Agatha Christie Queen of the Mystery Genre

Agatha Christie: Queen of the Mystery Genre Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Miller of Torquay, Devon, England. Researchers debate on the year in which she was born, but it was September 15 in either 1890 or 1891. Her father was an American who lived with his British wife in Torquay. At the time, her parents did not realize that their daughter would one day become a famous English author, writing an insatiable …

…will never know what was going through her head. Was it publicity? Was it really amnesia? We will never know......... Bibliography References Barnett, Sandy. “Agatha Christie”. Newfront Productions, Inc.: Online. 1999. September 21, 1999. Contemporary Literary Criticism. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company, vol. 6. pp. 107-110. Christie, Agatha. Agatha Christie: An Autobiography. Random House, Inc.: New York. 1977. Christie, Agatha. Caribbean Mystery. Dodd, Mead, and Company: New York. 1964. "Christie, Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa". Microsoft(R) Encarta. Copyright(c) 1995. Microsoft Corporation.