Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie was a British author (1890–1976) who became the best-selling fiction writer of all time.
She created the detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, and her mystery novels—including *Murder on the Orient Express* and *And Then There Were None*—established many conventions of the whodunit genre.
Her name evokes intricate plotting and surprising revelations: The ending was pure Agatha Christie.
Deliberate unlawful killing
- clueSolving aid
- red herringIntentional misleading distraction
- motiveReason for action
- suspectBelieve to be likely
twist · alibi · culprit · victim · revelation · evidence · perpetrator · confession
Of or from Brussels's country
- mustacheUpper lip hair
- methodicalOrganized and deliberate
- meticulousShowing extreme attention to detail
- fastidiousExcessively attentive to detail
elegance · order · neatness · egotism · tisane · symmetry · patent leather · Orient Express
Highest in sales
- prolificProducing abundantly and often
- novelistWriter of prose narratives
- playwrightAuthor of stage dramas
- MousetrapTheatrical murder mystery title
Golden Age · English · autobiography · typewriter · Torquay · Dame · disappearance · archaeology
Unmarried older woman
- elderlyAdvanced in age
- villageSmall rural community
- gossipInformal talk spreading rumors
- knittingLoop-based textile making
observant · intuition · vicarage · human nature · unassuming · sharp-eyed · cozy
Challenge testing ingenuity
- ingeniousCleverly original in design
- unreliable narratorStoryteller whose credibility wavers
- surprise endingUnforeseen narrative conclusion
- fair playHonorable conduct in games
hidden identity · misdirection · foreshadowing · timetable · suspense
murder
Deliberate unlawful killing
- clueSolving aid
- red herringIntentional misleading distraction
- motiveReason for action
suspect · twist · alibi · culprit · victim · revelation · evidence · perpetrator · confession · investigation
Belgian
Of or from Brussels's country
- mustacheUpper lip hair
- methodicalOrganized and deliberate
- meticulousShowing extreme attention to detail
fastidious · elegance · order · neatness · egotism · tisane · symmetry · patent leather · Orient Express · Styles
bestselling
Highest in sales
- prolificProducing abundantly and often
- novelistWriter of prose narratives
- playwrightAuthor of stage dramas
Mousetrap · Golden Age · English · autobiography · typewriter · Torquay · Dame · disappearance · archaeology
spinster
Unmarried older woman
knitting · observant · intuition · vicarage · human nature · unassuming · sharp-eyed · cozy
puzzle
Challenge testing ingenuity
- ingeniousCleverly original in design
- unreliable narratorStoryteller whose credibility wavers
- surprise endingUnforeseen narrative conclusion
fair play · hidden identity · misdirection · foreshadowing · timetable · suspense
- booksnovel, textbooks, study guides, book, paperback
- AuthorsShakespeare, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Famous AuthorsShakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Hemingway, Twain
- NovelistsStephen King, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy
- British AuthorsCharles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Roald Dahl, Shakespeare
- British WritersShakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Tolkien, Rowling
Agatha ChristieFinnegans Wake
James Joyce · Virginia Woolf · William Faulkner · Thomas Pynchon · Marcel Proust
Agatha ChristieDashiell Hammett
Raymond Chandler · hardboiled fiction · noir · pulp fiction · Cormac McCarthy
Agatha ChristieCharles Bukowski
Hunter S. Thompson · Marquis de Sade · Henry Miller · Beat Generation · counterculture