![]() UNESCO states that she is currently the most translated author in the world with only the collective corporate works of Walt Disney Productions superseding her. An estimated four billion copies of her novels have been sold. Only the Bible sold more with about 6 billion copies. Her works, particularly featuring detectives Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple, have given her the title the 'Queen of Crime' and made her one of the most important and innovative writers in the development of the genre.Ĭhristie has been called - by the Guinness Book of World Records, among others - the best-selling writer of books of all time, and the best-selling writer of any kind together with William Shakespeare. She also wrote romance novels under the name Mary Westmacott, but is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dame Agatha Christie Mallowan, Order of the British Empire, DBEĭame Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, Order of the British Empire, DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), commonly known as Agatha Christie, was an English crime fiction writer.
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