Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all
time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and
Shakespeare. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English
and another billion in one hundred foreign countries. She is the
author of eighty novels and short-story collections, nineteen
plays, and six novels under the name Mary Westmacott. She died in
1976.
阿加莎·克里斯蒂(Agatha Christie
1890~1976),英国著名女侦探小说家、剧作家,三大推理文学宗师之一。代表作品有《东方快车谋杀案》和《尼罗河谋杀案》等。1961年,阿加莎·克里斯蒂被埃克塞特大学授予荣誉文学博士学位。1971年,阿加莎·克里斯蒂被册封为女爵士。