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Sep 16, 2008
Agatha Christie Trivia
Did you know...
- Agatha Christie had one daughter, Rosalind Hicks, and one grandson, Matthew Prichard
- Dame Agatha has sold over two billion copies of her mystery books.
- Ms. Christie's best-selling novel is And Then There Were None.
- Agatha Christie was married twice -- to aviator Colonel Archibald Christie in 1914 (they divorced in 1928.) and to archeologist Sir Max Mallowan in 1930.
- Dame Agatha's play, The Mousetrap, is the longest-running stage play in history. It is still performed six nights a week at St. Martins Theatre in London's West End.
- In her autobiography, Ms. Christie cites Alexander Dumas, Charles Dickens, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as early influences on her writing.
- Agatha Christie's favorite of her characters was Mr. Harley Quinn.
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