AGATHA CHRISTIE

Author : J Y Lohitha

Agatha Christie is one of the great English authors. She was born on 15 September 1890, Torquay, United Kingdom. Her full name is Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie. She was also known as Lady Mallowan. She was best known for her sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. There are many books written by her such as Murder On The Orient Express, The Mysterious Affair At Styles, Death On The Nile, The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd, The ABC Murders, The Crooked House, The Murder At The Vicarage, Five Little Pigs, Endless Night, A Murder Is Announced etc.... She has written 72 novels, 7 Broadcast works, 28 collections, and 16 plays.In October 1914, she became one of the 90,000 Voluntary Aid Detachment nurses that enlisted to help in the war. In a makeshift hospital in Torquay town hall, she washed and cared for seriously wounded patients, attended in the operating theatre during operations and even helped clean up after amputations. Best-selling author Agatha Christie published her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920, and went on to become one of the most famous writers in history, with mysteries like Murder at the Vicarage, Partners in Crime and Sad Cypress. Her main beneficiary is her grandson, Mathew Prichard, who received the sole rights to The Mousetrap for his ninth birthday. She died on January 12,1976 at
Winterbrook, United Kingdom.
She was buried at St. Mary's Churchyard Cholsey, South Oxfordshire District, Oxfordshire, England Show.....