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| | Agatha Christie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Agatha Christie is the world's best-known mystery writer and, apart from William Shakespeare, is the all-time best-selling author of any genre. | | | Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (September 15, 1890 – January 12, 1976), was an English crime fiction writer. | | | In the final Poirot novel Curtain, Christie killed her creation and explained in her diary that she had always found him insufferable. |
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| | Christie, Dame Agatha - Columbia Encyclopedia article about Christie, Dame Agatha |
| | Christie also published novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. | | | Christie, Dame Agatha, 1890–1976, English detective story writer, b. | | | Christie's second husband was the archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan Mallowan, Sir Max Edgar Lucien, 1904–78, British archaeologist, educated at Oxford. |
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| | Christie, Agatha Mary Clarissa - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Christie, Agatha Mary Clarissa |
| | She married Col Archibald Christie in 1914, and served as a nurse during World War I. She caused a nationwide sensation in 1926 by disappearing for ten days, possibly because of amnesia, when her husband fell in love with another woman. | | | Agatha Christie's finest works are those written in the 1920s and 1930s, including The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928), The Seven Dials Mystery (1929), Murder at the Vicarage (1930), Peril at End House (1932), Murder on the Orient Express (1934), The ABC Murders (1935), Dumb Witness (1937), and Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1938). | | | She is best known for her ingenious plots and for the creation of the characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. |
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