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Agatha Christie


Born
in Torquay, Devon, England, The United Kingdom
September 15, 1890

Died
January 12, 1976

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Genre
Mystery, Crime, Thriller

Influences
Edgar Allan Poe, Anna Katherine Green, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Ch ...more


Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen ...more

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And Then There Were None
4.27 avg rating — 1,729,887 ratings — published 1939 — 1048 editions
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Murder on the Orient Expres...
4.19 avg rating — 778,242 ratings — published 1934 — 19 editions
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The Mysterious Affair at St...
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd...
4.26 avg rating — 379,278 ratings — published 1926 — 1103 editions
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Death on the Nile (Hercule ...
4.12 avg rating — 326,531 ratings — published 1937 — 14 editions
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Murder at the Vicarage (Mis...
4.03 avg rating — 227,241 ratings — published 1930 — 15 editions
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The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule...
4.03 avg rating — 216,790 ratings — published 1936 — 627 editions
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The Body in the Library (Mi...
3.81 avg rating — 137,198 ratings — published 1942 — 446 editions
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The Mysterious Affair at St... The Murder on the Links The Murder of Roger Ackroyd The Big Four The Mystery of the Blue Train Black Coffee: A Mystery Pla... Peril at End House
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“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie
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“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
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“Very few of us are what we seem.”
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March 2015 New School Classic Poll

Which book should we choose for our March 2015 New School group read?

1925, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, 194 pages
 
  11 votes, 23.4%

 
  7 votes, 14.9%

1959, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, 311 pages
 
  4 votes, 8.5%

 
  4 votes, 8.5%

 
  4 votes, 8.5%

1938, The Long Valley by John Steinbeck, 142 pages
 
  3 votes, 6.4%

1959, A Separate Peace by John Knowles, 204 pages
 
  3 votes, 6.4%

1944, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, 351 pages
 
  2 votes, 4.3%

1957, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 304 pages
 
  2 votes, 4.3%

1996, Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, 432 pages
 
  2 votes, 4.3%

1921, The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer, 274 pages
 
  2 votes, 4.3%

1981, Loitering With Intent by Muriel Spark, 217 pages
 
  1 vote, 2.1%

1958, Night by Elie Wiesel, 115 pages
 
  1 vote, 2.1%

1920, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, 305 pages
 
  1 vote, 2.1%

1902, The Four Feathers by A.E.W. Mason, 284 pages
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

1905, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, 351 pages
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

47 total votes
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