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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 68. Chapters: Agatha Christie, A. A. Milne, Colin Dexter, Len Deighton, G. K. Chesterton, Antonia Fraser, Patricia Highsmith, Edmund Clerihew Bentley, Simon Brett, P. D. James, Ngaio Marsh, Baroness Emma Orczy, John Dickson Carr, Cecil Day-Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dick Francis, Ronald Knox, Ian Rankin, Hugh Walpole, Cecil Street, R. Austin Freeman, Ruth Rendell, G. D. H. Cole, Margery Allingham, Freeman Wills Crofts, Gladys Mitchell, Martin Edwards, Reginald Hill, H. R. F. Keating, J. I. M. Stewart, Julian Symons, Eric Ambler, Elizabeth Ferrars, Peter Robinson, Gavin Lyall, Peter Dickinson, Val Gielgud, Jessie Louisa Rickard, Geoffrey Household, Edmund Crispin, Val McDermid, Anthony Price, Clemence Dane, Peter Lovesey, Robert Goddard, Detection Club, Victor Whitechurch, Arthur Morrison, Colin Watson, E. C. R. Lorac, Christianna Brand, Norman Kendal, Cyril Hare, Anthony Berkeley Cox, Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet, Margaret Cole, H. C. Bailey, Patricia Moyes, Celia Fremlin, Janet Neel Cohen, Baroness Cohen of Pimlico, Ann Cleeves, Anthony Gilbert. Excerpt: Dame Agatha Christie, DBE, (15 September 1890 - 12 January 1976), was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections (especially those featuring Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple), and her successful West End plays. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time and, with William Shakespeare, the best-selling author of any type. She has sold roughly four billion copies of her novels. According to Index Translationum, Christie is the most translated individual author, with only the collective corporate works of Walt Disney Productions surpassing her. Her books have b...
