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The Dame of British Empire and the Queen of golden age of mysteries, Agatha Christie’s characters capture the minds of young readers of every generation. Born Agatha May Clarissa Miller in Devon, England in 1890, she was the youngest of three children in a conservative, well-to-do family.  Being a shy child during her young years, she first trained as a pianist and then took to writing. Having exposed to lot of traveling with her first husband, Archie Christie, World War I Fighter Pilot, and later with her archeologist husband Max Mallowan, her stories and plots revolve around the places she visited and most of Agatha Christie’s books are focused on the British middle and upper classes.

A crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays Agatha Christie has created the most iconic sleuths to grace the pages of murder mystery novels -Miss Jane Marple – the unassuming spinster with a mind like a steel trap, and the very famous and egotistical retired Belgian police officer Hercule Poirot. With a number of novels short stories, and West End Plays to her credit, she is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and 14 short stories collections all of which is available at the click of the mouse from the online shopping portals.

Agatha Christie published her first book “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” in 1920 and from then on, she hasn’t looked back. After introducing the retired Belgian police officer Hercule Poirot to the world, through her first book, she has written more than 30 novels featuring him. Some of the most popular ones are  “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” (1926), “Murder on the Orient Express” (1934), and “Death on the Nile” (1937). The “Murder at the Vicarage” published in 1930 saw the entry of Miss Jane Marple, the elderly spinster who solved all manner of mysteries with intense concentration and intuition. Her way of portraying the character of Ms.Marple , made her popular with a cozy style of mystery fiction which ultimately gave her the recognition of the Queen of  the Golden Age.

Agatha Christie’s books have been translated into at least 103 languages, and according to the Guinness Book of World Records, she is the best-selling novelist of all time with a roughly four billion copies of her novels sold worldwide both through online shopping and book stores. One can buy books online from any online shopping websites. Besides, her two autobiographies titled ‘An Autobiography’ which was published after her death in 1977.and  ‘Come, Tell Me How You Live’ about her life in Syria and Iraq are also stocked at these stores.