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Agatha Miller was born in Torquay in Devon, England. Using her first husband’s surname, she wrote more than seventy classic detective novels. Her most popular characters are the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot,and the village spinster, Miss Marple. After her first marriage ended in divorce, she married Max Mallowan, a famous archaeologist and professor London University. She also wrote many stage plays, and at one time three of her plays were running simultaneously at West End theatres.Her play T Mousetrap, which opened in 1952, is still the longest running play ever performed in London. She also wrote under the name of Mary Westmacott. Agatha Christie’s whodunits are popular throughout the world and have been translated into many languages. Her books achieve larger sales than those of any other single writer except Shakespeare. She is appreciated for her clear, uncomplicated writing style, her ingenious plots and the suspense which she always Well-known works by
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