Agatha Christie

English, 1890–1976

Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was an English writer known as the 'Queen of Crime.' She is the best-selling fiction writer of all time, with over two billion copies of her books sold worldwide. Her two most famous creations — the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the village sleuth Miss Marple — appear in dozens of novels that defined the golden age of detective fiction. Christie also wrote the world's longest-running play, The Mousetrap, which has been performed continuously in London since 1952.