Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime.
She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott..
She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare.
Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages.
Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime