1. Agatha Christie was a famous British crime writer born in 1890 who wrote over 80 novels and stage plays, mainly whodunits and locked room mysteries.
2. She is the world's best-selling mystery writer and all-time best-selling author besides Shakespeare, having sold over a billion copies in English and another billion in foreign languages.
3. Christie is known for innovating the genre with twists like an unexpected revelation of the murderer in her early book The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
1. Agatha Christie was a famous British crime writer born in 1890 who wrote over 80 novels and stage plays, mainly whodunits and locked room mysteries.
2. She is the world's best-selling mystery writer and all-time best-selling author besides Shakespeare, having sold over a billion copies in English and another billion in foreign languages.
3. Christie is known for innovating the genre with twists like an unexpected revelation of the murderer in her early book The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
1. Agatha Christie was a famous British crime writer born in 1890 who wrote over 80 novels and stage plays, mainly whodunits and locked room mysteries.
2. She is the world's best-selling mystery writer and all-time best-selling author besides Shakespeare, having sold over a billion copies in English and another billion in foreign languages.
3. Christie is known for innovating the genre with twists like an unexpected revelation of the murderer in her early book The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
1. Agatha Christie was a famous British crime writer born in 1890 who wrote over 80 novels and stage plays, mainly whodunits and locked room mysteries.
2. She is the world's best-selling mystery writer and all-time best-selling author besides Shakespeare, having sold over a billion copies in English and another billion in foreign languages.
3. Christie is known for innovating the genre with twists like an unexpected revelation of the murderer in her early book The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
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