Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, DBE (15 September 1890-12 January 1976), is the author of a fictional criminal UK. He also wrote stories roman with the name Mary Westmacott.

Agatha Christie mystery story is the author most famous in the world and the author of his behavior throughout the period by excluding William Shakespeare. Book-a book has sold more than one billion copies in English and one billion in 45 foreign languages (to 2003). he is the author most in demand in France, with more than 40 million copies sold his novel in French (to 2003) compared with 22 million to Émile Zola, its nearest competitor.

Christie published over 80 novels and theatrical plays that most of the detective story and a mystery room is closed, he was a major figure in detective fiction for its commercial success and innovation in its genre is. Although he make love story with its puzzles are generally from the other, he is also very careful in the "fair play" to its readers by ensuring that all necessary information to complete the puzzle is given. One of the first paper, "Murder on the Roger Ackroyd", famous for the end of the story is surprising.

Most of his work has been aired, some of them several times repeated ( "Murder on the Orient Express," "Murder on the Nile River," "4:50 from Paddington Train"). The BBC has produced television and radio versions of almost all the stories Poirot and Marple