Agatha Christie

Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
Geboortenaam	Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
Gebore	15 September 1890 Torquay, Devon, Engeland
Oorlede	12 Januarie 1976 (op 85) Wallingford, Oxfordshire, Engeland
Nasionaliteit	Verenigde Koninkryk
Beroep	Romanskrywer, kortverhaalskrywer, dramaturg en digter
Bekend vir	Skepping van karakters soos Hercule Poirot en Mej. (Jane) Marple
Huweliksmaat	Archibald Christie (1914–1928, geskei) Max Mallowan (1930–1976, haar dood)
Kind(ers)	Rosalind Hicks (1919–2004)
Webblad	www.agathachristie.com

Agatha Christie (15 September 1890 – 12 Januarie 1976) was ’n Britse skryfster, bekend vir talle gewilde romans oor moorde en die speurders wat dit oplos.

Sy is een van die wêreld se bekendste speurverhaalskryfsters. 'n Beraamde vier miljard kopieë van haar novelle is al verkoop, insluitend 'n beraamde miljard kopieë van vertalings uit die oorspronklike Engels in 103 ander tale. Sy is net deur die Bybel en Shakespeare uitverkoop.

Haar bekendste karakters is Miss Marple en Hercule Poirot. Twee van haar bekendste boeke, wat albei verfilm is, is Murder on the Orient Express en Death on the Nile.

Bibliografie

4.50 From Paddington The ABC Murders Absent In The Spring The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding After the Funeral An Autobiography And Then There Were None Appointment With Death At Bertram's Hotel The Big Four Black Coffee The Body in the Library The Burden By the Pricking of My Thumbs Cards on the Table A Caribbean Mystery Cat Among the Pigeons The Clocks Come, Tell Me How You Live The Complete Parker Pyne Crooked House Curtain: Poirot's Last Case Dead Man's Folly Death Comes as the End Death in the Clouds Death on the Nile Destination Unknown Dumb Witness Elephants Can Remember Endless Night

Evil Under the Sun Five Little Pigs Giant's Bread Hallowe'en Party Hercule Poirot's Christmas Hickory Dickory Dock The Hollow The Hound of Death The Labours of Hercules The Listerdale Mystery Lord Edgware Dies The Man in the Brown Suit The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side Miss Marple's Final Cases The Moving Finger Mrs. McGinty's Dead The Murder at the Vicarage Murder in Mesopotamia Murder in the Mews A Murder is Announced Murder is Easy The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Murder on the Links Murder on the Orient Express The Mysterious Affair at Styles The Mysterious Mr. Quin The Mystery of the Blue Train N or M? Nemesis One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

Ordeal By Innocence The Pale Horse Parker Pyne Investigates Partners in Crime Passenger to Frankfurt Peril at End House A Pocket Full of Rye Poirot Investigates Poirot's Early Cases Postern of Fate Problem at Pollensa Bay and other stories The Rose and the Yew Tree Sad Cypress The Secret of Chimneys The Seven Dials Mystery The Sittaford Mystery Sleeping Murder Sparkling Cyanide Spider's Web Taken at the Flood They Came to Baghdad Third Girl The Thirteen Problems Three Act Tragedy Towards Zero The Unexpected Guest Unfinished Portrait While the Light Lasts Why Didn't They Ask Evans? Witness for the Prosecution and Selected Plays