Christie, dame Agatha
Christie, dame Agatha , née Miller ( 1890 – 1976 ),born and brought up in Torquay. She was educated at home, and in 1914 married Archibald Christie. During the First World War she worked as a hospital dispenser, which gave her a knowledge of poisons which was to be useful when she started writing detective stories. Her marriage broke up in 1926 , and in 1930 she married the archaeologist Max Mallowan , whom she accompanied on his excavations of sites in Syria and Iraq. Her first detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles ( 1920 ), introduced Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective who appeared in many subsequent novels (her other main detective being the elderly spinster Miss Marple). In the next 56 years she wrote 66 detective novels, among the best of which are The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ( 1926 ), Murder on the Orient Express ( 1934 ), Death on the Nile ( 1937 ), and Ten Little...
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