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English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)

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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English author of detective fiction.

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Pen Names: Mary Westmacott

Birth Name: Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller

Native Name: Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE

Also Known As: Duchess of Death • Mistress of Mystery • Queen of Crime

Alternative Names: Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie • Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie • Agatha Christie Mallowan • Lady Mallowan • Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan • Dame Agatha (Mary Clarissa) Christie • Agatha Christie Mallowa

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"There's no reason why women shouldn't behave like rational beings," Simon asserted stolidly.
Poirot said drily: "Quite frequently they do. That is even more upsetting!"

As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?'

Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.

Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work....where crime is concerned, she's the goods.

You want beauty,” said Hercule Poirot. “Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always truth.

The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

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Ah, but my dear sir, the why must never be obvious. That is the whole point.

La vie est vaine. Un peu d’amour, Un peu de haine, Et puis bonjour. La vie est brève. Un peu d’espoir, Un peu de rêve, Et puis bonsoir.

fiction is founded on truth... unless things did happen, people couldn't think of them.

"You see, I am not very good in company. I am clumsy. I am shy. [...] I always say the wrong thing. I upset water jugs. I am unlucky."
"We all do these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire, comes later."

When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so.

It is always a shock to meet again someone whom you have not seen for a long time but who has been very much present in your mind during that period.

Mrs. Cavendish: I am charming to my friends one day, and forget all about them the next.

Unpleasant to feel that people were discussing you

How little you might know of a person after living in the same house with them!

There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot