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Agatha Christie

1890 - 1976

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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime"—a moniker which is now trademarked by her estate—or the "Queen of Mystery". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Agatha Christie has received more than 19,235,468 page views. Her biography is available in 137 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 131 in 2019). Agatha Christie is the 30th most popular writer (down from 21st in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 18th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Writer.

Agatha Christie is most famous for her mystery novels.

Memorability Metrics

  • 19M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 82.01

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 137

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Murder on the Orient Express
Fiction
THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY OF ALL TIME—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH AND PRODUCED BY RIDLEY SCOTT! “The murderer is with us—on the train now . . .” Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again. “What more . . . can a mystery addict desire?”—New York Times
19334 / 5
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Traditional
A widow's sudden suicide sparks rumors that she murdered her first husband, was being blackmailed, and was carrying on a secret affair with the wealthy Roger Ackroyd. The following evening, Ackroyd is murdered in his locked study, but not before receiving a letter identifying the widow's blackmailer. Kings Abbot is crawling with suspects and it's up to famous detective, Hercule Poirot, to solve the case.
1926
And Then There Were None
Devon (England), Islands, Millionaires
Is the story of 10 strangers, each lured to Indian Island by a mysterious host. Once his guests have arrived, the host accuses each person of murder. Unable to leave the island, the guests begin to share their darkest secrets--until they begin to die.
19394 / 5
The Secret Adversary
1922
Death on the Nile
1937
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Fiction
In Agatha Christie's first book, Hercule Poirot solves a baffling murder at an English country home.
19204 / 5

Page views of Agatha Christies by language

Over the past year Agatha Christie has had the most page views in the with 2,725,053 views, followed by Russian (489,706), and Spanish (403,261). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hebrew (410.53%), Maltese (235.19%), and Igbo (127.00%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Agatha Christie ranks 30 out of 7,302. Before her are Jean-Paul Sartre, Ovid, Rumi, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Denis Diderot. After her are Horace, Ernest Hemingway, Alexandre Dumas, Anne Frank, Selma Lagerlöf, and Alexander Pushkin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Agatha Christie ranks 2. Before her is Charles de Gaulle. After her are H. P. Lovecraft, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ho Chi Minh, Friedrich Paulus, Vyacheslav Molotov, Boris Pasternak, Egon Schiele, Karel Čapek, Alfred Jodl, and Fritz Lang. Among people deceased in 1976, Agatha Christie ranks 2. Before her is Mao Zedong. After her are Martin Heidegger, Werner Heisenberg, Howard Hughes, Alvar Aalto, Luchino Visconti, Zhou Enlai, Fritz Lang, Max Ernst, Jean Gabin, and Bernard Montgomery.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Agatha Christie ranks 22 out of 8,785. Before her are William IV of the United Kingdom (1765), Queen Victoria (1819), Stephen Hawking (1942), Richard I of England (1157), Michael Faraday (1791), and Henry VIII of England (1491). After her are Thomas Hobbes (1588), Alan Turing (1912), Mary II of England (1662), Mick Jagger (1943), Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (1947), and Charles Dickens (1812).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Agatha Christie ranks 3. Before her are William Shakespeare (1564), and Lord Byron (1788). After her are Charles Dickens (1812), Jane Austen (1775), Arthur Conan Doyle (1859), Daniel Defoe (1660), Emily Brontë (1818), Virginia Woolf (1882), Charlotte Brontë (1816), Lewis Carroll (1832), and Mary Shelley (1797).

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