The Millers had two other children: Margaret Frary Miller (1879–1950), called Madge, who was eleven years Agatha's senior, and Louis Montant Miller (1880–1929), called Monty, ten years older than Agatha.īefore marrying and starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospital during the First World War, tending to troops coming back from the trenches. The youngest of three children of the Miller family. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater.
Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. More than seventy detective novels of British writer Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie include The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and And Then There Were None (1939) she also wrote plays, including The Mousetrap (1952). This series has a Limited Print Run.Īgatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan. When Mrs Inglethorp is murdered, Poirot uses his detective skills to solve the mystery. His friend Hastings arrives as a guest at her home. ★★★★★ THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES ★★★★★ Poirot, a Belgian refugee of the Great War, is settling in England near the home of Emily Inglethorp, who helped him to his new life. ★★★★★ THE MURDER ON THE LINKS ★★★★★ Upon his arrival in Merlinville-sur-Mer, the investigator finds the man who penned the letter, the South American millionaire Monsieur Renauld, stabbed to death and his body flung into a freshly dug open grave on the golf course adjoining the property. When his friend and local industrialist Roger Ackroyd is found murdered in his study, Poirot is reunited with his old friend Chief Inspector Japp of Scotland Yard. The ''AGATHA CHRISTIE'' Collection is BOOK #4 in the epic Classic Collection series and includes three timeless classics ★★★★★ THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD ★★★★★ Hercule Poirot is happily retired in the picturesque village of King's Abbott even if in the last year, he has been unable to grow the perfect marrow.
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