Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was the best selling mystery author of all time and the only writer to have created two major detectives, Poirot and Marple. She also wrote the longest-running play in the modern theater, The Mousetrap. The daughter of an...

Agatha Christie is a towering figure in the history of crime literature for two reasons. First, she consolidated the form of the pure mystery novel, achieving in five or six of her books puzzle stories that set a standard unlikely ever to be decisively...

Agatha Christie, crime novelist, playwright, poet, travel and short-story writer, has sold more than one billion copies of her books since 1920 and been translated into more languages than William Shakespeare, second only to the Bible. She also wrote...

Deemed the creator of the modern detective fiction novel and nicknamed the Duchess of Death, Agatha Christie continues to be one of the most popularly read authors since the publication of her first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920....

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), commonly known as Agatha Christie, was an English crime fiction writer. She also wrote romance novels under the name Mary Westmacott, but is best remembered for...

IT WAS NEVER going to be easy to get incumbent members of Congress to alter a system of paying for political campaigns under which they, after all, had done rather well. But only Luigi Pirandello or Samuel Beckett could have conceived a script as...

Agatha Christie has won enormous fame but little respect. This is the major theme of Gillian Gill's new biography, "Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries." "I originally had no intention of writing a biography of Christie," said Gill, 48, a specialist...

Which work won a 2007 Edgar Allan Poe award for best play? Elementary, my dear reader! It was "Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure," by Steven Dietz.That wasn't the only Edgar award winner with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective in the title. E.J. Wagner's nonfiction...

A high school that canceled an upcoming performance of a play over complaints that the original title of the Agatha Christie novel on which it is based is racially offensive has decided the show will go on, with some changes.The play will be performed next...

In the following essay, the reviewers argue that Christie's writing is more complex than critics credit her.

In the following essay, Grossvogel explores why Christie's works remain popular today.

In the following essay, Bargainnier analyzes Christie's collection of poetry, discussing what her poems reveal about her personality.