The Queen Of Crime

The queen of crime.

Christie wrote over 60 detective novels, creating, along the way, some of crime fiction's most famous detectives. From Monsieur Hercule Poirot, an eccentric Belgian who relied on a keen grasp of logic to catch crooks, to Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster who solved mysteries using nothing more than intense concentration and intuition, Christie's creations often became as iconic as the great writer herself. Indeed, so famous was Poirot that when 5 Christie killed him off in 1975, he was given a front page obituary in The New York Times! But Christie did not limit herself to murder mysteries. She tried her hand at various genres of fiction, including romantic novels (under the pen name Mary Westmacott), poetry, plays (her play The Mousetrap is now the longest-running play in theatrical history) and children's stories.