Agatha Christie bibliography Agatha Christie bibliography Agatha Christie (1890–1976) was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. Although she wrote six romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, her reputation rests on the 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections that she wrote under her own name, which have sold over two billion copies—an amount only surpassed by the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare. Her works contain several regular characters with whom the public became familiar, including Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, Parker Pyne and Harley Quin. Christie wrote more Poirot stories than any of the others,
Archie Christie Larkhill. Unable to continue flying because of sinus problems, he became a transport officer, also in the Royal Flying Corps. On Christmas Eve 1914, shortly after the outbreak of World War I, Christie and Agatha were married at Emmanuel Church, Clifton, Bristol, close to the home of his parents. Christie was progressively promoted during the war until he became colonel. He was mentioned in dispatches five times; and, at the end of the war, he received a DSO and a CMG. After the war, Christie and Agatha took a flat in Northwick Terrace in London for a short time. Their