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| Name: |
Agatha Christie | | Birth Date: |
September 15, 1890 | | Death Date: |
January 12, 1976 | | Place of Birth: |
Torquay, England | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
author, playwright |
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 Biography of Agatha Christie
1,062 words, approx. 4 pages
 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... summary from source:
Biography of Agatha Christie
7,871 words, approx. 26 pages
 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... summary from source:
 Biography of Agatha (Mary Clarissa) Christie
6,416 words, approx. 21 pages
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...
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 Agatha Christie Quotes
1,673 words, approx. 6 pages
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie ( 1890-09-15 – 1976-01-12 ) was an English author of detective fiction. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) 1.2 Peril at End House (1932) 1.3 Murder on the Orient Express (1934) 1.4 Murder...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Christie, Agatha (1890-1979) Summary
928 words, approx. 3 pagesDeemed 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.... summary from source:
 Christie, Dame Agatha
366 words, approx. 1 pages(born Sept. 15, 1890, Torquay, Devon, Eng.—died Jan. 12, 1976, Wallingford, Oxfordshire) English detective novelist and playwright whose books have sold more than 100 million copies and have been translated into some 100 languages. Educated at... summary from source:
Christie, Dame Agatha (Mary Clarissa)
128 words, approx. 1 pages(born Sept. 15, 1890, Torquay, Devon, Eng.—died Jan. 12, 1976, Wallingford, Oxfordshire) British detective novelist and playwright. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), introduced Hercule Poirot, the eccentric Belgian... summary from source:
 Agatha Christie Information
5,376 words, approx. 18 pages
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...
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 The Washington Post Call in Agatha Christie
09/29/1994: 488 words, approx. 2 pages 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... summary from source:
The Boston Globe Solving The Mysteries Of Agatha Christie
09/15/1990: 1,844 words, approx. 6 pages 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... summary from source:
 AP News Solved: Poe mystery awards are announced
5/1/2007: 303 words, approx. 1 pagesWhich 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... summary from source:
AP News School to perform play NAACP had opposed
11/30/2007: 358 words, approx. 1 pagesA 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...
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Earl F. Bargainnier
3,126 words, approx. 10 pages
In the following essay, Bargainnier analyzes Christie's collection of poetry, discussing what her poems reveal about her personality.
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