Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie, born Agatha Miller and later Lady Mallowan, was an English author known for sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short-story collections. Her best-known series follow the detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, and she also wrote plays and other fiction. Her other detective characters include Tommy and Tuppence, who debuted in The Secret Adversary in 1922, and Miss Marple, who first appeared in The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930. Writing during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, she has been called the Queen of Crime, and she wrote the world's longest-running play.