Agatha Miller/ bear/ 15 September 1890/ Torquay/ southwest England. Better known/ Mrs. Agatha Christie/ she/ write/ altogether 78 mystery novels and 19 plays.

Agatha Miller was born on 15 September 1890 in Torquay in southwest England. Better known as Mrs. Agatha Christie, she wrote altogether 78 mystery novels and 19 plays. Very few other crime writers have written more books than this, and few have become so immensely popular. Ever since she published her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles in 1920, her books have never been out of print. They have been translated allover the world, and, perhaps surprisingly, her sales have actually increased since she died in 1976. For a short time after her death they fell, so it was perhaps the screen that revived her popularity. People have enjoyed Agatha Christie‘s story-telling for years, and her popularity currently seems higher than it has ever been. It is not of course the first time that an author has become more popular in death than in life.