Agatha Christie, English Novelist

 

Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (pseudonym Mary Westmacott) an English author disappeared from 03 December 1926 for 11 days. On that day her husband Archie Christie having fallen in love with Nancy Neele, a friend of Major Belcher, quarreled with Agartha. He argued that he would spend weekends with friends instead of with his wife Agatha Christie. Agatha married Archie Christie on 24 December 1914. Agatha Christie detective novelist and writer was known for 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections. She was best known for creating iconic characters like Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, and her record-breaking play The Mousetrap (1952). With over two hundred crore copies of her books sold worldwide, she was acknowledged by Queen Elizabeth II with a Damehood for her literary achievements. A damehood is a title given to women in Britain as a special honor, usually for work done over a long period. It is the female equivalent of the title "Sir" given to knights. The title "Dame" is placed before a woman's name. Guinness World Records listed Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time. 

Agatha came from a comfortable background. She was the youngest of three children born to Frederick Alvah Miller, and his wife Clarissa "Clara" Margaret. Christie was educated at home and developed a love for reading and writing early on. The death of her father in 1901 profoundly affected her, and she found solace in writing. Her experiences during World War I, first as a nurse and later as a pharmacy dispenser, would later inform her mystery novels through an intricate knowledge of poisons.

Her literary career blossomed with the arrival of her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), which introduced the world to the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.

Subsequently, her personal life went through upheavals, including the end of her marriage to Archibald Christie in 1928 and her mysterious disappearance for eleven days in 1926. She found happiness again upon marrying archaeologist Max Mallowan in 1930. Their travels together provided further inspiration for several of her novels.

Throughout her career, Christie maintained a prolific output and was posthumously recognized as the best crime writer by the Crime Writers' Association in 2013. Her legacy was further preserved through a wide array of adaptations, including films, television series, and stage plays. Born as Agartha Mary Clarissa Miller on 15 September 1890 in Torquay town, Devon county, England Agatha died aged 85 on 12 January 1976 in Winterbrook House, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England.