Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller (the full name of the writer) was born in 1890 on the eastern coast of England in the port city of Torque (the county of Devon).
   She started writing during the years of the First world war in between the times on duty at the hospital where she worked as a nurse.
   She didn’t believe that the readers would accept seriously the detectives written by a woman and that’s why she wanted to be published under male pseudonyms.
   But one of the publishers insisted and so the first novel by Christie named “The mysterious affair at Styles” was published in 1920 under her name.
   She wrote a dozen of novels of non-detective genre which were published under the female pseudonym of Mary Westmaccot.
   In the first novel the fee for which was 25 pounds there appeared the famous personality of Christie – the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot who would become the hero of 25 detective stories.
   Each year Christie went with her husband-archeologist to the long expeditions to Sirya and Iraq, at the same time not stopping to write.
   There belong to her pen more than 70 detective novels, hundreds of short stories and also an auto-biography which had a wide success not less than the adventures of Poirot.
   Thе fame of Agatha Christie was helped by the good policy of her literary agents: the books with Poirot were published not only in the book form but also in the popular newspapers of Great Britain and the USA.
   The year of 1926 became the year of triumph of the writer. Her works are among the most widely published books after Shakespeare and the Bible.
   Beginning from 1957 she became one the best filmed and screened authors. She has the unofficial title of “queen of detective fiction the world over”.
   The books by Agatha Christie are translated into 103 languages of the world. Their total circulation exceeded 4 billion copies. 

   Agatha Christie is the winner of the Order of the British Empire (1956), in 1971 she received the title of countess.
   From 1958 she headed the English detective club. The writer died on January 12, 1876 at the age of 86 years.

 

   There at the book exhibition are presented the works of the author out of the fond of the National library of the RK in different languages of the world.