She was initially unsuccessful
at getting her work published;
but in 1920The Bodley Head
press published her novelThe
MysteriousAffair at Styles,
featuring the character of
Poirot.This launched her
literary career.
TheGuinness Book of World
Records lists Christie as the
best-selling novelist of all time.
Her novels have sold roughly 4
billion copies, and her estate
claims that her works come
third in the rankings of the
world's most-widely published
books
7. 1920 The Mysterious Affair at Styles (her first book, which
introduced Hercule Poirot) - Murder at Styles
8. In 1955, Christie was the first recipient of the Mystery
Writers of America's highest honour, the Grand Master Award,
and in the same year Witness for the Prosecution was given an
Edgar Award by the MWA for Best Play. Most of her books and
short stories have been adapted for television, radio, video
game or comics, and over thirty feature films have been made
based on her work
9. Christie is the author of the best with 100 million sales to date,
making it the best in the world -. selling mystery ever, and one of
the best selling books of all time
11. 1930 The Murder at the Vicarage (introduced
Jane Marple) - Murder at the Vicarage
12. 1931 The Floating Admiral written by GK Chesterton, Dorothy
L. Sayers and the other members of Detection Club.
13. Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime is a 1983 British
television series based on the short stories of the same
name by Agatha Christie. It was directed by John A. Davis
14. Colonel Archibald Christie was a handsome and quite dashing officer
in the Royal Flying Corps
he is first husband agatha cristie
15. Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, CBE was a prominent British
archaeologist, specialising in ancient Middle Eastern history, and
the second husband of Dame Agatha Christie
Born: May 6, 1904, Wandsworth, London
Died: August 19, 1978, Wallingford,
16. Rosalind Margaret Clarissa Hicks
was the only child of author Agatha Christie and her first
husband Archibald Christie
19. Born in New York, USA on Jun 1880 to Frederick Alvah Miller and
Clarissa Boehmer. He passed away on 1929 in Marseilles.
20. Born in England on 1879 to Frederick Alvah Miller and Clarissa
Boehmer. Margaret Frary married James Watts and had a child
21. Agatha Christie's Poirot is a British television drama that aired
on ITV from 8 January 1989 to 13 November 2013. David Suchet stars
as the eponymous detective, Agatha Christie's fictional Hercule
Poirot
22. On Saturday April 12th, 1958, her play The Mousetrap, which
opened in London on November 25, 1952, became the longest
running production of any kind in the history of British
Theatre, beating out the five-and-a-half years of Chu Chin
Chow.
23. She worked at a chemist's shop between 1915 and 1918 in the
seaside resort of Torquay, England.