She was also named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1971. Mary Mead, Miss Marple is host and guest. Mary Mead, Downshire (fictional) During two different dinner parties in St. Detective: Miss Marple Published: June 1932 Compilation: Short Stories Length: 256 pages Setting: St. Christie received the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for 1954-1955 for Witness. The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie Posted on Jby Cleo The Thirteen Problems: Unsolved mysteries. Christie's credits also include the plays, The Mousetrap and Witness for the Prosecution (1953 film 1957). Christie accompanied Mallowan on annual expeditions to Iraq and Syria, which served as material for Murder in Mesopotamia (1930), Death on the Nile (1937), and Appointment with Death (1938). Over the years, her travels took her to the Middle East where she met noted English archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan. Poirot, in particular, plays the hero of many of her works, including the classic, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and Curtain (1975), one of her last works in which the famed detective dies. Noted for clever and surprising twists of plot, many of Christie's mysteries feature two unconventional fictional detectives named Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. Some of her most famous titles include Murder on the Orient Express, Mystery of the Blue Train, And Then There Were None, 13 at Dinner and The Sittaford Mystery. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language with another billion in 44 foreign languages. In her lifetime, she authored 79 crime novels and a short story collection, 19 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott. She wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920, launching a literary career that spanned decades. One of the most successful and beloved writer of mystery stories, Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie was born in 1890 in Torquay, County Devon, England.

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