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Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English. Electrical Installation Project Proposal. It is a detective novel in which ten people, who have previously been complicit in the deaths of other but escaped unnoticed nor punished are tricked into coming into coming onto an island. Although the guests are the only people on the island, each is murdered one by one, in a manner paralleling, inexorably and.

Agatha Christie bibliography Agatha Christie Releases Novels 73 Collections 28 Poems 3 Plays 16 Broadcast works 7 As editor 1 Autobiography 2 (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. Her works contain several regular characters with whom the public became familiar, including,,, and. Christie wrote more Poirot stories than any of the others, even though she thought the character to be 'rather insufferable'. Following the publication of the 1975 novel, Poirot's obituary appeared on the front page of. The literary historian Howard Haycraft considered that 'few fictional sleuths can surpass the amazing little Belgian—with his waxed moustache and egg-shaped head, his inflated confidence in the infallibility of his 'little grey cells', his murderous attacks on the English language—either for individuality or ingenuity.'