Agatha Christie
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Agatha Christie was an English writer of crime stories.
She was born in Torquay. She died in 1976. She was married two times, and she had one child, Rosalind Hicks.
Agatha Christie worked in a hospital and in a pharmacy in World War I.
Her books are very famous all over the world, and she has sold a lot of books. The stories she writes are about a murder and finding out who did it.
The most well known of her characters in her books are Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.
Ms. Marple is an old lady, and she talks to everyone. She uses logic to find out who is guilty for the murder.
Hercule Poirot is a police detective from Belgium. He lives in London. He likes to find out who did the murder by thinking about all the evidence.
She also wrote romance novels and plays for the theatre. They were very succesful too.