Biography
Agatha Christie was born in Torquay, England, in 1890 and during the First World War worked first as a nurse and, from 1915, in a hospital dispensary, where she gained detailed knowledge of poisons. A bet with her sister led her to write a detective novel; after six rejections, “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” was published in 1920, introducing her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. With 66 detective novels, 14 short-story collections and numerous stage plays, she is regarded as the best-selling novelist in literary history; her greatest stage success was “The Mousetrap”, originally a radio play written for Queen Mary’s 80th birthday. Agatha Christie died near Wallingford, England, in 1976.
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