Learn some interesting facts about the world’s best-selling mystery writer.
- Dame Agatha Christie is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the World’s Bestselling Author. With between 2 and 4 billion works sold, she is bested only by William Shakespeare and the Bible. Christie is also the most translated novelist in history.
- Agatha Christie’s play The Mousetrap has the longest theatrical run, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. It opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London on November 25, 1952. It continues to this day.
- At one point in her successful career, Mrs. Christie actually owned eight different houses. Many of these houses were “used” as the houses in several of her novels.
- Charles Dickens was Agatha’s favorite author.
- Christie wrote her first detective story after being challenged by one of her older sisters.
- Six publishers rejected her first manuscript before it was eventually published in 1920. She eventually received £25 for it.
- During WWII, she worked in a hospital pharmacy. She there began acquiring a knowledge of poisons that would serve her novels well.
Enjoy a video with some interesting facts about her most famous character, Hercule Poirot in the video below.
