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In 1914, Agatha married Archibald Christie. She had one daughter, Rosalind. While her
husband was fighting during WWI, Agatha worked in a hospital as a nurse. Later, she
worked in the hospital pharmacy, that's where she learnt all the information about
poisons and medicines that she used later in her books. Agatha said that poisons were
her favourite means of murder.
Agatha was well-known worldwide. She wrote 78 crime novels, published 150 short
stories and created 19 plays.
She died of old age in January 1976 in England.
After her divorce, Agatha remarried in 1930 with an archeologist. She travelled a lot
with him, particularly to Egypt, Syria and Irak. The couple spent several months a year
in the desert but Agatha didn't stop writing.
She took her typewriter with her and wrote books with exotic titles like Death on the
Nile or Murder on the Orient Express. Her readers really loved her books and especially
her heroes: Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.
Agatha Christie was born on September 15th, 1890, in Torquay, Devon, England. She
grew up in a privileged family with her older sister and her younger brother Monty.
In 1920, she wrote her first book The Mysterious Affair of Styles, which was an
immediate success. It was in this book that she introduced her hero: the Belgian
detective Hercule Poirot.
By the 1960s, Agatha Christie was fed up with Poirot and thought about killing him, but
the public liked him and she didn't kill him.