Agatha Christie's grandmother
inspired her to write this
character.
Christie used her
vivid imagination and developed fabulous
plots
She brilliantly
described the characters of Miss Marple and Hercule
Poirot.
Readers loved them and always wanted more of these stories.
Many novels (such as And Then There Were None )
were set in and around
Devon, her
birthplace
Agatha Christie was
honoured by her
contemporaries as a
remarkable
detective story writer.
Agatha Christie wrote 66 novels, 15 plays, and 157 short stories.
She also wrote 6 romances and 4 non-fiction books, including Agatha Christie,
an Autobiography.
Agatha Christie
died on 12 January 1976, at the age of 85.
Agatha Christie's books are translated into 103 languages, and they are still
popular today.