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Agatha Christie (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer of crime and romantic novels. She is best remembered for her detective stories including the two characters of Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay, Devon 1890. In her childhood she had access to many books and became an avid reader. In 1914, Agatha Christie married an aviator Archibald Christie. They had a child, Rosalind in August 1919. During the First World War she trained and worked as a nurse helping to treat injured soldiers. She also became educated in the field of pharmacy.

Agatha Christie’s first book The Mysterious Affair at Styles was published in 1920. It featured the detective – Hercule Poirot. Poirot is one of the most recognised fictional characters in English with his mixture of personal pride, broken English and immaculate appearance and moustache. Detective novels was a genre that had been popularised through Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories at the turn of the century. In 1926, she made her big breakthrough with the publication of 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd'. This became a best-seller and made Christie famous as a writer."

In 1926 Agatha Christie disappeared. She was discovered eleven days later in a Harrogate hotel living under a false name. She appeared to be suffering from amnesia.

Her second husband Max Mallowan was an archaeologist and she often accompanied him on trips to the Middle East taking photographs and working on the sites.

Agatha Christie also wrote six novels in the genre of romance and suspense under a pseudonym – Mary Westmacott.

In 1971 she was appointed Dame Commander of the British Empire.

She died in 1976 aged 85.

Agatha Christie is an English author.

She had a daughter.

She wrote detective stories and romantic novels.

She had a nickname for her novels in the genre of romance.

Agatha didn't enjoy reading in her childhood.

She was married three times.

Once she disappeared and was missing for a week.

'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd' was her first published book.