biography
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Christie, Dame Agatha (Mary Clarissa)
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née Miller
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| lived:
| (1890–1976)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Torquay, Devon, SE England, UK. Under the surname of her first husband (Colonel Archibald Christie, divorced 1928), she wrote more than 70 detective novels, featuring the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, or the enquiring village lady, Miss Marple. In 1930 she married archaeology professor Max Mallowan, with whom she travelled on several expeditions. Her play The Mousetrap opened in 1952, and holds the record for the longest unbroken run in a London theatre. Several of her stories have become popular films, such as Murder on the Orient Express (1974) and Death on the Nile (1978). She was made a dame in 1971. |
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