Agatha Christie was a British crime writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She is the best-selling novelist of all time, with her novels having sold over two billion copies worldwide.
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39 novels and over 50 short stories featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, known for his 'little grey cells' and methodical approach to solving mysteries.
12 novels and 20 short stories featuring the elderly spinster detective who solves crimes through her understanding of human nature.
Christie's writing is characterized by ingenious plotting, red herrings, and fair-play mysteries where all clues are presented to the reader. Her stories feature intricate puzzles, memorable characters, and surprise endings that retrospectively make perfect sense. She excels at creating closed-circle mysteries and impossible crimes.
"The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances."
"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
"One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one."
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