Agatha Christie

15 September 1890 - 12 January 1976

Standard Name: Christie, Agatha

Birth Name: Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller

Married Name: Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie

Married Name: Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan

Titled: Lady Mallowan

Pseudonym: Mary Westmacott

Pseudonym: Mac Miller

Pseudonym: Nathaniel Miller

Pseudonym: Mostyn Grey

Pseudonym: Martin West

Used Form: Agatha Christie Mallowan

AC , the Duchess of Death, produced eighty books, including sixty-six novels and detective fictions, and fourteen of short stories as well as poetry and suspense drama. At the height of her career she published two or three books a year; they have been sold and translated in more than a hundred countries, with sale reaching a billion in the original English and another billion in translation.

Lanchester, John. “The Case of Agatha Christie”. London Review of Books, Vol.

, No. 24, 20 Dec. 2018, pp. 3-8.

Her work is identified with meticulously constructed plots and ingenious misdirection. UNESCO reported in August 1961 that she was the world's best-selling author writing in English.

“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.

Morgan, Janet. Agatha Christie: A Biography. Collins, 1984, http://Rutherford HSS.

216, 326

Her famous sleuths, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, hide their amazing ability beneath an unimpressive exterior.

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Literary Setting	Deborah Levy	This novel begins as an Agatha Christie -style story of people (multi-national rather than English) gathered in a country house (not an English manor but a Normandy chateau) where there is an irruption of violence...
Performance of text	Louise Page	LP 's Agatha Christie adaptation, then entitled Philomel Cottage (from a Christie short story of 1924 with the same title), first opened in 2004 at Leeds. “The Fellowship Scheme. Current Fellows. Louise Page”. The Royal Literary Fund.
Performance of text	Louise Page	LP 's revised adaptation of Agatha Christie 's Philomel Cottage opened at Sonning near Reading, with the title changed from that of Christie's original to that of its previous screen adaptations: Love from a Stranger. “Louise Page (1955 - )”. doollee.com: The Playwrights Database.
Author summary	Patricia Wentworth	PW began her writing career early in the twentieth century with half a dozen historical novels and romances and went on to achieve great popularity with between sixty and seventy thrillers, mysteries, and detective novels...
Publishing	Ngaio Marsh	With this book she moved from Geoffrey Bles, who had published her first seven novels, to Collins . She felt guilty about this move, but she joined a stable including Agatha Christie , and...
Publishing	Dorothy L. Sayers	Reviews which DLS wrote for the Sunday Times during the 1930s allowed her to comment on most of her fellow crime-writers, notably Margery Allingham and Agatha Christie . She provided introductions for volumes of short...
Reception	Antonia Fraser	Interviewed about this play, AF said: I don't think I could write the way I do without Agatha Christie or Patricia Highsmith . qtd. in “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (9 November 1985): 20
Reception	Susan Hill	The play's initial success may have been helped by the tradition of spooky shows for Christmas; its durability, however, defies explanation. In December 2018 it had celebrated thirty years, and was still running at the...
Reception	Margery Allingham	This honour was one she shared with Agatha Christie and Ngaio Marsh . Penguin sold nearly a million copies of this edition, to add to the half million of her titles they had sold already...
Reception	Margery Allingham	Early critics of MA 's work saw her as a young revitaliser of the detective form, along with Nicholas Blake and Michael Innes. Later she was linked with the slightly older Dorothy Sayers and...
Textual Features	Antonia Fraser	The Dictionary of Literary Biography calls Jemima Shore a new kind of woman detective. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 276 Her independence, intelligence, and literary sensibility are nothing new, but her rejection of marriage and her cheerful sexual promiscuity are...
Textual Features	Patricia Wentworth	Though the Feminist Companion says that Miss Silver is a character [i]n the mould of Agatha Christie 's Miss Marple, she actually predates Miss Marple by two years. She is a former governess who now...
Textual Features	Joan Aiken	JA also published a number of adult thrillers, romantic novels, and hybrids between these two genres. For these, as for her children's fiction, she favours settings in time or place which are either exotic or...
Textual Features	P. D. James	The result, as Ashby noted, falls somewhere between the cosy settings of Agatha Christie 's Miss Marples novels and the gritty urban dystopias of contemporaries like Ruth Rendell . PDJ 's imagined worlds tend to...
Textual Features	Phyllis Bentley	PB 's protagonist is an amateur detective, as was standard for the genre at this date. She follows by twenty years on Agatha Christie 's Miss Marple (born in 1930) and precedes by the...

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