She is the creator of two of the most enduring figures in crime literature-Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple-and author of The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theatre.Īgatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U.K., as the youngest of three. According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author, having been translated into at least 103 languages. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. She wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in Romance. English dramatist Michael Morton adapted the book into a play, Alibi, which opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London in 1928 and successfully ran for 250 performances.Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.ĭame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie is the best-selling author of all time. The story formed the basis of the earliest adaptation of Christie’s work. But Ackroyd was dead before he’d finished reading it – stabbed through the neck where he sat in the study.
Soon the evening post would let him know who the mystery blackmailer was. He knew someone was blackmailing her – and now he knew she had taken her own life with a drug overdose.
He knew the woman he loved had poisoned her first husband. Roger Ackroyd was a man who knew too much. Known for its startling reveal, this is the book that changed Agatha Christie’s career. When Hercule Poirot retires to the country to grow vegetable marrows, he finds that someone has planted the seeds of treachery and murder.Ĭonsidered to be one of Agatha Christie's most controversial mysteries, The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd breaks the rules of traditional mystery.
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