The most translated author in the world. The all-time best-selling author in France, with over 40 million copies sold in French. Her stage play, The Mousetrap, holds the record for the longest initial run in the world, opening at the Ambassadors Theatre in London on 25 November 1952.
Order of the British Empire, DBE - Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa was an English crime fiction writer. One of the recognised and popular authors in the world, with a legacy that still continues.
Agatha also wrote romance novels under the name Mary Westmacott, but is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays.
The Tuesday Night Club by Agatha Christie - from the Miss Marple : the complete short stories collection.
The tale first appeared in The Royal Magazine in the United Kingdom in 1927, and it was Miss Marple's first appearance in print. The title was altered to The Solving Six and was first published in Detective Story Magazine in June 1928, in the United States.
It was initially published in book form in Faber and Faber's Best Detective Stories of the Year collection in 1928 and later collected in The Thirteen Problems (UK title- the short stories collection) in 1932.
A Tuesday Night Club is newly formed by Miss Marple and her friends. Every Tuesday, the members get together for a very informal gathering and take turns narrating an actual mystery. The other members of the club have to then attempt to solve it. Sir Henry Clithering begins the first discussion by recounting how three people got sick after being poisoned at dinner and one of them died.
Tuesday Night Club conducts its first investigation. Three people got unwell after eating tinned lobster for supper and canned trifle for dessert. Mrs. Jones is pronounced dead. Although botulism is suspected, the Tuesday Night Club seeks to go in there deeper to investigate.
Agatha Christie
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