Agatha Christie

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Agatha Christie was a prolific British crime novelist and playwright, best known for creating the detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple and for being one of the best-selling authors in history.

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Agatha Christie canonical 57
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf crime writer
human
novelist
playwright
screenwriter
short story writer
awardReceived Grand Master Award
surface form: Edgar Grand Master Award

Edgar Allan Poe Grand Master Award
surface form: Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award
birthName Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
causeOfDeath natural causes
child Rosalind Hicks
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
createdCharacter Ariadne Oliver
Hercule Poirot
Miss Marple
Tommy Beresford
Tuppence Beresford
dateOfBirth 1890-09-15
dateOfDeath 1976-01-12
estimatedSales over 2 billion copies
familyName Christie
Miller
fieldOfWork drama
literature
fullName Agatha Christie self-linksurface differs
surface form: Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
genre crime fiction
detective fiction
mystery fiction
thriller
givenName Agatha
hasSignatureWork And Then There Were None
Murder on the Orient Express
honorificTitle Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
influenced modern detective fiction
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement Golden Age detective fiction
surface form: Golden Age of Detective Fiction
notableAchievement one of the best-selling authors in history
notableFact disappeared for eleven days in December 1926
notableWork A Murder is Announced
And Then There Were None
Death on the Nile (novel)
surface form: Death on the Nile

Murder on the Orient Express
The A.B.C. Murders
The Mousetrap
The Murder at the Vicarage
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Witness for the Prosecution
occupation novelist
nurse
pharmacy assistant
playwright
poet
short story writer
placeOfBirth Devon
England
Torquay
placeOfDeath England
Oxfordshire
Winterbrook
pseudonym Mary Westmacott
religion Anglicanism
residence Greenway Estate
spouse Archibald Christie
Max Mallowan
workAdaptedAs The Mousetrap
surface form: The Mousetrap (stage play)
writingPeriod 20th century

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