Agatha Christie

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Agatha Christie was born in 1891. She grew up in Torquay, a peaceful town by the sea in the south-west of England. She got  married to Archibald, an R.A.F pilot, in 1914 but they divorced in 1926. She married again in 1930. She had one daughter, from her first marriage.   t

She wrote 66 detective stories in her life. Her most famous book was "Murder on the Orient Express" which she wrote in 1926. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English, and over a billion copies in their translated versions. 

She created the character of Hercule Poirot, a Belgian detective, who solved the mysteries in a lot of her books. He was small, a bit fat because he liked eating Belgian chocolates, and he spoke English with a very strong French accent. But he was very clever and always found the criminal or the  murderer. Another famous character created by Agatha Christie was Miss Marple. She was an old woman  with grey hair and pale blue eyes. She was very wise and always helped the police in their murder investigations. Normally Miss Marple was more intelligent that the police officers.

A lot of films were made of Agatha Chritie's stories. The famous actor Peter Ustinov played the part of Hercule Poirot in several films in the 1960s and 1970s. A television series called "Hercule Poirot" was very popular in Britain from 1989 to 2013. And in the USA the series "Murder she wrote", featuring Miss Marple, was televised for nearly 20 years.

She also wrote plays for the theatre. She wrote the play "The Mousetrap" for the radio in 1947. The first theatre performance of the "Mousetrap" was in London in 1952. You can still see the play today in London because it has never stopped. It is the longest-running play in the history of theatre.

Agatha Christie died of old age in 1976.

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