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Agatha Christie is one of the world's most famous writers of crime fiction.

She wrote more than eighty novels of murder, mystery, and crime, which have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in more than a hundred other languages.

Born into a comfortable, pleasant home in England to a British mother and an American father, Agatha had a quiet, conventional childhood in the seaside town of Torquay in the southwest of England.

At the beginning of the First World War in nineteen fourteen, she married a pilot called Colonel Archibald Christie.

During the war, she worked in a hospital and then in a pharmacy.

It was in these jobs that she learned a lot about dangerous chemicals and poisons, and later she used this knowledge in her books.

She published her first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, a couple of years after the war.

In it, she introduced Hercule Poirot, who was to become one of fiction's most famous detectives.

Sadly, her marriage to Colonel Christie was unhappy, and in nineteen twenty-six, Agatha Christie was in a real-life mystery when she herself disappeared.

Her car was found abandoned, and despite newspaper stories, she was missing for several days.

Eventually, she was found in a hotel in the North of England using a false name.

She claimed that she had lost her memory because of her mother's death and the shock that her husband loved another woman.

Two years later, she and Colonel Christie were divorced.

In nineteen thirty, she married an archaeologist, Max Mallowan, who was fourteen years younger than she was.

They spent a lot of time traveling in Egypt and other eastern countries, and this provided the location for one of her novels, Death on the Nile.

Agatha Christie said, an archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have.

The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

Unlike many of her characters, Agatha Christie died naturally of old age in nineteen seventy-six.