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Agatha Christie |
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Dame
Agatha Christie
Author
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| Name |
Dame
Agatha Christie |
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1890
- 1976 |
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There
is strong evidence that the house where Agatha Christie actually
lived, Winterbrook Lodge in the town of Wallingford, is the
model for Danemead, which is Miss Marple's house in the village
of St Mary Mead.
Wallingford
is believed to be the model for the fictional town of Market
Basing, the site of a number of Agatha Christie's mysteries.
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She
came up with the idea of her first novel, The Mysterious Affair
at Styles, while working in a hospital. It was published in
1920.
Agatha Christie wrote 66 novels, almost 150 short stories,
and 16 plays.
Some
of her more famous works are her novels Murder on the Orient
Express, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, and the longest-running
play in history, The Mousetrap.
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In
1971, the most popular mystery writer ever, with over one
hundred million books published, became a Dame of the British
Empire.
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