Agatha Christie
Someone seems familiar to you but you don't know why; you notice a vase has been moved from its usual place; you find a dead body in your kitchen. All of these are indications that you might be inside an Agatha Christie detective novel. Agatha Christie is one of the best-selling authors of all time, and her novels continue to thrill readers all over the world. Born in Devon, England in 1890, Christie was schooled at home by her mother and studied music for a short time in Paris as a teenager. In 1920 she began writing novels, starting with The Mysterious Affair at Styles. In 1926 she came out with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. That same year her husband of over ten years confessed his infidelity, and Christie disappeared for over a week, only to turn up at a hotel claiming a bout of amnesia. She divorced and in 1930 remarried to Sir Max Mallowan, an archaeologist whose travels through the Middle East and North Africa would serve as locations for several of her books. Her two most prominent characters, the fastidious Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the aging British spinster Jane Marple feature in many of her books. Christie wrote plays, including Witness for the Prosecution (1953) and Mousetrap, which is the longest running continuous play in London. Several of her novels were adapted into films - perhaps most famous is Murder on the Orient Express (1978). Stay tuned for the PC game version of her novel And Then There Were None. Biographical notes feel compelled to explain that she died in 1976 "of natural causes".
