Agatha Christie

a plaque with a picture of Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer of crime stories.

She was born in Torquay. She died in 1976. She was married two times, and she had one child, Rosalind Hicks.

Agatha Christie worked in a hospital and in a pharmacy in World War I.

Her books are very famous all over the world, and she sold a lot of books. Her stories are about murders and finding out who did them.

The most well-known characters in her books are Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.

Miss Marple is an old lady, and she talks to everyone. She uses logic to find out who is guilty for the murder.

Hercule Poirot is a private detective from Belgium. He lives in London. He likes to find out who did the murder by thinking about all the evidence.

She also wrote romance novels and theatre plays. They were very successful too.

In 1971, she was honoured by the Queen with the title Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire