Agatha Christie:
Klarissa Mary Agatha Christie (Miller) - British writer, perhaps the most famous and most purchased at the world of detectives. To date, its circulation of books published more than 100 million copies and been translated into 100 languages.
"Queen detective" was born on September 15, 1890 in Torkvee, county Devon, England. Her education has been mum, so she was very "home" child. With the beginning of World War I Agatha Miller became a nurse to work at the military hospital. It was then, in the intervals between duty, and she started to write detectives. In the first novel - "The Mysterious Affair at Styles", issued in the light only in 1920 - a main character, private detective Erkyul Poirot, egotism and eccentric Belgian, who constantly needed the "raw material for the work of gray cells of the brain. " Poirot was the hero of 25 novels, while in 1975, not "died" in the novel "Curtain".
Another heroine of many stories and novels Agatha Christie was Mrs. Marpl - Englishwoman to bone marrow, old maiden, which meticulous investigated various atrocities committed by side. Her "debut" for spectators was held in 1930 in the novel "Murder at the Vicarage".
