Agatha Christie was born 1890 in Torquay, Devon, England, and educated at home by her mother. Her father was called Frederick Miller so she was born as Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller. In 1914 she married Colonel Archibald Christie, but then World War I had broken out. Agatha worked as a nurse in a Red Cross hospital in Torquay at that time and that experience was going to be useful later on in her life.
             Her first book published in 1920, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. There, readers met Hercule Poirot, the eccentric Belgian detective with funny-looking moustache.
             But Agatha' s books first attracted attention in 1926 when she published The Murder of Roger Ackroyd witch became published three times both 1945, 1971 and in 1984. Agatha made news herself when she disappeared for a few days after her husband wanted a divorce (she was soon found to be staying in a hotel under an alias). She and Archibald divorced in 1928 (he died in 1962). When she was around 40 she went on a holiday and visited e.g. Iraq where she met young archaeologist Max Mallowan, who was 14 years younger. They married in 1930 and Agatha Christie became Agatha Christie Mallowan.
             During World War II Agatha worked in the dispensary of a University Collage Hospital in London. She often assisted her husband on excavation, e.g. in Iraq and Syria. Agatha has the most spectacularly career of all the best known writers. She wrote nearly seventy novels and more than a hundred short stories. Her most famous characters are Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote a few books about Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, and in same books there was no particular main characters, e.g. in Ten Little Nigger's. Agatha Christie also wrote six romantic novels under the name Mary Westmacott. Agatha's plays have also made her famous and her best known play, The Mousetrap (1952), is most likely the best known mystery play in the world (it hold the record of the longest runn...