Quotes by Agatha Christie

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“ Courage, Mademoiselle. There is always something to live for. “
-Agatha Christie-

Courage, Mademoiselle. There is always something to live for.

Introducing Agatha Christie

  • Name: Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
  • Born: 15 September 1890, Torquay, Devon, England
  • Died:    12 January 1976 (aged 85), Winterbrook House, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England
  • Resting place:     Church of St Mary, Cholsey, Oxfordshire
  • Pen name:    Mary Westmacott
  • Occupation:    Novelist - short story writer - playwright - poet - memoirist
  • Genre    : Murder mystery - detective story-  crime fiction - thriller
  • Literary movement:    Golden Age of Detective Fiction
  • Notable works:    

- Murder on the Orient ExpressThe Murder of Roger Ackroyd Death on the Nile

- The Murder at the Vicarage Partners in Crime

- The A.B.C. MurdersAnd Then There Were NoneThe Mousetrap

  • Spouses:    

- Archibald Christie ​(m. 1914; div. 1928)​

- Max Mallowan ​(m. 1930)​

  • Children: Rosalind Hicks
  • Relatives: James Watts (nephew)