Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie (1890–1976) was born in Torquay, Devon, and became the bestselling fiction writer of all time, with over two billion copies of her books sold worldwide in more than one hundred languages. She published her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920, introducing the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and went on to write sixty-six detective novels, fourteen short story collections, and the world's longest-running play, The Mousetrap, which opened in London in 1952. This author hub collects 3 works in the Canon Compass ranking, led by And Then There Were None.
Start with And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, ranked #189 in the Canon Compass list.
Featured Books
Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None: ten strangers trapped on an island, dying one by one. The greatest locked-room mystery ever written.
Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: Hercule Poirot investigates a locked-room murder with a legendary twist ending.
Agatha Christie's iconic mystery pits Hercule Poirot against an impossible murder on a snowbound Orient Express.