Biography
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English crime novelist, short story writer and playwright. She is best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, a murder mystery, The Mousetrap, and six romances under the name Mary Westmacott. In 1971 she was made a Dame for her contribution to literature. Most of her books and short stories have been adapted for television, radio, video games and comics, and more than thirty feature films have been based on her work.
Awards & recognition
- Anthony Award · 2000
- Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 1971
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 1956
- The Grand Master · 1955
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
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- Order of the British Empire
Filmography50+ titles
BuzzFeed Unsolved: True Crime
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Witness for the Prosecution
Agatha Christie's Marple
And Then There Were None
Ten Little Indians
Miss Marple: The Body in the Library
Murder She Said
Identity
Partners in Crime
Death on the Nile
Murder on the Orient Express
Murder Ahoy
Murder Most Foul
Murder at the Gallop
The Witness for the Prosecution
And Then There Were None
Ordeal by Innocence
The Secret Adversary
Evil Under the Sun
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery
Ten Little Indians
The Agatha Christie Hour
Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple
Murder on the Orient Express
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
A Haunting in Venice
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
The ABC Murders
Witness for the Prosecution
Death on the Nile
Crooked House
Partners in Crime
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials
A Caribbean Mystery
Ten Little Indians
Love from a Stranger
Towards Zero
Gumnaam
Appointment with Death
The Mirror Crack'd
Endless Night
They Were Ten
Agatha Christie's Hjerson
Crime Is Our Business
Sparkling Cyanide
The Pale Horse
Ten Little Indians
Murder Is Easy
Ordeal by Innocence