Her debt to the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is manifest in the books in which this pair appears. It was in her first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), that Christie introduced one of her two best-known detectives, Hercule Poirot, and his amanuensis, Captain Hastings. Her total output reached 93 books and 17 plays she was translated into 103 languages (even more than Shakespeare) and her sales have passed the 400 million mark and are still going strong. In 1920 Christie launched a career which made her the most popular mystery writer of all time. Archibald Christie the marriage produced one daughter. Her family was comfortable, although not wealthy, and she was educated at home, with later study in Paris. The daughter of an American father and a British mother, Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born at Torquay in the United Kingdom on September 15, 1890. She also wrote romance novels under the name Mary Westmacott.
Dame Agatha Christie (born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller) was the best selling mystery author of all time and the only writer to have created two major detectives, Poirot and Marple, as well as having written the longest-running play in the modern theater, The Mousetrap.
