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She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap , which has been performed in the West End of London since A writer during the " Golden Age of Detective Fiction ", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime"—a nickname now trademarked by her estate—or the "Queen of Mystery". She is the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.

Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay , Devon, and was largely home-schooled. She was initially an unsuccessful writer with six consecutive rejections, but this changed in when The Mysterious Affair at Styles , featuring detective Hercule Poirot, was published. Her first husband was Archibald Christie ; they married in and had one child before divorcing in Following the breakdown of her marriage and the death of her mother in , she made international headlines by going missing for eleven days.

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During both World Wars, she served in hospital dispensaries, acquiring a thorough knowledge of the poisons that featured in many of her novels, short stories, and plays. Following her marriage to archaeologist Max Mallowan in , she spent several months each year on digs in the Middle East and used her first-hand knowledge of this profession in her fiction.

Christie's stage play The Mousetrap holds the world record for the longest initial run. It opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End on 25 November , and by there had been more than 27, performances. Later that year, Witness for the Prosecution received an Edgar Award for best play. In , she was voted the best crime writer and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd the best crime novel ever by professional novelists of the Crime Writers' Association.

More than 30 feature films are based on her work. Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born on 15 September , into a wealthy upper middle class family in Torquay , Devon.