'Quiet and intelligent, with class distinctions which motivate its characters.' Books
'Miss Westmacott writes crisply and is always lucid... much material has been skilfully compressed.' Times Literary Supplement
Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.