Very prolific British author of mystery novels and short stories creator of Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective, and Miss Jane Marple. Christie wrote more than 70 detective novels under the surname of her first husband, Colonel Archibald Christie.

Christie's characters are usually well-to-do people. Often the comfortable lifestyle of her characters is undermined by financial problems, which lead to murder. Coziness is deceptive and in many stories the reader is made to suspect an innocent character. Christie's world- view is conservative, which is also seen in her emphasis on logical explanation of crimes - there is no anarchy in Christie's world and society is not blamed for the crimes committed. .

Agatha Christie :
Author of the following books and novels :
Poirot's Early Cases, An Autobiography, The Mysterious Affair at Styles and the Secret Adversary, Elephants Can Remember, The Pale Horse, Third Girl, Mrs Ginty's Dead, Ten Little Indians, Evil Under the Sun, The Thirteen Problems, Poirot Investigates, plus many more other Agatha Christie novels stories and bestsellers.

Further reading: See also: "Great Ladies" of the English mystery's golden age; Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh - Latest posthumously published novel: Black Coffee (1998) - originally play, which was produced in 1930 and later filmed. Adapted from the play by Charles Osborne. Hercule Poirot solves the theft of an explosive, which was invented by sir Clad Amory. - "I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble." (from An Autobiography, 1977).