Dame Agatha Christie is the most widely published author's of all time. In a career that spanned more then fifty years, Christie wrote eighty novels and short-story collections, nineteen plays-one of which, The Mousetrap, is the longest-running play in history-and five notification books, including  her autobiography.  Inaddtion she wrote six romantic novels under the pseudonym Mary Westma
cott. Two of the characters she created, the ingenious Belgian Hercule Poirot and the irrepressible and relentless Miss Jane Marple, became world-famous detectives, immortalized on television by David Suchet and John Hickson.

Agatha Christie acheived Britain's highest honor when she was made a Dame of the British Empire. She died in 1976.

Agatha Christie's Novels:
  • A Murder Is Announced